Although mentioned in the article, I would like to emphasize that https://puri.sm are selling laptops with disabled and cleaned (with me_cleaner) bios. I hope more companies follow.
Purism doesn't seem to want to invest in the software that makes their services work, hence the commentary by Matrix devs on which services are helping to push development forward (and thus deserve subscribers).
Gnome dev ended his contract with Purism over their inept management of the Mastodon instance they are selling accrss to: https://wandering.shop/@KelsonV/102057489260188127