The thing is: they're not different.

And their hardware isn't, like; special; it's a single board computer running the standard x86/64 architecture that ships with a lightly customized OS most users won't change.

I'm more worried about what nvidia Intel and and are getting up to. They'll fuck you first.

I guess valve kind of is special? They are a games company, so they don't have big government contracts, they don't work with palantir, and they dont work at a low enough level that they can easily install something my electrical engineer or hacker friends can't possibly fix with a soldering iron.

Theyll fuck me, sure, yes, but the chip makers already have their pants down.