That's where it's headed. An old laptop or mini desktop with Linux is all you need — OpenClaw handles the rest. Morning briefings, inbox monitoring, background research, scheduling… the productivity gains are wild once it's running 24/7 on your own hardware.

if the goal is user friendly with strong security and privacy guarantees then a complete package with solid defaults is helpful doesnt necessarily have to be their hardware, you can flash startos on any hardware you want for free

What for? It doesn't have any of the privacy of start9. It doesn't even have the privacy of installing a bunch of software directly. Nor the accuracy. It is a security nightmare.