I don't know why you'd be following me if you're making custom hardware out there for this world of surveillance, stalking as a service, slop farming and so on, but if you are, I need to ask you for something for all of us: Find a way, with whatever workplace conniving or accounting chicanery you happen to need, to build whatever nightmare you need to build to keep a roof over your head out of individual, hand separable components. Compute modules, separate memory, breakaway boards, whatever.