I inherited a Lenovo machine that booted Linux from 'ROM', i.e. a secret partition on the SATA drive accessible from a button on startup.

I think it was a Windows 7 starter edition machine that was so underpowered it was a proof of concept if you got fed up with the main OS it would boot into 'lightweight' Linux.

So yeah baking a live CD into recovery partition is nothing new.

How will they ever catch the Hamburglar if he's running GrapheneOS?

I am one of the 3%. My mother says I'm special!

But (a) it's written in Rust because Mozilla didn't trust C++ (b) Google did the implementation so it's an example of both parties collaborating regardless of the Chromium/Gecko divide.

Sony still has their 'Open Devices' platform, focusing on Sailfish? They exited the Australian market some years ago, so I haven't seen an Xperia in many years.

Pinephone is all but dead, so the era of open handsets appears at an end.

But Lenovo going above and beyond here might have flow on effects for other projects through documentation.

They're planning on using security features from Snapdragon.

Entry level Moto phones come with Mediatek.

I am currently on vacation, I might have considered North America again but the current administration isn't projecting a welcoming environment for tourism.

That's upwards of $US5000 I might have contributed to the US economy...

I don't need the drama; the weather in Iquique, Chile is decent in 'winter', thanks for askin' :)

Threatening to annex Greenland, well what's that about?

Denmark and Greenland have repeatedly said no thank you.

I suspect not just the 5G but blobs for camera, Bluetooth, WiFi, accelerometer, GPS etc.

Their initial target, per the article, is Fairphone 6 - using a fairly mainstream Qualcomm chip.

[c.f. 'Open' hardware such as PinePhone which is too anaemic to run as a daily driver. ]

Wikipedia lists OnePlus as a subsidiary of Oppo. "According to Chinese public records, OnePlus' only institutional Investor is Oppo Electronics"

With Carl Pei defecting to found 'Nothing', aren't OpenPlus more or less a generic Android handset?

Elon makes starships.

It's a tricorder.

Was anyone ever invested in Supergirl though?

Superman's cousin. With boobs.

c.f. Wonder Woman dates back to the 1940s.

Tea bags? What on earth! Sorry, you just lost the war.

Loose leaf, please and thank you.

Rupert is American.

He renounced his Australian citizenship decades ago.

They're both Darwin. Everything they sell is Apple Silicon. The rest is form factor and marketing.

Others may have a different workflow but I am personally not a fan of laptops. The work laptop sits docked with external screens at both home and the office via a single USB-C cable, keyboard and mouse. Maybe 3 hours a week are spent in a meeting room multitasking urgent stuff while the boss does an, unrelated, presentation.

Would I use it on the journey home if it were a tablet? Absolutely. Jobs didn't approve of keyboards and styluses but they were later added to the iPad.

Apple strategically don't make my next purchase; a foldable iPhone that turns into a MacOS desktop when docked or cast to a TV.

But will it run Linux?