I thought the super-rich already had their own private helipads to take them from penthouse apartment to office in megapolises such as Sao Paulo?

MS 'Continuum' lives on here - underutilised processing power in your pocket that becomes accessible when you dock it. Lumia didn't survive the app duopoly.

This seems like a more genuine attempt for Chromebooks to compete with iPad Pro. Get the Google employees actually dog-fooding on these machines and solving long-term neglected usability issues.

Yes, using the international English spelling within the codename.

[ Okay, so I'm an old fart and not the target audience... ]

Relaxing after work with my 3 screens. Anything without a web interface is a non starter.

Never trust anyone with the self-aggrandising job title 'Chief Mouser'.

I work in cubicle land, Bluetooth headsets.

I saw that in a motion picture once - Return of the Jedi.

'Carbonite' was used as a liquid solution for cryostasis.

We're working directly with Linux integrators and chipset partners to ensure proper mainline Linux support, rather than one-off ports that break over time.

So it's essentially a crowd-funded Android tablet that they're hoping will gain enough traction for upstream Linux. Who does the programming legwork is unclear.

If they're serious they would throw a few free ones to free software communities such as Mobian and postmarketOS as Pine64 has done with various bits of hardware such as the PineNote.

No way man.

2036 is the year of the GNU/HURD desktop!

Weak enough for simple tasks.

It's an underspecced Snapdragon laptop for people that hate laptops; not that I would buy one with my own money but it would be adequate for a vacation using a hotel room TV.

Anyway, if Google and Microsoft could come together with Qualcomm then one might see triple-boot devices become common which can only benefit the Linux tinkerer.

External display is a USB 3.x feature.

*cheap* phones, speaking from experience, will use a USB 2 controller to save a few cents in the dollar. So even if connector is USB-C, it won't carry the extra protocols.

Yes, manufacturers are that petty. Do read the specs on gsmarena.

You have a Triffid-esque responsibility toward carnivorous house plants to ensure they don't eat you.

Tonga is an interesting one.

A top level country domain .to of which only a small percentage is related to Tonga or indeed hosted on the islands. Are they going to extort a Polynesian nation for the sake of a few pirates?

Just ask the AI to hallucinate 2 years worth of research based on the *anonymous* training corpus you've been feeding the model.

Sounds great, mate.

If Europe wants to release a decent Linux phone free from the colonial oppression of US tech giants then sign me up and ship to Australia. :)