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Comment Re:Meh, who cares? (Score 3, Informative) 175

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' :)

Comment Re:Ensuring Freedom, One Blob at a Time (Score 1) 20

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. ]

Comment Re: Will the screen fold back flat? (Score 1) 80

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.

Comment Re:...and other thing... (Score 1) 25

By the developer who made Serenity OS.

But a browser that runs on Linux but accepts no contributions is no better than any of the closed source Chromium derivatives. No distro is going to bother carrying un-upstreamed patches in their packages. Revisit in a couple of years if the project reaches maturity.

I guess they can still pry Firefox from my cold dead hands. Or pipe-dreams of Servo on Redox OS (rust all the way down).

Comment Re: Congress fails again and blames others (Score 1) 42

Well as a citizen of a 5-eyes country that may well be so. But why are government employees using civilian technology?

Tinfoil hat time, I am considering a Moto GrapheneOS capable phone when they become available. Funny world if I would trust a Chinese company (Lenovo) to scrub any Google-isms from my device. :)

Polygon agencies worldwide may consider building their own ROMs or contributing to such existing FOSS projects. And what a perfect cover to be a spy and mainstream GrapheneOS under the cover of "you don't know who is listening"; cold warriors sharing a conversation over a martini both protected from each other!

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