You're probably missing the context. Because of shortages, it took several months to acquire that stock since L5USA started shipping, and the regular L5 is still shipping backorders from years ago (with predicted shipping parity at the end of 2022/beginning of 2023) despite of its production starting in late 2020.

I'm not sure you're understanding the point of the article? It says "we achieved shipping parity for this product, acquired stock and therefore moved away from a troubled JIT model".

I can run fresh kernels on my phone, stuff like Docker, whole desktop stacks that work well with external displays, and hack on .debs that contain system components however I see fit. There's a huge difference between running Debian chroot on Android and actually running Debian, and personally, I'm not satisfied with the former.

Please keep in mind that many of those online echoes are based on outdated impressions on software that kept rapidly changing over last years. I'm one of the people working on it, and I'm using it on my Librem 5 as a daily driver, and while it sure can be rough at some edges, it serves me really well already.

While I wouldn't recommend it to everyone just yet, the groups of people that I would get wider with each quarter. I'd say that it was already suitable for people who consider themselves GNU/Linux hackers for a while already.

$125 is more than what its SoC and RAM cost alone. Plus of course there's a significant premium, all software work gets funded from that price (and it's all FLOSS and benefits other devices as well).

It says "post-JIT", which is the case exactly because of what you mentioned.

FWIW you can override the current limit of the battery charger chip on the Librem 5, so if you know that your charger will provide 5V/2A you can use a power-only charging cable and then set the current limit to 2A manually, which should give you enough headroom to still charge the phone while in use.

All the people commenting there (including myself :)) are team members, and I can tell you that the non-public issue that's linked from there is about a similar thing. It's not a top priority thing at the moment, but it's not just a suggestion either.

FWIW such feature is on the Librem 5 roadmap: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5...

Falkon. Because it launches quickly and is already there.

Statistics provided to developers by Steam explicitly separate wishlist deletions from buys.

Source: I'm looking at them right now.

For indie games, wishlist numbers are pretty consistently turning into long-term sales at some ~10% conversion rate, iirc (don't quote me on that specific number though, too lazy to check now). This is mainly because people get emails whenever a sale begins for an item on their wishlist, which leads to many of those entries eventually turning into a sale. I've seen this effect being discussed many times and this seems consistent with my own Steam publishing data.

lol

"pointing to this as evidence that JavaScript itself has broken out of the browser and become a general-purpose programming language, put to all the same uses as other programming languages" ...so that evidence is basically a browser with no UI that's limited to run just a Slack webapp and is well known for excessive and non-justified RAM and CPU usage?

This is such a non-news. There wasn't even any controversy inside the project. Just a patch, short discussion, resolution, like many others that happen in many different projects each day. How is this newsworthy in any way?