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I think in general there is just very little hardware as attractive as a MacBook Pro that supports Linux well. If we take the requirements as being roughly: HiDPI screen, thin and light all metal body, USB C charging, tenkeyless keyboard with centered trackpad and reasonable expectation of mostly working out of the box with a standard Ubuntu iso.

Your options are pretty much just the Dell XPS/Precision line and the Lenovo X1 Extreme series? Anything else?

There's still some small keyboard issues left to fix I think but the main thing is I don't think notifications will be possible (especially if they rely on Google Play services).

There is a WhatsApp app on KaiOS (the FirefoxOS successor) which I think must be a PWA so I wonder if that could be repurposed to run on the PinePhone.

One of the benefits of Chrome's user profiles this misses is the ability to have separate bookmarks for different profiles (Personal & Work for example)

I'd be interested in a Purism app store that charges a small fee per app "purchase". The apps would be Libre so nothing stopping people packaging/compiling etc themselves (or getting from an alternative source) but to me the convenience of having that done already and curated/integrated would be worth a couple of bucks per app and even if it was optional, just having the default be paying a small fee might give enough of a nudge in the right direction.

Always thought the same. By that definition I care much more about LOSS than about FOSS or FLOSS but I don't see that used ever...

Have you looked at the Pine64 PineTime devkits?

Agree with the table click expectation. Was surprised to find that didn't take me to table data.

I also think TablePlus is the best option by far right now, although sadly not open source - would be great if they'd consider Open Sourcing at least the code base licences have already expired passed for.

This looks like a great contender though. Would be useful to have a few more filter options.

Fair enough. Don't get me wrong I'm very excited about the announcement and think it'll be great to have some of these features in the open source core, I just thought it was a little misleadingly worded in this blog post. Seemed to imply the work had already been done.

The blog post mentions that you recently open sourced 18 features that were previously paid. I assume that refers to this announcement: https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2020/03/30/new-features-to-cor....

It seems those are proposals (or at best commitments) for things to be open sourced in future versions rather than things that actually are available as open source already? Could you clarify please?

I think the assumption you're making here is that companies don't influence the pipeline. Don't influence whether people choose do STEM degrees etc.

I think the idea behind diversity targets is an implicit assumption that they do. In subtle ways like how/where they advertise, and in more obvious ways like funding educational programs etc. It's there that diversity programs/targets need to start, not at the hiring stage.

Lens scratching over time?