That money could've gone to something useful instead of building "git but better"

I think this is a very niche product or a potential Chromebook competitor. This is good enough for students and kids.

Only in the EU/UK

is there any particular reason why just here?

Because EU regulations require a SKU with no charger and having two separate charger/no charger SKUs costs more and creates more waste. As does buying a separate charger but the EU decided that was preferable.

The border radius are terrible

Is the software you're working on useful? Care to share the link so we can take a look?

Are they going to drop the open source components used in their products? These people shouldn't be allowed to use and benefit from open source every again. Maintainers are kind of a douche

New buzzwords in the big 2026

I would assume AdGuard or Pi-hole can do the job? No need for potentially unsafe firmware patches

Doesn't Orbstack or Colima solve this?

if you run x86 code without rosetta (probably using the qemu) it will work painfully slow

It's not "sideloading". It's called installing software on your own device!