Fair enough. My comment was about affordability, not sustainability. I am not in a position to know whether you supply your own electricity or whether your electricity (regardless of supplier) is renewable.
Again though 60W is towards the top end. A single low-power consumption headless computer with a single SSD could be consuming just a handful of Watts when not doing much.
Also note that in lots of places, electricity for appliances is essentially free for at least 3 months a year, since if you’re not using enough of it, you end up just running a bunch through a set of copper coils with a fan. Even if you have gas heat, the marginal impact is the difference in cost and efficiency between your gas heat and your electric appliance.
USA products to be union made (maybe they already are, I dunno(?))
Team up with a North American designer like John Varvatos, Christie Smythe, etc. etc. to make special designer editions (pretty much almost have a bespoke product line already anyhow).
I found one possible option that is an “open-source tablet”. However, I don’t think the hardware is open source from what I can tell, happy to be corrected.
Ntablet - An Open-source Tablet for Your Creative Projects
There is also an open hardware e-reader called Inkplate 6 that uses recycled kindle e-paper screens (sort of upcycling proprietary hardware to open source goodness)
Looks like the Ntablet is a theoretical product but it has reached its funding goal (apparently) so the project should go ahead. I couldn’t find any info about the intended hardware specs, other than an implication that it will be an ARM CPU / SoC.
would love to see the librem laptops fully redesigned and updated with the latest intel processors, or even AMD if they would make a semicustom solution. Also a Librem Reader and a NAS based on the librem 5 devkit would be really nice.
I would love to see a “Magnetic” Power connector like the past apple products had.
Pure genius IMO.
WHY are we still using the barrel plug type connectors still? (Cheap?)
These connectors are a serious weak point in the hardware that I’d love to see gone.
Another option for a Linux tablet is the PINE64 PineTab, which has a less powerful CPU and GPU, no microHDMI port, no fast-charging, and a lower resolution screen, but it is also much cheaper than the NTablet. The RK3288 1.8GHz in the NTablet has a single core Geekbench 4 performance around 900, whereas the Allwinner A64 1.2GHz in the PineTab gets around 500. For me, the 7" screen on the NTablet is too small, whereas the 10" screen on the PineTab is the right size.
The PineTab has the option to add a keyboard and will have a future option for a cellular modem. With the keyboard, the PineTab only costs $120, and the cellular modem will probably be another $30-$40.
The NTablet supports WebOS, Ubuntu, Debian and Android 8, whereas I expect that the PineTab will eventually be able to run UBports, postmarketOS/Plasma Mobile, postmarketOS/Phosh, LuneOS, Manjaro, SailfishOS (based on what is being ported to the PinePhone, which has virtually the same hardware).
The NTablet is better if you want to connect to an external monitor, because of the more powerful CPU/GPU and miniHDMI connector. I’m not sure which is better for tinkering. The PineTab will have published schematics for the circuit board and pogo pins for adding extensions, plus it will have an active community and a forum, but the NTablet has a connector for many types of serial communication.