I love the concept of a librem, TBH everytime I look at buying one I balk at the price compared to a more traditional build. It's like buying a Mac and I can't even justify it by saying it is for iPhone dev. I don't have a market reason for buying one, I wish I did but what I'd use it for? No IME great, now what? If someone flips a switch I guess I have a safe computer, but I still have to interact with the world and that's still unsafe (banking, identity, employment).
I wish it were a bit more raspberry Pi - I'd have an easier time justifying that purchase just if I had integrated GPIO. I have (multiple) rpis but they sit in boxes because they are a combination of unsupported and complex to assemble/use, outside of browsing some very simple websites I find them difficult to use, even for embedded development.
They're doing novel R&D which no other manufacturer is doing, and putting together what looks like a quality workstation, which brings you much closer to consensual computing than almost anything else on the market.
If I was a buyer of new hardware, and especially getting paid for professional software development, I can't imagine thinking very long before buying one.
I wish it were a bit more raspberry Pi - I'd have an easier time justifying that purchase just if I had integrated GPIO. I have (multiple) rpis but they sit in boxes because they are a combination of unsupported and complex to assemble/use, outside of browsing some very simple websites I find them difficult to use, even for embedded development.