What I would love is something similar that could boot on raspberry pi...

I have been involved in trying to implement GDPR, and one constant source of frustration was it's not actually very clear when a system is fully compliant. We had engineers and product people and legal people who had different understandings of what various terms meant.

For example, you have a 'right to object' to a data controller doing further processing of your personal data, and you have a 'right to be forgotten' in which case we should not keep your personal data any longer -- but we need to remember enough that when we encounter you again, we recognize that you've objected to further processing. How are we supposed to know in future interactions that you've opted out if we've deleted all mentions of you and your PII?

What does 'deletion' mean? If I have a DB which is based on an append-only WAL which can include write and delete "operations", which mean the DB will respond to queries as if the record were deleted, but the record is definitely on disk, and still gets read into memory but just isn't returned as part of any query, but someone with access to the machine could still in principle read it ... is it 'deleted'? Are you 'forgotten'?

What if you're gone from the DB but an old DB backup in cold storage still has a record? What if a columnar file for the datalake in block storage still has a record but you're gone from all DBs that are part of online systems? What if no DB has your raw PII, but your IP was added to a bloomfilter or other sketch datastructure, so it can't be read back out but we could potentially identify with some confidence that your IP had previously been in our logs?

I totally think GDPR was a step in the right direction, and I wish my own country would adopt a strong data privacy law. But I also wish that the EU had set up e.g. a certification system, a large set of reference examples for how pieces fit together, or something to give implementing parties some confidence about whether they're doing it correctly.

Governments regularly have a steady flow of zero days to use, but once it's used it's "burned" so it's not something they throw around willy nilly. I would guess they are going to force manufacturers to play ball, and I would gues that the manufacturers will.

This is starting to be a really interesting choice compared to sticking to thinkpads.

The dream would be to have 6 expansion cards in the laptop 13. 4 really is a bummer for a work laptop, it's definitely not enough for me… And while you can easily carry other expansion cards and switch at will, it's kinda like carrying adapters, you easily forget them.

Email your use case: wade at zapier dot com. Happy to take a look.

The problem with Zapier is zaps are to expensive at scale.

Surely if you consider apple hardware you don't care about performance, price or supporting an ecosystem that underpins the very essence of you are trying to do.

Buying mac hardware for a linux workstation is madness.