I’ve had my doubts on gitlab for a long time. They’ve now updated their policies, but this is exactly what makes me doubt them. They did the initial update without thinking too much about it, and now they seem to have reacted to all the backslash in one or two days. I remember some years ago they announced they’d stop using cloud providers and go bare metal. Just to declare shortly afterwards that some comments in the announcement blog post had convinced them not to do it. Seems to me like they don’t think things through (specially seeing the motives they gave for this recent policy: “it’s time consuming and potentially distracting”).

About your new devices, I recently had to buy a new laptop and I tried to find the most ethical brand. I wanted to find something like the fairphone for laptops, but I couldn’t see anything that convinced me. Funny enough, I’ve been using Asus laptops my whole life and turns out they’re the best within the mainstream. So I guess I’ll continue buying them for now.

Finally what you mention about the calendar. I used one app called Sunrise that was great, but it was bought and closed by Microsoft. At this point, I don’t think I’d trust any product that isn’t open source, that’s why I’ve decided to start making my own apps. It’ll be a long journey but I enjoy doing it and I can trust they’ll be around forever.