Hello, my name is Cris. :)
I like being nice to people on the internet and looking at cool art stuff
Thanks for the suggestion. I'd wanted something FOSS but maybe itd be better to at least learn on something sensible. I really wanted to make freecad work, but man was it a rough way to try and learn parametric cad 😅
FreeCAD has made me wanna cry every time I try to learn it. Next time I'm gonna just try a parametric plugin for blender, my needs are pretty basic
Gotcha, I'm glad I could share! 😊
Hope you have a lovely day!
As in you love neocities? Or you love Lemmy because someone recommended neocities? Or you love where you are on the fediverse already and don't want something like neocities, because it's not 'this site'?
Asking to clarify cause I'm overthinky lol
This need could probably be filled pretty well with something like neocities :)
Trolling is only effective is no one can tell you're trolling.
If the components aren't soldered, then yes, it is. 🤦 My laptop is actually easier to repair than a framework is.
You're evidently a moron, and completely misunderstood what I typed.
Fact.
Thats not what a fact is. its a fact that thats an oppinion; your troll is showing again. This is not worth my energy, have a nice day.
Yeah, I don't really disagree. Though I do think it's more upgradeable than if another company made the same sort of product, given you can upgrade the motherboard. But I have no real interest in it. It doesn't feel like a lazy cash grab to me. But it does feel like they're confused about who's actually buying their devices and what those people want.
Though, who knows, maybe they're selling great. What do I know. I'll stick to the industry standard of socketed components in a standard case format rather than a new novel design that can't be as upgradable.
The first other laptop with the same cpu to come up in a search is around the same price when specced similarly, and isn't repairable.
Their lowest spec main board in a PC with base spec is $1099 for:
Ryzen™ AI 5 340 (6-core/12-thread, up to 4.8GHz)
13.5" 2256x1504 60Hz Matte Display 16GB Memory 256GB Storage Windows 11 Home 1-year limited warrantyThat motherboard is 449. You're talking out of your ass and either your troll is showing or you're actually an idiot lol. Every motherboard sku is comparably affordable compared to the built laptops. And the built laptops are not unreasonably priced for their specs, given their quality and features (among which is upgradeability and repairability, something I'm willing to pay more for.)
It's not a novelty to me that I can change my ports if I get into a creative hobby that benefits from having an SD card slot, or if all my peripherals move to type c, or if I get a setup where displayport is more valuable than my current hdmi (or I could literally have both if need be). Its certainly not a novelty to me that I can upgrade my cpu years down the line. And most thin and lights in the same product category have soldered components. The Dell thin and light, the xps 13, also has soldered RAM.
I really don't care if you want one. I don't like throwing things away, I like repairing them instead. I like mending my clothes. When I have a home and have appliances I will take joy in getting them fixed. I like keeping my old devices going for as long as possible. My last phone until upgrading a year ago was a pixel 3. My previous thinkpad was from 2013, and I only didn't bother to get it fixed when it broke because it's specs were no longer keeping up, even on Linux. I like not contributing to e-waste. Not having to replace my laptop outright is worth money to me because it saves me money and is consistent with my desire to take care of the things I own rather than getting rid of and replacing them.
That doesn't matter to you and that's fine. But to call it a scam because you personally don't value its core value proposition is dumb. And you look silly for arguing as such while simultaneously saying "you haven't proven me wrong"
Sick. Buy something else lol. It's obviously not the right product for your needs, that's fine. Why try to convince everyone that it's somehow wrong for theirs too when they're happy with it? Have a nice day.
I don't expect this to change your mind (I also wouldn't really want a framework desktop), but the framework desktop is fairly unique in terms of performance, which is why they stripped away some of the upgradability.
I want that upgradability more than unique performance, but to their credit they did try to make it work with socketed ram, but they couldn't get it to work because in order to share RAM between the CPU and GPU in the way they wanted (I think, I haven't looked at it super closely because I don't want one and am not in the market for a desktop cause I'm broke and have a laptop), they needed ridiculously low latency and even the new upcoming socket design they played with to get it working wasn't able to get the latency low enough, even with tweaks if I understand correctly.
I'll stick to building a conventional system if I get around to building a desktop, but to my understanding the performance of the framework desktop is higher than it looks on paper because of its funky design that needed ultra low latency memory. Its a cool product, but I do think perhaps framework were not entirely the right people to sell it, as repairability and upgradability are a massive cornerstone of their brand.
Not the person you replied to but I looked at lenovo when I bought my framework. I grew up with thinkpads as my dad was an IBMer. This was my first non-thinkpad.
Thin and lights in the same category as the framework laptops absolutely do not have choice of all of those components to the same degree. Increasingly Ram is even partially sodered, leaving one sodimm for upgradability, and there certainly wasn't an option to leave out components and bring off the shelf parts, making the entire market of socketed components available to you for configuration on a framework (something I was excited I could take advantage of, and that saved me a decent chunk of money as a broke person who needed a new laptop.). I don't recall there being anywhere near as many keyboard layouts.
The thinkpax carbon x1 literally has all soldered RAM. Two keyboard layouts. An included network card with optional mobile broadband. One display with touch or one without. And it's unclear if the ssd is socketed though I'd guess it is. But you have to buy it from them though and it's ludicrously expensive.
And a new motherboard is very explicitly not as expensive as a new laptop, with the current top spec amd main board being $700 cheaper than the same laptop with base configuration. Its less than 50% of the price of the base spec.
You're talking out of your ass. Maybe lenovo has some options in the same category with more socketed components, I'm not going to go digging for then for the purposes of this argument. Many people might be better served by those if they're an option (though they're almost guaranteedly much more expensive, as thinkpads in general are much more expensive for the specs you get), but if what you want is upgradeability and repairability, no, lenovo very explicitly doesn't compare, I compared them as I was shopping. I loved my thinkpads. They treated me well. They weren't what I was looking for though, and I'm very excited that I can now upgrade my cpu and/or RAM in 5-10 years when I need an upgrade. I could not do that with a thinkpad.
Edit: just checked the T and E series and although they have socketed ram they also don't have the same breadth of options or upgradability. Lenovo still makes amazing laptops, and I'm sure either of those would serve people well (though the T series is not really a direct competitior to the main framework 13" line), but if you want what a framework offers, you would not be as happy with the thinkpads.
I don't use jellyfin but these seems cool as fuck...
Something that can make the switch easier is that, like with OpenOffice, many alternatives can be used before you switch as they're cross platform :)
So if you need a replacement for Photoshop, you can start learning it before you're also simultaneously learning linux. Gimp has a modified version to make it more like Photoshop I know many folks like, that might be worth exploring
The other alternative would likely be krita, which is generally better regarded for its comparative competency as a project, but is more aimed at illustration than photo editing, so it may not be able to meet your needs
Discord works cross platform, I think most VPNs do too, but I could be mistaken
On the distro front, my votes go to mint and fedora. That gives you a wide range of desktops to choose from, try them out by booting from a flash drive and pick what you like. Most distro stuff is about living with the os long term, but the desktop will immediately feel alien or like home. And maybe you like alien! That can be fun, but it really depends on you.
Fedora comes with some asterisks like not making non-free software available by default, including things like drivers and media codecs. That can be a pain to deal with as a new user. And the community isn't super newbie focused. Mint is great, but doesn't offer either of the biggest desktop environments that you might wanna use, and I have less personal experience with it.
Open suse also has an exceptional reputation, but I'm less familiar with it. Pop os many folks like, but my experience with it has unfortunately always been kinda buggy and rough around the edges, your milage may vary.
That's fair. It probably helps that I was headed to a social meetup in the kink community, where everyone is queer or neurodivergent and most already know eachother lol
Regardless, I hope you have a lovely day :)
To be clear, I didn't downvote you for answering my question, that would be dumb and shitty
I think if someone looks queer and androgynous and is wearing cammo mashed up with other stuff, I think it's usually pretty clear they're not a military wannabe 😅
I wore this later that day cause the conversation got me thinking about camo in outfits- I don't think I look like a military wannabe, I look like a twink wearing a sports bra 😅
Its hard not to feel frustrated we couldn't have done this sooner. It feels like it must be much harder now, given how us politics have gone.
But now well try to fix it, because we as a party can't try to benefit from the same dysfunction that robs the American people of their political agency.
I don't have the energy to read the article right now. I have to hope I'm wrong. That somehow they'll succeed in some capacity, against the odds.
Interesting, thank you very much for taking the time to explain 😊
Thank you for explaining your perspective.
I do think there should be room for playing with the aesthetics that make up our world without them always being a political or societal critique though.
Everything that exists was made by people and comes with the baggage of having been crafted by things as messy as we are. I think there should be room to play and enjoy how your clothe yourself even if it doesn't fit into a narrative about your beliefs.
Its wonderful when it does, but given that it's a creative enterprise basically every human will participate in for tens of thousands of reps over the span of your life, I think looking at someone's clothes and making a snap judgement on who they can be or what they can stand for because of what "playing with aesthetic" looks like for them is a bit silly
We all draw lines, some imagery is intended to convey cruel meaning- I'm not about to play symbols designed to represent the oppression of certain people. But short of when people intentionally advertise a certain world view (with pride flags or swasticas or punk patches or various other ideological symbols intended to communicate who you are and what you stand for) it seems much more productive to judge people for the ideas they advocate and the impact they have on the world around them than the prints they think are fun for clothes.
To me this feels like a similar fascet of hyper abstraction rather than engaging with substance 🤷
The only thing I really care about is my terminal having a slightly more approachable user friendly ux when I need to do things in the terminal that can't be done graphically.
I'm generally a fairly non-techincal (by linux community standards) design nerd. I'm not even sure what strucrued data would really mean, so I'm pretty sure it's not useful to my usecase lol
When I need to run random shell commands I found on the internet like the non-technical, bad-life-decision-maker that I am I can just run them through bash instead 🤷
The only thing I miss from bash is things like !! Which I think fish is in the process of adding (there's a keyboard shortcut that I think allows you to fill the same need but I find it harder to remember and have been having fun using opendoas in place of sudo, which the shortcut uses by default)
Rarely do you see something more fitting for this comm 😅