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[โ€“] virtualbriefcase@lemm.ee 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

DIY Edition Build it yourself and bring your OS, including Linux. Starting at $1,399.00

I hate to crap on a project like framework too much, but I fail to see the value it brings to the table compared to other options. 900$ for a Chromebook, 1.4k for a "DIY" laptop, 1.7k for the same laptop but assembled.

300-400$ used gaming laptops can be found on eBay, are repairable, and run Linux just as easily (minus maybe switching to official Nvidia drivers, but it's still only a couple commands a way). For 1k I'm sure you can get a variety of very premium laptops.

Edit: by repairable meant they're easy to repair if they break, not that they come pre-broken.

[โ€“] virtualbriefcase@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

We're seeing this all over the tech and tech adjacent space. Can't grow forever at a loss, especially not with increased interest rates and a potential economic downturn.

My guess, if you want to have decent services we're going to end up needing to pick few (or a suite of the basics) to pay for on a monthly basic and cut out all the "free" stuff that is/will get enshittified.

 

cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/books@lemmy.ml/t/304010

Global investment vampires have positioned themselves to suck our libraries dry

 

Endless sky can run on really low powered hardware, and is a top down space combat/trading/adventure game. Being FOSS it's on a lot of operating systems and can be found everywhere from Steam to Flathub to F-Droid.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/2078153

I wanted to read RTF files on my phone. I couldn't find an RTF reader on F-Droid. So I cross-compiled unrtf with Zig

 

cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/1038953

A post where I go over why I'm not a fan of the planned OS Windows 365 (an all cloud version of Windows), and why I'm not a fan of the existing push towards everything in the cloud, which I compare to each other.

It's a new blog so feedback would be much appreciated, either on my writing style, any missed grammatical errors, or the website design/layout (I'm new to Hugo but luckily themes do the heavy lifting).

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