Framework machines are great, and certainly upgradeable, but $300 they are most certainly not.
loopgru
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Do you know if they every fixed the issues with M&K controls on games in Desktop mode? There are a few games I play a lot that just don't work well with a controller for me, so this was a killer for my use case.
Most of us on the left here would like nothing better than to be rid of most red states. On the whole, they take more federal tax dollars to prop up than they contribute, and their backwards ass attitudes hold the rest of the country back.
HOWEVER...
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Most progressive voters would rather not abandon all of the disempowered minority groups in those states to their fate.
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A "national divorce" as described by the space lasers lady would be incredibly messy and potentially devolve into a war and further violent and messy balkanization of the country.
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Finally, having an impoverished, highly inequitable theocracy for a neighbor sounds like a massive headache.
Living downtown typically means a lot more walking, biking, and public transit, precisely because you're there in the middle of everything. When you've got everything from grocery stores, pubs, cafes, parks, cultural attractions, etc all within walking distance, your need to drive anywhere becomes occasional at most.
Remote work forever, and repurpose the useless office buildings into conveniently located downtown living space to help ease housing shortages and drive urban density.
I had a first gen Framework 13 and definitely felt the sleep drain issues mentioned elsewhere here, which was why I sold mine. That said, as I understand it that was fixed in later hardware revs and possibly on gen1 by way of a BIOS patch.
The machine otherwise was pretty great. Very thin and light, great display quality, and generally felt very stable and good quality. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend them.
That said, there's a caveat- you'll be paying a significant premium for a Framework relative to other equivalent options. It's a great machine, but it's not twice as good as a used Thinkpad for your use case. If your budget is such that you can pay that premium to support open hardware and a company trying to do something new and different to cut down on planned obsolescence and it's associated waste, by all means go for it. If not, though, you could get a used machine, donate some of what you saved to the EFF or FSF or your environmental npo of choice and still feel pretty good about the transaction.
I am a parent, and... that's not how this works.
Your kid doesn't hear "I need a few minutes to deal with my human feelings," they hear "daddy is mad and doesn't want to play with me." They don't have the emotional intelligence yet to understand that you're a person, not just the mythic figure of parent that they see.
This is why the trope of daddy taking a minute alone on the toilet is A Thing.
On the upside, you'd be surprised how often you can destress precisely by being a kid with your kid, playing Legos and cuddling. Being a dad is hard, but it's awesome.
I think it gets murky quickly if you pay their dues as the employer- if you're funding the union there's a pretty clear conflict of interest. To me the clearest way to address this would be to offer a stipend without earmarking it so they can fund the union (or not) at their own discretion.
Another option would be to just formalize it as an ESOP, thereby erasing the distinction between employee and employer and effectively obviating the need for a union in the first place.
Echoing others, Costco is a solid employer and I actually believe their sentiment.
HOWEVER
The difference between union and non-union is the difference between asking your employer pretty please to treat you well and telling your employer how you will accept being treated.
Even if the union yields no improvements whatsoever for the workers, it's worth it just to have that express and clear leveling of the playing field.
WHY is Gamora?
Anecdote, I know, but for my use cases, Wayland just isn't there yet- I wind up with far more random bugs and less battery life. I don't pretend to know why, I'm a pleb non-developer, but until that's resolved I'm still stuck on X. I'd love to use the new shiny thing of The Future™, but not at the cost of stability and usability.
Niche, I know, but I'm waiting on full functionality in Input Leap (Barrier fork which was a Synergy 1.x fork). Right now it sounds like it's 90% of the way there but lacks clipboard sharing. I'm running Wayland on my desktop, but this soft kvm is pretty fundamental to my workflow on my laptop.