piranhaphish

joined 1 year ago
[–] piranhaphish@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

This isn't accurate at all. Paris is in Northeast Texas, not the panhandle!

[–] piranhaphish@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Definitely has a sense of humor about himself. See Jean-Claude Van Johnson for some good fun.

[–] piranhaphish@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] piranhaphish@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

"Sphere"

That pronunciation ... like WTF ... did word inventors just figure we had totally exhausted the sound combinations that we could splice together?!

[–] piranhaphish@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

If somebody sneezes more than twice, I will typically berate them for seeking attention.

[–] piranhaphish@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

You're being downvoted, but you're not wrong. At least in the case of the Ethernet module, which most people aren't going to leave plugged in most of the time.

The utility in the ports being modular is more so in the initial configurability at purchase rather than swapping them out by the user on a regular basis.

But having a laptop with 4/6 USB-C is pretty nice. Add on the fact that my dongles don't dangle and it is even cooler.

[–] piranhaphish@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I disagree on the comment about cost disparity. Spec'd equivalently, even the Framework 16 (without GPU) is no more expensive than the smaller ThinkPad X1 Carbon. The more comparative Framework 13 even less so.

The modular ports (and GPU on the 16) are a nice bonus, but I agree that the largest attraction is for the tinkerer.

I think the fact that it is easily upgradable makes it a clear winner on the merits alone.

[–] piranhaphish@lemmy.world 36 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

This was me, basically.

I had a Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 10 that, by the books, should have been a beast with good Linux support to boot. I tried for so long, but ended up replacing it with a Framework.

The thermal management on the Thinkpad is awful, under Linux at least but by all accounts attributable to the EC itself. Running the most basic workload would cause the CPU to spike for about one second before it would throttle all cores back to 400 MHz where they would stay locked for the next few minutes despite the CPU temps remaining at 50-60°C the entire time.

And it wasn't just me, numerous reports from all over. This made the system nearly useless. I shared pages of diagnostic info with them and they just seemed completely uninterested in trying to do anything about it.

Spec'd out equivalently, the Framework 16 (without GPU) is no more expensive than the X1 Carbon but with even better Linux support and unsurpassable upgradeability. I'm glad my company was onboard for me to switch.

[–] piranhaphish@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I know this reference

[–] piranhaphish@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

There's a Korok seed there I guarantee it!

 

I invested way more time in designing this then I should have, but the original was brittle and breaking and I didn't want this slice of early Internet to disappear into a landfill.

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