chromebooks are often well built with good keyboards at prices monumentally lower than comporable laptops, whilst being powerful enough to run linux well

you can quite easily get linux on almost all chromebooks, even arm ones (mrchromebox and postmarketos are references to look into for that) (postmarketos for arm stuff)

I have an hp chromebook g7 that I paid less than 20 dollars for, which has a good keyboard and is performant enough for firefox and typing on swaywm. it’s worth so little and is so light that it can just live in my backpack without worry. it’s also able to be charged from a normal usb c phone charger, supports usb c display output, and has a low power celeron that absolutely sips power

you can get much nicer chromebooks for cheap too if you’re into that, including some with unibody aluminum chassis and high resolution ips displays, all at prices less than even bottom barrel pc laptops

commenter was suggesting that framework allows you to “grow with your budget”

i don’t think this is exactly true in most situations

not rlly wanting to reply to everyone but framework mainboards are price comparable to equivalent entire laptops

i literally want a framework laptop, but selling it to people as a good way to save money isn’t really viable in my opinion

not to be a downer but you could very likely buy a higher performing laptop than even the top framework laptop for less money than even a minimal build

considering that the intended use case is for research, the web is going to be used either way, so it’s better to not have the distraction of a full web browser, which is exactly what “distraction free” is all about

Recent iphone models have “easily” removable back glass, and it’s actually the main entrypoint for replacing the battery, lowering costs due lower risk of a broken screen (see new google pixels with screens that almost always break on removal)

After this, apple also lowered the cost of most repairs, including on models that don’t get the new replaceable back. the non applecare cost for a battery replacement ranges from 80-100 dollars roughly. which is comparable to the cost of a replacement with even a generic battery from a 3rd party shop.

please don’t

obviously, because absolutely nobody buys the equivalent products already sold by google and amazon

the play services are not installed by default*

it will probably run kaios, so yes

crazy take

Well yes obviously but it does serve a purpose as a maintained fork, that’s why I included that. I expect a normal fork will be made soon because of this news.

The readme states:

“This repo also serves as an updated version of the original neofetch since the upstream dylanaraps/neofetch doesn’t seem to be maintained anymore (as of Oct 27, 2023, the original repo hasn’t merged a pull request for almost 2 years). If you only want to use the updated neofetch without pride flags, you can use the neofetch script from this repo. To prevent command name conflict, I call it neowofetch :)”

You realize how massive of a marketing pull both of those are right, the 1000 dollar wheels were like 20% why people didn’t forget the mac pro 2 days after it was announced.

dyson is in every sense the apple of vacuums lol

Obsidian is not open source.

I think watching apple’s promotional videos will explain a lot of your concerns better.

They’ve already promoted the idea of connecting a dualsense controller for playing games.

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There’s a lot that I could say, but it simply boils down to them always favoring their corporate and ceo’s interests over their charitable ones.

Their ceo (and branch ceo’s) make obscene amounts of money.

Theres also that case and probably even more about an autistic woman being paid like less than 25c an hour.

Probably “evil” isn’t the right word, but they absolutely do not have “good-will”