In case you haven’t heard the news, Framework went and publicly sponsored Hyprland (the most toxic part of Wayland by a country mile) and openly shilled Omarchy multiple times (the pet project of fascist shithead David Heinemeier Hansson) recently.

In response to well-justified backlash against this, founder Nirav Patel responded with FOSSbro platitudes about “[creating] a big tent" for open source”.

If you’ve got any more updates on this self-inflicted shitshow, put them here so they can be collected in one place.

(In retrospect, that AI-pilled Framework Desktop should’ve been a major red flag they were gonna pull this shit.)

EDIT (2): Found a solid summary of the situation, and a solid teardown of Nirav’s actions - recommend checking them out.

  • Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zoneBannedEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Is this the same Framework that develops very promising modular and repairable laptops, one of three companies to do so? If so… Fuck.

      • Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zoneBannedEnglish
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        5 months ago
        1. Shift, an ecoconscious, as-yet untainted tech brand from Germany
        2. I thought Lenovo, but I seem to be wrong - they were playing with concepts, nothing on the market yet.

        If you wish to buy from Shift you might need to enable a translator, as I believe their store is only in German.

        • flaviat@awful.systemsEnglish
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          5 months ago

          Nice, the shift phone is pretty well supported on postmarketos and their choice of firmware looks consumer friendly

        • istewart@awful.systemsEnglish
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          5 months ago

          I am often skeptical of tablet/keyboard hybrid designs (the PineTab 2 has not exactly been a roaring success for me) but that ShiftBook is straight-up a more visually appealing design than any Framework

        • Bilb!@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          5 months ago

          These are expensive and not especially performant, though. Cool, but not the most practical choice on any kind of budget.

          • istewart@awful.systemsEnglish
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            5 months ago

            Agreed on pricing, but something this low-volume is always unfortunately going to struggle. The RockChip stuff is a current darling in the FOSS-compatible hardware scene, but I’m not super enthusiastic about it yet. If there isn’t an OS image you like, you’ve got to cobble one together with U-Boot and the DDR support blobs, which is a circa-1999 level of “fun”

          • HyperlinkYourHeart@lemmy.mlEnglish
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            5 months ago

            Yeah it wouldn’t be for me tbh. It looks like a luggable from the 90s. Their new one looks somewhat better but I think it is only available for preorder at the moment.

            • SatyrSack@quokk.auEnglish
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              5 months ago

              I think the transparent keycaps around the trackball are also contributing to the revulsion. Not sure why that does not seem to be a configurable option at the time of purchase, but there are probably aftermarket keycaps you could get if needed.

      • Frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        5 months ago

        HP launched modular laptop, and Dell did a concept.

        Of course, this is largely in response to Framework. Not like they’d do it on their own.