• Sentient Loom
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    -21 month ago

    They closed it to new comments.

    People who feel they need to have their travel, hotel, event fees, etc. compensated are not a good fit for this program.

    So “NO POOR PEOPLE.”

    I disliked Framework ever since their “fans” (paid trolls) started bombarding every Thinkpad post on reddit with “frAmEwoRk iS tHe neW tHinKpaD” replies. Normally I support the little guy, but I really hope Lenovo creates their own modular laptop so I can buy one of them instead.

    • @[email protected]
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      141 month ago

      Good luck hoping for anything about Lenovo, they’ve gone down and down the shitter ever since they “split” from IBM.

      No I don’t own a framework nor plan to do so, I’m just an average IT guy who is forced to choose between Lenovo and Mac to work, and after the third garbage laptop in a row bit the bullet and got the Mac. I also own an x200 and a t430 that i was in love with - nothing to do with the present day latrines masquerading as computers.

      Screw Lenovo really. Hope for some decent competition to framework (I hope for that too, they are currently the only ones in that niche) but don’t hope for it from them.

      • Sentient Loom
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        41 month ago

        My T16 is fantastic. I wish it were more moddable, but it’s an amazing machine. Extremely quiet and powerful, I love the 16:10 screen. They keyboard is amazing too. Framework also has 16:10 screens and they’re more moddable, but I doubt their keyboards are any good. And as a profitable company they should pay people for advertising and data collection.

        • NaN
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          Lenovo is a lot more hit and miss than it used to. My T14 even has Linux bugs with the trackpad.

          • Sentient Loom
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            11 month ago

            yeah a lot of their stuff is junk

      • aard
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        21 month ago

        Pretty much same here - I kept an x230 alive until I had to accept earlier this year that it just is bad for overall productivity, and ended up getting a macbook. None of the newer thinkpads are good - and they’re still one of the less bad manufacturers.

        There’s also enough stuff I don’t like about the mac - but the current keyboard is one of the better notebook keyboards available right now, and if you want long battery life, lots of RAM and a lot of CPU power available in a compact device they’re the only manufacturer currently offering that.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 month ago

        Heh, if you think Lenovo is bad and mac vs Lenovo is a bad choice to have to make…

        …what do you put forth as the shining beacon of laptop mfgs? Cos it ain’t Dell, and it sure isn’t HP.

        Who else is there?

        • @[email protected]
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          21 month ago

          Apple and wait for Asahi Linux to finish their driver support 🫠 don’t know what to tell you man.

          I have never tried framework laptops - maybe they’re glorious, maybe they’re junk - but of all the laptops I tried Apple are the only decent ones hardware-wise (and software-wise too if you like osx).

          I don’t know who else makes decent laptops nowadays, but Lenovo isn’t it, and most likely won’t be.

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      111 month ago

      Or even better have a laptop that can be built from multiple brand parts. I want framework to be a standard.

    • @[email protected]
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      -41 month ago

      I think the program specifically targets the people that are an active user of framework AND actively attend those events anyway. So being paid by framework doesn’t change whether that person goes to an event or not. That makes a certain sense IMHO since if you are only attending if being paid to do so, then you are not a volunteer.