✧✦Catherine✦✧this response does address the request, technically speaking https://mastodon.social/@gnu_ebooks/115357348177151270
AMT@amt my view is that they (the CEO) were always Like This, but at first they managed to deceive a lot of people by not being loud and proud about the ideas involved
either way, there's no shame in admitting being wrong and cutting your losses. the chunk of metal and silicon by itself isn't, like, cursed
turmoni@whitequark @amt I don't get the people who wanted to get rid of their laptops for that reason, it's not like Framework got to Tesla levels of association with Bad People
What makes me sad is that I bought my Framework a few years back with the hope that it would be my last laptop for a long time, and now I don't know what to do when it comes time to upgrade it
@turmoni @whitequark oh I am not getting rid of it and frankly not that rich to discard expensive stuff for ideology. It’s just a bitter pill to swallow.
Svante Bengtson@turmoni
Oh damn it i was just looking at one as I need a new laptop. Is it back to thinkpads then?
@swantzter I dunno, my Framework should still last me a really long time since I don't use a laptop all that often and have a nice powerful desktop for the rest of the time
This is in relation to https://community.frame.work/t/framework-supporting-far-right-racists/ which was an ultimately disappointing situation where at no point did they at all address promoting or supporting DHH, only Hyprland
Framework supporting far-right racists?
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