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finally ditched elon's soykafty twitter for a nicer libre alternative.

i am a libre software & hardware enthusiast and activist, not an open-source apologist. linux and bsd hacker, so please encrypt your boot partition. or don't :3

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@gloopsies battery capacities diminish quite fast. having a power bank that will charge a battery that can barely hold up a 10 Wh capacity is not useful. an easily removable batteries *without screws* might be of help and compliment the powerbank you bought.

things like "for sure" and "believe me" regarding a for-profit capitalist venture like framework's aren't really doing you any favours. you are putting a lot of faith in a corpo that's treating you as a cash cow. this is going nowhere.

@gloopsies
none of what you said is true. linux works on any sillicon piece of computing that you install it. hardware is not open. revenue, margins? you can't claim anything about that due to their lack of transparency. coreboot? well purism's liberm14 with comet lake uses coreboot.

@gloopsies power banks aren't standard batteries nor are they better. these 2 simply serve 2 different purposes. most people don't have a powerbank that can power a laptop, cuz they mostly buy a 35W one for their phone or their buds. now they have to invest in a new one and abandon the old one.

>made by just one company

that's a problem with intellectual property. a flaw in framework's licenses.
usb c as a universal port for all io is, like aforementioned, irrelevant to a removable battery

@gloopsies all in all, the is not a company that is ideologically determined to follow the OSS philosophy, let alone the libre one. why? there continued support for proprietary OSs like Windows, no coreboot. to big corpos like these, "open-source" is just a buzz word that can attract users. linux is in rn and they wanna profit off of it. do they have good reliable laptops for professionals? probably. is there modular approach something good? to some extent. i am criticising the capitalist corpo.
@gloopsies you can have both, why not? fairphone does it. the idea of usb-c charging is irrelevant. one isn't an alternative to the other. what you are suggesting is the equivalent of the dongle life. having to buy an extra ~100w power bank to carry around. swapping batteries without using a screwdriver is quite literally something that shouldn't be a "luxury type of feature". old laptops also had propietary charging ports, just because i liked one thing about them, doesn't mean i like it all.
@gloopsies ok, they have a lot of stuff open-sourced, the part about the hardware, i understand, tho i believe it's not an excuse. the GPU module's schematics could be released without releasing the schematics for the GPU itself. they don't even have that direction in mind. which is why i prefer the mnt reform over the framework laptop.

@gloopsies

there's a cost for modularity and accessibility ofc, that's hardware design 101. i am not gonna repeat myself as i have already explained why such batteries are shit design. you are repeating the same shit apple says about "making the phone thinner". at some point there's no point in going thinner, but that's another story for another day. the power bank trick won't work, at least efficiently, as you would need a beefy one with the proper wattage.

@gloopsies source?
the internet would be better off, both socially and technically, without cloudflare. i will happily die on that hill.
@mholiv
it's not like i am demanding the technologically impossbile. if they can make GPU module removable, they can make the battery removable.