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Framework Raises $18M Series A

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Re: Framework Raises $18M Series A

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Post by duped »

aljarry wrote: post #137
duped wrote: post #107

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You don't need "professional" drivers for your sound card in 2022, latency and stability are mostly a solved problem. There are a few "nice to haves" about ASIO on Windows but it's almost entirely useless, and it's not like Steinberg is maintaining ASIO anymore.

I'm sceptic - I can't run anything with reasonable latency without using ASIO4ALL on my built-in Realtek sound card. Mainboard is with B450 chipset, from around 2017.

You want to use WASAPI's exclusive mode

Re: Framework Raises $18M Series A

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Post by yencabulator »

bitigchi wrote: post #124

I wish they'd allow configuring the keyboard layout, at least for most spoken languages of the world.

The selection of countries seems pretty good to me: https://frame.work/marketplace/keyboards

The real genius of Framework is that it doesn't even have to be the Framework company manufacturing your favorite keyboard, it's just a standard form factor.

I personally would buy a replacement ortholinear keyboard, if one was available.

Re: Framework Raises $18M Series A

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Post by globalise83 »

aidenn0 wrote: post #143
DerArzt wrote: post #116

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I am in a similar situation. I would love to purchase one, but my current laptop works fine and I don't need to make more e-waste due to cool new shiny thing! But they will stay on my mind.

I suppose that's a disadvantage peculiar to manufacturers targeting reduced waste: their customers aren't going to upgrade as often...

As someone whose first task on buying a new laptop every ten years is to install the latest Ubuntu LTS version, a company which makes machines that work perfectly with Ubuntu and have a life of around 10 years will have me as a customer for life.

Re: Framework Raises $18M Series A

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Post by fancyfredbot »

I find it interesting we need a start-up to cater for the desire for a repairable and upgradeable laptop. Dell, HP, Asus, MSI etc have already got the money and the expertise. If there's really a market here why haven't they already taken it? My guess is that the market is small though disproportionately represented on HN.

Re: Framework Raises $18M Series A

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Post by andrewgioia »

geoffeg wrote: post #57
andrewgioia wrote: post #8

Love my Framework. Barring Apple's recent move away from the touchbar it's honestly the first machine I've been excited about in 6 or so years. The build quality is great, love the simplicity and design of the expansion ports, and the repair/upgrade-ability is huge. It's gotten me back into using Linux as a daily driver. I really hope they stay true to their vision and that this means expanding it into other consumer…

I've come very close to buying a Framework laptop a few times, but I'd only want to run Linux on it and wasn't sure how well it was supported. How are things like wifi, sleep and battery life under Linux?

Fedora 35 is essentially fully supported and I believe their recommended distro[1]. I installed this to test it out and OOTB is was perfect, I may switch to this full time as it has the best vanilla gnome experience too (IMO). The other one they indicate that has near full support after install is Ubuntu 21.04.

FWIW I've been using elementaryOS 6.1 for most of the time and it's been really nice too. Full disclosure though it was pretty DIY; wifi did not work right away (I had to upgrade the kernal), I had to install some software to enable the fingerprint reader, and I needed to manually enable fractional scaling.

I definitely recommend it to run Linux, the community is fantastic and another strong selling point.

[1] https://frame.work/blog/linux-on-the-framework-laptop

Re: Framework Raises $18M Series A

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Post by JimBlackwood »

nrp wrote: post #21
JimBlackwood wrote: post #15

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It’s always a shame such cool positions are US only. Would love to find some of these kind of companies in the EU (or more US positions that more easily allow non-US workers)

We're currently hiring in the US and Taiwan, where we have entities set up. We will likely set up an EU entity to open up hiring there too, but we don't have a timeline for that at the moment.

Super cool! I wish you good luck! Firmware engineer definitely sounds great to me, hopefully the type of job I can steer my career towards in the future! :)

Re: Framework Raises $18M Series A

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Post by nafizh »

BaseballPhysics wrote: post #134
krasin wrote: post #108

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Thank you for adding these details. My current Linux laptop (released in 2015) can sleep for about week, resume in 3-4 seconds. Am I reading your comment correctly that buying a Framework would degrade my user experience?

Yes. This is why I switched to simply hibernating, which has worked flawlessly for me. The shutdown and startup times are obviously a bit longer (it takes 10 seconds to get to the bootloader, after which its about 12 seconds to wake up), but since it's truly off, it can remain asleep indefinitely.

Do you have a link to a community thread or any other link on how to implement the hibernation? Right now, anytime I am closing the lid, the battery is draining out.

Re: Framework Raises $18M Series A

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Post by wmf »

fancyfredbot wrote: post #155

I find it interesting we need a start-up to cater for the desire for a repairable and upgradeable laptop. Dell, HP, Asus, MSI etc have already got the money and the expertise. If there's really a market here why haven't they already taken it? My guess is that the market is small though disproportionately represented on HN.

There appear to be several ThinkPad models that are just as repairable as Framework but maybe they don't count because they're black. Framework's real niche appears to be repairable shiny aluminum laptops (that don't run macOS). Compare https://download.lenovo.com/pccbbs/mobiles_pdf/t14s_gen2_x13... and https://guides.frame.work/Guide/Mainboard+Replacement+Guide/...

Dell recently showed a repairable concept https://www.delltechnologies.com/en-us/blog/pushing-the-boun... that gives pretty strong "don't buy Framework, just wait for us to catch up" vibes. Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29569470

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