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How come?
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Well said! Those Europeans with their tariffs, and their stupid motto "make Europe great again"!
Oh wait...
MNT Reform is an open hardware laptop, designed and assembled in Germany
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Re: MNT Reform is an open hardware laptop, designed and assembled in Germany
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> 3x USB Type-A ports > 1x USB Type-C for USB-C PD power input and built-in UART-to-USB converters It doesn't seem either present- or future-secure to have only USB-A ports.
A or C you'll have to use a dongle regardless.
Haven’t used USB-A on my Laptop in years. Don’t even have an adapter.
Re: MNT Reform is an open hardware laptop, designed and assembled in Germany
#103Are those AA batteries?
They're 18650 cells, a bit bigger than AA.
Re: MNT Reform is an open hardware laptop, designed and assembled in Germany
#104It's an interesting concept, but perhaps a bit financially and environmentally wasteful, when you can get a 10 year old ThinkPad for 10% of the price that will perform roughly as well as this one. We don't need to bring more low-powered laptops into this world.
If you want this but more powerful then you're probably looking for https://novacustom.com/
It's like framework laptops, but EU based and without the drama of funding a fascist developer.
Re: MNT Reform is an open hardware laptop, designed and assembled in Germany
#105The plan fell off.
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#106It has that trackball. I'm assuming that must need cleaning from time to time, like the old mouse balls?
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#107Typing this from a Pocket Reform right now. The two non-work devices I use most often are this and the Reform 2, and I've upgraded both to various degrees over time. I plan to swap modules between them at some point soon so I can have the Pocket Reform be the faster of the two. I should really write up a long-term review of this thing at some point, but overall I love it. It can be a bit rough around the edges at tim…
Did you get it to suspend when you close the lid?
Re: MNT Reform is an open hardware laptop, designed and assembled in Germany
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MNT is entirely open hardware and much more free-software-friendly, right? If you care about stuff like freedom and autonomy in computing, and you have the money to spend, the Reform seems like a far better product to me.
What part of framework is less open than MNT?
framework doesn't open source their firmware. despite major demand from their community [0]. they're the only ones among major manufacturers of linux-ready laptops (novacustom, starbook, system76) who haven't bothered to do it. i consider framework to be driven by marketing more than values or honesty
[0] https://community.frame.work/t/responded-coreboot-on-the-fra...
Re: MNT Reform is an open hardware laptop, designed and assembled in Germany
#109I've been looking into switching away from apple and try to buy more EU based services and products. I love the concept and might just buy one to support the project, but I want something sleeker for my daily use. So I'm considering slimbook & tuxedo atm as buy-from-eu options.
It's UK-based, so not quite EU anymore unfortunately, but the Starbook looks like one of the sleeker options: https://starlabs.systems/pages/starbook
+1 for starlabs. they make sleek looking devices with strong specs
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RK3288 was true open source. It boots with just u-boot and no blobs. DDR init was done by u-boot code and armv7 didn't require a TEE. RK3588 is "almost" open. It boots with mainline u-boot and device tree from the Linux kernel, but needs two blobs: the DDR training blob and the trustzone blob (BL31). It can run without a TEE OS. I recently heard that the BL31 is now open source, but I didn't look into it. Mainline ke…
I believe the Mali graphics also require a blob if you want 3D acceleration.
You're right, 3D needs /lib/firmware/arm/mali/arch10.8/mali_csffw.bin, distributed by linux-firmware package.