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Re: Open-Sourcing our Firmware

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Post by dsego »

tomtheelder wrote: post #74
varispeed wrote: post #55

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This is I don't understand. Why laptop manufacturers neglect probably the most important thing that is the keyboard? Almost every single laptop that comes out these days looks like the keyboard is an afterthought. Why can't I have full size cursor keys? Pg Up, Pg Down, Home, End and few others?

I suspect majority of users never touch Pg Up/Pg Dn/Home/End and all those other keys over there. For arrow keys, the compacted layout is helpful when designing a space constrained keyboard, and it's totally usable.

fn+arrow combo is imho equally as usable

Re: Open-Sourcing our Firmware

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Post by amelius »

looperhacks wrote: post #127
amelius wrote: post #97

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> what is the next best alternative? This: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30028593

This doesn't help the user choose a language. The language my browser sends to the website is not necessarily the language I want to view the webpage in.

Then you have to change your browser settings.

https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-lang-prioritie...

Re: Open-Sourcing our Firmware

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Post by Teknoman117 »

reacharavindh wrote: post #106
bo1024 wrote: post #91

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You nailed it, battery is the only downside I’ve had, not awful but probably say 3 hours of video playback, or 5-6 hours of web use. Haven’t used it unplugged all that much so very rough guesses. Bigger problem with my fedora install at least is battery draining while the lid is closed. Overall great machine Edit: I may be missing software updates that improve this, no idea

I very much wanted to hear about this and damn :-( Video playback must be hardware accelerated by now and be super efficient. Another worry was about low power sleep modes and waking up, and looks like it is not solved too. I might have to suck it up and buy the Mac for my needs after all. I have my trusty Linux desktop for all my big compute needs. I was hoping to make the mobile machine also run Linux, but the spec…

It's still a real pain to get hardware accelerated video in a browser on Linux. Google is still outright refusing to support it in chromium, even though they do support it inside Chrome OS. There are few community patches floating around if you're willing to roll your own chromium to enable to Chrome OS hardware decode pathways on generic Linux.

You can mostly get it working on Firefox if you play around with the config options, but it only works with AMD and Intel GPUs (anything supporting vaapi).

Re: Open-Sourcing our Firmware

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Post by nathancahill »

xvector wrote: post #135
reacharavindh wrote: post #106

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I very much wanted to hear about this and damn :-( Video playback must be hardware accelerated by now and be super efficient. Another worry was about low power sleep modes and waking up, and looks like it is not solved too. I might have to suck it up and buy the Mac for my needs after all. I have my trusty Linux desktop for all my big compute needs. I was hoping to make the mobile machine also run Linux, but the spec…

The M1 MacBook Air honestly feels so far ahead of any other laptop I've used that it's not even funny. Fanless, powerful, absolutely bonkers battery life. M1 + Nix is ideal, IMO.

You have Nix running on M1?

Re: Open-Sourcing our Firmware

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Post by staindk »

ohazi wrote: post #124

I've been so happy to see what Framework has been doing lately, and really want to support them, but I already have a desktop as my primary computer and two Thinkpads that are already set up nicely, but that I rarely use. I moved from 15" laptops to 14" when Lenovo added the numpad on the larger variant, and 14" is about as small as I want to go. I kind of want to buy a framework though, just to support them? But I h…

FWIW I don't think you should buy a laptop from them just to support them.

Just adding to e-waste down the line, and I'm sure they are selling enough units.

In the future when you do actually need/want a new laptop of course it would be great to support them then. And advocate for them when a friend asks about what laptop to buy.

Re: Open-Sourcing our Firmware

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Post by imiric »

ohazi wrote: post #124

I've been so happy to see what Framework has been doing lately, and really want to support them, but I already have a desktop as my primary computer and two Thinkpads that are already set up nicely, but that I rarely use. I moved from 15" laptops to 14" when Lenovo added the numpad on the larger variant, and 14" is about as small as I want to go. I kind of want to buy a framework though, just to support them? But I h…

From reports I've read the Framework laptop has poor build quality. This comment from here actually: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29807585

I'd like to support their cause, but like you, I have way too many machines that already work well enough, that I can't justify another purchase unless it would offer a substantial improvement over my current setup (old ThinkPads). Plus I really can't function without a Trackpoint ;)

So I'm holding out a generation or two to reconsider. I hope they improve.

Re: Open-Sourcing our Firmware

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Post by moondev »

philipprk wrote: post #35

Really hoping for the laptop's next iteration to have a reverse T for the arrow keys. Otherwise very solid laptop, would be my first non-Mac choice.

In theory you can just buy the keyboard and swap in when/if it becomes available https://frame.work/marketplace/keyboards

Re: Open-Sourcing our Firmware

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Post by alufers »

ohazi wrote: post #124

I've been so happy to see what Framework has been doing lately, and really want to support them, but I already have a desktop as my primary computer and two Thinkpads that are already set up nicely, but that I rarely use. I moved from 15" laptops to 14" when Lenovo added the numpad on the larger variant, and 14" is about as small as I want to go. I kind of want to buy a framework though, just to support them? But I h…

Sorry for changing the topic but does anybody know the reason Intel has removed the seep states?

It drives me absolutely nuts when I open my bag and feel the heat coming out of it, and my laptop is left with 20% charge.

Re: Open-Sourcing our Firmware

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Post by khimaros »

ohazi wrote: post #124

I've been so happy to see what Framework has been doing lately, and really want to support them, but I already have a desktop as my primary computer and two Thinkpads that are already set up nicely, but that I rarely use. I moved from 15" laptops to 14" when Lenovo added the numpad on the larger variant, and 14" is about as small as I want to go. I kind of want to buy a framework though, just to support them? But I h…

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