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Re: Open-Sourcing our Firmware

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Post by jrop »

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…

Buy someone else in your circles a Framework Laptop who needs a laptop! Or gift them one of your ThinkPads and get yourself a framework!

Re: Open-Sourcing our Firmware

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Post by panick21_ »

bbojan wrote: post #130
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.

Because I'm down the rabbit hole of highly customized keyboards, at one point I did a frequency analysis of the keys I use the most. Guess what was the most frequently used key? Cursor down followed by cursor up. For example, cursor down was pressed ~2.5x more times than space, or ~4 times more than letter E, which is was the most frequently used letter. Guess what are the smallest keys on a Mac-type keyboard (the la…

I love the ThinkPad with the Arrow Key and PgUp/PgDown all next to each other.

Re: Open-Sourcing our Firmware

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Post by baybal2 »

ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #334
baybal2 wrote: post #286

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I want to produce a keyboard switch which needs no debounce.

IIRC those already exist in the form of optical switches.

Yes, but they are overengineering a simple problem. A mechanical bounce free switch is a no problem at all.

Re: Open-Sourcing our Firmware

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Post by DrBenCarson »

vorpalhex wrote: post #188
DrBenCarson wrote: post #131

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* crisp display * nice battery life * Linux friendliness Not elusive at all, you can find an M1 MacBook Pro at any Apple, Best Buy, or Costco store.

You can't even run unsigned apps on your M1. There is linux support slowly coming thanks to the fine folks on Asahi, but it is very pre-beta.

I can run a Linux vm emulating x64 or aarch64 right now on M1…

It’s more flexible that WSL2 in my opinion

See https://github.com/lima-vm/lima for a very friendly QEMU wrapper

Re: Open-Sourcing our Firmware

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Post by DrBenCarson »

Kinrany wrote: post #137
DrBenCarson wrote: post #131

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* crisp display * nice battery life * Linux friendliness Not elusive at all, you can find an M1 MacBook Pro at any Apple, Best Buy, or Costco store.

M1 are not Linux-friendly at all.

I can run a Linux vm emulating x64 or aarch64 right now on M1…

Not to mention zsh is the login shell out of the box…

It’s more flexible that WSL2 in my opinion

See https://github.com/lima-vm/lima for a very friendly QEMU wrapper running on M1

Re: Open-Sourcing our Firmware

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Post by xvector »

sangnoir wrote: post #262
xvector wrote: post #192

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If a "hinge doesn't feel strong" and the keys are "mushy and creaky" that 100% indicates poor build quality. Perhaps our individual thresholds for quality differ, but either one of those two statements are dealbreakers for me.

Our individual thresholds for quality differ, that's for sure, because my definition is "Was the object built well, considering it's constraints?" As an example,if something is made of plastic (or "polycarbonate"[1]), I expect it to flex to a degree, and it can still be very well made (e.g. old school Nokia phones had incredible build quality and industrial design) 1. I hate that plastic had to be re-branded in this…

That is a very good point - I never thought of it that way. Old Nokia phones are indeed built incredibly well.

Perhaps and "build quality" and "premium feeling" need to be separated. I suspect I'm not the only one conflating the ideas.

Re: Open-Sourcing our Firmware

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Post by astrange »

Shared404 wrote: post #313
astrange wrote: post #283

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Run it in a VM. Works fine.

This is like responding "well you can make the civic look like a sports car, that should cover you!" when someone says "I want to drive fast".

There's some concerns about paravirtualized GPU performance, but the equivalent of "sports car" (workstation/server-like workloads) runs in VMs in cloud providers all the time.

Re: Open-Sourcing our Firmware

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Post by jlokier »

dsego wrote: post #342
orthecreedence wrote: post #325

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I hate fn+arrow as an alternative to having real home/end/pgup/pgdown keys. It's probably the thing I hate most about my blade laptop.

Why? Do you feel similar about not having a "real" dedicated key to ctrl+c / ctrl+v ?

It takes two hands to use Fn+Up/Down instead of PageUp/PageDown keys to scroll around. These keys are for some people the most common keys used for fast nevigation in code and documents.

Ctrl+C / Ctrl+V are used far less often, and you can type them with one hand.

Re: Open-Sourcing our Firmware

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Post by vorpalhex »

DrBenCarson wrote: post #354
vorpalhex wrote: post #188

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can't even run unsigned apps on your M1. There is linux support slowly coming thanks to the fine folks on Asahi, but it is very pre-beta.

I can run a Linux vm emulating x64 or aarch64 right now on M1… It’s more flexible that WSL2 in my opinion See https://github.com/lima-vm/lima for a very friendly QEMU wrapper

I can write a program and send it to my friend - and they can actually run it - without me paying $99/year to Apple.

Try that on your M1.

Re: Open-Sourcing our Firmware

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Post by rg111 »

KeytarHero wrote: post #23
rg111 wrote: post #13

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Anything but the flag. Why not use full language names? I am very tired of seeing one flag represent my language where that is the newer nation using that language as national language. But that language is spoken for a thousand years or more in other regions.

> Why not use full language names? If I end up on the page in a language I don't know, then how would I find the language selector? I agree that flags aren't great, but I don't know of any other solution to this problem.

Language codes are a solution. And it works great.

And language codes should be given in ASCII. Someone not native has a slight chance of not knowing what fr is, or bn is, or nl is, but, a native, or someone who speaks the language will always know.

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