I was hearing the ECUs in the market were fineky to repair from a friend. I know there us a certain diy support for them, but more prosumer seeming then full right to repair.
It should be distro agnostic, yes. It's a bios replacement so once it hands off to the OS it should be chill
The reason why many people like coreboot is ownership over your system. The codes freely available to you, what it does is known, and this it's harder to backdoor.
As for functionality, by my understanding, this allows for updates way past what manufacturers are willing to support. Making older hardware much more secure.
Other than support for older systems and peace of mind there's not anything I'd know myself. It may be able to allow features that the bios doesn't allow but the hardware supports as well but I don't have any examples
I'll admit, I'm a paranoid man, so peace of mind and ownership over my system is the main allure. Also, I hate branding, and love to remove it where possible. Coreboot allows this
While this new display certainly seems better (in terms of being able to use 2x scaling instead of my current 1.25x), I'd honestly prefer to have a cheaper option that's just 1920x1280, so I don't have to use scaling at all. I don't care that much how "crisp" text looks.
It's just a standard eDP connector. Technically as long as you can find a screen with the same physical dimensions and that uses the same number of eDP lanes or less, you can just drop it in. I have quite a few ThinkPad laptops I have done that with. The screens in them are not an option Lenovo ever offered for those laptops.
I see. In that case a 1920x1200 display with an adjusted frame might be enough? The top and bottom would just need to be slightly thicker to bridge the gap of the missing 80 vertical pixels? Just a thought, not important at all :)
They already work with Cooler Master. I believe they designed the cooling for the laptops and this case.. And why would Cooler Master work on a tablet and not a phone, phones need cooling to lol?
Another line points out that Cooler Master, which designed the thermal solution inside the Framework Laptop 16 and is now a direct investor, might help Framework build new products, too. “
And why would Cooler Master work on a tablet and not a phone, phones need cooling to lol?
They wouldn't work on either because that's not the type of products they make.
No, it's not a phone. That's the "Cooler Master Cryo Phone Cooler". It's a phone cooler that attaches to the back of your phone to provide additional cooling while gaming and what not. So when you said
They wouldn't work on either(phone or tablet) because that's not the type of products they make.
Not really true, Cooler Master had already made a cooler for phones. It's not much of a stretch to say they might release another product in the phone category.
I mean I feel like that's pretty clearly what you were insinuating, but if not then I'm not sure what YOUR point is.
The point is not only that phones don't have cooling systems (outside of niche devices like RedMagic and ROG) but that CM has no experience with that sort of thing, so its unlikely to be a phone because they would not need CM's investment for that.
If Framework made a modular phone then CM could make a modular similar to the one I linked that could attach to the FW phone. Or the phone wouldn't involve CM at all and they're working on a different product altogether.
What do you think the next Framework/Cooler Master collaboration is?
It's very similar but with a different philosophy. Fairphone is about sustainability and being ethical. Framework is about repairability and upgradability(which the fairphone isn't).
Sustainability is a large part of Framework's mission as well. The CEO has explicitly said that one of their goals is that none of their laptops should end up in a landfill.
That's definitely true. There's definitely a lot of overlap but, my point was that Fairphone specialized in making "ethical" electronics beyond just being repairable in a way afaik Framework does not. And I'm assuming that a Framework phone would be upgradable and the Fairphone is not.
People looking to buy one would also look to at the other as an alternative though.
FairPhone is definitely about repairability. But yes, I keep waiting for a FairPhone that isn't a total redesign from the previous so we can finally get yearly upgrades without needing a new phone. But the truth is, before the FP4 the design was still catching up to the competition.
This is wild I am so happy to see it. I tend to be hesitant to fanboy a company but here I can't help myself. Step after step, most things framework do make it imposible not to.
Of course, as stated, this is just a dev board but the ability to just drop the boy into the 13 inch and have it going is wild. I'm increadibly excited to see what people can do with it and if it's available for consumers, I'm excited to finally have a chance to try my hand at risc development
and edit the config at /etc/tlp.conf to optimise your battery
the instructions are in the file iirc
basically set your CPU settings (I use powersave on my intel non-framework), and maybe have a look at the radeon graphics things (I don't have an amd system so I can't say much about this)
and refresh your config with
sudo tlp start
if you also get powertop (sudo apt install powertop) you can monitor your power consumption in that. (sudo powertop)
If you can't be bothered with this, I think you can also just install power profiles daemon but I like tlp better because it gives you much finer control over your system
It basically immediately caused my laptop to freeze up and I had to hard reboot it. I took the opportunity as it was coming up to remove the 80% limit in the BIOS, and then I commented everything I had uncommented. :/
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