Note by @fastfinge

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

I think I feel the same way about laptops that sighted people who drive must feel about giant off-road capable SUVs. At any time, they could drive through the wilderness! Not that they ever will. Similarly, at any time, I could compile giant rust applications on this laptop! Or run important mathematical calculations! But I never will. And the same way it's impossible to park an SUV, the Framework 16 laptop is impossible to actually, you know, use on your lap. If I could see and drive, would I have some kind of Chevy Tahoe that can tow fifty tons and takes up two zipcodes just to drive me to work? Now I feel sad.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

Also, I could replace the motherboard! Or 3D print my own third-party components! But...yeah. I'm never gonna do that. But I could! At any time! And that's all that matters.

Alex 🍜 @mojoaxel@social.tchncs.de

@fastfinge Our company uses Framework laptops not because we could upgrade them at any time but because they are easy to repair. I also help out at a #repair_café and I know how hard it is to repair normal consumer devices.
The rich developers that buys these framework laptops will propably switch to a new device after a few years but the devices will hopefully have a long live after that in the second hand market.

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca

@mojoaxel I hope you're right! But I thought I'd broken the cable that connects the midplate to the mainboard, and I looked at getting a replacement. It was $20 before shipping. Lucky for me, I hadn't; that cable is extremely fussy about alignment (or there's some visual indicator I couldn't see), and the ninth time I reconnected it everything worked. However, it doesn't cost them $20 to make a ribbon cable. Probably they'll just keep making parts more and more expensive, until it would be cheaper to get a new laptop than to fix the old one.

Alex 🍜 @mojoaxel@social.tchncs.de

@fastfinge This is not good to hear! Let's see how it develops in the future. Even if framework itself is not the right approach I at least hope they will help create a bigger market for repairable laptops!