This will be my first Framework

Depending on how you treat it, it might also be your last. So far, Framework has offered upgrades to their existing customers so they don’t have to buy a completely new notebook to upgrade.

All artists train themselves on others artwork, most probably unpaid.

They are wrong. Theft means depriving someone of having something, and that’s not the case here. It’s more a “they’re taking our jobs” kind of situation.

Facts are not under copyright, only creative expression are. So, for example your randomly assigned phone number does not have copyright protection.

Those earbuds are not so great for flight mode.

Only if they have a 100% tax rate, which I doubt.

That’s not how research & development works. Nobody asks for a specific person there. Stuff just doesn’t get done.

I’d rejoin for double the wage I previously had. Need to build up an emergency fund for this precarious position.

It’s the confidence with which he sprouts his nonsense. People flock to confident personalities, because they must know a lot of things (presumably).

• Improved autocomplete when programming
• Recommendations for third party packages or protocols for programming or letting it list details for them, or comparing two competing implementations
• Hints for my TTRPG stories (not so great for that, because it always uses very similar ideas)
• Helping recalling a word I forgot by simply describing what I mean, same with phrases or proverbs

Location tracking and recording of all activity (voice, text messages). The FBI has admitted doing so during big events like protests.

The traditional separation is between individualist vs. social. Individualists value personal freedom over the prosperity of the community, while socials strife for welfare for everyone over personal life improvements.

A bartering LLM where the system prompt contains the worst deal it’s allowed to accept.

It’s not related to the left/right divide, this is the authoritarian/liberal axis.

Yeah, this worked so well for XMPP when everybody federated with Gmail chat.

You can buy just the motherboard of a Framework laptop and build something around that. There are even cases for them available to print.

RISC-V is exciting for chip manufacturers, not sure why end users should be. I personally don’t care whether the CPU in my system required the producer to pay a license fee.

I’ve started to ask ChatGPT first to avoid this.

The GNU project emerged from academics, which don’t get paid for their software in general, they get paid for writing papers about it. So, they want to stop all commercial use of their software.

The Rust project emerged from the startup culture, where everything is just a stepping stone to eventually get sold in some kind of software project to get rich. So, being able to use the software in a commercial setting is essential.

I personally prefer to use such languages, but I often don’t have a choice for certain tech stacks.