Oh nice, kit bashing sounds fun. Admittedly I don’t know anything about Gundam and other mech franchises apart from watching my friends build them while I build my own models.

Nice what’s it gonna be?

These all seem very strategically important. I’m worried that this is another sign of how likely world war III is at the moment.

I should start writing programs for the 6502 since that’s all we’ll be able to afford here at this rate /hj

Thanks for the rec, I’ll check it out.

I’ve never watched it before but as long as I don’t watch this one it won’t be any worse :)

Come All Ye Coal Miners, also by Panopticon (I think it may be a cover) is great too.

Glad you like it Mr. Coprocessor.

I would personally like to thank BDS for helping quit my McD’s and Starbucks addictions a few years ago. Idk what the figures for the US specifically look like but I know between myself and some friends it probably amounts to a few thousand a year.

Classic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63Tk9QxvZHo

Not explicitly socialist but proletarian (also the person the song is speaking to is a man since this is about coal mining many decades ago but beware the term “are you gonna be a man” or something like that is used):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwIvn27PgsA

That is one hexagonal bear.

Yeah it’s more than a bit much. Personally there’s a lot of merit in just getting a rebadged clevo or similar. System76 has been using clevo platforms to pretty decent results and they put in the work to make them run perfectly with Pop! OS.

Yeah she’s got the pretty and confident Tomgirl thing going on.

Framework

Xenia, the trans Linux mascot, has that effect.

I suddenly realized I need to order a lot of stuff from Aliexpress.

I have two (both sizes). They suck and they’re magnificent:

Both are DIY editions. I love it. I lusted over some build your own laptop kit when I was young and these are basically that brought up to date. And that was in the days when you could get socketed mobile CPUs :D.

But back to the laptop.

Cons:

• the frames aren’t as stiff due to the way they are attached on the 13 (just 4 or 5 screws) or the modular deck system on the 16 despite fixing the previous issue.
• Modular IO is wonderful but it could potentially not be enough in some use cases. Only 4 slots on the 13, and you lose one of the 6 on the 16 to an audio jack.
• The interchangeable screen bezels are ugly and too fun to play with. I’ve broken two already playing with them. And they have a cheap looking and feeling texture.
• Captive screws on the 13 aren’t officially replaceable. When they strip (like one of mine ) the official solution is to BUY A NEW FUCKING CASE. As annoying as they can be to replace, stock replacements and use simple e clips on them or something goddamn. They’re all the same size anyway mashallah. I gotta look into replacing them with non-captives.
• The original 11th gen intel motherboard on the 13 (which I’m still on) came with an annoying bug where the RTC battery would only charge on AC. So when I left it off and unplugged for a few months it was seemingly bricked. Fortunately after a quick search I just had to reset the config memory (“clearing the cmos” as I’ve heard it).
• THEY’RE EXPENSIVE. Go price one out and compare it to an Acer.
• They give you tech bro street cred. I don’t want tech bro street cred.
• No open source firmware yet even though it was a commitment they made to the community to support years ago. The support amounted to I think 2 laptops sent to a pair of coreboot devs, however unsigned firmware hadn’t been enabled and which apparently allowed the to get bricked. Also they didn’t even offer to pay to the coreboot devs.

Pros: -They have stuck to their promise so far and offered upgrade motherboards for 2 or 3 gens of intel and now added AMD and plan to go forward with them.

• Genuinely repairable
• Just really cool, mostly cause I’m a nerd. But it’s not even just computer nerds who think it’s cool. But speaking of being a nerd:
• Nerd street cred. Unlike tech bros, nerds are welcome to walk up to me (respectfully) and chat about my laptop.
• Pretty damn good Linux support.
• One of the best screens I’ve had on a laptop
• One of the best trackpads outside Apple
• Modular IO has proven useful. The connectors that get the most wear and tear can be replaced easily (looking at you 3.5mm)
• Optional and upgradable GPU on the 16
• DIY option was fun to build, there are video guides if you need them, and I could imagine it would take some intimidation out of upgrading it or replacing parts yourself in the future.
• Speakers are pretty okay
• If you like or need to be on up to date hardware but need a laptop, as long as they keep their upgradability promise this is better than other options if you can afford it.

Ford going back to their roots?

I hope any of them with good opsec manage to leak a whole bunch of classified information on their way out.