The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've used

Re:The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've used by floatingatoll on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @07:50PM (#28611488)

Insulting all Apple users by calling them "industrial sheep" may put you into conflict with having your views given reasonable consideration, not to mention the site guidelines. It's not generally okay here to call people names for disagreeing with your views.

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Re:The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've used by Stupulous on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @08:48PM (#28611902)

I'm not positive, but I think they were talking about Apple's competitors rather than their users. Samsung, for example, dropped the aux port for dongles soon after Apple.

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Re:The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've used by floatingatoll on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @09:11PM (#28612054)

I misread, based on replies. Thanks for pointing out another interpretation, all. Apologies.

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Re:The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've used by biztos on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @03:08AM (#28613800)

Indeed I meant most other laptop manufacturers, who copy Apple’s designs almost as cravenly as do smartphone manufacturers.

I’m a longtime MacBook user myself, and I do like my new Air, but I have two adapters plugged into it half the time.

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Re:The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've used by necovek on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @12:53AM (#28613198)

I don't see how your original comment does not apply if it's targetted to a different group.

Even if it's companies, they are "companies of people".

Seems a bit disingenuous.

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Re:The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've used by floatingatoll on Thursday September 23, 2021 @12:27PM (#28631412)

I accepted the correction from others here in accordance with a site guideline about this exact scenario:

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

I was unable to come up with a good faith and plausible interpretation; others found one that I'd missed, and thus I retracted my objection. The author apparently later confirmed their interpretation, but that was not factored into my retraction, and is not relevant to the guideline I'm trying to adhere to.

To your comment about "disingenuous", I've spent most of my life being misunderstood for making perfectly logical statements that other people decided were some sort of slander instead of trying to understand in good faith given the context that I'm a nerd with social disorders. So I'd prefer to avoid being upset with someone else over a misinterpretation when I wish others would be less upset with me about them.

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Re:The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've used by necovek on Friday September 24, 2021 @03:24AM (#28639539)

Good approach, and I guess I can see my comment to be along the lines of those "perfectly logical" ones, but ignoring the social context: I try, though :)

Thanks for the honest perspective!

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Re:The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've used by bwship on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @08:48PM (#28611898)

I think he might have been referring to manufactures trying to copy Apple's trendsetting lead, not the users of Apple devices.

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