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Re:Open-Sourcing our Firmware by stormbrew on Friday January 21, 2022 @04:36PM (#30030322)
> From reports I've read the Framework laptop has poor build quality.

I'm gonna be really honest here and say that people have a very distorted subjective idea of what a 'sturdy laptop' is like. A lot of marketing money has been spent to make people think the only way to have a strong object is for it to be made of a rigid metal or glass material, so people go "oh my god the lid can FLEX this thing will break if I drop it!" but that's not at all how things work.

The truth is you can't really just guess at whether a thing will survive falling or whatever by looking at or touching it. The only thing that tells you anything really is actual experience and/or testing.

(personally, I think my framework laptop feels plenty sturdy for all the subjective anecdata that's worth, it's just not designed in a way that's trying to scream at you "you can run it over with a truck and it will work perfectly")

Re:Open-Sourcing our Firmware by brokenmachine on Monday January 24, 2022 @10:50PM (#30067731)
Sometimes I think that I must be the only one who doesn't throw his laptop into a backpack full of hammers while jogging everywhere.