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Re:Framework Ethernet Expansion Card is now available by dicriseg on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @10:38PM (#32832681)
It looks to me like the RJ45 jack is taller than the expansion card slot, and the depth of the bump is more or less the depth of the RJ45 jack + the space needed to wire it in. I'm not sure what else they could have done to produce something that fits in the expansion slot. You can always just use a USB-C ethernet dongle if you think you're going to disconnect it every time it goes into a bag.

Just looking at it, as long as its manufactured to reasonable tolerances, you'd have to do quite a bit to damage the laptop via the protrusion. I'm not sure how big of a deal this is. I'd just throw it in a bag and not worry about it, protrusion and all.

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Re:Framework Ethernet Expansion Card is now available by solardev on Tuesday September 13, 2022 @11:52PM (#32833150)
Couldn't they have copied one of the expanding RJ45 designs? There's so many out there, like:

https://imgur.com/eJVvlQx

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1520/4366/products/type-c-...

https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-n2pgpewhfn/images/stencil/12...

Trying to fit ethernet into a slimmer form factor has been around for a loooooooong time....

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Re:Framework Ethernet Expansion Card is now available by teddyh on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @07:25AM (#32835666)
There are likely patents covering those, which probably are owned by existing laptop vendors.
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Re:Framework Ethernet Expansion Card is now available by solardev on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @08:21AM (#32836123)
Even the USB and PCMCIA ones? They're pretty different designs.
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Re:Framework Ethernet Expansion Card is now available by MrStonedOne on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @04:40AM (#32834635)
No.

Those fucking suck, and some of us use our laptops on our laps, with ethernet connected. Those expanding jacks basically only work while it is on a desk because if the cable bends downwards even a tiny bit it just comes out.

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Re:Framework Ethernet Expansion Card is now available by solardev on Friday September 16, 2022 @01:57AM (#32862598)
I dunno why your comment was marked dead, but I vouched for it. That's a good point / use case that should be kept in mind.
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Re:Framework Ethernet Expansion Card is now available by sverhagen on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @01:59AM (#32833753)
> I'm not sure what else they could have done to produce something that fits in the expansion slot

They could've made the expansion slot bigger. It's unlikely that Ethernet wasn't talked about at some point when they designed the laptop. They chose not to, which may very well be the right choice, but then we're talking about trade-ofs not about possibilities.

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