UPDATE: After replying to parent, I read further and saw others mentioned XJACK seventeen hours ago, the actual technology the PCMCIA I mention is using.

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> card that sticks out like that

remember PCMCIA cards? back in those good old days of laptops taking a universal expansion card physical format, the Ethernet cards often had a spring loaded pop-out jack to hold the Ethernet cable.

look at the picture for this on wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_Card

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_Card#/media/File:XJACK_netw...

Framework is simply “doing it wrong”.

// disclaimer: I own the latest Frame.work model, my bias to want their success is strong enough that I bought one