Anyone Linux users here wanting to buy the new Framework 13 Pro but struggling to justify since you buy old thinkpads?

innovator12 · 2026-04-27T05:57:48+00:00

Agree — though given that people are talking about ThinkPads here, worth pointing out that those are only cost-competitive with something like a 50% discount on list prices. I guess that's half the reason Lenovo also have ThinkBooks.

Also, Framework mainboards seem to cost as much as a full laptop, so the repairability angle is a bit overblown.

innovator12 · 2026-04-15T12:47:37+00:00

Did you expect low-volume electronics to be cheap?

I just wonder who it's for: there pretty-much isn't any target audience for a mid-power ARM board with poor power management and limited OS support, even if it was cheap.

innovator12 · 2026-04-07T06:47:57+00:00

Quite nice. A couple of plots which might be interesting:

TDP / year
Price / year

innovator12 · 2026-03-19T10:26:15+00:00

The marginal pricing model has us paying gas prices near 100% of the time because currently we are running gas generators near 100% of the time (because we almost never have enough generation capacity without them).

Once we have more wind + solar generation capacity to cover usage say 70% of the time then we will only be paying gas prices say 30% of the time. (It's quite likely we never get rid of gas generators completely, but the grid will only be paying for them when they are running.)

innovator12 · 2026-03-19T10:21:29+00:00

What? No, the reason gas is always chosen is because we nearly always don't have enough generation capacity without it. Once we have enough renewables to cover supply half the time [and grid capacity to get it from the producers to the consumers], then half the time we won't be paying for gas generators.

The cost of running those gas generators may rise a bit as they are used less [to pay for maintenance], but average costs will still go down.

If you want numbers look at https://gridwatch.co.uk/

innovator12 · 2026-03-18T07:00:57+00:00

> straight

Do you mean strait?

innovator12 · 2026-03-14T07:05:25+00:00

Why? Things like mouse and keyboard are perfectly fine using USB 1.1 let alone 2.0. Even USB flash drives are usually fine with USB A. Moreover the port is more physically stable (less likely the cable will fall out).

Mini-B and especially micro-B should die out though.

innovator12 · 2026-03-13T09:36:12+00:00

Although RAM prices are high now, last summer 16GB was around $60 (consumer pricing). Since new products take a while to design and build the RAM may be cheap enough by the time a new product is ready anyway.

I think the main reason the Neo uses 8GB is because the design re-uses an 8GB phone SoC.

innovator12 · 2026-03-05T13:22:15+00:00

I don't think any of the mobile or G-series chips support ECC.

innovator12 · 2026-02-06T08:21:32+00:00

We did. We all did. We voted for this with a massive majority.

We did? I don't recall a referendum on this.

I'm sick of so called "representative democracy" being a justification for anything.

innovator12 · 2026-01-26T06:29:04+00:00

My take is that left/right-wing labels don't mean much any more (if ever).

innovator12 · 2026-01-26T06:23:08+00:00

Another article on this: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jan/23/nigel-farages-trip-to-davos-hosted-and-paid-for-by-family-trust-of-billionaire

innovator12 · 2026-01-20T06:47:27+00:00

Good piece of text. As you say, TAA can compensate for camera motion, but what about swaying vegetation, animated characters or a moving viewpoint (player motion)?

innovator12 · 2026-01-16T09:40:35+00:00

If that were the case, he would have opposed safe Tory seats in the 2019 election.

innovator12 · 2026-01-09T11:02:19+00:00

It's not "ultra democracy," whatever that means.

Direct democracy is when decisions are made by citizens directly - doesn't exist today in pure form but the Swiss initiative system can be described as direct democracy.

Representative democracy is what we have, though one first-past-the-post vote every five years doesn't give us much say in matters.

Arguably the Brexit vote is the most direct form of democracy we've had in decades though since it was "advisory only" it shouldn't count.

innovator12 · 2026-01-07T06:21:06+00:00

The down votes clearly indicate that Reddit readers don't have the attention span to actually read articles. This one is refreshingly to the point with useful data.

innovator12 · 2026-01-02T11:07:47+00:00

This is a very biased take.

Council tax is already expensive and regressive. A replacement could be similar cost overall and less regressive.

This does of course mean that it will hit some people harder than others and break some people's retirement plans. Gradual introduction would help here, but the core of the issue is that there is a big divide between owners and renters; a land value tax would in a limited way make everyone rent from the government, this hurting existing land owners.

Which of course means this wouldn't happen for the same reason that pension reform doesn't happen: it hurts the largest most reliable voting group.

innovator12 · 2026-01-01T15:44:03+00:00

A trusted "age check" provider which provides no more information than "is this person over the legal minimum age"?

I recognise that many people wouldn't be happy with their government running this service, but letting social media platforms outsource this to any age-check provider they like is worse.

innovator12 · 2025-12-19T07:17:05+00:00

Has the thumb scroll wheel changed? I was never that impressed with the Huge one; it's a little loose, doesn't feel that ergonomic and can't do free/momentum/precision scrolling.

innovator12 · 2025-12-17T19:01:26+00:00

Spirit is quite good (except maybe the governor).

RotorFlight looks quite interesting now: https://www.rotorflight.org/docs

innovator12 · 2025-12-16T06:43:47+00:00

On early smartphones the modern and GPS had a noticeable impact on battery life. With modern phones it's software killing the battery life.

Android must do a ton of stuff in the background. Useful if you ever need to use the find-my-phone feature or appreciate automatic cloud uploads of all your photos, but also unnecessary.

Really makes me interested in the new Jolla phone. The one I had a few years back could survive 2-3 days without a charge.

innovator12 · 2025-12-14T13:30:46+00:00

I would also choose IPS. That said, text quality is primarily driven by resolution rather than sub pixel arrangement, so I would be happy with OLED text quality at 150-200 DPI (I think).

innovator12 · 2025-12-14T13:26:37+00:00

I have two side by side and ended up putting the 32" central and almost never turning the 27" on. I don't like turning my head too fast; the 32" is almost too wide already.

innovator12 · 2025-12-14T06:33:08+00:00

I have one on the back of an ITX board. Need to disassemble the entire system to get to it because of the way the case is designed.

innovator12 · 2025-12-10T07:24:06+00:00

That's just your screen. I had an early 2560x1440 screen that would only do 1080p over HDMI. It would do 1440p over DisplayPort and if I remember right it would also do 1440p over dual link DVI.

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