I need the #Unifying#dongle (lower latency), but don't want it sticking out and losing a whole slot.
So I'm going to throw a USB hub and the peeled dongle on a PCB and hope it all works out :D
As a further experiment, I routed the USB A SS lines past the hub (USB 2 D+/D- connected to port 1 of the hub).
Not sure if this will play nice with USB drivers, but it's worth a try.
So, I finally got my Framework Laptop. A day early, too! Beautiful machine, I must say. I put the RAM and SSD in, followed the instructions and I made my choice of operating system.
I hesitated a lot between @fedora and Elementary, but in the end, I went with Fedora because it was recommended and I love @gnome. When @elementary 8 releases, I'll make sure to check it out, though.
Battery life has been surprisingly good! I've done a lot of things on it today, lots of downloading, opening and closing stuff, with constant downloading and music streaming in the background. I've been losing around 10% per hour.
Honestly, it's all good hardware side. I'm still not a fan of the keyboard which could be a deal breaker as this is the one thing that I'm stupidly picky with, but I think I just need to get used to it.
My issues are more with the software and on that, there isn't much the @frameworkcomputer team can do.
First off, the animations in GNOME just aren't smooth and I can't seem to figure out why, I'm never getting that buttery smooth 60 fps scrolling, for exemple. But I can deal with this.
No, my two big gripes for now, are : Scrolling speed. I've looked it up and I found people complaining about of a simple "scroll speed" adjuster in GNOME for years. It's a massive issue right now, scrolling is just ridiculously sensitive and because I'm not a very technical person, I haven't been able to figure out how to fix it. :(
Another thing is... what's up with #electron apps? I use three. Notesnook, Cider 2 for Apple Music and #Signal. All three look blurry.
Notesnook takes it one step further by being especially weird at this. I used two versions of the app. The Flatpak. And the Appimage. Both have their own annoyances. The flatpak is crisp af, I love it, BUT... it's header is light theme only, not following the theme of GNOME and the mouse cursor gets either huge or tiny when using it. The Appimage though, follows the theme correctly, has normal size cursor... but is a blurry mess.
@notesnook Is this something you can fix? Or is this just out of your control?
It's my understanding that Electron apps and Wayland are not into each other? I hope they accept one another soon and kiss, because this is really bothering me. And I hate that I don't know how to contribute to this, so I'm sitting here. Complaining. While not contributing anything. Like an asshole. :(
Probé #fedora por estar entre las oficialmente soportadas y en efecto, todo funcionó. Creo que la la laptop que estoy dejando se quedará con fedora, pues en esa una #RollingRelease no iría tan bien.
Pero para la Framework voy a probar #OpenSuse tumbleweed, por lo de rolling. Un mes de prueba a ver si logra quedarse conmigo y si todo sale bien quizá hasta migre la de escritorio.
My Lenovo ThinkPad shat itself on the plane to the Sepang MotoGP test, so I ordered a Framework Laptop 13 DIY Edition to replace it. This is me assembling the Framework unscripted and unprepared
After only 13 years, I am retiring my #Thinkpad#T420s. It did a great job over all these years and I upgraded it to the max, completely disassembled several times. But it was showing its age. I just set up my new personal device, a #FrameworkLaptop 13 DIY Edition (AMD) by @frameworkcomputer - that's a new kind of maintenance-friendly, repairable notebook. Order, delivery, assembly, setup, migration were a blast. No issues, and the installation of @manjarolinux worked out of the box. :awesome:
My ThinkPad broke down after mere two years of service, so I’ve got to try out #FrameworkLaptop way earlier than expected. Transplanting the SSD from the defect laptop went without a hitch, so I didn’t have to set up Linux from scratch. Some first impressions:
· Assembling everything really took five minutes and was super easy. It’s a comforting thought that replacing any components other than the display will be just as easy.
· Both keyboard and touchpad are way more precise than ThinkPad’s. I didn’t realize how bad typing on the ThinkPad was until I tried this keyboard.
· Unfortunately, the big keyboard keys apparently left no space for a proper navigation block. Only arrow keys and way too small, no PgDn/Pos1 keys. And no physical middle mouse button either.
· I still need to get used to the display but it does have a lot more vertical space thanks to the 3:2 side ratio. Great to actually get work done.
· Shipping from Taiwan, ugh…
@WPalant Thanks for sharing your experience. Planning to get one after they start shipping to my region. Is this the 13 inch version whose keys you mentioned? #framework#FrameworkLaptop
... Und ich schiele ja auch schon seit Jahren auf die Framework Laptops. Leider (und zum Glück) funktioniert mein aktueller noch gut. Aber sollte ich bald etwas neues kaufen müssen, wäre Framework auf jeden Fall in der engeren Auswahl.
Running #Debian on the #Frameworklaptop. Again, I'm too lazy to do extensive ricing now, but this is what I have so far
And if you are overly detail oriented, yes I am very worried about the weather for the next few days
Not sure how to best alt text this since there's so much info... but if alt text isn't clear, this is a relatively basic KDE setup with minor tiling via kwin. Theme is Sweet Theme (KDE version).
It never will cease to amaze that there’s a maker of smartphones emphasizing privacy and pushing end-to-end encryption and features like device lockdown, running on an open source OS…
…and open source tech people keep dunking on Apple and dissing it and then turn around and praise Google, the shadiest advertising company in the world that would sell their grandmother for a quick profit (they probably do).
@thomasfuchs iOS is not end to end encrypted, unless by the other end they mean their NC data center, where they do the same profiling and selling of that as Google. AOSP is enough open source that GrapheneOS and Lineage can exist, unlike iOS. And with GrapheneOS, I can get my content to and from my Linux Mint #FrameworkLaptop, which is what finally drove me off iPhones.