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by nrp 5y ago
“ After I posted, the message board thread’s climate changed immediately. Not unlike real life, people were complimentary and kind. Many people deleted their mean comments — one person was so embarrassed for threatening to smash my typewrit
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by nrp 5y ago
As a reminder to not over-index on your personal bubble when evaluating companies that operate globally, Facebook's most recent quarterly results: * Facebook daily active users (DAUs) – DAUs were 1.88 billion on average for March 2021,
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by nrp 5y ago
Framework | Growth Manager, Full Stack Engineer | Full-time | Headquartered in Burlingame, CA, but REMOTE ok | https://frame.work We're building people and planet-friendly consumer electronics products that are designed to
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by nrp 5y ago
Most devices of meaningful value build in USB-C port protection parts specifically for this reason. Here's a popular one from NXP: https://www.nxp.com/products/power-management/load-switches/...
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by nrp 5y ago
Apple’s business and design philosophies revolve around control. In exchange for locking down everything, they promise you a seamless, high-performance, safe experience. That extends to designing products in a way that end-user repair is
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by nrp 5y ago
Repairability doesn’t make products fragile or unreliable, poor design and quality control does. Source: spent the last 18 months building a highly repairable product and putting it through the same reliability tests less repairable produc
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by nrp 5y ago
I fully agree that the fervor around FAANG is unhealthy. However, if you are just at the start if your career, that is the best time to move to wherever the jobs you are interested in are, rather than restricting yourself to what is availa
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by nrp 5y ago
The repairability index that France rolled out this year is great in that regard. Sellers of certain types of devices including smartphones and laptops are required to post a repairability score for the product prominently next to the pric
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by nrp 5y ago
I would put herbs on the “new to gardening” list. They are very useful to have fresh and most of them grow like weeds. It’s almost impossible to accidentally kill rosemary, oregano, or thyme.
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by nrp 5y ago
I can confirm that this is an extremely challenging time to do a hardware startup. In addition to the supply and freight shortages that are deadly to startups stuck at the back of the line: 1. Travel restrictions make it extremely challeng
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by nrp 5y ago
Sorry for the go-live shakiness. The website is up and running solidly now. We sent out the email to the mailing list this morning with the intent of letting folks get in and order as the news started to trickle out. In reality though, t
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by nrp 5y ago
Yep, that is right. We're releasing reference CAD and documentation under open licenses for some modules like the Expansion Cards to enable community development.
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by nrp 5y ago
It is! You can actually unplug or take out the battery and still be able to run the system. Configurable charge limits is on our firmware roadmap, though unlikely to be available at launch time.
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by nrp 5y ago
It's complicated. We have moving to an open BIOS on our roadmap (and doing so fits our mission really well), but we prioritized getting high quality, stable hardware out for this first iteration.
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by nrp 5y ago
That is doable!
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by nrp 5y ago
We've found the display resolution and scaling to work well in Ubuntu 20.04 and Fedora.
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by nrp 5y ago
The hinges are end user replaceable in case they ever wear out!
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by nrp 5y ago
We're adding Canada in the next few weeks and additional countries before the end of the year.
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by nrp 5y ago
The Framework Laptop can charge through any of the four Expansion Card bays using a USB-C Expansion Card. This means that the charging port is replaceable. The power adapter also has separable AC and USB-C cables that can be individually
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by nrp 5y ago
We test to 20,000 hinge cycles, and we also made them easy to replace.
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by nrp 5y ago
Yes, we have some photos on the website currently showing ANSI and ISO keyboard geometry. As we continue to add more keyboard languages, there will be both ANSI and ISO ones depending on the language (and JIS for Japan). The touchpad is re
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by nrp 5y ago
Yes, good question. Australia and New Zealand are on our target list to open before the end of the year.
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by nrp 5y ago
A lot of countries have "de minimus" thresholds below which an individual can import duty-free. In the US for reference, it's $800, but other countries have other limits. If you're over that limit, either the product n
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by nrp 5y ago
Yes... good catch. We wondered if people would start scanning that image. That will redirect into our product pages and repair guides before we start shipping units out.
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by nrp 5y ago
We likely won't within this 13.5" form factor, since even with a discrete GPU there would be some problematic thermal budget tradeoffs with the CPU. GPU modularity is definitely a compelling area though!
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by nrp 5y ago
We put a lot of effort into great keyboard feel on the Framework laptop, both in terms of key travel (1.5mm) and key shape. There are limits to what you can do in a 15.85mm thick machine, but we stack up well compared to most other thin an
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by nrp 5y ago
We'll be publishing repair guides showing all the parts and assembly steps. In the meantime, you can check out some of the images that show modules: https://frame.work/products/laptop-diy-edition
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by nrp 5y ago
Yes! We'll be selling directly to consumers in several countries in Europe (and UK) and Asia before the end of the year.
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by nrp 5y ago
We have both Quality and Customer Experience teams to span quality from the sub-suppliers and manufacturing through to customers, so that we can close the loop on any field issues.
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by nrp 5y ago
We wish there was a standard too! We designed the mainboard in the Framework Laptop to be replaceable and upgradeable to future generations, along with the upgradeability of memory and storage. We've be developing new mainboards ours

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