“Not available in my country” is a different problem than “no hardware support”.

Your first comment seemed to indicate that your issue was with lack of “hardware support”, and this is why I was puzzled.

I get that, but AFAIk they don’t have any special support anywhere. What kind of support would you expect here?

What do you mean “no support other than software”? If the whole idea about Fairphone is to make phones that easy to be repaired, why would they also offer extensive hardware support?

It looks great, but I completely gave up on the Fairphone after they made it clear that the modules are replaceable but not upgradeable.

I don’t want to buy one phone in 2025 and be stuck with the same specs for multiple years. I want to buy one phone in 2025 and change the CPU in 2028, upgrade the camera in 2029, upgrade the display in 2030, upgrade the battery in 2031, upgrade the CPU again in 2032… like the phone of Theseus.

Like I said, just disable sleep when the lid is closed

I am not following. Aren’t you then proposing to work with the glasses you + a separate keyboard and mouse, connected to a “laptop” that has a screen but should be closed?

Then what is the point of having the laptop n the first place, if you are not going to be using neither of its own screen/keyboard/trackpad?

Can you use a laptop and a separate keyboard + mouse on an airplane tray? Unless you are flying business/first class every time, I find it hard to believe.

He mentions the need/desire to work on a plane and his preference for a real keyboard and a separate trackball mouse.

Not the case. I have this laptop for 2 years or more…

A desktop, really? The specs seem to be good, but desktops have well standardized form factors for ages.

They need to go towards upgradable phones, not desktops…

I get the reasoning behind canaries, but please don’t do post these again here. It’s not just because the Fediverse provides you data replication that it is reasonable to push content that is not of the interest of the community.

If you are concerned about things like having canaries in censorship-resistant places, perhaps it would be better off by publishing those in IPFS and then creating a community (on some infosec-related instance, perhaps?) where you can just publish the CID of your canary?

Anyone using it as a daily driver?

I am considering one of these as a substitute for my laptop. I have a proper setup at home and at my coworking space, with big displays keyboard and a mouse. The laptop is only carried around because of the CPU and disk.

If I find one of these with good specs, it could replace even my HTPC, because the same “brain” could be used everywhere.

Well, they don’t. I am on Linux and there is no point in arguing over “shoulds” unless you tell me that there is any other FOSS kernel that can support the hardware and software applications that I need.

Btw, it would be amazing to see @frameworkcomputer@fosstodon.org posting into this community. Let me know if you need any help to get interop between Lemmy and Mastodon.

If anyone from framework is listening to this: I’d be more than glad to give full control over this community to any of your social media staff

Yeah, I think that every product that innovates on the hardware fails to bring quality software to match.

The cool thing about the remarkable is that it is a ln actual computer running Linux. You can do a lot more than just write notes. You can write freely and run OCR, sync with your other devices via syncthing, etc. The one thing it needs is a bigger ecosystem of application developers. E.g, I’d love to see an actual collaborative board like Miro integrated with this, so that everyone could draw/write directly on their tablet and see changes from others in real-time.

It’s probably the Remarkable2. I paid 300€ on mine IIRC.

Are you sure? Because I have a couple of older phones that were USB-C and their port was the first thing to fail…

Nice to read more people are enjoying it. What new feature got you to feel like this?

Sure :) Like I said, pretty easy: https://doc.e.foundation/devices/FP3