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rwbt commented on The only moat left is money? elliotbonneville.com/the-... · Posted by u/elliotbnvl

pier25 · 23 days ago

> if you are going to do something for a living, make sure it is NOT scalable

I guess it also means that if you build something for a niche audience then big companies will never be interested in it.

rwbt · 23 days ago

That's not really a bad thing, IMHO. Many people successfully make a living creating niche products.

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rwbt commented on I'm a laptop weirdo and that's why I like my new Framework 13 blog.matthewbrunelle.com/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

sowbug · 2 months ago

My question was about what happened during your warranty period. nrp's response was independent of warranty obligations.

rwbt · 2 months ago

They just offered free batteries.

rwbt commented on I'm a laptop weirdo and that's why I like my new Framework 13 blog.matthewbrunelle.com/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

sowbug · 2 months ago

The warranty suggests that Framework would "ship the laptops back to [their] facility and repair them, at [their] expense," as you said they should. Did that not happen while your warranty period was in effect?

https://frame.work/warranty

rwbt · 2 months ago

Nope. I don't think they even recognized the defect till many years later (probably for legal reasons?).

For users, that were still under warranty - they offered free RTC batteries (which also stopped working later).

Either way, I won't buy anything from them going forward.

rwbt commented on I'm a laptop weirdo and that's why I like my new Framework 13 blog.matthewbrunelle.com/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

nrp · 2 months ago

The RTC substitute module is the permanent fix, which does require soldering one wire to a point on the Mainboard.

rwbt · 2 months ago

I appreciate the response, but my suggestion would be to offer a mail-in service program so that users don't have to fiddle with potentially dangerous soldering (ideally Framework bearing the shipping costs or atleast subsidizing it).

rwbt commented on I'm a laptop weirdo and that's why I like my new Framework 13 blog.matthewbrunelle.com/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

nrp · 2 months ago

We have the full detail and a permanent fix for this issue here: https://guides.frame.work/Guide/RTC+Battery+Substitution+on+...

We still provide the RTC substitute module free to any 11th Gen owner who requests it.

rwbt · 2 months ago

The permanent fix involves soldering stuff on the mainboard, which I don't have any prior experience. The RTC substitute module you mention is just the ML220 coin battery that will also eventually stop working.

rwbt commented on I'm a laptop weirdo and that's why I like my new Framework 13 blog.matthewbrunelle.com/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

rwbt · 2 months ago

I purchased the first generation of FW13 laptops and got burned. The CMOS/RTC battery drains if not plugged in so the laptop never keeps proper time. I don't think I've ever used a gadget in the last few decades that needs setting the correct date & time every time I turn it on.

Granted, it was their first ever shipping product so I gave them a free pass but I thought they would atleast issue a recall or have a repair program where you send in the laptop to get it fixed. Instead they first denied it was even an issue, later on when enough people complained - they started a battery program where they send you a new ML220 coin battery that will also eventually stop working.

I was told buying a new mainboard (12th or 13th gen Intel) would fix it, but I decided to just buy a new ZenBook instead.

rwbt commented on Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig sinclairtarget.com/blog/2... · Posted by u/yurivish

jech · 3 months ago

> Give an example of UB code that you have committed in real life

    struct foo {
        ...
        atomic_int v;
        ...
    };
    
    struct foo x;
    memset(&x, 0, sizeof(x));

rwbt · 3 months ago

I don't think it's UB if you init the struct before using it atomically from multiple threads.

rwbt commented on Orion 1.0 blog.kagi.com/orion... · Posted by u/STRiDEX

rwbt · 4 months ago

I switched to Orion from Safari a few months ago and so far loving it. I tried Orion a couple of years ago but it wasn't as reliable. Now it seems very stable and the kagi search integration is really nice.

On a side note - I don't know why Apple still doesn't let you set a custom search engine in Safari even today, so random.

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