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yellowapple commented on Framework Laptop 16 frame.work/ro/en/laptop16... · Posted by u/susanthenerd

Well then, you live in the best of worlds because every laptop is repairable even at the chip level or individual capacitor/resistor/connector level. All you need is a workshop, a multimeter, oscilloscope, probes, a hot air gun, a microscope, a variety of soldering tools, a variety of solder, solder mask, access to schematics and donor boards, and a lifetime of experience. Here's a guy who repairs Dell laptops all day every day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDsP1--ttQc

yellowapple · 2 days ago

That's all a massive step beyond "order a free part from the vendor with instructions on how to solder it on yourself".

yellowapple commented on Framework Laptop 16 frame.work/ro/en/laptop16... · Posted by u/susanthenerd

jijijijij · 5 days ago

A WWAN modem surely would fit into the IO module form factor, no? The framework 16 got 6 slots. Seems like the way to go.

yellowapple · 2 days ago

I'm surprised this hasn't happened yet. Especially for a convertible like the Framework 12, a WWAN option seems like an obvious win - and I know there are existing USB WWAN adapters out there.

yellowapple commented on Framework Laptop 16 frame.work/ro/en/laptop16... · Posted by u/susanthenerd

simpaticoder · 5 days ago

It does not make sense to praise a company for selling defective products because some of the customers have the ability to repair the defect.

yellowapple · 5 days ago

It's a massive step up from the status quo of companies selling defective products without customers having the ability to repair the defect.

yellowapple commented on Some users report their Firefox browser is scoffing CPU power theregister.com/2025/08/1... · Posted by u/homarp

lproven · 16 days ago

The author is me, and I dispute that. I expressed my uncertainty in the story.

yellowapple · 16 days ago

Can you quote where you expressed that uncertainty? Or the reason you have to be uncertain of the very Bugzilla report which your article links?

As it stands, your article is highly misleading, with that "uncertainty" sharing an acronym with "fear" and "doubt". I'd prefer to assume that ain't intentional.

yellowapple commented on Open hardware desktop 3D printing is dead? josefprusa.com/articles/o... · Posted by u/rcarmo

yellowapple · 16 days ago

Yet another example of how intellectual property has done vastly more harm than good to intellectual pursuits.

yellowapple commented on F-Droid build servers can't build modern Android apps due to outdated CPUs · Posted by u/nativeforks

rs186 · 18 days ago

*for non Fire devices.

yellowapple · 18 days ago

I could've sworn they'd already closed it for non-Fire devices.

yellowapple commented on Tribblix – The Retro Illumos Distribution tribblix.org/... · Posted by u/bilegeek

yjftsjthsd-h · 22 days ago

> I wonder how far a compatibility layer for Linux drivers could go to help other UNIX kernels' usability.

It might be easier to take them from NetBSD; it wouldn't introduce the GPL licensing issue, and courtesy of their rump kernel system they're actually kind of designed for it.

yellowapple · 22 days ago

Or OpenBSD, for at least one of those two reasons. I know Haiku reuses OpenBSD driver code in some places, and I'm pretty sure 9front does, too.

yellowapple commented on How to Not Build the Torment Nexus buttondown.com/monteiro/a... · Posted by u/p3_1080

mindslight · 22 days ago

I don't really understand what you mean here, because I don't really know what you specifically mean by Torment Nexus. It wasn't bad for a rhetorical technique of pointing out the incentive-attractor(s) that we're already suffering (Mammon, the orphan grinder, etc), but the term doesn't really work for analyzing technicals unless you spell it out.

In general, now that the pump has been fully primed for capital to flow into developing "AI", I do not see how copyright law is going to make much of a dent in that trend. Nor do I see how "AI" companies are going to make a dent in copyright law for anyone but themselves. I foresee large "AI" companies being essentially unbound on training over small-owner copyrighted works, upstart "AI" companies needing to pay into a hefty protection racket, and individuals still bound by imaginary property laws whether directly (old fashioned piracy) or when using common genAI (sorry Dave, I can't do that).

I just ran into a situation where ChatGPT refused to quote me the relevant bit of the electrical code for my state (supposedly binding law), because those laws were created by wholesale importing the "National Electrical Code" which is copyrighted. At best, the situation is an open legal question. And yet de facto there is still a restriction that prevents me from using the tool to engage with the law in good faith.

yellowapple · 22 days ago

> I don't really understand what you mean here, because I don't really know what you specifically mean by Torment Nexus.

I thought I made that pretty clear when I wrote in my original comment that "[i]ntellectual property and the enforcement thereof is in and of itself a Torment Nexus."

> In general, now that the pump has been fully primed for capital to flow into developing "AI", I do not see how copyright law is going to make much of a dent in that trend. Nor do I see how "AI" companies are going to make a dent in copyright law for anyone but themselves.

"AI" exists outside of the various corporations hosting LLMs on The Cloud™. The corporate-hosted LLMs get undue emphasis largely as yet another result of the Torment Nexus that is intellectual property.

yellowapple commented on How to Not Build the Torment Nexus buttondown.com/monteiro/a... · Posted by u/p3_1080

mindslight · 23 days ago

I think you're assuming a lot to call it a "good outcome". I foresee hefty regulatory capture and compensation deals made with the big copyright businesses, but no real increase in freedoms for individuals.

yellowapple · 22 days ago

That would be the outcome of the Torment Nexus succeeding at kneecapping the first thing in decades with any hope of destroying it, not the outcome of the thing in question succeeding at destroying the Torment Nexus.

yellowapple commented on How to Not Build the Torment Nexus buttondown.com/monteiro/a... · Posted by u/p3_1080

mindslight · 23 days ago

I share your view of imaginary property. But pushing in the right direction is much more important than being 100% correct about everything.

yellowapple · 23 days ago

Demonizing the one good outcome of AI is the opposite of pushing in the right direction, though. It's like the author missed his own point, self-awarewolf style.