Pro-tip: new rolls come with a little paper tab on the end of the tape to make it easy to find the start. Once you’ve removed that, started the roll, and you’re ready to put the roll away, throw it away instead and get a new roll next time.

New York, LA, Chicago, and Houston, apparently.

Fediverse:

Real men need testosterone supplementation?

Ok, cool, so we agree that trans men are real men.

Is there anyone that actually wants this garbage?

I work at a scuba shop. This would be an equally dumb question there.

This is the best solution.

The copilot butthole has easy access safety flaps.

Your latest meal gave you explosive diarrhea.

All of my meals give me explosive diarrhea.

We are not the same.

I think that’s a medical condition.

You’re gonna get your ear poked.

I definitely agree. Lol. But I also totally understand using Discord. I assume the community isn’t meant exclusively for people who currently self host, but also for people interested in starting to. In that regard, Discord will most likely be what those people have and are willing to use.

Mitch is very very dead. They’re just waiting until it’s politically convenient to announce it.

McConnell and Graham in one week!?

How many butthole pics do you think they received?

Ah, ok. Well I don’t think Framework has done much in the way of cost. The 13’s battery is listed on their site for $70, so it’s about on par with other battery replacements, if not a bit more expensive.

I understand that I can sell it. Why would I? I wouldn’t be able to get a better laptop for what I sold it for, so I’d just go through all of that hassle to have a similar laptop. Unless they somehow don’t depreciate and I’m just unaware of that…

I already paid the money for the Framework. They tricked me. They got my money. I already lost.

When it eventually dies, I will not consider another Framework. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me… you can’t get fooled again.

That’s good. This was mine two weeks after the warranty expired.

I would be more inclined to give them a pass on maybe a bad batch of cheap batteries if the laptop didn’t have a nearly 40% price premium over competitors. If you’re going to charge a much higher price, I’m going to expect a much better product.

I’m not sure that there’s any such thing as a “generic laptop battery”. They’re still made to fit one or maybe a handful of models. AFAICT, buying a replacement Framework battery is about the same as buying any other laptop’s replacement battery. I’ve replaced 4 different laptops’ batteries in the past 5 years, and the Framework was the second easiest (after the Thinkpad that you literally just slide the battery out of), but even the most difficult one wasn’t that hard. So as far as hassle, I’d say the worst offender still isn’t that bad.

1. Thinkpad (unknown model, slide out mechanism, no need to open chassis)
2. Framework 13 (chassis easy to open, unscrew old battery, screw in new one, easy connector)
3. Acer Spin 5 (basically the same as the Framework, but you have to pry the chassis a little)
4. Dell XPS (unknown model, chassis much harder to get into, but once in, basically the same as Framwork and Acer)

Batteries just aren’t that hard to replace.