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Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models (www.tomshardware.com)
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A new, thinner XPS 13 is also coming later this year.

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[–] 16 points 10 months ago (27 children)

I cancelled my framework 16 order because of their "big tent" policy meaning they give funding to Hyperland and Omarchy, I will not give my money to people who fund racists

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (24 children)

    Eh, I get it, but you can't win every battle.

    I have a 16 and a 13. I bought them both before that thread.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (23 children)

    I am not expecting my single cancellation to make the slightest difference to their policy, they already made it clear that they are quite happy funding racists when multiple people have challenged them over it, and with one of their larger pots of cash they give out as well.

    What I am getting out of is knowing I am not (indirectly) funding racists myself, rather than knowingly funding racists. I do not see it any different from buying products from Musk, if you did it ages ago then fine, but after, thats something else entirely.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago* (20 children)

    I get it, but also if I stopped buying everything from every racist / racist supporter, I would have no real options for laptops generally speaking.

    Michael Dell is a complete and total Trump supporter. Should I buy an XPS?

    Tim Cook designed and delivered a custom award to Trump. Knowing this, should I buy an Apple?

    I understand wanting to vote with your dollars but in practice there are few or no ethical options for many things that you can buy.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago* (11 children)

    I wouldn't buy a Dell because I wouldn't trust the hardware, his position is just the icing. Whole reason I wanted the framework was because I wanted something to last a very long time, I simply do not trust Dell to provide support or parts long term.

    The Tim Apple situation hurt, as I really liked the apple silicon for build quality and I had an old Intel Macbook that did indeed last a very long time (still boots even now). However their RAM/Storage pricing for what is an essential amount of storage for me mean even without Timmys boot licking making them a non starter.

    I wont buy Nvidia because of their shitty Linux support, Huang being an absolute womble

    Lenovo is about as good as you getting for a mainstream brand, and they are ultimately owned by the CCP so meh.

    I think with Framework it particularly hurts as at least with Dell or Apple they are quite openly rimming Trump because it will give them competitive advantage and tax cuts while they never really pretended to be for the public good.

    WTF do Framework get by supporting Hyperland or Omarchy? Its literary supporting your racist uncle who makes moonshine for half a dozen people when you set yourself up to be an ethical alternative whose current market is more likely to be ethical seeking. Imagine if Oxfam or Doctors without Borders started supporting Trump? World of difference from the NRA supporting Trump due to the starting position.

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Lenovo is about as good as you getting for a mainstream brand, and they are ultimately owned by the CCP so meh.

    In addition to being owned by the CCP, they purposely installed rootkits on consumer hardware for intense data gathering, and it ended up getting compromised.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (4 children)

    I dont use factory installed images from anybody, mostly because of this shit. I also dont use windows, not that I would trust a factory installed Linux either

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Didn't the superfish certificate install itself from UEFI even if you used your own windows image?

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Really? Where you read that?

    What I remember it was an app you could uninstall and then you had to clean up the certificate install. It was part of the factory image and would get installed as part of that. Lenovo provided instructions to remove it.

    But again, I don't use factory images or windows.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Looking it up I cant seem to find it, so I might be wrong. It may not have been lenovo but I remember news years ago about some OEM getting caught doing that.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Yeah I am pretty certain you are tbh, I think you mixing up uefi certificate updates with root kits that are part of the factory image or other installed bloatware from the manufacturer.

    Now if you were talking about vpro or other low level management I could believe it, but thats intel and avoidable...

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Yeah, the whole situation sucks. I totally agree and wish that framework would reconsider their position on the matter.

    The country is basically unrecognizable at this point IMO. The capitulation that has occurred so quickly in the second Trump term was stunning to behold. For a vast array of industries (computers being one of them), every reasonably ethical option feels like it flew out the window.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (3 children)

    I plan on going for a used Lenovo, something with as many generic, replaceable components as possible with as little soldered to the motherboard as I can get away with. I trust the workplace models to be more reliable and supportable long term than anybody else.

    That way Lenovo do not see a penny of my money and I will only have a very very small upward impact on used prices due to the volumes of used Lenovos sold.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

    You could go used framework as well if any of those exist. You'd have to buy from eBay or something in order to satisfy your position.

    I'd recommend the 13 over the 16.

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago* (7 children)

    Tim Cook designed and delivered a custom award to Trump.

    Which looked like a gold-plated plastic turd, but Trump likely can't recognize that with his absence of taste. Apple so obviously could make something better-looking that I've had a solid chuckle seeing that shit, and my opinion of Apple hadn't moved. In exchange for that piece of crap they've gotten Trump to lay his mitts off tariffs on what Apple needed, so sounds like a job well done to me. It's not Apple's business to topple an idiot that stupid USian public elected.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    The turd was just the icing on top of the shit cake dude. They gave that jack off millions of dollars.

    I’ve had a solid chuckle seeing that shit, and my opinion of Apple hadn’t moved.

    Welp, then I guess you're the type of customer they fully deserve.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (5 children)

    How many millions did they give? I know of the one million for the inauguration. Do you think one million is much money for either Apple or Trump?

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Keep apologizing for Tim Apple! 🍏🍎

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    I mean ideally I wish nobody would give Trump money, but I believe it was understood at the time that if you're running a large tech company and you want it to still exist after the Trump inauguration, you give him a million dollars as a present. Hence why they all did it, million dollars each.

    Kinda shit situation to be in where the incoming president can just fuck everything up for your trillion dollar company out of spite, so the million dollar bribe suddenly seems like a literal cost of doing business, no different from taxes or material costs.

    Of course as someone who is NOT running a trillion dollar company, it would've been more hilarious to see them all reject Trump and then squirm.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago*

    It wasn't "understood". They all wanted to stand on the dais. They all unbanned him from the platforms. They all threw their weight behind him as a candidate.

    They are supporters of his. The whole "boo hoo, I only run a trillion dollar company so I cannot stand up to Trump" is a horse shit ass, bitch ass excuse. These people have more access to wealth, legal help, and other resources than any other people in history. They chose this. Some of them capitulated, and some of them collaborated, but it's a distinction without a difference in my opinion.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    Thank you for your position. While I appreciate the framework idea, and stated mission — in reality I don’t trust them, so I don’t mix the mission with them, the mission is valuable, them, I wouldn’t be so sure — I feel the same. I don’t want to support them now. It’s a complicated situation we’re in, regarding the state of the tech, but I don’t like this ‘we have to help them, just because we can unscrew their backpanel easily.’ The modules isn’t something I’m impressed with, I think that’s overthinking. I’d rather have a tiny laptop with nothing and a huge laptop with everything. Looks like Apple got this.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    I do not trust them either, not after this.

    The apple silicon looks amazing, it would be my choice if I didn't really dislike Tim Apple, and Apples excessive price gouging with storage and RAM pushing what would be a usable model for my requirements up significantly.

    Equipping the base laptop with 256Gb of storage in the current year then charging how much to jump to even 512Gb, which is still pretty small amount, is a piss take.

    They are are bad for RAM upgrade pricing, at least the base model has 16Gb. With both storage and RAM being soldered on, you are stuck either using external drives or cloud storage.

    Second hand would be my pick, that way Apple do not see a penny of the money.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    What’s wrong with Omarchy?

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Omarchy

    DHH is pretty fucking racist, white replacement theory is right up there with the worst of racist beliefs

    I thought I might move there one day. That was then. Now, I wouldn't dream of it. London is no longer the city I was infatuated with in the late '90s and early 2000s. Chiefly because it's no longer full of native Brits. In 2000, more than sixty percent of the city were native Brits. By 2024, that had dropped to about a third.

    https://world.hey.com/dhh/as-i-remember-london-e7d38e64

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