Re: Modular laptop concept

2024-06-18 Thread Matthew Crews via PLUG-discuss
On 6/9/24 4:54 PM, Arun Khan wrote: A friend of mine has bought it and swears by the hardware flexibility (mix and match). I am contemplating it for my next laptop, although my 6-year-old Thinkpad is still going strong :) I got my Framework 16 a couple of months ago. Quite happy with it exc

Re: Modular laptop concept

2024-06-18 Thread der.hans via PLUG-discuss
Am 18. Jun, 2024 schwätzte Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss so: moin moin Hawk, I would like to try one of these, but I’m not sure how much they cost. Also, are these windows or Lennox and if Lennox, will they run the The 13 was about $1300 for self-assemble. Pre-assembled is another 2 or 3 hundred

Re: Ignore him, correct him offlist, or killfile him and move on

2024-06-18 Thread Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss
Guys, I am totally blind, and that’s partly due to traumatic brain injury back in 1989. I’ve also had my moments where I am exceedingly curse when it comes to some subjects. I also tend to be a little bit obsessive, compulsive, and that happens to be the autistic side of my nature which I’ve ha

Re: VMware Workstation Pro: Now Available Free for Personal Use

2024-06-18 Thread Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss
I’m going to have to check with a few people I know on a couple of other mailing list such as Blind – apples and [MacVisionaries]. Those guys have missed around with VMware on Apple equipment (which I happen to be running currently) and they’ve been able to use Lennox with a screen reader from i

Re: Modular laptop concept

2024-06-18 Thread Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss
I would like to try one of these, but I’m not sure how much they cost. Also, are these windows or Lennox and if Lennox, will they run the screen reader orca? If Windows, will they accept NVDA? If other, what accessibility options are available. I’d like to get one of these just as a test case to

Re: Framework getting interesting again

2024-06-18 Thread Ryan Petris via PLUG-discuss
>From the blog post: > This Mainboard is extremely compelling, but we want to be clear that in this > generation, it is focused primarily on enabling developers, tinkerers, and > hobbyists to start testing and creating on RISC-V. The peripheral set and > performance aren’t yet competitive with

Re: Framework getting interesting again

2024-06-18 Thread Austin Godber via PLUG-discuss
I was hoping for an ARM option. On Tue, Jun 18, 2024 at 6:35 PM der.hans via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Am 18. Jun, 2024 schwätzte Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss so: > > moin moin, > > > > https://frame.work/blog/introducing-a-new-risc-v-mainboard-from-deepcompu

Re: Modular laptop concept

2024-06-18 Thread der.hans via PLUG-discuss
Am 12. Jun, 2024 schwätzte Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss so: moin moin, "I haven't yet tried it in an airplane seat. Driver's seat of a car was annoying due to steering wheel, but passenger and back seats were fine." those pesky steering wheels getting in the way of real work, The car

Re: Framework getting interesting again

2024-06-18 Thread der.hans via PLUG-discuss
Am 18. Jun, 2024 schwätzte Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss so: moin moin, https://frame.work/blog/introducing-a-new-risc-v-mainboard-from-deepcomputing So now they have a RISC V CPU option coming... Interesting. Cool. It'd be fun to play with that :) More importantly to me, it's partner

Stammtisch - on my wayish

2024-06-18 Thread der.hans via PLUG-discuss
moin moin, shop has a loaner for me, so I should be able to make it to Stammtisch afterall. ciao, der.hans -- # https://www.SpiralArray.com https://www.PhxLinux.org # veni, vidi, wiki - I came, I saw, I documented --- PLUG-discuss mailing list

Framework getting interesting again

2024-06-18 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
https://frame.work/blog/introducing-a-new-risc-v-mainboard-from-deepcomputing So now they have a RISC V CPU option coming... Interesting. -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen -