My first instinct was to say "cursed," my second is to think "huh… kind of cute actually"

Hey, thank you so much for helping me! Now I have a better idea of my options and what wants are viable and which are not.

TL;DR: Framework is sponsoring Omarchy and Hyprland. Omarchy, at least, is really linked to far-righter DHH; cannot find nearly as much about Hyprland on a quick search besides "toxic".

Going to be an interesting thread to follow as someone who wants a Framework for the repairability. And friends recommending it; and honestly in a world where social media is probably flooded with astroturfed comments instead of real experience, and review sites are ones I highly doubt actually touched or bothered with the products, I am gonna trust word of mouth. But I can be convinced into reconsidering (price, performance I can get out of a laptop, and the Hyperland/Omarchy thing).

my general consideration points for purchasing

General points

Typing this from a MacBook as someone who likes the look and thinness of it a lot, and appreciates the "boring gray color scheme" because neutrals will always go with my outfit.
I see the interchangeable ports as a bonus.
Any of them, including the weakest possible take-home configuration for the 12, would be a performance upgrade over my current Linux laptop (HP laptop I got for around $249ish).
I particularly like the upgradeable storage.
Would be buying DIY and loading some Linux distro on it.

Model-specific

12 inch would be great for me if it were not for the color accuracy and me wanting to use it to do a bit of digital art that involves color. And Linux not supporting the sheet music reader I like. Or having any sheet music reader at all as far as I am aware—dedicated sheet music readers as opposed to just PDF readers tend to have nice features like letting you jump back to a specific page without needing to go in and edit the whole PDF file, and setting up setlists of sheet music you can quickly and easily flick through. But being able to totally replace my iPad and my current Linux laptop would be so nice. Putting one foot out of the Apple ecosystem for principles and "what if they start making more changes I don't like and I'm stuck," and consolidating two devices into one.
13 inch is better on accuracy but loses the stylus support, so no more art, and having a stylus is really helpful on sheet music annotation for me. Would handle my games better too. Although I don't really play things requiring great performance, never play multiplayer requiring high ping or kernel-level anticheat, and I have pretty good tolerance for low frames per second, I do have a feeling 12 inch would fail to handle anything but the most super lightweight games.
16 inch is a total nonstarter. Too big. I like portability.

Non-pedophile who thinks pedophilia is bad checking in here, who also has autism and is not great at shutting up. The fastest way to make that happen is to make me worry I'm going to get a ton of harsh blowback, which shuts me up in real life, and online causes me to post and then delete immediately. Now I am going to answer in general because I do not know much about the Stallman-specific case:

1. Just Fundamentally Not Get how bad it is.

I have several personal life circumstances that would predispose me to not Fundamentally Getting It. I had to learn through seeing online comments about people wanting to torture pedophiles that I had better pretend to Get It, and only learned why it was so especially bad compared to other violations of a person by calmer online explanations and/or survivor accounts.

2. Willingness to be loud about unpopular opinions

If you are all about authenticity, expressing yourself, if you feel you are super smart actually and the masses are wrong and you are unfairly demonized for your perspective (and not always totally fed by delusions of grandeur, see the many folks who had to critical think their way out of cults or majority-bigoted environments, great way to come out with convictions about using what your brain tells you and going against the popular grain if you think you are right and have actual experience being demonized for saying something unpopular), and you do not Get It, you are not going to pretend to Get It the way I did to avoid social censure. You will speak your very unpopular perspective.

3. Siding with the outsider

The type of person who sees a group near-universally shat on, so they go to actually hear them out instead of shitting too. Double points if the person has a history of being in a group that was shat on. (Former) outcasts often give benefit of the doubt to fellow outcasts.

And it's sometimes difficult to tell who's being persecuted for being weird, with lots of stories invented on why their innocent weirdness is harmful actually (D&D satanic panic probably gave some bullies a feeling of moral justification for picking on nerds playing it), from the people who are rightfully excluded from parties because they are harmful dicks. If you do not fundamentally Get It or did not have someone really convince you why it's wrong and just see society shitting on a group… And sadly, we only ever hear about charming assholes who escape punishment and successfully DARVO so their victims are excluded from social spaces instead, which only adds to both victim hurt and willingness to hear out someone who might be a harmful dick who should stay excluded. And if you manage to think you are standing up for the unfairly persecuted weirdo and you have Bullet Point 2 going for you…

Also going to add the people trying to be conscious of avoiding being the bigot today who regrets their bigotry 50 years from now. Pedophiles often draw false equivalencies between themselves and LGBTQ+ folk. Yep, both cannot choose their attractions and get told their attractions are harmful. Only one of those groups consistently puts their "partner" in trauma therapy for years (or some other adverse effect) whenever the attraction is acted upon. But I completely sympathize with growing up seeing LGBTQ+ people mocked and "evidence" of their "harmful lifestyle" brought up, then seeing the sea change in attitudes and being shown how those people should not be mocked and do not actually have harmful lifestyles; and wondering if maybe you are being falsely led down a similar path of hatred against an ultimately-harmless people. The problem is in this case they actually aren't harmless and getting them into therapy to help them not act on their urges actually would be a useful harm reduction instead of nonsense.

And—feeding back into the "constantly shat on" thing—trying to look for a solution to decrease pedophilic harm to children that does not involve trying to make pedophiles suffer or counts as defending pedophilia to some, because for those who do Fundamentally Get It it's really just that revolting and gross. Those trying to discuss solutions that do not involve instant death penalty might get exhausted of the "kill 'em all" comments and become more sympathetic.

4. Enjoying nitpicking and edge cases, failing to consider the happy path and if pointing out the edge cases is even wise

Conflating the issue is the stuff that might technically be pedophilia but in practice nobody has issue with: high school seniors, classmates, both freely choosing to have sex with a 3 month age gap where one is 18 and one is 17. This could be statutory rape because one's an adult, one's a minor. (Some states have Romeo and Juliet laws to cover this kind of thing specifically so this situation can happen without slapping age-peer minors with the label of "pedophile," but as far as I know not all do.)

People like me who love to wank on technicalities would get all in the weeds with "are we really going to say minors can never consent, because if so then we have to charge all the 18-year-olds who did not coerce their 17-year-old partner into sex with rape because that partner was a minor". But socially we can't do this because to outsiders, wanting to get into the weeds (because you're trying to tease out where actual social boundaries and common formulations of them clash, perhaps an "actually" type very interested in small exceptions to the rule, which I'd imagine would be a pretty useful skill when dealing with computers; or because you're a late teenager seeing "minors can't consent" online and getting worried about if you/your friends will catch a statutory rape charge for non-coercive sex between a 17-year-old and 18-year-old—I think there are a few news stories about such charges actually happening!) looks a lot like the folks who get into the weeds (because they are creepy 30-year-olds who want to play legalistic word games to be able to groom a 13-year-old into sex). I know that social rule and am intentionally breaking it to answer the question hoping you'll take me in good faith; some non-pedophiles do not know that rule. Or just choose to flout the convention and taboo: see bullet point 2. And banned discussion topics tend not to fly well with "information wants to be free" people, and there is always the spite of "you said I could not, watch me do it anyways".

And sometimes people wanking on technicalities get buried in the weeds so bad they forget to just actually say "pedophilia is bad; adults should not have sex with minors".

"For all my projects, the motivation is the same," Champion told The Register. "We tend to look past the technology that surrounds us and shapes our lives. My work is about forcing us to look at it, and seeing the beauty in engineering."

Really like this!

In this situation I've used xcancel before: just replace the x in the domain name with xcancel. Still get to see the Tweet

As a gamer who did switch, curious what games are preventing the switch. In my experience sometimes it struggles with indie games only released for Windows that have probably been downloaded maybe 100 times at best; and probably as you know anything with kernel-level anticheat

i have been summoned

Hey thank you for the good information; I starred your comment! This is the stuff I like seeing on programming.dev.

And I have built from source before—but considering how un-knowledgeable I feel compared to the average poster here, probably a good thing you included that reassurance that it's not so hard, since I feel just barely technical enough to be able to build from source. It's also friendly to drive-by readers at my level of expertise/knowledge or lower who have not built from source yet.

I'll freely admit that you know the "did not read the article and still commented" folks?

I'm a "didn't watch the video" person and had to be told by other people what happened.

Also, at least one of them someone linked me of the foot thing was age restricted so I Xed out and took them at their word.

I'm happy! It Just Works. Windows 11 -> Linux.

I have had ONE WiFi problem that was my computer's fault the whole year; as opposed to half the times I open the computer.
One video game didn't Just Work, I had to tinker, but I got it working smoothly with mods.
A bit of trouble with flash drives initially because they were not formatted to something compatible with Linux. Once I learned that I managed to shuffle data around and format it to be compatible with MacOS, Linux, and my Windows VM. But Linux actually saved me and let me get an old flash drive working that did not work at all. Love reformatting on my distro, it's easier and more visual than when I tried to do it on Mac or Windows.

Hey, thanks for clarifying, I appreciate it!

Picture for people who do not want to click the link.

Am I just colorblind? I see 0%, 42%, 12%, and 1% in red. I see 13%, 12%, and 8% in green. You would have to remove "no change" in 42% for your assertion about green square percentages summing to more than red square percentages; though it does keep your point about drawback vs. benefit percentage true since "no change" is neither good nor bad.

Wasn't aware he ate from his feet specifically onstage.

Still not going to agree with you, sorry, as someone who does not agree with ridiculing people unless it's necessary. Of course, I'm not a perfect human being, I have probably unfairly ridiculed people, especially when angry and when pretty sure my target is someone that nobody will argue against me ridiculing. I'm just… as a person who desperately tried to avoid being "the weirdo" and still might fail at avoiding that nowadays? I'm pretty anti-"what a weirdo lmao," and want people left the fuck alone about their weird behaviors unless they are hurting people with the weird behavior; or they literally will not stop their actual harmful behaviors and ridiculing might have a slight chance to get through or erode the power they have to perform those bad behaviors consequence-free.

I can also admit that people probably do need some level of social judgment to not gross out the people around you, so the eating that onstage probably wasn't a great move (do not know what happened in context, I'm not very up to date on the whole drama of Richard Stallman). Now I know it was onstage and not some leaked information about his personal life, this does at least make sense as something people would make fun of, especially given I think most people, even the socially inept, would figure out not to do this by 6th grade.

Still probably going to dig in my heels on my belief that in this particular discussion bringing this up after "this guy has dangerous/regressive beliefs" feels a lot more like "and look, he's weird too!!! what a loser LMAO" gossip and less like a relevant thing we should know about him that can contribute to a useful informative discussion, though. Sorry.

Huh, I read the article and I don't see anything about more companies experiencing gains than losses. Are you talking about a different article than https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/20/pwc_ai_ceo_survey/?

Only 12 percent reported both lower costs and higher revenue, while 56 percent saw neither benefit. Twenty-six percent saw reduced costs, but nearly as many experienced cost increases.

This is the closest thing I saw.

I think that is one of my problems with AI. People who were once creators, and who were the only means to produce it (either you became a creator by learning the skills or hired a creator to do it) did things. Now that a machine can do it they babysit it at best. If they enjoyed the process of creation, something was lost. I would hate washing clothes by hand and am glad I have a washing machine to do it for me. But if I enjoyed it I am sure I'd have to use the washing machine at a laundromat job because it is more efficient, while lamenting the lost enjoyment from handwashing myself and instead becoming a glorified babysitter. And in my personal life I might not even have the time to wash clothes by hand if I liked it and would keep washing with the machine. Much easier to make time for something if that is the only way it can get done; much easier to have time to handwash clothes when that is the only way you can have clean clothes without buying new.

I admit I now work a non-tech career. And my motivation to do my own hobby projects went way down because "well if AI can do it since it's greenfield," but I also do not want to use AI, so nothing gets done. Small hobby project so I could learn would be still building something new only I could do (or that I'd have to hire out). Now if something else can do it I feel like I am handicapping myself so I can learn (even though I have never even used AI to code), which feels very different. Like having to learn math without calculators while knowing they are a possibility, vs. learning math without when calculators are not invented yet so you cannot have that complaint. Yes, I know, abacuses, but I hope you get my point. Going from the project being something only I or someone else with the skills could have done, so it makes sense for me to do it, it was efficient, to "well I have to to learn the skills but it would have been faster to just get AI to do it." (If that is even true! Maybe I am getting overly influenced by bots pushing AI and it would be faster for ME to do it.) That makes it feel way less motivating to try myself.

And that does not even get into whether AI can even do it. So many comments (that may or may not be bots, not sure) nowadays in dev communities seeming to change their tune from "AI slows me down. It's faster to do it yourself correctly, making mistakes that are easier to catch, than to use the hallucinator that makes mistakes that look correct so it's harder to find those mistakes in the first place" to "actually you have to use it, it's just a tool, and it is getting better every day, get on board or get left behind, maybe it sucks at brownfield projects in industry but it can whip up your hobby project or quick web UI much faster than you can." Not sure if this is actual people changing opinions as they have more time with the tech and it improves (and is it? Because there are both reports of it getting better, and reports of new models being worse).

"Go try the tools to assess them and form your own opinion then!" I'm fresh out of a CS degree and don't feel knowledgeable enough in coding to be able to assess if it would be flawed or not. I trust expert opinions (or at least more experienced opinions, which I assume to be most users of programming.dev) over my own, which usually helps but is awful when the experts conflict. As for just learning to code well so I become qualified to judge for myself, I'm still hearing conflicting things! "It'll speed up your learning x5, it helped me with this thing that otherwise would have taken hours of forumscrolling and trial and error" vs. "it makes so many mistakes, especially when you are learning and do not yet know how to catch the AI mistakes, you shouldn't use it." I personally do not feel great about trusting something that (as far as I know) is not actually citing its sources, that does not know and is not speaking from experience. I hate the idea of trusting a black box where I cannot look at the insides and see how it came to that output or ask an expert who knows more than me about what the insides are doing (because yeah, I admit cars are black boxes to me because I do not understand their working, but I know someone does!). I hate the idea of trusting something made to be nondeterministic by design to be correct all the time, or having to be its babysitter-corrected-reviewer instead of just making it myself. But maybe it advanced further than I thought?

End result: too many conflicting ideas, paralysis, do nothing. (And even if AI does actually make you faster, doing it without AI is still infinitely faster than doing nothing.) God I hope typing that conclusion helps motivate me to get back on those projects, building my skills I have not been using at work back up.

I don't know what to think anymore. Do not want to fight a losing battle and be a stupid Luddite, also recognizing Luddites were not exactly "all tech bad" but "who is the tech doing things for and who is it doing it to," wanting to get ahead and not have things done to me without also promoting use of a tool that does things to others. Not wanting to get automated out of a job, "you're so smart andioop, you are sure to get a good job!" only to see knowledge workers threatened while being autistic so the social skills are not so hot (I can work on improving! But I feel I'll probably never approach the level of a non-autistic person applying the same effort, nor will I ever get some nonverbal cues) and not liking the idea of manual labor… also recognizing that people who can change things do not care about the people getting automated out of a job so I have to figure out how to reskill while having a full-time job, into something that will not just be automated away too (but everything I am good at is stuff people claim AI can do). Thinking about how disruptors, even of men-in-the-middle, not only can take out fat cats but also little guys like me who learned how to do that kind of job, so maybe being forced to do something else for society is good, but also that families and lives depend on a job and the unregulated surveillance capitalism society I live in does not always have us doing meaningful work that contributes to something useful for society so maybe the disruption does not actually force us to pick something more useful to society now.

Still don't like AI, but also scared of being wrong and getting eaten because of my own bias and not being willing to move on and change with the times at the old age of my 20s. Also not even sure how to change with the times.

Is he one of those awful people who the civil route has been tried with and did not work, and the (seemingly) only way to chip away at their power is to make fun of them and call them weird?

No personal investment in the dude, but this reads more like finding an acceptable target to punch on now that a claim he is dangerous has been made. Now he is wide open to "lol what a weirdo!" that would be seen as just irrelevant bullying if there wasn't the claim he has regressive and harmful views. Now anyone who points out "hmm maybe bringing that up is mean, and not a good practice for debate" can be shut up with "are you really defending this awful person? That means you are on his side…"

It is useful to spread information of when someone's dangerous, so people do not get hurt, like the link already posted by someone else here, detailing his views that align with pedophilia, and one I found that has depressingly predictable remarks a person with pedophilic-justifying beliefs might make about Epstein victims. But who cares about what he does with his toes?

I am also reminded of

. Our entire problem with him is the pedophilia-justifying views and not weird but harmless personal habits. Not whatever toe thing he does.

checked community, this specific instance of the post is Opensource and not Europe or Denmark so I think it's okay for me to open my American mouth and say: I hope they manage to resist. If Denmark can put up a successful fight, there is hope for the rest of us, including the Americans being crushed under Big Tech.

It could just be me expecting a Sheets or Excel-like interface (I would bet Sheets UI was made specifically to be an easy transfer from Excel), and my brain being stupid when asked to learn a new one (or expecting to learn a new interface too quickly… but then again I don't usually have trouble with new software and interfaces, so maybe it really is bad UI), but thank you for the reassurance!

Sad for others who might not see improvements because of the macOS focus but still thrilled for myself, because I use LibreOffice on my Mac. This will only bite me too when my Mac kicks the bucket and I have to get a new laptop which I have already decided will run Linux.