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Framework goes full fash, supports Hyprland and Omarchy (awful.systems)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by BlueMonday1984@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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In case you haven't heard the news, Framework went and publicly sponsored Hyprland (the most toxic part of Wayland by a country mile) and openly shilled Omarchy multiple times (the pet project of fascist shithead David Heinemeier Hansson) recently.

In response to well-justified backlash against this, founder Nirav Patel responded with FOSSbro platitudes about "[creating] a big tent" for open source".

If you've got any more updates on this self-inflicted shitshow, put them here so they can be collected in one place.

(In retrospect, that AI-pilled Framework Desktop should've been a major red flag they were gonna pull this shit.)

EDIT (2): Found a solid summary of the situation, and a solid teardown of Nirav's actions - recommend checking them out.

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[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 weeks ago

From the stubstack: https://awful.systems/comment/9014362 https://awful.systems/post/5853532/9014330

[–] biotin7@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Big tent ?? At this point even neutral are better. Oh wait, Lunduke is so..... gonna react to this

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 6 points 3 weeks ago

I have been seeing this on multiple sites nowadays and I don't get it: why do some ogs put their domain in a ref parameter for all outgoung links? like this is the hitching their wagon link: https://x.com/FrameworkPuter/status/1975388063070363974?ref=gardinerbryant.com

why does the blog need to share with twitter that I'm coming from this blog?

what's more funny is that I believe this parameter is only useful to track some privacy hardened firefox users, as mosy browsers just send this info in a HTTP header...

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Well, I guess I'm at "we'll see where this goes" stage, unfortunately, being the owner of a framework laptop that I absolutely love and have no intentions to get rid of and even if I wanted to I'm way too poor for that shit (buy nice not twice I understand F.Ws are expensive up front, still poor) that I bought as an upgradable laptop I can get (with my use case, longevity) prob like 15-20yr (no shit I can likely make it work as long as F.W exists, it replaced a 2014 toshiba and I got the 16 at launch [batch 15]), out of with upgrades to RAM/SSD, meaning I will continue to need some parts like bezels and expansion ports for a long time to come.

If there were like, any other companies making upgradable and modular laptops, and I had bought them instead, great, but that isn't reality and so I'm kinda locked in here.

If a 3rd party started making shit (legally or not idgaf) like that and I can cut out the manufacturer, great. Also not current reality (beyond some actually pretty sweet .stl files.).

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