I had that empty feeling after finishing BG3 as an evil Durge, Although I suspect that's called depression :unsure:

Let me add it to my wishlist.

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I'm thinking maybe access to an internal usb header? If so, it's possibly USB2, so too slow for a proper high-res LCD display.

Worst case you'd need to mod the case and route a cable through to the back so you can plug into something there.

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For a moment I thought it was outside when the opening scene of Green Ash popped up. (I know it's not a game, but still).

There was a large variety of games running at a large variety of frame rates (likely due to it running on a large variety of computers). It's looking good.

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It needs to change and have the source of data available. Right now it's basically a huge data anonymising machine that can verbatim memorise and spit out someone else's work, but can't tell you where it got it from.
The "references" they generate are just things that look like whatever they made up.

Look at the Kurzgesagt video on AI slop for reference.

For me it's that the data they feed into these opensource licensed models is still suspect. How do we know the data was sourced in respect to their license? Much "free" information is provided on a free for personal use, but not business use, basis. How much of their costs have they externalised and not cared about? Did they include wikipedia content without citing wikipedia as the source? That's against the wikipedia license, for example.

It's not just a privacy issue, it's also an ethical issue.

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It's both good and bad in my opinion:

Good: Many people rudely throw AI generated text and expect others (that often have less time to waste) to figure out if the message even makes sense. There is a severe lack of ownership. This basically says that if you propose something bad that was AI generated we can shout at you regardless of if you understand it or not. Basically raise the cost of proposing AI slop as a discouragement.

Bad: The REAL bad thing in my opinion is how people's time is wasted by even having to go through this motions in the first place. It's stating that we're basically giving up in regards to using stolen work and fencing things.

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I am disturbed by the number, but not surprised. I was telling our marketing department that using the same "free" AI voice that scammers use and is likely harvested without consent on our promotional videos is really a bad message.

And they were surprised with that connection.

That blew my mind, they never thought about what it is they are presenting, and their job is to.

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My daughter is irrationally terrified of dogs.
I see this and wonder "Is this silly and harmless enough as an introduction to dogs for someone with dog-phobia? Should I even use this as away to show them that they don't need to break down in a panic every time they see someone walk their dog?"

Sigh

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Listening to the 6-minute long voice-only info-blast interview video is absolutely hillarious! Highly recommended.

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I'm also very much surprised by the addition of a 3D game. I know there was some work to try and administratively merge the 2D and 3D work, but haven't heard much of it in recent times. Awesome!

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I'm at least glad that they kept the Radeon GPU around.

I also don't really buy the "not enough space for ram" as the 4GB GDDR7 modules are the same physical size as the 2GB modules. Likely they are just not allowed to put more VRAM in because that's the only way they could get nvidia to allow them to do a custom form factor.

Really hope they get updates out faster for the FW16 in the future as there was clearly a lot of things ready before they announced this update that's 20 months after the last launch. I'm concerned that they are exploding their product stack a little too fast.

Framework is definitely doing good in the world right now, they are very open (for a company) with various things.

Their support is both amazing and lackluster at the same time. Let me explain:
* They provide some support after warranty expired. (e.g. ship PTM pads to fix a thermal issue after warranty expired)
* They ship fixes for design defects. (e.g. keyboard flex, PTM pads)
* They provide a fair amount of technical specs so you can modify/fix things yourself.
* They tend to focus on their products (e.g. firmware updates) in cycles, where you'll get a bunch of attention then nothing for half a year. Rinse and repeat. There has been a case that the latest firmware broke charging in subtle ways that was just left broken for half a year, there have been community fixes and there will still be radio silence about it until they officially look at it again)
* When something is broken in warranty, their triage process is so painful that you feel like it was designed to annoy you into giving up. To be fair, they do eventually follow through, but support is a really frustrating experience. (Being asked to photo the same thing over and over, spending months without your device as you had to ship it to them for repairs, etc...)(but this isn't unique to them, sadly)

To be fair, the support offered is significantly better than MSI/Asus for example, and it's awesome that a smaller manufacturer beats a few tier 1 manufacturers here.

I would recommend them for anyone that wants a Linux-first notebook. My FW16 is significantly more stable than any other notebook in Linux I had since the skylake-era Dell business notebooks. In fact, things I used to chalk up to software bugs in drivers disappeared, which now lets me think they are firmware bugs that just never gets fixed.

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