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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Thanks for your conscientious work Liam! :heart:
It's a ray of clean, uncorrupted, sunshine in the Internet.

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My concern is that this kind of thing is a slippery slope, how long before any e.g. wolfenstein game will have to be so censored because it touches on topics that are uncomfortable for some. There are a few videos on Youtube where the video avoids naming its primary context to avoid automatic and contextless bot censorship.

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I just tried it in Steam and it shows the banner, then crashes.
This is on the Steam Linux runtime 3.0, so it should provide a sane set of system libraries.

Running it directly on my Fedora system results in a segfault :-(

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I just remember how they almost aggressively avoided supporting Linux for years giving away a growing market to Steam.
They were so well suited towards Linux people too with their DRM-Free stance too. Sigh.

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I must have been in the wrong friendgroup or something. Not me nor any of my friends ever played gears of war.

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The Z2 A really looks like the Deck's cpu. Was there some kind of exclusivity agreement that expired, did they over-anticipate demand, or was this an acknowledgement that this is the most power-optimized design?

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Honestly a standard interface to do this kind of things on a notebook would be very useful already.
On my FW16 I have to use one tool to set cpu power profile or a cap on the clocks, a different tool if I want to adjust the cpu tdp or battery charge modes with any granularity, and a third tool to manage the dgpu power limits.

I have many more tunables than on the Deck, but my ability to control the power usage is worse as it's just too confusing.

If we had a standard application layer that could be even used by e.g. the desktop to expose just a little more control for power modes I could make it so that the different power modes affect the system in a way I find sensible.

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