hellllllll yea Windows 64-bit LR5 running in CrossOver preview on MNT Reform with Wine and FEX… a little slow but totally workable @mntmn #mntreform
Thib
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(3/3)…I've spent my entire career using #IBM laptops knowing this…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
…& then after IBM sold #Lenovo, I was then using laptops made by people w/ strong ties to a human-rights-violating regime.
So, let's have perspective: IBM has still never apologized for *literally* helping the Nazis & #Framework may still be the “least evil” of *traditional* laptop companies.
But, this incident does make me wanna desperately find way to make @mntmn's #MNTReform suit my computing needs.
Thib
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Over next 1-2 weeks,I'd appreciate an extended thread re: #FrameworkLaptop, #mntreform, & #FOSS.
TL;DR on my idiosyncratic needs:
* minimize binary firmware blobs¹
* Having 2 disks in RAID-1²
* Runs stock Official #Debian stable³
* Understanding best current replacement keyboard options⁴
* Form factor that works for my travel needs.
Is @frameworkcomputer or @mntmn better for me?
I'd be glad if ∃ active engagement on this!
Just 8 days after I began this thread re: maybe switching to a #FrameworkLaptop, a scandal broke that #Framework directly funded toxic individual FOSS developers.
It's not clear to me yet whether an outright boycott is warranted, but what's already obvious is Framework acts like a classic VC-funded tech startup in making foolish unforced errors in policy decision-making b/c they're too busy “moving fast & breaking things” to pay attention to important details (such as past CoC violations)…(1/3)
(3/3)…I've spent my entire career using #IBM laptops knowing this…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
…& then after IBM sold #Lenovo, I was then using laptops made by people w/ strong ties to a human-rights-violating regime.
So, let's have perspective: IBM has still never apologized for *literally* helping the Nazis & #Framework may still be the “least evil” of *traditional* laptop companies.
But, this incident does make me wanna desperately find way to make @mntmn's #MNTReform suit my computing needs.
Welp. @frameworkcomputer is now sponsoring a virulently transphobic right wing dev's FOSS project (Hyprland) and apparently are internally using an Arch derived distro spearheaded by a different right wing dev (omarchy).
So, I'm regretting giving them any money or headspace at all and will try to ignore them as much as possible going forward.
Meh.
This is why we can't have nice things.
Not that I have a lot of business, but I'm certainly not going to spend energy promoting or supporting framework at this point. Time to double down on @mntmn s #MNTReform hardware.
Over next 1-2 weeks,I'd appreciate an extended thread re: #FrameworkLaptop, #mntreform, & #FOSS.
TL;DR on my idiosyncratic needs:
* minimize binary firmware blobs¹
* Having 2 disks in RAID-1²
* Runs stock Official #Debian stable³
* Understanding best current replacement keyboard options⁴
* Form factor that works for my travel needs.
Is @frameworkcomputer or @mntmn better for me?
I'd be glad if ∃ active engagement on this!
wakest ⁂
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Spent a few hours today to get #postmarketos running on the #mntreform with the a311d chipset. All went smoother than expected. Still need to figure out wifi.
der.hans
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#ReproducibleBuilds talk at #FOSSY2025 went pretty well today, presented by myself and my colleague Chris Lamb...
For bonus fun, I used the #MNTReform to present!
Slides available:
https://people.debian.org/~vagrant/fossy-2025/Nevermind-the-Checkboxes-heres-Reproducible-Builds.pdf
... as well as a .buildinfo file if you want to try and bit-for-bit reproduce the slides, although I did it using an arm64 machine:
Video should be available in a month or so, hopefully?
#ReproducibleBuilds talk at #FOSSY2025 went pretty well today, presented by myself and my colleague Chris Lamb...
For bonus fun, I used the #MNTReform to present!
Slides available:
https://people.debian.org/~vagrant/fossy-2025/Nevermind-the-Checkboxes-heres-Reproducible-Builds.pdf
... as well as a .buildinfo file if you want to try and bit-for-bit reproduce the slides, although I did it using an arm64 machine:
Video should be available in a month or so, hopefully?
Wifi needs work, would be nice to fix the postmarket OS splash screen, shutdown doesn't seem to smoothly work with motherboard, the reform-tools need to be packaged for alpine, battery level indication doesn't work.
I'll put an MR up tomorrow
MR to enable #mntreform on #postmarketos is up now: https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/merge_requests/6820
Spent a few hours today to get #postmarketos running on the #mntreform with the a311d chipset. All went smoother than expected. Still need to figure out wifi.