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@Federation_Bot  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

This makes me sad. Can we not have at least a few nice things in this horrible hellscape that is tech?
https://kolektiva.social/@Anarcat/115341716569207052

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Victor Wåhlström
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@zeyelth@mastodon.gamedev.place replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

@frost :/

Tangentially it would be nice with a European alternative, and more "competition" would be healthy.

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Martin Frost
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@frost@camp.smolnet.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

@zeyelth I think Slimbook is the closest European alternative. They’re based in Spain, and their laptops are upgradable, but they seem to recommend sending it to them to have upgrades done.

There’s also Tuxedo, which are based in Germany, and they have some instructions on how to service at least some of their systems on their website.

So it’s at least not a complete wasteland.

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@frost@camp.smolnet.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

@zeyelth Oh, and apparently also Nova, based in NL: https://novacustom.com

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Victor Wåhlström
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@zeyelth@mastodon.gamedev.place replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

@frost Novacustom looks interesting. I wonder how well they handle thermal issues with higher end graphics. And they seemingly only offer Intel solutions, which is a bit odd considering AMD is generally both better and cheaper nowadays.

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@frost@camp.smolnet.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

@zeyelth Yeah, I would also like to see more AMD systems.

Then there’s also MNT, and they are probably as open hardware as you can get, but I’m not sure how they are with high end graphics stuff.

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Victor Wåhlström
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@zeyelth@mastodon.gamedev.place replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

@frost MNT appears to be ARM-based, which limits its use a bit

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