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There are ethical alternatives. System76, Nova Custom, even used PCs from reputable refurbishers.

Go ahead and support fascism if you want but don’t lambast me for choosing not to.

This is a purity test, it seems, driven by people who are so far removed from the real world that they’d rather get mad at the small repairable laptop company instead of Amazon or Microsoft or AMD

It’s possible to be upset with both Framework and the other companies you mentioned. It’s not binary, either/or. I have issues with all of them for similar reasons.

All the Framework CEO had to do was say “oops, we screwed up, we can be better, we don’t want to associate with plainly evil people”. But he didn’t do that, he went out of his way to affirm that those evil people are welcome in Framework’s tent (his words, not mine) right next to the people those fascists constantly talk about wanting to murder and oppress. I don’t think it gets any plainer than that, and it’s not a purity test. It’s not wanting to give money to a company who will then proudly and openly give it to monsters, with a big fucking smile on their face as they do so.

I don’t expect anything from you, I don’t even know who you are.

But as for context, Framework threw money at and invited fascist developers into their circle. When called out they said it’s okay because it’s “a big tent” where Nazis apparently are just as welcome as the people they want to murder for being the wrong race or gender.

Another boring refresh from the Nazi-loving brand. Wake me up when they kick out the fascists.

If reading books is gay then I’m fucking happy and full of glee.

Oh they meant gay as an insult? Then I’m a flaming flamboyant homosexual twink fairy.

A match made in hell. Roku went to shit the day they prevented your already purchased and used device from working unless you agreed to their new Draconian terms. I hope Fox loses every cent of that $22bln.

There is some overlap among those, particularly 2-4 and 3-4.

Also, I’ve read a lot of comments from people for whom the Steam Deck was their first experience with Linux and they are overwhelmingly positive. I can see this new device having the same effect.