Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Dell is coming for Framework”.
How does Linus feel about his investment in framework now good yeah? I don’t. I don’t think that was the point. Yeah 100, I mean even off air talking to Luke about the investment and framework talking internally to the people. Here I was very clear that my investment in framework was like: if it made money I’d, be surprised yeah, I love their mission.
I love their mission and to be clear, Dell is still not trying to compete with the framework Mission. They have mentioned nothing about upgrading your chassis like this right. It’S still super cool, regardless.
My framework laptop went from six cores to 12 core 4 to 12. Whatever I like dramatically upgraded the hardware in that machine without replacing my chassis, your screen or speakers or touchpad, or anything like that, it’s super cool, still um, but really what I was investing in was the mission to make laptops less disposable, yeah. And if, if this, if, if that was what it took to shine, a big enough light on what framework was doing, that Dell comes and Does It Better fine, so be it yeah I will I will.
I will kiss that money, goodbye um I do. I do still think that framework has a solid shot. I don’t know a lot that isn’t public information, but I do know a little bit and I don’t want my money back. I uh I’m pretty happy, I’m pretty happy with what they’re doing I’m happy with the direction that they’re going. But if I lose it all, then I guess it’s gone and I feel the same way about the United Financial game yeah.
I the the point, was I want these things to exist and it’s exactly the same with that Nas software that I discussed last week. I need an easy to use like prosumer Nas that doesn’t suck like it just it has to exist. I am so tired of cloud being the only user-friendly option other than stupid, like one touch backup hard drives yeah because they’re not reliable, you want to promote people to do their own like personal clouds, but then it’s it’s hard. It’S hard yeah and I get it. I get it, you know: full-time sis, admin, part-time, home, lab user. Who does this kind of thing in their sleep? I understand that to you, it’s not hard to my brother-in-law.
It might as well be brain surgery even for decently technical people. Yes like it’s. It’S still a lot, it’s non-trivial and it’s something that you need to like re-educate on constantly, which also probably shouldn’t really need to be that necessary. Uh, what’s wrong with Synology is a great question: how about the completely closed ecosystem? How about the ridiculous pricing yeah? You should be able to have a functioning Nas for literally zero dollars, like there is Hardware that people actually throw in the garbage. That is perfectly capable of running a Nas operating system, and I get it in Europe. You might not actually want to run that because the power efficiency is going to be a killer, but if you happen to live somewhere with cheap power, why is it going into the trash it should still be used? Why are you gon na throw that working Hardware away? Go buy some apply some overpriced Appliance yeah, not to mention underpowered in a lot of cases that is not upgradable at all and that you’re ultimately gon na throw in the trash later and your data sync can only go to other well, okay, this is very old Information, it’s complicated. Okay, you knew where I was going. Yes, you can sync to a lot of different things, but also syncing, just to a Target like properly is a little more complicated to set up. The point is, there’s a better way and I want there to be a better way. Yeah .