Post AxESxJFeWSjqHQ7dEu by socketwench@masto.hackers.town
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 (DIR) Post #AxESnhnOPfavVTKA5I by mntmn@mastodon.social
       2025-08-16T14:58:11Z
       
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       it's interesting how most people haven't heard of our stuff at all! i hope this will change once the Reform Next is shipping.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxESniqcV9lollqFkm by simon@social.sgawolf.com
       2025-08-16T15:08:44Z
       
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       @mntmn I hope so but machines like the ones from @starlabssystems are also repairable so shouting about it loudly is a must.I’m in a business where we’ve been selling our solutions for almost 20 years and yet people still always say, “If only this had been around a couple of years ago…” so it’s a common problem sadly.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxESxJFeWSjqHQ7dEu by socketwench@masto.hackers.town
       2025-08-16T15:11:22Z
       
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       @mntmn I would prefer one of yours over a framework, but tariffs...Granted, I can't afford a framework either, nor am I sure how my workflow would manage on Arm.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxESxJzjl7bMaLgR4S by woody@pleroma.pch.net
       2025-08-16T15:32:26.740995Z
       
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       @socketwench @mntmn I hadn't heard of the Reform Next, and went to check it out.  I use a Framework because I need an open-source laptop...  It looks like the Reform Next isn't an open-source laptop, just an open-source case design wrapped around a proprietary ARM processor.  Is there a reason you aren't shipping with a RISC-V processor?
       
 (DIR) Post #AxESxKZXc0F2NOR1sW by mntmn@mastodon.social
       2025-08-16T15:51:41Z
       
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       @woody @socketwench this is confusing to me because you say that the Framework is an open source laptop, and i don't understand how it is supposedly more open than the MNT laptops?about RISC-V: risc-v processors (the actual chip) might be marketed as "open" in a to me incomprehensible metric, but they currently are not. the only difference to ARM is that you don't have to pay a license fee as a chip maker for the instruction set. there is more in a SoC than the CPU: what about GPU etc?
       
 (DIR) Post #AxESxP9qYxewb9S51U by mntmn@mastodon.social
       2025-08-16T15:54:30Z
       
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       @woody @socketwench also, "just an open source case design" feels almost insulting to me, because most of the electronics (and in the case of ls1028a module, all), meaning the circuit board designs, and the custom firmware, are open sourced by us (under CERN OHL and GPL etc). this is what i spent most of my working life on in the last years.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxESxT3y2lKii4jRPk by mntmn@mastodon.social
       2025-08-16T16:01:21Z
       
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       @woody @socketwench that said, i've been monitoring the risc-v space from the beginning and am always on the lookout for a chip that would actually make sense in a laptop (i.e. with good performance and not too much battery drain). so far i'm not aware of any. except in the case of system controller, we're moving to rp2350 which has risc-v cores (and their design is even open sourced on github).