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       Framework Computer Now Sponsoring LVFS / Fwupd Development
        
       Author : LorenDB
       Score  : 102 points
       Date   : 2025-11-29 19:14 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | StrLght wrote:
       | Delightful news! I hope more vendors will follow Framework's
       | example.
       | 
       | I have a couple machines that get all relevant updates from LVFS,
       | it's been an absolute game changer for me.
        
       | nrp wrote:
       | We consider LVFS to be critical infrastructure for our products
       | and are happy to support it. Richard is doing excellent work.
        
         | tapia wrote:
         | Just got my Framework 13 last week. I really love this
         | computer, and how it is pushing for upgradability and
         | repairability in this segment. Thanks a lot for creating this
         | computer!
        
       | hellcow wrote:
       | This is nice, but I still will not consider a Framework as long
       | as they continue supporting DHH and his projects. This post has a
       | good summary of why he's someone I choose not to support:
       | https://tekin.co.uk/2025/09/the-ruby-community-has-a-dhh-pro...
       | 
       | I regret my purchase and would buy a different brand in the
       | future.
        
         | matthewfcarlson wrote:
         | Who/what is DHH?
        
           | Tade0 wrote:
           | David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails.
           | 
           | Everyone who knows that abbreviation seems to have a strong
           | opinion on the guy for some reason.
        
           | hombre_fatal wrote:
           | He noticed that infinite immigration changes a place, which
           | you're not allowed to acknowledge in some online circles: htt
           | ps://web.archive.org/web/20250925050154/https://world.hey...
        
             | gorgoiler wrote:
             | I'm new to this story and so I read the blog post in the
             | sibling comment and a DHH post it links to. For one, DHH's
             | supporting words for a provocative race troll (that guy who
             | uses the stage name Tommy Robinson) are pretty suspect.
             | Secondly though he allegedly repeats some statistics in a
             | way that shows he only considers white people to be native
             | Brits.
             | 
             | Pretty, ahem, niche opinions, to put it mildly.
        
           | konmok wrote:
           | DHH is a racist who supports Tommy Robinson.
           | 
           | https://jakelazaroff.com/words/dhh-is-way-worse-than-i-
           | thoug...
           | 
           | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Robinson
        
         | JuniperMesos wrote:
         | I'm not a huge fan of Ruby on Rails either, but despite this
         | I'm pretty happy with my Framework laptop.
        
         | pengaru wrote:
         | So which angelic vendor are you purchasing your hardware from
         | instead? Do tell...
         | 
         | I personally supported MNTRE by purchasing a new Reform and
         | will order a Reform Next, but it's not yet a substitute for
         | anything state of the art. (I'm not sure Framework laptops are
         | even competitive in that space either, certainly not in terms
         | of price:perf)
        
         | srid wrote:
         | Sounds like you have a poitical clash with DHH. You are of
         | course free to choose how you spend your money.
         | 
         | Other people are free to ignore politics or look at
         | counteracting viewpoints:
         | https://felipec.wordpress.com/2025/09/23/the-ruby-community-...
        
           | metabagel wrote:
           | It seems unlikely to me that DHH wasn't referring to white
           | people when he said "native Brit". Certainly, if that's not
           | what he meant, he could clear that up pretty easily. Has he?
        
           | joe5150 wrote:
           | I don't think this drivel helps explains anything that's not
           | stated in very plain English in DHH's blog.
        
           | pkd wrote:
           | That article spends a lot of words in trying to paint DHH's
           | "native Brits" in a positive light but never mentions the
           | following sentence from the article:
           | 
           | > A statistic as evident as day when you walk the streets of
           | London now.
           | 
           | How is DHH able to determine nativity as defined by "being
           | born and brought up" simply walking the streets of London if
           | it has nothing to do with what you look like?
           | 
           | Plus he even links to a Wikipedia page about white vs non-
           | white British population in London and uses the non-white
           | number. If he wanted to, he could've referred to the foreign-
           | born vs local-born numbers too but he did not.
           | 
           | I don't think DHH is racist, but he's so infected by the
           | anti-woke mind virus that he's happy to parrot racist talking
           | points to "own the libs". Whether that's any better, I'm not
           | sure.
           | 
           | It seems like the author has infinite rope to extend to DHH.
           | That's not being nice, that's being oblivious.
        
         | pkd wrote:
         | I think framework made a misstep with this spornsorship deal. I
         | still think they should be supported in their mission and you
         | don't have to regret your purchase.
        
       | BoredPositron wrote:
       | The net finally caught something actually useful.
        
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