I have memories of a professionally shot video of some band. The mood is pop/funk/disco, almost electronic music maybe, but there is a sax player quoting John Coltrane licks, maybe Impressions, and very regularly the lead singer (which I think is black) shouts "JOHN COLTRANE!" in a very random and funny manner. This lives rentfree in my head somehow but I cannot find the video since hours. Does anyone know anything about that video?
Hi everyone,
I got a Framework 12, kind of impulsively, and might return it, but in the meantime I wanted to actually try it to see how good of a fit it was for me.
I kind of really like the feel of it. The touchscreen, the 2-in-1 gimmick, the plastic touch, the bubblegum of it all. And the specs are perhaps not really worthy for the price, but I think they are still better than any computer I've owned. Real fun device. I still find 12" to be a little small but I don't know. The 13" felt too much like a work computer and I wanted a fun time computer with a fun and comforting look.
I've installed Arch on it. Works fine. (Arch is my daily driver on all my computers, Steam Deck included.) However the touchscreen is really limited in its use in practice, even trying to move in Firefox the thing actually believes I'm selecting text, etc. I mean, computers be computers. I do not see myself actually using folded mode for anything else than maybe Krita at the moment, which is a little sad. Or maybe just to put sheet music on the piano, but all of this could be done by a $100 cheap tablet distinct from my computer, you see.
But I'm wondering: is there some "overlay" that's actually fun to use in tablet mode? I mean, Linux software which is like a "miniature closed environment" to mimic tablet OSes. Just like the Steam OS thing is for playing games, you see, or like Retroarch for emulators, or Kodi for media center. I'm talking things like: watch some YouTube, browse the web, play simple puzzles or online chess, make drawings and scribbles. Just classic tablet stuff, but with the possibility to use it "in continuity" with your actual computer.
How often do you guys actually use the tablet mode? How do you use it? What use cases have you found to be surprisingly cool.
I'm also a little doubtful about the upgradability of it all. I have a hard time actually believing that these will last much more that I keep my standard PC's. Just thing about, I don't know, how much connectivity and RAM formats, etc., have changed in the last 10 years. How long will I actually be able to upgrade DDR5 RAM to make it adequate for the hyperbloated Internet of the future? What's the perspective of people who bought the very first FW13's? Have they actually bought no computer since then, or is it kind of a selling point with little consequence?
Just asking for your perspective on these questions, from someone who is enthuastic but unconvinced.