Predictable. Here’s a related issue, see if you spot the pattern.

And even then, a laptop will never be something that lasts for decades.

My T410 runs fine.

No socketed CPU, soldered WiFi chip, no PCMCIA slot.
At least it seems like the clit is still there.

One got so angry he smacked the laptop a few times on his table out of frustration (no actual damage)

Built to last.
I wouldn’t do it with a newer model though…

The primary technical reason laptops had RAM soldered for so long was because

Profits.

Yes please.

Full blown roll cage?

I miss those.

who absolutely needs to send documents successfully to others

While the problem is Micro$lop intentionally not following their own document standard, i’d say wait until you finish your degree.
Generally speaking though, unless you ave very specific needs, you’ll most likely do fine with linux. You can try a liveUSB version: boot it of off a USB drive, test it, without installing (it’ll be slower though).

It’s Lenovo reading the room (well, which is unusual), rather than worrying about the consumer.
It’s still a big corpo and line must go up.
Nice to see this is turning out to be a net positive though.

Our dell laptops with plastic cases often get dented and bent so eastily, and cause various problems.

My work’s Latitude barely flexes, apples to apples?

I kinda doubt Framework’s success, no matter how large by niche manufacturer standards, even reaches Lenovo’s sales on a bad day.
Good that they’re (apparently) changing though.

Framework will be my next laptop no matter what

Big tent Framework?

I mean… literally every modern American car

There, FTFY.

Red-scared muricans for the most part, yeah.

Withdrawing from NATO doesn’t make sense. It would probably take upwards of 20-30 years to replace what would be lost by doing that. It’s not worth it.

What are you on about? NATO is comprised of EU countries plus Canada (with rumors of Canada joining the EU)… and the US.
Withdrawing from NATO would basically mean dropping the US. In this timeline, that’s very desirable, unless you’re selling murican arms.
NATO is useless now.

Oh, sure, most EU countries allow US bases to be used but we can al be grateful NATO won’t join the war…

I comment that on any post 2000 car, the more tech it has the more spyware it is, regardless of engine type or brand.
And it doesn’t really matter making country distinctions as we’re talking about transnational megacorps anyway. Most brands belong to a handful of groups.

I’ll never understand people who read “spyware on wheels” and immediately assume i’m criticizing (only) China. Then again, nuance is a loan word in english.

I’ll burn yours instead.

Chromebooks are/were a thing and Micro$lop has windows on arm devices.