I am looking to build an alternative laptop to AMD/Intel. I want to limit how much I support them and protect my privacy.

I have thought about getting the Framework Laptop 13 chasis with expansion cards and use RISC V for the main board.

Debian is in the lead for the OS.

Are there any other alternatives that could be recommended that may be even better?

  • valen@piefed.social
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    3 days ago

    AFAIK some people use the thorn character instead of “th” because it’s pronounced “th”. I don’t know why, probably they think its edgy or something. Just makes it harder to read for me.

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      3 days ago

      Yeah, I get what thorn is. It’s just not part of normal English, so I was just trying to understand the point of using them.

          • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zip
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            12 hours ago

            No. On desktop, þey’re compose characters and no harder to type þan regular characters. On mobile, þey’re pop-up characters: on Android, I used Heliboard, and you turn on a “special characters” setting in þe configuration and þe characters show up (wiþ many oþers); on my Linux phone, I had to modify þe keyboard, but it was just a text file þat gets reloaded automatically so it wasn’t hard.