I was in my uni’s library the other day, studying for midterms 
, when a random guy recognized my Framework and walked over to ask about it. We ended up chatting for a few minutes as I gave my first impressions and such; all positive thus far by the way.
It was just a cool, memorable, if minor, part of my day and I’m wondering if anyone else has similar stories to share
I know it’s impossible, but something like that would be really cool happening at one of these Repair Day events on October 16th somewhere in Holland.
I’m assuming this is Holland: the country in Europe, and not Holland: the small city in Michigan.
Yes I live in a town called Holland.
Yes it is extremely Dutch.
I didn’t know these were even a thing, but that’s awesome! Also, sounds like the exact crowed that’d love to pick someone’s brain about their Framework
In lieu of seeing other Framework owners in the wild, I’ll be posting my own “adventures” to Instagram (and tagging @frameworkcomputer) for now.
Glassware on the right says “lab? maybe?”
Glassware on the left says “bar”!
Coffee shop in Frederick, MD. 
My Framework is my personal laptop. It won’t make it out into the wild much. I have a corporate laptop, that’s what I travel with. If something happens to it I won’t cry all that much and get a newer, faster replacement. It won’t be a Framework though, $1000 CAD budget for a replacement.
If something were to happen to my Framework I would be very, very sad. 
And work wouldn’t cover it…
@Fraoch Maybe you can get your work to cover a Framework replacement one component at a time, just piecemeal it together
For real though, gotta protect those personal devices. After someone knocked my laptop off the desk back in first year, shattering the screen, I haven’t trusted using anything larger than a phone in lecture
The way students leave their laptops in the library while they go in search of coffee or snacks makes me cringe…things go missing all the time! I guess they just don’t care for their Macbooks in the same way as we covet our framworks 
I’ve done this, but only at the community college where there’s always a place to work within lunging distance of the checkout counter.
Not quite on topic for this thread, but I had an interaction where someone was curious about my framework in a university class/lab setting. They were not familiar, and at that point I had only had my framework for about a week. I pointed them to the website and hit on the repairability/ upgrade points and how I like the keyboard. There is interest out there!
I too live in a town called Holland. Except in Ohio and it’s not very Dutch.
I had a peer ask how I got one so fast. They recognized it on sight.
Do not think anyone in Australia will see mine.
Mine has not left the house since receiving it in August. 
A deer was staring in my home office window yesterday, kind of nose to logo with the framework lid. Does that count as “in the wild”? 
Stealing this off the framework-discussion Discord channel, this was spotted on the NASA James Webb Space Telescope live stream feed:
(credit goes to Discord user Avendor!)
NASA scientist or reporter? 
If I’m not mistaken, that’s Dr. Karl Gordon:
https://karllark.github.io/
Timestamped link to the above screenshot.
You could spot mine at the Dublin airport right now!
I have never seen another one in the wild… I need to keep traveling,