Hey Y’all! I’ve been loving my framework 16. My only complaint so far is that the rubber feet make a terrible loud noise when sliding the bottom across a table surface. It sounds like nails on chalkboard almost. I was wondering if anyone else is having a similar experience? Any solutions?
Got the same sounds today and I don’t have a solution either, other than lifting it up a bit, also it varies widely between different table surfaces.
I’ve had this issue across all tables.
How about you add mouse glider pads to your laptop or oil or wax the surface of your desk. And if a scratching sound is more to your liking, remove the rubber feet altogether.
You could also glue strong magnets under your laptop and counter them with other magnets glued to your desk, so the laptop levitates.
Or glue the laptop to the desk and move the desk.
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Well, great minds think alike 
Seriously, lift your device and reseat it gently. You’re lucky laptops have SSDs nowadays, since 10-15 years ago you would’ve killed the HDD, as they hate vibrations like these coming from pushing your laptop over a hard surface.
And while SSDs are more resilient against vibrations, there are other moving parts inside your Framework, like the fans. So moving your device around too harsh takes a toll on the bearings. On HDDs it’s the read and write head, that crashes on the platter, which damages at least the head, rendering the HDD useless.
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