Welcome! Please introduce yourself - 2nd edition

Welcome to the community, nailed!

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Welcome to the community haxel and congrats for the new job!

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Hello, Iā€™m Cris. Iā€™m generally excited about open source and reparability, and have been following framework since before reallye early on, and remember getting really excited when I saw Linus tech tips announce he would be investing, giving framework a really big signal boost

My old thinkpad has finally kicked the bucket after an unceremonious fall from 1ft off the ground, so I finally get to upgrade to a framework! :slight_smile:

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Welcome to the community Cris!

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Retired marine engineer based in the Scottish highlands. Thinking about a new laptop as mine has only 4 GB of non-upgradeable RAM.

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Welcome to the community Martin!

Hello! I started the year off with a new official title at work. I am the first Product Manager for my company. I started in Tech Support and have moved up since. I heard about Framework on Youtube, before LTT (which sounds super hipster XD but oh well).

My love for repairing things and how easy it is to upgrade this laptop was a no brainer. I have built every desktop computer I have ever owned. Plus a dozen or so, for family and friends. Building a laptop was the logical next step for me.

I legit parted everything out individually from the marketplace. Smart or majorly dumb, it was an experience. One I could not have done without those same family and friends to help me get components

This is the first laptop I have ever ā€˜purchasedā€™ for myself, and I want it to be around for a while. I believe Framework can help keep this laptop around for years to come!

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Welcome to the community Bryan and congrats for the new title!

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Third day with my AMD Ryzen 7 Framework 13. Very impressed with the fit and finish of this computer. Great keyboard. Excellent screen.

I ordered it and before it arrived the price dropped $100 and new versions of the computer showed up. Oh well. Somebody has to buy things and get caught in the moment that the product line changes. No matter. I am really happy with this machine and so far I am enjoying the support of the Framework community. Asked a question in this community chat and had an answer the next day ā€“ great.

I am Professor of Neuroscience who studies alcohol responses using the fruit fly model system. I have used Macs since the late 80ā€™s. I have always kept a linux box around since about 92 or so as a hobby or sometimes for work. Decided to make the switch in my work. Planning on making this my major laptop but I also have a Macbook Air running Linux Mint that I like.

I am looking forward to using this laptop during my university lectures. Figure that will advertise Framework to the next generation of customers. Donā€™t mind doing that for a company that is trying so hard to reduce waste.

Looking forward to interacting with all of you now and then.
Best wishes,
Nigel

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Welcome to the community Nigel, itā€™s great to have you here!

Hello there !

Iā€™m an engineer in a small start-up and had the advantage to choose my workā€™s laptop. My choice landed to the AMD Ryzen 7040 Framework 16 :slight_smile:
I love the idea of an easily reparable and up-gradable laptop.

Iā€™m mainly registering to the community as I have some trouble with my Framework, and while waiting for support response, I thought I could ask the community for things I havenā€™t yet tried. And because being part of this community could always be helpful to me and others :slight_smile:

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Welcome to the community! Hope you can find a solution soon but decide to stay here anyway!

Thanks for the welcome @Destroya :slight_smile:

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Hello!
Iā€™m Babylion122 of Babylion122 Studios, and I make games!

I currently do not own my own Framework, yet, but Iā€™m saving for one ($480/600, gonna get a factory seconds probably!) my current laptop is an HP ProBook x360 11 G3 EE that I purchased from my old school whilst they were phasing them out, it has a ton of IO, a touchscreen (it flips), and a pretty awesome keyboard and trackpad, however its BIOS is locked down so I had to workaround it by installing Linux to the drive directly using a USB adapter and then putting it back in, and its pretty hard to upgrade with no Ram Slots, so Iā€™ve decided I want a Framework laptop as my next upgrade, and I came here to learn about it! (Also the laptop is kind of slowā€¦ Intel Celeron N4100 is a big issue for me, but I still make games on it despite that!). I did recently move to a Steam Deck as my main development device however since my game development software was taking 2 seconds to process one character of text when renaming files.

So, thatā€™s who I am, and where Iā€™m coming from, hope to post more and read more in this community!

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howdy everyone, I am an industrial electrical technician, I make the big factory robots work sometimes, I saw Linus talk about the framework 16 and opted to get it for my second round of collage cus I wanted a laptop that I can fix and modify on the fly and has a number pad, I have been using it for a few months now and I love this thing :smiley:

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Welcome to the community! If you feel comfortable sharing, Iā€™m sure you will find many alpha testers for your games here!

Welcome to the community Ricky, happy to hear that you love it!

Hello! I am a stupid computer nerd who sometimes likes to talk about ISAs and linux. I bought the framework laptop a few days ago and it was just shipped out today. I bought it to replace my old and crappy samsung chromebook 3 and I canā€™t wait for it to arrive!

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Hello. Electronics Engineer, IT professional and Linux/FOSS enthusiast, first installed linux from a floppy in the 90s, enjoyed many distros but keep coming back to Fedora for fun and Centos/Alma/ucore for servers. Big fan of Nix and Nixos too but these days Iā€™m especially loving the work Jorgeā€™s team are doing with Universal Blue, it seems to be the perfect OS match for a Framework. Received my F16 today, up and running on Universal Blueā€™s Bluefin-dx flawless, fast, super impressive and a great h/w s/w collaboration with Framework. Finger print login for login, sudo etc is a typing saver. Love the ā€˜Right to repairā€™ concept and the cause of open software on open hardware! Wish everyone at Framework all the best, hoping for stellar growth in the future and thanks for the great product.

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Hey yā€™all!

Iā€™m Raf, fresh physics graduate and long time Framework dreamer (since last year when I watched an LTT video)! I got my AMD Framework 13 last week hours before my flight and assembled it right before checking in.

(Funny thing: it has one dead blue pixel but itā€™s so insignificant that I keep on forgetting it exists! I donā€™t even know where it is right now while Iā€™m typing this!)

Honestly, Iā€™m not that big of an electronics buff so I donā€™t have much to contribute. I will be lurking around to see what cool projects you people are making, though!

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