Though if you choose to include "only the age groups younger than Joe Rogan" (who is 54), so the ages 0-50, instead of 200 you're looking at 1,968 deaths. https://www.tn.gov/health/cede...

There are actually a few studies on this. Fairphone commissioned a Lifecycle Analysis for their Fairphone 3 that specifically digs into the environmental impact of a more repairable product that can last longer vs a more integrated path that doesn't last as long: https://www.fairphone.com/wp-c...

There is a similar study around longevity for secondhand notebooks: https://www.sciencedirect.com/...

The summary is that by far and away, the best way to reduce the environmental impact of electronics products is to make them last longer. The impact of additional internal connectors is vanishingly small compared to the benefit of enabling silicon and other more environmentally impactful parts to last longer.

Thanks! We think the Expansion Cards were a good trade-off to enable customization of ports, and our order data shows that there is a huge variety in the different card selections people have made so far. We've also published open source reference designs to enable people to develop new cards.

We love the Toughbook series too, though the price, size, and weight put it in a somewhat different category than what we're doing.

We've designed the display to be easy to replace, putting it behind a magnetic attach bezel and affixing it with fasteners. We only have one display type at the moment, though we've designed for the potential for more in the future. For the keyboard, we currently have US English, but the keyboard is also an easy to replace module, and we have a range of other ANSI and ISO languages in progress.

We've published open source reference designs and documentation for the Expansion Card system to enable third party and community development. For other modules, we'd love to bring in third parties to make compatible versions. That is a positive for consumers and for the health of the Framework Laptop ecosystem.

We have hardware kill switches for the webcam and microphone. The network disable button is software, though you can also open it in and remove the WiFi card in a couple of minutes.

Nirav Patel here (and feeling amazed to log in to my Slashdot account from the 2000's for the first time in a decade). We didn't use AR or VR in the creation of the product, though we did consider using it early on to get a better sense of scale in early industrial design exploration. Our ID lead Nick also comes from the VR industry, having been the ID lead on the Rift S.

I can't find out info about that - and I want to! But, there's an interesting article from TIME comparing harassment of men and harassment of women. Shit I hadn't really thought of? Women seem to get harassed for "being women" moreso than men are harassed for "being men."

I don't know about the scale of abuse increasing or not; that's been hard to find numbers on. Doing some resaerch, though, it seems TIME article (citing studies!) is appropriately named: There's No Comparing Male and Female Harassment Online Interesting stuff I hadn't considered:

I won't get into the end part there, not touching that with a ten foot pole. BUT - it's true; very few men are harassed just for being men. Relevant XCKD, perhaps?

First off, to be clear, I don't think Azealia Banks should get off that one for free. That said? We're talking about it, so she didn't exactly get off without anyone caring, now did she?

Plenty of people are racist, sexist, or otherwise bigoted against white men. The difference here is about *systemic* racism and sexism. To compare:

• Some people being racist against white folks? Shitty, individual racism.
• A study where identical job applications are sent out, with names like "Johnathan" and "Tyrone." Johnathan gets more callbacks by far. Shittier - systemic racism.
• A study where identical applications to be professor's assistants were sent out to hundreds of professors, with names like "Robert" and "Samantha." Robert gets far more callbacks. Shittier - *systemic* sexism.

Now, here's the thing - that third one, with the professors? Even women professors judged against the applications based on gender. Very few people in the various "let's get rid of sexism" movements either "hate men" or blame men for everything. That's just not how it is, in reality. Yeah, there are other voices that are louder saying things on the extreme end. Sort of like how most Christians aren't Fred Phelps and Westboro Baptist Church. The US has 247 million Christians. Westboro Baptist Church? 40. Does Westboro Baptist get 1 / 6,175,000th the media coverage? Nope - because people like to amplify and repeat the things that the worst / most extreme people say. And that happens regardless of political affiliation. (Come on - how many Trump supporters are *actually* neo-nazis?)

My Win 7 laptop suspends and resumes great. It hibernates great too... 2 out of 3 times. Those other times it bluescreens when it tries to resume. Soooo... yeah, kinda hard for me to get behind this gripe.

I'd be more into this gripe if my Windows 7 laptop didn't bluescreen 1 out of every 3 or so times it tries to resume from hibernation.

Is there a speculum-maker in your neighborhood? No? How about someone with a 3d printer? It's not just about affording things, it's about availability. Because, you know, there's this thing where *some* aspects of women's health are illegal now?

What OLPC OS swings? The ones being shipped today, like million plus that have been distributed over the last few years, still use Sugar on top of customized Fedora.

From what I've heard, those are the best case specs. http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2010-May/028512.html