It would be good to find out if the engineers are now getting a higher salary after Ford went grovelling to them for their expertise. I'm sure the engineers won't be allowed to directly say anything. We can only hope a family member or friend of one of the engineers leaks the information to the public :)

Trump's stupid attempt to claim Greenland and his disparaging remarks towards NATO will cost American Proprietary Software Companies $Billions.
Red Hat won't be complaining about Europe's change to Open Source Software.
I would like to see the right wing Trump supporters explain why Microsoft, Oracle, IBM etc losing billions of dollars of European revenue is a good move by Trump.

I went to google and searched for qwant, just to annoy google :)

"deprecated-and-removed architecture" You misunderstand..... The hardware x86-64 clearly is not obsolete / no longer manufactured.
Seems you confused an ABI with a hardware architecture.

They are breaking userspace! Software running today will stop working if kernel is upgraded to latest version (and this change is included). Amazing the rubbish that some people write.

Linus himself wrote "WE DO NOT BREAK USERSPACE!"
Clearly that rule will be broken if the x32 ABI is removed...
Linux is starting to look like Microsoft, they have a verrrry long list of software they dropped support for.

The simple question for ReactOS team ..... What 3rd party Windows drivers can ReactOS use successfully?

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is ReactOS can't load 3rd party drivers.
Can I buy any random USB device and be certain the provided Windows drivers will work with ReactOS?
I don't think so.

ReactOS developers should admit defeat and put their energies into improving Wine. That is the only realistic way those developers can make Windows software run on an open source operating system.

I'm no marketing expert, but with this major redesign, why not name it Framework Laptop 14?
Especially if the parts are incompatible with Framework Laptop 13.
Plus there will be a certain number of people who refuse to buy a laptop with unlucky 13 version number....

The Zip drive never had a floppy drive connector. It couldn't replace floppy drive because BIOS and Operating Systems assumed floppies were a fixed size such as 2 sides * 80 tracks * 18 sectors. If primitive floppy drive was half decent the hardware should have detected the drive parameters and made values visible to the computer BIOS / OS.

Quote from The Register: APNIC chief scientist Geoff Huston told The Register. "It was a classic case of mis-design by committee."

From memory the size of IPv6 header is 40 bytes. That was stupid decision, it should have been naturally aligned 32 bytes.

I believe NAT does not exist in IPv6. Again, another stupid decision. NAT is good for ISP customers because it gives some privacy, as they all use the same public IP.

They should have simply extended IPv4 to 48bits. 2^48 PUBLIC IP addresses is enough for planet earth. Oh well we are stuck with IPv6

According to Wikipedia, the HEVC H.265 standard was published in 2013.
Patents only last for 20yrs so I believe HEVC will be royalty free in 2034.
And obviously all other similar codecs (AV1) will be safe in 2034.

One idea to reduce costs is use BitTorrent for distribution of the packages. Web site hosts only a torrent file. Everyone has to download via the torrent file. If nobody is seeding.... well then bad luck. If somebody wants a URL for the package manager, they will be required to download from torrent and set up their own local mirror.

It's obvious what the EU should do. Buy the Zoom company and then release Zoom as open source.

"Wouldn't be big enough".... I think you are wrong. I will predict 2^64 PUBLIC IP addresses would meet planet Earth's requirements for next 1000 years at least. Remember most devices are behind NAT and do not have a public IP. IPv6 should have been 64bit or 96bit addresses. It was over engineered.

Maybe I am OCD, but header size not a power of 2 is bad design. I believe they should have made IPv6 addresses 96bits, not 128bits. Then the IPv6 header will be 32 bytes, more efficient and naturally aligned. IPv6 is a failure due to bad design IMHO.