It's great to see battery life improving so much with the Pro, but it's good to note that the existing Framework 13 was already improving before this. I bought mine with the 12th-gen Intel Core i7, and the battery life was absolutely miserable - I couldn't get more than two hours. Last year I upgraded to the Ryzen 9 HX 370, and my battery life immediately tripled!

MetaComputing recently released an ARM mainboard for the Framework 13.

Check out Jeff Geerling's YouTube review.

The parts are mostly compatible with the existing Framework 13. There's a chart on the website that shows what isn't, and how you can work around it:

https://frame.work/laptop13pro?tab=upgrade-to-pro

Basically, if you want the new larger battery, you need the new bottom cover, because it is machined differently to make sure there is room for the battery. And if you want the new bottom cover, you also need the new top (input) cover. Also if you want the new keyboard and/or touchpad, you need the new top cover. (And every generation of mainboard has its own non-swappable heatsink and fan) But everything else is compatible.

Personally, I'm looking forward to the new keyboard and top cover - I tend to press very hard when I type, and I can feel the flex in the old one.

If I remember correctly, Google started making deals with existing broadband monopolies and duopolies to stop expanding...

Until now, kernel compilation left some room for portability between different processors within the same family. For example, you could build the kernel on an Intel processor and then run it on an AMD processor, or switch between different generations of processors. By default that's still going to be true, but this option allows you to say "this kernel will only be used on this exact processor, so there's no need to keep anything for other processor, generations or brands."

They say that if paying taxes is too easy, people will stop complaining about it and won't notice when taxes go up. (Not saying I agree - I think people need to pay more attention to the things around them in general, but that is clearly a losing battle.)

Both Bulwer and Lytton are probably named for Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, for whom this contest was also named, and both names probably date back to shortly after Queensland was created by splitting it off from New South Wales; Bulwer-Lytton was Secretary of State for the Colonies at the time.

Who is saying that? Not the comment you replied to:

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Right now, this looks like it should be one of the most powerful mini-ITX boards that I can find on the market. I suspect MINISFORUM and others will have similar boards available soon, but right now they don't.

The whole point of Framework is that they make it very easy to buy exactly the parts you need. If you want specific parts, they will be available in the marketplace later in the year, and you can buy exactly which ones you want. If you don't want any of their parts, you're clearly not the target market.

The first I ever saw measuring in liters was the rise of the "1-liter PC" like the aforementioned Lenovo ThinkCentre "Tiny" series, the HP Elite "Mini" series, the Dell Optiplex "Micro" series, the Intel "NUC" series, etc. ServeTheHome has a great series of articles about this form factor, which they call "Project TinyMiniMicro".

Companies have been specifying chassis volume in liters for smaller desktop PCs for many years (doing a quick search found references 10 years ago), since it's an easy way to compare the size of all small form-factor (SFF) PCs, not just the tiny ones described above. But I think it's become more popular along with TinyMiniMicro-type projects, since mid-2020.

I was disappointed to see the soldered RAM, but the fact that it's a standard mini-ITX form factor means that you can use their motherboard in other cases if you care about the power supply being non-standard, or other motherboards in their case if you care about the soldered RAM.

Most of the desktops that I use these days are the "1 liter" PCs, such as the Lenovo ThinkCentre Tiny, but those are 100% proprietary parts other than the RAM and SSD. If I had a place where I needed a more powerful system and wasn't space limited, I would probably consider this machine.

I have a first generation Asus Chromebook that lost official updates several years ago. However, there's a version of ChromeOS called ChromeOS Flex that is specifically designed for installing on your own hardware, and it runs on Old Chromebooks just fine. I still get updates, and it still works great. The battery even still lasts for several hours. The only downside to an old Chromebook is that 2 GB of RAM is not enough to have a lot of browser tabs open at once.

I think this describes it perfectly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

People don't really want either of them, but when forced to make a choice, they choose the one they think will be less bad.

That and evidently there was a major uptick in Google searches for "Did Joe Biden drop out of the presidential race?".
People who don't pay any attention to anything (and yet we let them vote) expected to go in and vote for Joe, then they didn't see any names on the ballot they recognized.

They probably aren't happy about it. No matter who is right, killing people even if they are enemy combatants should never be a reason for joy.

That said, if this was the US or Russia trying to eliminate a major threat right on the boarder, they would have bombed all of Lebanon to a pancake by now, so this is positively surgical in comparison.

Axios says their sources said that the walkie-talkie explosions happened now because the Mossad was worried they would discovered anyway as part of the investigations into the pagers, so in that way they are also connected.

Mossad: I'm sorry about the pagers. Wait, you thought you could use walkie-talkies instead?