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But aren't you glad that choice was made?

I sure am 🥵

My FIL got back to me this morning, he's only using an editor and printing his own music, so unfortunately no recommendations to be had there sorry.

Was there an actual announcement? I only saw the one off line about "we want to make an fsf phone!"

Thats a real shame (and kind of a dealbreaker) if they are continuing on the android route.

Edit:

https://librephone.fsf.org/

Oh. Thats... Something.

https://librephone.fsf.org/FAQ.html

This is a project to research proprietary files in Android to work towards a long-term goal of free replacements.

...

Are you developing a free mobile phone OS?

NO. There are many projects working in mobile phones, and many of them are largely free software. The FSF doesn't see the need to join these projects, but wants to build upon them and improve on their current state of freedom. While there are many proprietary libraries and other files in Android,this project is focused on binary blobs.

.....

Are you developing hardware?

NO. We are working on freeing up software, we are not hardware developers.

So.... Yeah.

She got so excited that she brought her excitement to completion.

I want to caveat with I have not used any of this. This is just a link I sent to my FIL so he could find something to fit his needs, maybe it will help you too.

https://github.com/ad-si/awesome-sheet-music

Mostly right, it was also far more than anything else brought up by FW twitter, but there was financial support in hardware as well (mentioned by nrp, and oddly enough, not detailed in the blog post).

As well as one other item (quoting myself here):

Rails World (where DHH was the keynote speaker) received more than DebConf, KDE Akademy, Open Source Hardware Summit, the Linux Foundation, and the Linux Vendor Firmware Service combined.

A great question. MNT would probably be the best answer - open source hardware to create open source hardware, uses the fediverse, F/LOSS focused, no venture capitalists/investors, etc.

https://mntre.com/index.html

If we go most ethical option right now, I'd say its keeping the hardware you have running. Framework is far more niche, which is where it becomes a brand statement more quickly than, say, grabbing a used thinkpad and dropping linux on it.

Edit: Just to mention, I've been debating getting a Pocket Reform for myself of late. I might build my own though with some changes, and just get the board from them.

Plenty of right wingers get one thing right, and being able to repair something isnt inherently anti-capitalist either.

Edit: To quote someone I just saw on the FW forum, who is 100% a DHH supporting right winger:

Not necessarily. Right to repair is of course positive for the environment as it reduces waste. But I think that’s a consequential effect rather than main objective.

They see the main object as saving money. Which... is really funny to me, because the most cost effective would be to sell your whatever laptop after a few years and buy new, framework is nowhere near a cost effective choice.

But anyway.

TIL - thats neat! I use the phrase all the time, so did my dad. His dad was the first generation born in the US, somewhere from southern Ireland (not much in the way of paperwork to track before that).

Already have, along with my concerns about the outsized money going to essentially DHH events.

Might even sell my FW, I don't think I want to be associated with the brand at all.

I detailed it out in comments elsewhere, but Omarchy was not directly financially supported. It did receive outsized promotion (not just a few twitter posts), but the real telling part is in events.

Rails World (where DHH was the keynote speaker) received more than DebConf, KDE Akademy, Open Source Hardware Summit, the Linux Foundation, and the Linux Vendor Firmware Service combined.

For a hardware company, thats kinda weird. Hackaday Supercon and Hack Club were the only ones to receive more than RailsWorld. Hackaday makes clear sense, and I would say Hack Club does as well. Rails World though? How?

And one more bit to note - nrp has acknowledged that FW provided DHH with equipment, but oddly, that was left off the list, despite listing others such as 1 unit to Nixcon, 3 units to LabsCon, and 2 to RISC-V International.

Thats the one!