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Framework goes full fash, supports Hyprland and Omarchy (awful.systems)
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In case you haven't heard the news, Framework went and publicly sponsored Hyprland (the most toxic part of Wayland by a country mile) and openly shilled Omarchy multiple times (the pet project of fascist shithead David Heinemeier Hansson) recently.

In response to well-justified backlash against this, founder Nirav Patel responded with FOSSbro platitudes about "[creating] a big tent" for open source".

If you've got any more updates on this self-inflicted shitshow, put them here so they can be collected in one place.

(In retrospect, that AI-pilled Framework Desktop should've been a major red flag they were gonna pull this shit.)

EDIT (2): Found a solid summary of the situation, and a solid teardown of Nirav's actions - recommend checking them out.

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[–] HyperlinkYourHeart@lemmy.ml 23 points 3 days ago (14 children)

Who are the other companies?

[–] SatyrSack@quokk.au 11 points 2 days ago (7 children)
[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Just my personal opinion but that thing looks ugly af

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm not a fan of the rainbow keyboard but at least it can be turned off.

[–] SatyrSack@quokk.au 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think the transparent keycaps around the trackball are also contributing to the revulsion. Not sure why that does not seem to be a configurable option at the time of purchase, but there are probably aftermarket keycaps you could get if needed.

[–] bitofhope@awful.systems 2 points 1 day ago

True, those aren't my cup of tea either.

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