That’s his point. It’s similar to framework, but not the same.
Easy repairability is great, truly.
But framework offers more than that, easy repairability AND upgradability, because they offer new upgraded parts with the same compatibility as the old ones, so you can just drop them in.
Lenovo is not yet doing that. Which is fine. Just a noteworthy difference.
I got a new fancy inverter microwave, and it’s an absolute game changer, for reheating.
Running a traditional microwave, lower power modes are literally just lower duty cycles. Very coarse, too.
30% power is something like “turn on high power for 3 seconds, turn off power for 7 seconds, repeat”
Which means your good gets blasted at 1200w for 3 seconds, and then is given time to rest for 7 seconds, before starting over again.
This is bad for things like fats and oils in food, which tends to heat up REALLY fast, and start splattering/burning the parts of the food they’re in.
It works but could be better, smoother.
Enter the inverter microwave. It can adjust the actual power output of the magnetron itself. So when you tell it 30% power, it will run the whole 10 seconds without cycling on and off, but it’s literally only putting out 30% of the normal full power.
This is much more gentle on delicate foods.
Caveat, at powers below 30% it starts to duty cycle again, I imagine because the magnetron can only operate so low before it can’t run normally.
But still, pulsing a 30% powered magnetron on and off is a lot more gentle than a 100% powered one.
This has made reheating leftovers much better.
Instead of blasting it at full power, then stirring/mixing the food, and blasting it again.
I just set it at 10 or 20%, take a quick shower, and come out to perfectly evenly reheated food. Takes 10 or 20 minutes instead of 5, but, way less work, and much better results. Win win.
I am an avid Linux user and sharer of ISOs, never had a lick of trouble on 30/10.
10/1.5 was tough but doable.
1.5/300k was impossible.
Worked at a nursing home, boss was part owner, him and the manager were both great. We got along very well. The other part owner (majority owner?) came around sometimes, pleasant lady, smart, if stubborn.
After a year or so, suddenly the boss and manager are just gone one day. The part owner lady is now full owner and running the office. I never heard the whole story, but it was some ugly legal/financial thing, power play maybe. I don’t remember.
Former boss and manager end up at another facility. Some of my co-workers quit over it all, blaming the part owner lady who took over, and went to work for the former boss and manager. Feelings hurt etc.
Former boss and manager call me to get me to come work for them, not really offering a raise.
But with everyone else leaving, there was a big need where I was. I was getting trained for a higher position, better pay, better hours, everything. So I stayed. I liked the old boss and manager, but had nothing against the new full owner.
This worked well for me for awhile, for like a year. But then this lady brings in her nephew as a “maintenance guy”. I immediately don’t like him, but I play nice, always a smile for him.
Soon he starts doing more and more stuff. Hanging out in the office, forwarding instructions from his aunt, sitting in on meetings. He starts getting real uppity, has an attitude.
We’re told he’s “getting experience” running the facility.
Eventually it comes out, the plan was always for him to be the boss, but legally he couldn’t, because he was a state run facility and had been in prison too recently, probation or something, I don’t remember.
Finally he’s running the place, and things stay to go south real quick. Quality of patient care goes down. Privileges we had are taken away. Security cameras go up. The guy actually got in a fight with family members at one point, screaming at them and wagging his finger in their face.
The whole work environment got toxic. New hires start sucking up to the manager, a division forms in the staff, people start back biting.
The new staff doesn’t like that I and others, 3 years senior in a place with high turnover, have a more stable schedule than they do.
The nepo baby felon boss tells me I can’t have my schedule anymore.
I talk to the owner about my concerns, not just my schedule, but everything. She tells me that it’s his baby and she’s not going to interfere.
So I start looking for work. I line up something quick, and give him my two weeks.
He’s furious, saying I’m going to regret it etc etc. Every day at work that first week is stressful, getting glared at etc.
Then, honestly, over the weekend something truly came up in my personal life. I needed to take time off, just the last two days of the last week of work I promised him.
So I called him right then and there on the weekend, because it was the right thing to do. I said “hey listen, I know I said two weeks, but something came up, so I can’t work Thursday or Friday, my last two days. I’m sorry.” No I didn’t ask if it was ok, I just told him, but I did say it nicely.
He explodes at me, tells me it’s illegal, and I promised him, and I can’t do this etc etc. Then he tells me it’s going to go on my “permanent record”, whatever that’s supposed to mean. And that I needed to sign paperwork saying that I lied and didn’t give my two weeks.
So I go into work Monday, I do my shift, he’s glowering at me all day. Keeps trying to get me to come to the office and sign that paperwork, I keep being too busy.
When the time comes for my shift to end, I tell my favorite co-workers goodbye, and warn them I’m not coming back for the rest of my week.
Then instead of leaving through the front door or employee door, both of which make me walk past the office… I leave out the patio door into the courtyard, and jump the fence to my car, and drive off into the sunset.
Never talked to that douchebag again. Wish I could’ve seen the look on his face.
Funny how perspective changes things.
Growing up we had dialup. Around 2009 we got 1.5mbps down, something like 300kbps up. DSL, for 8 people.
We had that until… 2014? 2016? Then we got 10/1.5, mbps, down/up respectively.
We had that until 2022 ish, when we got 30/10. And I started self hosting with ease, plenty of bandwidth for myself and my immediate family’s needs.
Only last year, 2025, did we finally strike gold and get access to fiber. 8000/8000 available, but it’s spendy.
I’m used to living with significantly less, so I opted for the lowest tier, 300/300.
I feel like I’m legitimately living in the future right now, so fast.
I feel for everyone who is stuck with slow Internet. But it’s all perspective. And from my perspective, 20 up is plenty for most things your average person wants to do. More is always better, obviously. But even then, you don’t need gargantuan pipes to self host.
I will say, these days, anything less than 10/10 is criminal. 20/20 is slow but manageable. 30/30 is more than most normal people realistically need, though obviously, again, more is always better 🤷♂️
I got my framework about a year ago, before the tariffs got crazy, and well before ram got crazy (I put 96 gigs in it to play with AI workloads, and for the lulz).
My plan is to ride this thing until it starts showing its age. Which I imagine will be another 3 or 4 years? Only then can I comment on my actual desire and commitment to upgrading it.
Until then, I’m just banking on the fact that the company will a) live. And b) still have parts for my machine.
I do appreciate what they’re doing, and I like my machine now.
There are definitely people out there who upgrade super frequently, who knows, maybe I’ll be one of them in 1 or 2 years instead of 3 or 4. Hard to say what life will look like then, the way things go these days.