Framework Laptop, My Dream Come True

My Goggle blog post is going to hit 200,000 with this post.

By the way, almost half of that (100,000) is /are my own hits.

I am a DIY Guy for 3 decades with my / our First PC with 4 MB Video RAM, 512MB RAM, and 2GB hard disk is now on the attic.None of the low resource  Linux distributions can boot it now.

The new Samsung cellphone / tablet  has 8GB RAM and 128GB micro SD hard drive, for the purpose of simple comparison. It can pair with an expensive WiFi mouse and a keyboard.
By the way, cellphone is a mini computer by default.

Chip industry has taken giant steps and the only limit is quality of sand, we have in plenty in beaches of Ceylon.
We have not developed even a single chip in Ceylon and our sand is plundered by China leading to exaggerated erosion of the land.

Now come to the crunch point.

None of these proprietary devises can be dismantled or upgraded to my own design except for the battery and the RAM.

This is where a Framework Laptop comes handy.

I wished, if I could tear apart my old laptops and build my own laptop according to my design, long time ago. I came nowhere near to that primitive ambition.

I have had three laptops and two of them were disposed to the junkyard.

Third one running Russian Star Linux has no WiFi but has a Ethernet port. It is however, is compatible with wireless USB Dongle and Wincle.  Thankfully it has 4GB of DDR 3 RAM.

By the way. most of the old Linux distributions except EmmaBantus and Ubuntu have no WiFi utilities.

The engineering design of Framework is innovative and smart.

It can be mounted with either Intel or AMD motherboard.

What a way forward?

I wish this company all the success.

Allmost everything from screws to hinges to motherboard can be changed.

It comes with its own screwdriver.

The display can be changed.
WiFi can be upgraded.
Keyboard can be changed.
RAM, SSD, NvMe and the whole lot can be changed.

In my twilight years, I am not going to tweek a laptop but I am going to tweek an Intel NUC under 200 dollars.

Intel now supports Linux with their new video BIOS.

My bare bone NUC has no audio output.

I have to watch films in silent mode.

But it is good enough to publish my books.

Some of my books in Amazon have many typos.
Bear with me.
What matters is not typos but the content.
I was a TQM or Total Quality Management guy and did care for Quality in Writing.

When there was power cuts in Ceylon, I published 6 books in a hurry.

Half way through my editing come the power cuts. I could not correct my typos with poor vision and the dim light (low electricity voltage) added to my handicaps.

I feared computer catching fire.

This has happened to me in the past.

3 second hand IBM computers caught fire due to ppor voltage during Premadasa Senior.

I am away from Ceylon (not due to political reasons) and from next month, I am back to my Writing Mode.

Since, this blog post here, has hit 200,000 hits, there is no incentive, to keep on.

There will only be, a very few blog posts here from now onwards.

Good Bye.