I can’t believe some of the points Linus made against the Fairphone, especially given he’s onboard with the same compromises for the Framework laptop. 🤭

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    7 months ago

    he stands to financially benefit from Framework doing well.

    I don’t understand what one has to do with the other?

    One is a laptop, one is a phone, they don’t compete with each other.

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      I’m talking less about the products and more about Linus’s reviewing practices. We saw this in the watercooler debacle. He half-asses reviews and blames the product when he’s the one messing up.

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        27 months ago

        If you want to say he is not always a good reviewer, that’s a fair position, but not what we’re discussing. We’re discussing an alleged conflict of interest.

    • @[email protected]
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      They both have the same goal of reperability and the same shortcoming (being way more pricy than competitors with the same performances). Buy one gets roasted and not the other.

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        67 months ago

        One has to make significantly more compromises than the other due to the form factor. Again, these are not comparable devices.

    • @TrickDacy
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      He reviewed the framework. He invests in it. That makes him bought and paid for. He doesn’t become a new person each time he reviews a product, his history exists regardless

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        37 months ago

        That makes him bought and paid for.

        LOL no it doesn’t?

        He doesn’t become a new person each time he reviews a product, his history exists regardless

        You don’t have to “become a new person” to understand that this product does not compete with the one he invested in. If there was another laptop reviewed that was the same repairable/upgradeable ethos you might have a point.

        • @TrickDacy
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          You don’t seem to understand the concept that if a source is biased, then they can be unreliable in areas outside of their known bias. It’s not hard though, really.

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            You don’t seem to understand that no one doesn’t have a bias. Or that the supposed issue at hand is not bias at all but a conflict of interest. One that does not exist with phones.