I think framework made a misstep with this spornsorship deal. I still think they should be supported in their mission and you don't have to regret your purchase.
That article spends a lot of words in trying to paint DHH's "native Brits" in a positive light but never mentions the following sentence from the article:
> A statistic as evident as day when you walk the streets of London now.
How is DHH able to determine nativity as defined by "being born and brought up" simply walking the streets of London if it has nothing to do with what you look like?
Plus he even links to a Wikipedia page about white vs non-white British population in London and uses the non-white number. If he wanted to, he could've referred to the foreign-born vs local-born numbers too but he did not.
I don't think DHH is racist, but he's so infected by the anti-woke mind virus that he's happy to parrot racist talking points to "own the libs". Whether that's any better, I'm not sure.
It seems like the author has infinite rope to extend to DHH. That's not being nice, that's being oblivious.
It seems unlikely to me that DHH wasn’t referring to white people when he said “native Brit”. Certainly, if that’s not what he meant, he could clear that up pretty easily. Has he?
So which angelic vendor are you purchasing your hardware from instead? Do tell...
I personally supported MNTRE by purchasing a new Reform and will order a Reform Next, but it's not yet a substitute for anything state of the art. (I'm not sure Framework laptops are even competitive in that space either, certainly not in terms of price:perf)
I’m new to this story and so I read the blog post in the sibling comment and a DHH post it links to. For one, DHH’s supporting words for a provocative race troll (that guy who uses the stage name Tommy Robinson) are pretty suspect. Secondly though he allegedly repeats some statistics in a way that shows he only considers white people to be native Brits.
I have a couple machines that get all relevant updates from LVFS, it's been an absolute game changer for me.
I regret my purchase and would buy a different brand in the future.
Other people are free to ignore politics or look at counteracting viewpoints: https://felipec.wordpress.com/2025/09/23/the-ruby-community-...
> A statistic as evident as day when you walk the streets of London now.
How is DHH able to determine nativity as defined by "being born and brought up" simply walking the streets of London if it has nothing to do with what you look like?
Plus he even links to a Wikipedia page about white vs non-white British population in London and uses the non-white number. If he wanted to, he could've referred to the foreign-born vs local-born numbers too but he did not.
I don't think DHH is racist, but he's so infected by the anti-woke mind virus that he's happy to parrot racist talking points to "own the libs". Whether that's any better, I'm not sure.
It seems like the author has infinite rope to extend to DHH. That's not being nice, that's being oblivious.
I personally supported MNTRE by purchasing a new Reform and will order a Reform Next, but it's not yet a substitute for anything state of the art. (I'm not sure Framework laptops are even competitive in that space either, certainly not in terms of price:perf)
https://jakelazaroff.com/words/dhh-is-way-worse-than-i-thoug...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Robinson
Everyone who knows that abbreviation seems to have a strong opinion on the guy for some reason.
Pretty, ahem, niche opinions, to put it mildly.