"You are licensed to use compiled versions of the Mattermost platform produced by Mattermost, Inc. under an MIT LICENSE[...]You may be licensed to use source code to create compiled versions not produced by Mattermost, Inc. in one of two ways[...]1. Under the Free Software Foundation’s GNU AGPL v3.0, subject to the exceptions outlined in this policy"
This means that you can totally fork and patch any restrictions out of the publicly available source code, and there's not a bloody thing they can do to stop it.
Also, from a legal standpoint the "subject to the exceptions" part is bogus, because it is AGPL -- no exceptions can be made to that license, else it would not be copyleft anymore.
Do note that you can't cluster those 6 A64's as kubesolo runs... solo. As in: No clustering capabilities.
If you do want a controller/node setup you're better off deploying something lightweight like k0s, k3s or sidero's talos (since the latter also works perfectly fine on clusters based on pi 4 and above)
Also note that in the end Quadlet spits out systemd unit definitions to run containers, which can pretty easily be turned into OpenRC scripts if you happen to run distros like Gentoo or Alpine.
People really should stop pretending that you're getting a Macbook out of a Framework. You're not. You're getting a PC laptop with all the advantages of a self-build PC desktop.
When you compare apples to apples (lol) - PCs to PCs - the current gen higher end Framework 13 and 16 are beasts. They contain the fastest mobile AMD chips on the market today, the Ryzen AI HX 370 aka "Strix Point". The only thing faster than that is the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 aka "Strix Halo", which would probably have some issues in a laptop with this size if you want to make full use of it because of thermals. Just look at the kind of cooler which sits on the mainboard of Framework Desktop (which does contain the AI Max+ 395) to get an idea what I am talking about.
You can choose between no discrete GPU, AMD RX7700S or NVIDIA 5070M; or just purchase them all and swap them around if you want to. (and who knows what dGPU will be for sale in the (near) future... and all it takes for them is to make that thing fit into the Expansion Shell)
Due to the included AMD mainboard you get USB4 instead of Thunderbolt 4, which means little to no protocol overhead when you hook up a EGPU and can run a docked 5070Ti or 9070XT at ~100fps @ 1440p.
You get up to six (on the 16) expansion bays which enable you to swap external ports to any configuration you like. They even have created 2 external SSDs you can slot in on these ports and blend in with the laptop (which come in sizes of 256G and 1T), and released everything required to allow people in the community to create their own ports as open source.
And I could rave on and on...
But again: Is it a Apple quality laptop? No. Is it a beast of a PC laptop? Yes.
PS: If you think Lenovo is the Apple of the PC world due to the fact that they could purchase some branding and design from IBM back in the day you are in for a very nasty surprise. I have all the hands on experience with a so called "premium" Thinkpad worth a pretty cool 3500 EUR back then to write this.
The Framework Laptop 16 has worse performance than other laptops that have the same chips, due to thermal and power constraints. Upgrading to the fastest option Framework sells might not have much value when the power budget for it is so low.
First: Yeah, it pretty much sucks to hear something like this.
But realistically, isn't 100 hours of gaming a month like... a lot?
I mean, if you have a friend who studies (or studied) psychology just for fun and kicks jokingly tell them that you play video games just about 4-6 hours every day each week. See what happens. (I know what will very likely happen, but I do not want to spoil anything. Do make very sure to tell them that (hopefully) it was just a joke, though.)
Proton is mainly a co-effort between in-house developers at Valve (with support on specific parts from contractors like Igalia), developers at CodeWeavers and the wider community.
For contextual, super specific, super specialized work (e.g. SCX-LAVD, the DirectX-to-Vulkan and OpenGL-to-Vulkan translation layers in Proton, and most of the graphics driver work required to make games run on the upcoming ARM based Steam Frame) they like to subcontract work to orgs like Igalia but that's about it.
Framework Laptop 16 already supports desktop GPUs through its USB 4.0 ports.
Tests in the wild have shown that the best performance can be gained in combination with the currently wildly popular enclosures with the ASM2464PD chip from ASMedia due to its really great compatibility with AMD chipsets. This chip has been integrated in the AG02 enclosure from Aoostar (which supports USB4, but also supports Oculink) and the UT3G/UT4G enclosures from ADT-Link (which only support USB4):
You also need a really fast videocard with > 40 Gbps throughput to make Oculink worthwhile, as even a AMD Radeon 9070XT performs nearly the same (and pretty great!) on USB4 as Oculink, through the Aoostar dock, on the Framework 16.
Also as one of the major players, Vivaldi already made a stand against AI and forcefully including (agentic) AI in the web browser: https://vivaldi.com/blog/keep-exploring/. It's a Chromium based browser with a lot of nice features and deep customization options: https://vivaldi.com/
https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost/blob/master/LICENSE...
This means that you can totally fork and patch any restrictions out of the publicly available source code, and there's not a bloody thing they can do to stop it.
Also, from a legal standpoint the "subject to the exceptions" part is bogus, because it is AGPL -- no exceptions can be made to that license, else it would not be copyleft anymore.
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