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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    9 months ago

    Not even that. It’s that his review isn’t an objective assessment of the product because he stands to financially benefit from Framework doing well. He’s worse than a hypocrite, he’s a shill.

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      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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          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.

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

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        9 months ago

        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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          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.

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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.