There are actually a few studies on this. Fairphone commissioned a Lifecycle Analysis for their Fairphone 3 that specifically digs into the environmental impact of a more repairable product that can last longer vs a more integrated path that doesn't last as long: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fairphone.com%2Fwp-c...

There is a similar study around longevity for secondhand notebooks: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencedirect.com%2F...

The summary is that by far and away, the best way to reduce the environmental impact of electronics products is to make them last longer. The impact of additional internal connectors is vanishingly small compared to the benefit of enabling silicon and other more environmentally impactful parts to last longer.

Thanks! We think the Expansion Cards were a good trade-off to enable customization of ports, and our order data shows that there is a huge variety in the different card selections people have made so far. We've also published open source reference designs to enable people to develop new cards.

We love the Toughbook series too, though the price, size, and weight put it in a somewhat different category than what we're doing.

We've designed the display to be easy to replace, putting it behind a magnetic attach bezel and affixing it with fasteners. We only have one display type at the moment, though we've designed for the potential for more in the future. For the keyboard, we currently have US English, but the keyboard is also an easy to replace module, and we have a range of other ANSI and ISO languages in progress.

We've published open source reference designs and documentation for the Expansion Card system to enable third party and community development. For other modules, we'd love to bring in third parties to make compatible versions. That is a positive for consumers and for the health of the Framework Laptop ecosystem.

We have hardware kill switches for the webcam and microphone. The network disable button is software, though you can also open it in and remove the WiFi card in a couple of minutes.

Nirav Patel here (and feeling amazed to log in to my Slashdot account from the 2000's for the first time in a decade). We didn't use AR or VR in the creation of the product, though we did consider using it early on to get a better sense of scale in early industrial design exploration. Our ID lead Nick also comes from the VR industry, having been the ID lead on the Rift S.

What OLPC OS swings? The ones being shipped today, like million plus that have been distributed over the last few years, still use Sugar on top of customized Fedora.

From what I've heard, those are the best case specs. http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2010-May/028512.html

It is incredibly depressing that even without further copyright extensions, movies being released today will very likely never be out of copyright within our lifetimes.

Agreed. It's a little known fact that you can apply to GSoC as long as you are still a student as of April 26, 2010. It's likely what got me interviews, and eventually my job.

FOSS projects tend not to care about who you know, where you studied, or what your GPA was, as much as they care about your creativity, your drive, and your skills.

This is the point I also came here to make. Samarium-neodymium dating is used for older stuff, like those rocks.

It's strongly discouraged because interesting and relevant trivia should be part of the text of the article itself.

Instead, someone starts a trivia list on the page, and people add every obscure video game or episode of Naruto that happens to mention the topic of the article.

As far as the poll goes, I originated one article, which was subsequently deleted.

Check out the rights page. All of the footage of Congress and various Federal events is under the Public Domain. It's annoyingly still flash video, but you can legally rip it from the site and do whatever you want with it. Same with the subtitles.

It's nice to see copyright law working correctly for once.

Interestingly, this is the approach that OLPC and now Sugar Labs have taken for file access in Sugar, using the Journal activity. This is also the direction Gnome is heading in, with Zeitgeist and its GUIs.

It's a little strange at first, and it certainly can't replace normal file browsers completely, but it ends up being pretty convenient in day to day use. Of course, these aren't filesystems, just layers atop them.