Framework Computer with Nirav Patel

Nirav Patel, CEO and founder of Framework Computer, join Bryan and Adam to talk about building a new computer company (yes! another new computer company!) focused on making laptops repairable and open. It turns out, there are a bunch of shared lessons between building a 3lb laptop and a 2,500lb cloud computer!
In addition to Bryan Cantrill (mastodon.social/@bcantrill) and Adam Leventhal (mastodon.social/@ahl), we were joined by special guest Nirav Patel (twitter.com/cmonkey), founder and CEO of Framework Computer.
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
• Framework (frame.work)
• reddit.com/r/spicypillows
• Framework expansion cards (frame.work/marketplace/expansion-cards)
• Framework-based gaming console from the community (youtube.com/watch?v=zd6WtTUf-30)
• Optima Braille laptop (orbitresearch.com/product/optima)
• Oxide and Friends: A brief history of talking computers (github.com/oxidecomputer/oxide-and-friends/blo…)
• Acer Ferrari 3400 c. 2004 (cnet.com/reviews/acer-ferrari-3400-review) -- 6.6lb favorite of Solaris Kernel engineers
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