Predictable. Here’s a related issue, see if you spot the pattern.

And even then, a laptop will never be something that lasts for decades.

My T410 runs fine.

No socketed CPU, soldered WiFi chip, no PCMCIA slot.
At least it seems like the clit is still there.

One got so angry he smacked the laptop a few times on his table out of frustration (no actual damage)

Built to last.
I wouldn’t do it with a newer model though…

The primary technical reason laptops had RAM soldered for so long was because

Profits.

Yes please.

Full blown roll cage?

I miss those.

who absolutely needs to send documents successfully to others

While the problem is Micro$lop intentionally not following their own document standard, i’d say wait until you finish your degree.
Generally speaking though, unless you ave very specific needs, you’ll most likely do fine with linux. You can try a liveUSB version: boot it of off a USB drive, test it, without installing (it’ll be slower though).

It’s Lenovo reading the room (well, which is unusual), rather than worrying about the consumer.
It’s still a big corpo and line must go up.
Nice to see this is turning out to be a net positive though.

Our dell laptops with plastic cases often get dented and bent so eastily, and cause various problems.

My work’s Latitude barely flexes, apples to apples?

I kinda doubt Framework’s success, no matter how large by niche manufacturer standards, even reaches Lenovo’s sales on a bad day.
Good that they’re (apparently) changing though.

Framework will be my next laptop no matter what

Big tent Framework?

This law puts that age setting front and center

No. All this law does it promote more data collection and impose more restrictions.
They don’t care about the children and, even if they did, it’s the parents’ job to parent them.

Was it a Teams meeting?

Kermit would’ve been more interesting.

They’ve had ample practice in South America for decades.

the last 50 years?

73 actually

Color me shocked.

Lead poisoning.

I mean… literally every modern American car

There, FTFY.