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  • I’m not saying that support is lacking, all I’m saying is that you have to have complete trust in a company on the other side of the globe, because all the warranties and promises they give you are completely based on their good will. If they decide to stop supporting you for whatever reason, you pretty much have no leverage.

    I live in Germany near the Netherlands border. Moving between countries is very common here because of different living costs and job opportunities and losing support because you move a few km west or east is not acceptable in my opinion.


  • morhp@lemmy.wtftoLinux@lemmy.mlSystem76 or Framework laptop?
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    1 year ago

    However with Framework you still need to be careful in Europe. It’s an US based company and if you have a defect or problem that Framework for some reason doesn’t resolve, good luck trying to enforce your EU customer protection or suing them in the US.

    Framework is also very strict regarding unsupported countries. If you move within the EU to a country that isn’t supported by Framework, you’ll have big problems with support in case you need help or parts or whatever.




  • In most cases it will work fine as the first thing a good power supply does to the incoming electricity is converting the AC to DC using a full bridge rectifier. If you already supply DC, the current will just flow through it without a problem and the power supply simply continues to do its stuff.

    However note that the DC input voltage needs to be relatively high. About sqrt(2)~=1.4 times as high as the rated AC voltage should be fine. So if you have a power adapter that’s rated for 120 to 240 VAC, you should give it something between 170 and 340 VDC. This is obviously very high (and dangerous). Plugging in a normal car battery or the output of a usb charger or something like that will likely do nothing.



  • Basic recipe for nice tofu:

    • freeze the tofu. This is important as it changes the structure (it becomes dryer and more “meaty”), this is a common technique in asia.
    • after unfreezing it, dry it with paper towels or something like that, cut it into die sized cubes if you want, sprinkle it with potato starch and fry it in a wok or hot pan with some oil. It should get brown and crispy.
    • sprinkle a few drops of Japanese soy sauce on it while it the pan and continue to fry it. The soy sauce adds taste and makes it caramelise.
    • add cooked rice, vegetables or whatever you want.

    You can leave out some steps above. Without the freezing the texture won’t be as firm, without the starch it won’t be as crispy and without the soy sauce it won’t taste as good. I’m just saying that because sometimes it has to go fast or you’re missing ingredients, so you can compromise if needed. Doing all is of course best.