@sinewave @puppygirlhornypost2

> of course you could make the argument that you can just swap the connectors by need or carry around extra modules, but at that point you've just reinvented Apple's dongle hell with an open source coat of paint

i disagree here, apple's laptops have like one or two ports, and dongles are big, unwieldy, and you basically need to settle at a desk and set them up every time

and while yes framework's square thingies are just funky usb-c adapters, they fit well in the machine

i rarely need hdmi or ethernet on my laptop, so i carry those little boxes on my bag for only when i need. but someone that does need hdmi every day (say a professor in a school, who needs to do slide presentations daily), can keep the hdmi in and it feels just as nice, no plugging and unplugging dongles every time they move to a different classroom

apple's take is "you'll rarely need those connections so do this unwieldy thing, orr--- use our proprietary wireless protocols (like airdrop)!"

while for a framework, it's "okay, you pick what connectors you use frequently and have them fit nicely in the chassis. but not everyone's selection of 'must have' connectors are the same"

imo the point of the modules is not to hot-swap them like dongles, but to build your core set without needing a different machine, and without needing to allocate space for connectors you never use