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Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year

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2071 points JustSkyfall | 1 comments | 18 Sep 25 01:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.211s | source
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fn-mote ◴[18 Sep 25 02:24 UTC] No.45284378[source]▶
I was ready to be unsympathetic - too bad for the company - but then I read TFA and it's a rug pull on a nonprofit teaching coding to kids....

https://hackclub.com/

(They do help clubs sell things, taking "7% of income", so they do have a revenue stream, but the money that Slack wants would pay a veritable army of student interns.)

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chrisasquith ◴[18 Sep 25 05:14 UTC] No.45285698[source]▶
Hi! Ty! And Hack club is totally free to teens and we provide travel stipends, hardware, electronics and more. (We don’t charge 7 percent to clubs to sell things :)) hack club run a fiscal sponsorship and adult-orgs using it pay us 7percent- which we use to make more things free to teens. - hack club cofounder here
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commandersaki ◴[18 Sep 25 06:07 UTC] No.45286044[source]▶
I don't know if it's still the case, but a young developer in Bangladesh has been making pretty cool neovim plugins on a mobile phone. Hack club is (or was?) collecting donations to get him a macbook laptop to hopefully reduce the pain points: https://hcb.hackclub.com/oxy2dev-laptop/transactions
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squigz ◴[18 Sep 25 07:09 UTC] No.45286500[source]▶
On the one hand, that's awesome. On the other hand, I do wish open source people would have opted to get him something more free than a MacBook.
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Sayrus ◴[18 Sep 25 07:47 UTC] No.45286788[source]▶
He choose the laptop for durability because he can't get it repaired in Bangladesh. People didn't pick a non-free laptop without consulting him.
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KronisLV ◴[18 Sep 25 08:16 UTC] No.45286963[source]▶
A ThinkPad might have also been an excellent choice, but hope the MacBook serves him well!

Note: this isn't a critique of his choice, just a mention of something others might find useful.

Source: I had a T480, P51, X1 Carbon and now P1 Gen 6, they're pretty good. Also have a MacBook M1 Air for note taking and stuff.

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wltr ◴[18 Sep 25 08:46 UTC] No.45287200[source]▶
Please don’t downvote this advice into oblivion. As a person who owns MacBooks all his life, I do want something more open now, and honestly, I have no idea what else I can buy. Any polite input into this conversation is actually valuable.
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FirmwareBurner ◴[18 Sep 25 09:02 UTC] No.45287316[source]▶
Framework?
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1. Fade_Dance ◴[18 Sep 25 10:32 UTC] No.45287941[source]▶
Framework 12 is well aligned with this use case. Hackable, durable/utilitarian design, lower priced, aimed for youth and education markets (has a bit of the EeePC spirit). Well, those were the initial design goals of the concept, but then they sort of made a more general purpose laptop that everyone at the company fell in love with, which led to it actually going to production.

12" is on the smaller side, but it's also a 2in1 that can be used in a desk setup as an extra monitor. I'd ship them a cheap lightning portable monitor, simple keyboard+mouse pack, and for $100 more they have a durable portable laptop and a simple two monitor desk setup for dev.