RANT: MICROSOFT'S INABILITY TO SUPPORT THEIR OWN HARDWARE IS GOING TO KILL ME

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  • ExpansionCards

    Reference designs and documentation to create Expansion Cards for the Framework Laptop

  • Bulk-Crap-Uninstaller

    Remove large amounts of unwanted applications quickly.

  • Worked for me last year. I can't remember if there were any bloatware apps or not, but if there are just use https://www.bcuninstaller.com/

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  • linux-surface

    Linux Kernel for Surface Devices

  • Surface seem to be very nice linux hardware...

  • gcsfuse

    A user-space file system for interacting with Google Cloud Storage

  • I'm pretty sure the storage for a stopped VM vs a disk image will be the same. Cheaper if you can store your data in GCS bucket? Take a look at GCS-Fuse to mount storage buckets into a VM.

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