Don't get me wrong, I absolutely adore this truck. But I feel the same way about this truck that I do about the Framework Laptop (having owned one)—cool idea, cool product, but will Slate be around in 5 years to keep making parts and offering support for it?

This is a fair concern, I imagine. If it is highly user serviceable, maybe that isn't a concern.

That said, I think you raise a bigger issue - I'd like to see MORE things like Framework, Fairphone or Slate - user serviceable, customizable - maybe low initial cost.

To me, this feels futuristic, exciting, optimistic and positive.. we need more like this, so how can we make these kinds of businesses more likely to succeed, resilient, etc?

5 years later, we’re still around and more successful than ever, both from a mission achievement and a business fundamentals standpoint.

Pardon—what does Wu Tang have to do with Dropbox?

And if Gentoo's binary support is good enough for even ChromeOS, I'd imagine it'll also work perfectly fine for SteamOS.

kill-the-newsletter.com is a godsend for stuff like this.