r e f o r m so it's come to this. mnt is a diverse team of designers, engineers, and communication specialists developing open source hardware, software, and textiles in berlin, germinay. so says their website. i bought one of their computers because it promises everything commodity hardware doesn't. its design is completely open (it ships with schematics), the battery cells are industry standard lifepo4 cells (individually replaceable), it's made out of metal (primarily). a familiar refrain emerges. as you may have guessed, i'm once again opening a laptop every single day. or at least until i finish typesetting this issue.
