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Built-in software ‘death dates’ are sending thousands of schools’ Chromebooks to the recycling bin (www.mercurynews.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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There are few things quite as emblematic of late stage capitalism than the concept of "planned obsolescence".

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Yes!! Chromebooks have so much potential.

I have a cheapo 2016 acer Chromebook still going strong with Gallium OS. (An ubuntu based distro geared at low spec chromebooks.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

My Acer C710 still going strong, repurposed as a 3D Printer host. Also with Gallium OS. I just can't seem to kill it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I, on the other hand, have a Lenovo Duet 2 which sort of sucked the day I bought it and has hardly gotten any better. I wanted a new Android tablet for taking notes and reading comics and there was just nothing else decent available a year ago. Specifically got an ARM one so it would reliably run Android apps. Which it doesn't -- it's so unstable. Have to reboot it regularly when stuff stops working. The promise of Android apps on ChromeOS was more of a hope than a pledge.

Good thing it was cheap because this thing has practically no future for me. I regret everything about it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Like with anything else, you get what you pay for. Buy a Samsung tablet next time.