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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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[-] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 1 year ago

Just install debian or something.

[-] ImOnADiet@lemmygrad.ml 27 points 1 year ago

you think school districts pay their IT departments enough to deal with that shit? If they even have one, at least here in Texas a lot of schools just hire random dudes to come in every so often

[-] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 1 year ago

yea apparently they only have part-time teenagers lol

[-] ImOnADiet@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 year ago

Wouldn’t surprise me in the least

[-] cayde6ml@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 1 year ago

The schools would probably get sued out the ass.

[-] appel@whiskers.bim.boats 7 points 1 year ago
[-] ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 1 year ago

Modifying registry software is oftentimes against contract when these schools purchase the laptops wholesale from the manufacturer.

[-] juchenecromancer@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 year ago

Even if you manage to get the chromebook into developer mode and put a new BIOS to install Linux through USB theres something baout the chromebook firmware that doesn't like it. I installed Zorin on my personal chromebook and after 2 weeks the hard drive got randomly wiped.

[-] juchenecromancer@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 year ago

It could also just be Zorin since somehow despite literally just being an Ubuntu reskin it manages to be buggier than pure Ubuntu.

[-] BRINGit34@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 year ago

If anyone wants a good guide on how to this go here this also uses coreboot which is slick

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