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

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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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[-] 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.

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