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

  • Storksforlegs@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    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.)

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      1 year ago

      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.

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      1 year ago

      same article mentions Chromebooks are a great alternative to Raspberry Pis – cheaper and come with a built in keyboard and screen for monitoring all your automation needs …