Doubling the lifespan of older Chromebooks would save California’s schools $225 million, according to advocacy group CALPIRG.

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

  • juchenecromancer@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    10·
    3 years 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.mlEnglish
      9·
      3 years ago

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