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1. PC-9801 Enjoyer (pawlicker@bae.st)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jul-2023 11:05:32 JST PC-9801 Enjoyer

   • cool_boy_mew
   • kroner :blobcatsanta:
   • NYλR-LIFE³
   @nyarlathotep @kroner @coolboymew The problem with Chromebooks is the laptop makers themselves on one end, and Google being shit about support policies on the other. In particular a report came out from an education group that slammed them as being cheap, having non-interchangable parts among similar models, and parts for these being very expensive. The other issue is while Windows can get supported for say 10 years (which is funny when you consider Windows 10 and how Microsoft is orphaning literal mountains of hardware with 11) and you can slap say Linux or newer Windows on it, Chromebooks only get 4-5 real world years of support at most, and when it dies you don't even get web browser updates.
   
   https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/21/23691840/us-pirg-education-fund-report-investigation-chromebook-churn
   https://pirg.org/edfund/resources/chromebook-churn-report-highlights-problems-of-short-lived-laptops-in-schools/
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   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jul-2023 11:05:32 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • kroner :blobcatsanta:
     • NYλR-LIFE³
     @Pawlicker @kroner @nyarlathotep oof
   • NYλR-LIFE³ (nyarlathotep@tirnanog.space)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jul-2023 21:49:11 JST NYλR-LIFE³

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     • cool_boy_mew
     • kroner :blobcatsanta:
     @Pawlicker @kroner @coolboymew Yeah, I had a Chromebook for my last job and after I quit the most use I ever got out of it was installing Linux on it instead.
     
     The specs are terrible, software support is abysmal (the majority of Android apps are not compatible so you lose the Play Store library despite that allegedly being a feature), so it’s essentially just a glorified web browser device with the worst keyboard I’ve ever used. The one perk of it is at least it has good battery life…? So it’s 1000x more useful running Endeavour than anything Google ever shipped on it.
     
     > Well was, because I shit you not they migrated to Discord of all places
     That’s a fuckin shame, Discord is a plague.
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   • PC-9801 Enjoyer (pawlicker@bae.st)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jul-2023 21:49:12 JST PC-9801 Enjoyer

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     • cool_boy_mew
     • kroner :blobcatsanta:
     • NYλR-LIFE³
     @coolboymew @kroner @nyarlathotep Put it this way, Chromebooks are like Netbooks but worse. Like everything wrong with the Netbook craze is turned up to 11, and then the good parts are barely there.
     
     You can run your own OS on them if you want to, and there is a subreddit and guides for running Linux and Windows on a Chromebook. Well was, because I shit you not they migrated to Discord of all places.
     
     The build quality is worse. There's no ways to expand them. They're not even making "tiny" ones like those cool netbooks were. But hey, at least you can uhhh, use Chrome right?
   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jul-2023 21:49:25 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • kroner :blobcatsanta:
     • NYλR-LIFE³
     @nyarlathotep @Pawlicker @kroner it's crazy how useless that thing is