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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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[–] 2 points 3 years ago (3 children)

@UngodlyAudrey @cerement there's chrultrabook project focused on allowing to install Windows or Linux https://chrultrabook.github.io/docs/

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    @selfisekai @UngodlyAudrey @cerement
    Person you've linked to clearly didn't bother reading the documentation.
    Ubuntu is unsupported (any distro that sticks close to mainline will work).
    RW_LEGACY doesn't work correctly, newer models don't use WP screws anymore.

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    @elly @selfisekai @UngodlyAudrey @cerement To be fair, that Substack article was written in May, before Chultrabook documentation pages were written - and before that there were only some random pages and the whole Discord server.

    I think that instead of pointing kiddos to Discord server and serving them one by one, the focus should be moved to polishing documentation, so everyone could at least throw a link to the part explictly noting that RW_LEGACY/Ubuntu/something other is broken/unsupportable .-.

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