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[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Who cares about any of that? I didn’t see a single problem.

[-] [email protected] -2 points 4 days ago

Not with chrimebooks, with android

[-] [email protected] -1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

No they didn't

Are you suggesting to go back to days when every single little thing required a driver on a floppy disk? You buy a Chromebook, you install Denian on it with a few keypresses, your videocard magically works, your soundcard works, your WiFi just connects with no issues whatsoever, you ignore the fingerprint scanner hardware as usual because who even needs that shit when your password is 14 symbols long, and done, you are ready to install a gigabyte of NPM packages to create your single-page web app. Don't tell me Windows 95 was somehow better, it only made your life slower and miserable, just like your Intel i486SX which could not run Quake because it lacked FPU.

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[-] [email protected] -2 points 5 days ago

Google provided Chromebooks below cost to schools... for profit. Gotcha screenshot person, great point.

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[-] [email protected] 35 points 5 days ago

Eh, I don't really agree.

To want to learn something starts with curiosity and the willingness to learn. I was always trying to fuck around with games and programs before I knew that modding was even a thing. When I was met with restrictions I always tried breaking them. I got around admin protection on school computers that literally only had access to the desktop.

My youngest brother on my dad's side (my family is complicated) is a shut-in who barely acts like the adult he's supposed to be, never owned a chromebook, and sits in front of the computer more than I even do. He is incredibly tech illiterate.

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago

They're all to blame

[-] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

The Chromebook does exactly what it says on the tin. It is a cheap notebook which runs Chrome. And it's fairly competent at that task. It's exactly as advertised. The problem only arises when people think that the ability to use a Chromebook is acceptable as a substitute for the ability to use a normal computer.

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Enshittification

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The phenomenon of online platforms gradually degrading the quality of their services, often by promoting advertisements and sponsored content, in order to increase profits. (Cory Doctorow, 2022, extracted from Wikitionary) source

The lifecycle of Big Internet

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