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

  • @ddkman
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    510 months ago

    But they kinda sorta do. It is not like Chromebooks are locked down like an iPhone. I had an old Samsung Chromebook, you could just turn off trusted boot with a flick of a switch (okay it did reset your device), and just run what you wanted. It’s just with arm based stuff running what you want is not trivial. You run what you can which is often nothing.

    • First Majestic Comet
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      110 months ago

      FYI Most Chromebooks are Intel CPU computers, there are a few arm based ones but majority are Intel x86_64.