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haxor@derp.fooMB to Hacker News@derp.fooEnglish · 3 years ago

Chromebooks Were Once a Good Deal for Schools. Now They’re Becoming E-Waste

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Chromebooks Were Once a Good Deal for Schools. Now They’re Becoming E-Waste

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haxor@derp.fooMB to Hacker News@derp.fooEnglish · 3 years ago
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Chromebooks Were Once a Good Deal for Schools. Now They’re Becoming E-Waste.
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Educators say the simple laptops are no longer a good deal because once they reach their expiration dates they have no second life.

There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.

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    I’ve had two now. They last about 3 years for updates. Then slowly become obsolete

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      Install fedora on them

      • Gingerlegs@lemmy.world
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        I wasn’t aware of this, thank you

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      Obsolete? I have 5 year old Chromebooks I use daily and those are untouched. The windows 11 ones I use more obviously. Easy to do and makes them infinitely more useful

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        Interesting, I have one from 2018 that’s on the last OS update ☹️

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          Yeah they don’t get OS updates forever. Doesn’t make them any less useful though

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