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[–] [email protected] 225 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)

Install Linux and have updates for the Rest of your life. And more performance.

Edit: typo

[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

It wouldn't be lemmy if this was not the top comment

[–] [email protected] 55 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's a Chromebook. That's just the real answer to OP's issue regardless of where they ask about it.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

Right. If it's not getting updates, then it's only a matter of time before it has a critical security vulnerability. If not Linux, then what? Will GNU Hurd run on it?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (3 children)

False. They're dropping support for 20+ year old cpus like it doesn't even matter!

[–] [email protected] 32 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

Big tech wins yet again. Soon you'll need at least a Pentium 1 to run the Linux kernel.

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[–] [email protected] 146 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Came here to recommend nuking it with Linux to get a much slicker experience but I see everyone else had the same idea.

Also gtf off chrome.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 8 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

Fiwefwox UwU

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 8 months ago (5 children)

This device looks to be supported by the custom firmware project over here: https://mrchromebox.tech

Basically it allows you to replace the stock firmware and just run regular ol' Linux, entirely replacing ChromeOS.

There's also a pretty good video outlining most of the process here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6oyqrrXTLM

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 8 months ago (3 children)

This post is like catnip for Lemmy users.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago

I can't believe this is anything other than fishing for engagement.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

Haveyouheardofourlordandsaviorarchiusearchbtwfuckmicrosoftsnapsarecancerwhatdoyoumeanyouwanttohavefunwhatthefuckdidyoujustsaytomeyoulittleshitillhaveyouknow...

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Which means it's time for you to switch to Linux

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (11 children)

Looks like a Chromebook, which means Linux would be a bit hacky and not guaranteed to work well at all.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 8 months ago

A chromebook? You can install Linux then.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Asus 202c from 2016. They're EoL, so they don't get chrome OS updates. Which means the Play Store is also outdated.

Overall, they're pretty nifty. Battery life is still solid. Keyboard and case is pretty durable.

I actually have a few of these chromebooks! (You can buy them from schools) I've reformatted one with Linux. Another is Chromebook + side loaded for coding. This one is just for browsing and taking notes.

But just the thought that some old person buying a computer and going, "Lemme pick up these Google Things that are $100" only to end up with these errors makes me sad.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 8 months ago

Big companies want more e-waste for their own bottom lines.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 8 months ago

Fuck chrome

[–] [email protected] 34 points 8 months ago (5 children)

I've got this huge fancy samsung tablet from 2015. It's made to be like a table top display. Has a mount on the back to keep it standing up.

It can't really do anything now. The android version on it stopped being supported by anything. No youtube or Netflix or nothing. There was a bit of homebrew effort to get root and a newer version of android on them about 4 years ago, but it kind of fizzled out. Now it went from a great portable streaming mini TV (what I used it for, anyhow) to e waste.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

Try alternative apps such as NewPipe for YT, they might still run on your outdated android.

Otherwise, there's always LineageOS and other custom ROMs

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

Sounds like a good prospect to try and get lineage on it. Just need to see if anyone has tried.

https://lineageos.org

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 8 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago (1 children)

most websites just check the browser useragent, and if you spoof the useragent, it works. most websites are blocking it artifically even if the website works fine with your browser. so i think it's worth a shot if there are chrome plugins who can spoof the browser useragent.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Usually they're building the website with browserlist and polyfills, and they specify how old a browser they wish to support, usually by analysing percentages of public usage, or they allow types only supported in newer browsers. Meaning if they use a feature only available in newer browsers, then it won't be automatically backported to support older browsers.

But that's only if they actually use those features, they're just available to them. And it'll only break in those places they do use them, which could be quite little of the site.

So often it's just "we can't guarantee it'll work in your old browser and enough of our users use newer browsers that we'll block you and not care".

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago

give it the mrchromebox treatment, and then install linux on it. Good shit.

Now my chromebook is an extremely low power idling node for anything i need it to be, with incredibly like UPS standby times.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (8 children)

Linux and Firefox would get updates!

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago

Something something ~linux~ profit?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago

If I was you... I'd..nah, nevermind

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago

Probably every comment but install linux

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago

Yep! That was my next action! :-)

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago

there crappy things are basically made to be thrown away, they're not even supposed to outlive their software support range.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago

Does it still supported by Chrome OS Flex?

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