Install Linux and have updates for the Rest of your life. And more performance.
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Back when I had a Chromebook I actually had to open it up and remove a screw to be able to do it.
The droid restraining bolt?
Yeah. Write protect screw.
The new chromebooks need special cables to unlock, either you have the skills and supplies to build a cable and adapter board or you buy a cable from a random company that is rarely in stock
Wow that’s even worse.
I didn’t think it too hard but it ended up being kind of fruitless, those things have almost no harddeive and I mostly did it to fuck around with Linux. Chromebooks, at least that one, had something like 16gbs and equally weak CPU to match (granted it might have changed since then but woof.)
The whole point of a chrome book is to push you to use Google’s online services. I think you are still better off if you can do that with Linux running the machine.
Same, I did this back in college because my Windows laptop shit out and I couldn’t afford another proper computer. I ended up duct taping an external drive to the back.
thankfully, once you get a proper UEFI bios on it, it’s free, forever.
But yeah, i agree, total bullshit how much work they put into not using UEFI from the get go lmao.
i hate that this is now the future of computing
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It’s a Chromebook. That’s just the real answer to OP’s issue regardless of where they ask about it.
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?
False. They’re dropping support for 20+ year old cpus like it doesn’t even matter!
You can still run it. It’s just slightly more inconvenient.
I don’t usually like all the Linux posts on Lemmy, but this is 100% the correct answer here. The computer will likely run a lot better if you do everything right!
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.
Have you tried Firefox?
God damn furrys! :p
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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
Running xfce4 Fedora brilliantly on an old Dell Chromebook thanks to this, fully recommended!!
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Which means it’s time for you to switch to Linux
Looks like a Chromebook, which means Linux would be a bit hacky and not guaranteed to work well at all.
It’s arm right? Just fiddle a bit with the bootloader and that’s it. Similar to Andorided phones
It likely will work, but may not work 100%. It really depends on how popular this laptop is, and how well-supported it is in the linux community.
Chromebooks are actually Linux.
I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Linux, is in fact, Google/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, Chrome plus Linux.
Ah, the CNG distro. Chrome’s Not GNU.
Yeah not not standard Linux distributions. Getting standard Linux to work requires a bunch of messing with drivers
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A chromebook? You can install Linux then.
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.
Maybe an unpopular opinion around here, but getting 8 years out of a $200 laptop is a fucking steal.
I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect more.
Had this been a $1200 laptop, the expectation would be different.
For me it’s not about the price, it’s about owning your hardware in ways that allow you to easily install whatever you want. As for chromebooks, that’s not the case and you need to hack your way around. In the case of phones, many vendors don’t allow unlocking the bootloader. This kind of practices means that in many cases, completely useful (maybe old) hardware goes to the dumpster.
Big companies want more e-waste for their own bottom lines.
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.
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”.
yupp, and i hate that. i use a firefox version that don’t supports private fields, and because a common js lib uses them a lot of websites suddenly stopped working for me just because of this bs. instead of just using a normal variable they use private fields and kill a ton of older browsers by doing so. and most website owners don’t care so asking them just leads to them saying “just upgrade bro”.
Why? I feel like a browser is something you’d definitely want to keep up to date for security reasons if given the option.
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are implementing more and more forced features you can’t disable
Not even through
about:config?nope, not even with about:config.
usually it starts with “we let you disable it still with about:config”, but then in later versions they kill it off so the variables don’t do anything anymore. then they remove it completly in even later versions.
private fields
Man, javascript is starting to turn into java, isn’t it? They added encapsulation. What else they’re going to add?
Linux gang raise!
I use Fedora btw
I use Qubes btw
m’OS
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.
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For the love of god OP don’t start your Linux journey with Arch
Don’t get me wrong, i use it and love it, but don’t use it!I use arch btw
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my first proper experience with linux on the regular was manjaro, a week later i manually installed arch and i’m still using it today, 4 years later.
Plus various debian installs on other systems.
By all means, pick whatever you think is correct for you, just be ready to learn lol.
Linux and Firefox would get updates!
Firefox won’t for much longer. Or at least not without significant spyware installed. I’m hoping it gets forked before the new CEO can do too much damage. Sucks that it will split the community with such a small user base already. But I guess that’s the point.
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thank you for reassuring me xD
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So which browser are you using then?
Librewolf on desktop/laptop for now. Blocking Mozilla telemetry for now and sticking with Firefox for Android until a better option comes around.
For Android you can use Mull, which is pretty much like if Librewolf had an Android version
Something something linux profit?
Probably every comment but install linux
