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

    • @ImOnADiet@lemmygrad.ml
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      2711 months ago

      you think school districts pay their IT departments enough to deal with that shit? If they even have one, at least here in Texas a lot of schools just hire random dudes to come in every so often

    • @juchenecromancer@lemmygrad.ml
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      1011 months ago

      Even if you manage to get the chromebook into developer mode and put a new BIOS to install Linux through USB theres something baout the chromebook firmware that doesn’t like it. I installed Zorin on my personal chromebook and after 2 weeks the hard drive got randomly wiped.