• nomad@infosec.pubEnglish
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    3 months ago

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

    Edit: typo

      • davidgro@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

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

        • frezik@midwest.socialEnglish
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          3 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?

    • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      3 months ago

      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!

    • NoneYa@lemm.eeEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I have a Chromebook and it’s ridiculous how difficult they made it to install another OS.

      I eventually did, but I needed to get something to flash a third party boatloader and at first I was told my laptop was not supported.

      But getting an actual Linux distro has been so much better than ChomeOS.

      • no banana @lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Back when I had a Chromebook I actually had to open it up and remove a screw to be able to do it.

        • kspatlas@lemm.eeEnglish
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          3 months ago

          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

            • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.todayEnglish
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              3 months ago

              No Cap, I used to have an old HP Pavillion where the case had to be pried apart for servicing and there was a screw on the Battery connector that would keep the computer from starting unless it was put back after battery removal. They work fine without batteries, but not without the screw. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

      • taiyang@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        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.)

        • invertedspear@lemm.eeEnglish
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          3 months ago

          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.

        • The Assman@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          3 months ago

          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.

      • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        3 months ago

        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.

  • Cyyy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    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.

    • guy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      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”.

      • Cyyy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        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”.

        • redcalcium@lemmy.instituteEnglish
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          3 months ago

          private fields

          Man, javascript is starting to turn into java, isn’t it? They added encapsulation. What else they’re going to add?

  • Ross@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Not trying to be the fifth dentist here, but at some point all devices reach the end of life. While I’m sure it’s possible for you to install Chrome OS Flex, or some other kind of Linux, at some point isn’t it just time to buy a new computer?

    • IndiBrony@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Until George R.R. Martin gives up his DOS computer, then there’s never an excuse to upgrade so long as the machine you use can perform the actions you ask of it!

      • qisope@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Sure, but by making that decision George also had to accept he can’t install the latest version of Chrome. Maybe George is ok with that, but OP isn’t.

    • PriorityMotif@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      It depends really. If you need to use old software or hardware, then no. I have some automotive tools that don’t need the greatest PC to run and I’d rather not mess up my installation of the software they need to work, so I have an ancient Thinkpad with windows 8 on it that I can boot up and use for diagnostics. I just maxed out the ram and put in an SSD so it runs halfway decent.

  • fishos@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    You mean there’s not still a team of developers working full time to make sure your 8 year old hardware is still getting software/security parity? Color me shocked. Shocked I say! They should support your hardware for free forever! How dare they advance in such a way that it’s not possible for my 8 year old hardware to run the exact same as modern hardware that’s been updated and iterated hundreds of times since then.

    • chevy9294@monero.townEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I have 11 years old phone that still gets updates. For free. And all my computers will have updates for ever. For free.

          • strawberry@kbin.run
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            3 months ago

            oh dope. I’m on graphene run, so I think that gives me 7 years, but 11 is impressive. any idea how long they plan on supporting it? also, is that your daily? I feel like a phone that old would be quite slow by now.

            • chevy9294@monero.townEnglish
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              3 months ago

              My daily is Pixel 7a with GrapheneOS. Galaxy S4 is my mom’s old old old phone. I have no idea how. On lineageos wiki it says that this device is not maintained anymore, but a month ago I got a system update. It’s on Linegae 18.

        • kadu@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 months ago

          You’d be surprised at what the custom ROM communities manage to achieve. The Galaxy S3 (not 23, I really mean S3) can run Android 11 or 12.

    • kadu@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Today I’ll update my Chrome version in my 2013 media box desktop running Debian in honour of your terribly written comment!

  • IndiBrony@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I think I had a similar one. Is that the one you can detach and use as a tablet?

    I tried cracking mine open … I succeeded, in a sense.

  • voxel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    3 months ago

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