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Chromebooks train schoolkids to be loyal customers, internal Google document suggests https://www.theverge.com/news/867138/google-chromebook-education-expansion-court-filings

Nvidia and Google launch the GeForce Now Fast Pass to let Chromebook owners stream over 2,000 games directly from an existing PC game library without ads (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/824940/chromebooks-nvidia-geforce-now-fa…

New Chromebooks will come with a year of Nvidia’s cloud gaming ‘fast pass’
Nvidia GeForce Now Fast Pass is an ad-free queue-jump for GeForce Now’s free tier, and it’s exclusive to Chromebook owners.

Linux Mint aan het installeren op een heel oude MacBook Air. Heel benieuwd of dat fijner werkt dan mijn Chromebook

I have an MSI Prestige A16 laptop that only runs #Archlinux. Speakers stopped working suddenly last week, but headphones plugged in worked fine (Bluetooth audio - all the stuff up a wire plumber's rear end). Tried a few kernel versions to no avail (firmware package wasn't updated recently).
Flashbacked to the days of the Toshiba Swanky Chromebook and the audio issues I had on…

If you can manage to get your hands on one, the Lenovo ThinkPad C13 Yoga (a chromebook reflashed with MrChromeBox firmware) is the most perfect basic Linux laptop I've ever had. DO NOT get the 4GB RAM/eMMC model (problems); preferably get the 16GB RAM model if available; OLED screen is the max spec. The battery life is great. Everything works out of the box in openSUSE, including esoteric stuff like the touchscreen and pressure-sensitive stylus. It's just a delight, the best €140 I&#…

Parents are pressuring LA Unified, the second-largest US school district, to reduce mandatory student screen time on school-issued iPads and Chromebooks (Tyler Kingkade/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/la-parents-kid…

LA Parents say school-issued iPads and Chromebooks cause chaos
Los Angeles Unified is the first district of its size to face an organized campaign by parents demanding that schools pull back on mandatory screen time.

My chromebook seems to be running a lot better since I turned off all of the Google tracking. It has been running on battery since yesterday and still has just under three hours of power. I have used it around 2 hours yesterday and over three today so far. I have not turned on the battery saver option.
Playing music, checking out Mastodon, reading news, checking my email and general web surfing. Even two 15-30 minute sessions relearning and trying to remember what I was taught for …

Micron ending it's "Crucial" consumer DRAM brand is a sign of a larger issue:
Computation is being taken away from individual ownership and moved to data centers you have rent resources from.
See also steadily rising prices on new GPU cards and SSDs.
The future is a Chromebook and a $150/month data center bill.