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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

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

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.

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&#…

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.