Computers that stop working less than 5 years after they first go on sale should be illegal—not fit for purpose under consumer protection law. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/no-discounts-or-warnings-for-people-shopping-eol-chromebooks-on-amazon-walmart/
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nostr:npub1psdfxfpxz2cwmmnsk60y3nqpn2tqh9n24h4hstvfkwvr6eaek9js499sr7 as far as I can tell, the CPU and architecture of my Chromebook I got in 2018 is still in newer machines being sold with an EoL in the future
So not sure why it was necessary, apart from an arbitrary "buy a new Chromebook" push
nostr:npub1psdfxfpxz2cwmmnsk60y3nqpn2tqh9n24h4hstvfkwvr6eaek9js499sr7 Lots of negative things to be said about Microsoft’s business practices, but the service lifetime of their OSes rounds down to 1 decade.
(They did obsolete a lot of processors with Win 11 in a bid to escape from branch prediction security flaw hell, but Win 10 is still in servicing through October 2025.)
nostr:npub1psdfxfpxz2cwmmnsk60y3nqpn2tqh9n24h4hstvfkwvr6eaek9js499sr7 I like my ThinkPad X200 running Trisquel GNU/Linux. It came out in 2008 and is still going strong!
nostr:npub1psdfxfpxz2cwmmnsk60y3nqpn2tqh9n24h4hstvfkwvr6eaek9js499sr7 nostr:npub19v0aclaq72knydn462udrcsg6u79rxguy4u4hg964z3rr4at48rsanxvkg There should be a law that requires all computers to be open for other os'es.
Aka #linux in most cases