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Original Chromebook Pixel Reaches End of Life (droid-life.com)
Deathlizard writes: The original 2013 Chromebook Pixel, Google's $1200, Core i5 vision of a high end Chromebook, has reached End of Life. Owners are receiving a message that their device is no longer supported.
I was just thinking of how many computer that I have much older than this that still run the latest Windows, Linux, MacOS. It makes it seem like ChromeOS isn't worth $1200.
It is the duty of all good Citizens to be terrorized by the urge to buy newer, shinier gadgets when your Corporate Masters decide they need another yacht.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
Consider a tech product reaching end of life support, mind you not just for upgrades but for bugs and security fixes. So what they are really saying, yeah, we know it has been a whole bunch years and we still haven't got all the bugs out of it and it still sort of mostly works but 'er' fuck off any how and buy another computer that will still mostly work, that contains bugs and security holes and that we will also stop trying to fix in some number of years time. Tech because we don't give a shit if our products don't ever fully function properly and securely as long as you keep paying to much for them. You would think patching and bug fixing should last until they finally make it work 100% but on no, near enough and fuck off and buy another one.
Chaos - everything, everywhere, everywhen
Of course not. Because once upon a time it was considered impressive to build formidable products, and it was a disgrace when they failed early. Now people pay extra just to rent some already-doomed piece of equipment.
Disgusting.
Buying a new phone every 4 or 5 years make sense, new tower frequencies in your area, new features but even now that is becoming less and less necessary. 5g will be the next time a new phone is necessary. This however is a joke.
The Pixel was not even a cheap machine, why anyone would pay that much for a Chromebook is beyond me, the entire point of Chromebook's were that it was so lightweight that it could run on ultra-cheap hardware.
Now 5 years later it's an expensive paperweight? Has anyone got Manjaro running on one of these?
Make SELinux enforcing again!
It's not locked, so they can't unlock it. You just need to boot into developer mode and turn off OS verification.
They also tell you how to install Linux
https://www.chromium.org/a/chr...
Here's an guide to install Ubuntu 18
https://www.servethehome.com/g...
That is absolute bullshit. In 2009 they were still making new machines (completely new models) with/for XP like the legendary 9.5 hours EEE Pc 1000HE (yes, the battery is still pretty strong). XP got updates until 2014 and this can be trivially (one registry key) extended to 2019 (yes, they are still pushing updates for XP). Even without the registry "hack" Microsot still patched all XPs with the mega-emergency KB4012598 - that was last year, yes 2017.
It makes sense for mainstream distros to drop 32bit, especially the main server distros as there are few if any 32bit machines still being built.
Support for 64bit on linux is very mature, and the open source nature of the vast majority of applications means that everything has long ago been recompiled so you're not stuck with legacy 32bit binaries.
32bit should be relegated to embedded and legacy niches.
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