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@mcc Most of the Chromebooks were purchased about 3 years ago and they’re showing “final update” alerts. Now websites are no longer validating because the Let’s Encrypt certificates are signed by an expired root and they don’t have the new root. Perfectly serviceable laptops but Google just needed to kill something and so they killed working Chromebooks. 9 comments
 @futuresprog Ironically, the best way to ensure you have a long Chrome support life is buying a Windows PC. Those might also work with Chrome Flex (the successor of the CloudReady OS), or better, after unlocking developer mode, use https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton (there's an old tutorial at https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/install-ubuntu-on-chromebook#1-overview) I’m spoiled for choice! Crouton has also gone into “maintenance mode”. I was unsure of the relationship between CloudReady and Flex. I’ll see what looks most like the ChromeOS we’re familiar with. Only requirements are WiFi, USB mouse, a web browser, and wipe user profile on shutdown. @futuresprog@mastodon.nzoss.nz @mcc@mastodon.social I installed GalliumOS on my old tiny spare Chromebook that had expired a few years ago (I only set it up to for messing about with arduinos, so it lives in a parts box) |
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silver lining: the kids learn not to trust giant tech corps