#chromebook — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #chromebook, aggregated by home.social.
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The First one is always free
"a look at how Google and Microsoft have spent the last decade fighting for control of the classroom, not because they care about your third period, but because a captive market of 50 million students is worth billions. "
https://pageedutech.substack.com/p/ed-tech--been-playing-schools
#EdTeach #monopoly #microsoft #classroom #chromebook #google
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I haven't seen the need to replace my #chromebook yet. I bought it to handle email, social media apps, language courses, read news and web browsing. Machine is four years old and works well enough for me. Wife wants to buy me a tablet, but I keep asking her why as I have devices that are good enough.
Is it fast? No, but it is fast enough to do what I want.
Does it have enough storage? Yes, for what I want to use it for there is more than enough space. 64Gb drive and only 44 Gb used.
Will I upgrade? Eventually, but as long as the O/S itself is supported and it doesn't break I will keep it. Being cheap it won't be a premium model, probably a mid range.
Will it be a chromebook or Googlebook? That will depend on the specs, prices and what crap they bundle with it. If I must I will buy a used lower end laptop and reimage it to #mxlinux and use it like I use the chromebook. Strip out all of the extra apps to just VPN, browser, email, editor (probably #greany), music player and VLC.
I have a gaming laptop using #mxlinux and it is set for the heavy duty tasks of coding, writing, documentation and newsletters along with photo/video editing and games. My #MSI box for much the same thing and holds all of my photos/documents.
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I really wish Google would allow us to modify the themes in a chromebook. Black or white sucks. I prefer the title bar to show a different colour to indicate it is the foreground task. Also set up a border around the app to make it visually obvious where it is. That pathetic shadow doesn't cut it at all. Similar rant for Windows. For my #linux boxes I have them set to make it obvious what is the foreground task and I can easily see the borders of the app.
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Lenovo tablet with a well estabilished, near immortal OS: 2 years of updates
Lenovo tablet with a dead man walking OS: 10 years of updates
That's the state of things
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Signal ora supporta i Chromebook nell'ultimo aggiornamento! 🎉
https://aboutsignal.com/it/notizie/signal-ora-supporta-i-chromebook/
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Throwback to 2012:
Why #Linux falls behind other Operating System on Desktop? Linus Torvalds Explains The Biggest Reason Linux Lost The Desktop.
https://youtu.be/J_LPmS83ggI?is=x664spO6JEL6RaGQ
Aalto Talk with Linus Torvalds, hosted by Aalto Center for Entrepreneurship (ACE) in Otaniemi on June 14, 2012.
In brief: it must come preinstalled and in 2012 the hope was Google #Chromebook.
The hope in 2026 can be #EU_OS preinstalled on your work computer! Read more about the idea at https://eu-os.eu
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#diday Acer #Chromebook R13 CB5-312T abzugeben.
Aktuell wird Linux noch nicht einfach zu booten sein.
Aber es gibt ja Projekte auf die man aufbauen kann. -
My IT problems were many this morning but they were all resolved eventually. Remind me never to buy a #Windows or #Chromebook system, and stick with something dull and reliable like #Debian.
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Signal ondersteunt nu Chromebooks 🎉
De interface wordt binnenkort verder geoptimaliseerd
👉 https://aboutsignal.nl/nieuws/signal-ondersteunt-nu-chromebooks/
#signal #signalapp #signalmessenger #aboutsignal #chromebook #android #tech #nieuws
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Signal now supports Chromebooks 🎉
The interface will be further optimized soon
👉 https://aboutsignal.com/news/signal-now-supports-chromebooks/
#signal #signalapp #signalmessenger #aboutsignal #chromebook #android #tech #news
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U.S. Schools Shift from Chromebooks to MacBooks in Major Districts
📰 Original title: Schools Are Ditching Chromebooks For MacBooks By the Thousands
🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
👥 Users: It's clickbait ⚠️View full AI summary https://en.killbait.com/u-s-schools-shift-from-chromebooks-to-macbooks-in-major-districts.html?utm_source=mastodon_world&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=killbait.mastodon_world
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U.S. Schools Shift from Chromebooks to MacBooks in Major Districts
📰 Original title: Schools Are Ditching Chromebooks For MacBooks By the Thousands
🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
👥 Users: It's clickbait ⚠️View full AI summary https://en.killbait.com/u-s-schools-shift-from-chromebooks-to-macbooks-in-major-districts.html?utm_source=mastodon_social&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=killbait.mastodon_social
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SuzyQ Boards are restocked now!!
https://shop.fyralabs.com/products/suzyq-board
#fyralabs #restock #suzyq #chromebook #openhardware -
Best Laptops for College Students (2026): MacBooks and Beyond
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/best-college-laptops/
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@novelwriter
Working on Chromebook plus. I used the Appimage. There were a couple of workarounds.1) it doesn't work with ChromeOS Wayland, so I have to run as "QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb NovelWriter.AppImage"
I symlink the current version to NovelWriter.AppImage so that I can upgrade and downgrade easily.
2) I had to "apt install enchant-2" to get the spellcheck to work.After that I created a .desktop file so that it appears in the ChromeOS App menu.
Chromebooks are cheap, light, and portable, and have a long battery life. You need one with the "Chromebook plus" specification to run Linux apps.
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Been using a Lenovo Flex 5i Chromebook with 11th gen. Intel i3/8gb RAM upgraded to 512gb ssd since early 2023 as my main computer.
It's still running fine and gets the job done, but I'm jealous of My wife's m1 MacBook Air hardware.
Had a bunch of 'credit' on Amazon from a work program. Saw a refurb HP Elite Dragonfly Chromebook i7 12th gen /32gb/512gb that I could cover with the credit. Ordered it.
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Rentrée 2026 : les lycéens franciliens quittent Windows pour un Chromebook Google
https://mac4ever.com/197093
#Mac4Ever #chromebook -
Blick ins Heft c’t 15/2026: Humanoide Roboter
Keine Kunststücke vorführen, sondern empathisch interagieren, davon sind humanoide Roboter weit entfernt. VLMs und offene Systeme sollen das verbessern.
#Chromebook #EInk #eBook #Hardware #Roboter #IT #KünstlicheIntelligenz #Raumfahrt #SSD #Tablets #Videokonferenz #Wero #Wirtschaft #Wissenschaft #news
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Repurposing Chromebooks
"With Android smartphones, Chromebooks are probably one of the most exemplary materialization of the cognitive dissonance taking place in the capitalist creative destruction driven ICT industry. These computers would not exist without plethora FLOSS and related projects, and at the same time all this technological openness is by design obfuscated and restricted to create an ecosystem that is as closed as possible, and designed for planned obsolescence. This approach has been championed by Google and the computer manufacturers producing these devices. Good job everyone 👍"
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@ErnavM @sisypheheureux @justdude
Ongelijkheid:
Voorkomen van ongelijkheid? Waarom dan "Het-is-maar-vmbo" die zijn te dom om een goede laptop nodig te hebben, dus is een Chromebook wel goed genoeg?
Als ze ongelijkheid een serieus probleem zouden vinden zouden ze met één model komen voor de hele school.
Mocht je al een Chomebook hebben, die zijn gelukkig te upgraden :awesome: : https://eerlijkdigitaalonderwijs.nl/hoe-bevrijd-je-een-chromebook/
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draft - ChromeOS - Re: GUI installation of .deb packages has been deprecated.
A - so, is it "good" for "them" or "us" or "business" or what. Is it almost trying to make it feel like that sort of "no side loading" type of feeling? Or force people to use the terminal or. Or make it so "dummies" don't install bad things by accident or something? Or is it none of the above or some of the above or we just don't know? Hm. I wonder. bc it was kinda nice having the gui installation capability and this feels like a downgrade. Hm. But even if it is some of the above, and have them force users to the terminal for *initial installation* it doesn't make sense to force users to the terminal for *software updates* as software updates include security stuff that would be beneficial for all users even "dummies" or whatever. Like, sure, maybe the initial installation should require terminal, but the UI should support software updates via the gui.
#chromeOS #chromebook #chromeos150 #chromeOS160 #chromebookplus #8gbram #12gbram #16gbram #corei3 #corei5 #googlechrome #googlebook #aluminumOS
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#Indonesia's former minister and Gojek founder gets 10-year jail for corruption - CNA
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/gojek-founder-indonesia-former-minister-makarim-guilty-graft-6220991 #chromebook -
Here is where I do all this stuff, unless I'm downstairs using my #Chromebook.
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The feeling today:
When ChromeOs says one thing, but the Debian community says another.
(In fairness, the keyword in the warning is "supported", and I have actually heard nice things about Linux on ChromeOS, where it is supported.)
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I quick update on my Linux Chromebook, after using it for a day or so:
1. I really don't recommend this approach. It's a needlessly complicated pain in the ass to clean Google's crap out far enough to install a privacy respecting OS. I recommend spending a little more than I did on hardware that isn't so antagonistic toward software freedom.
2. Dell makes good hardware, even in their Chromebook line-up. I've happily run Linux on Dell hardware many times before, so I shouldn't be so surprised.
Anyway, this thing drives like a VW bug modified for racing. It has no right to be this good.
My eternal thanks to the communities (and some Google engineers, too) who made projects like this possible. I'll continue to do my best to pay it forward where I can.
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Summary:
Total cost: $40 on sale, plus about 4 hours of effort.
At my hourly rate that's...way too expensive, really.
I should have just bought a Tuxedo with Linux pre-installed. I would have saved time (and time is sometimes money) and gotten better hardware.
But it works!
Some lessons learned:
+ Google really doesn't want to allow booting a custom OS. There's lots of boot level "security". I am too annoyed to comment fairly, but considering that step one was to wipe all data, the words "security theater" come to mind for all of the crap that followed.
+ Linux Mint either doesn't work here, or got very unlucky.
+ Arch Linux stills scares me.
+ Ol' reliable: Debian brings home the win!Of course - building great operating systems is a collaboration, not a competition. (But Debian wins, anyway, tonight.)
#google #degoogle #chromebook #linux #debian #archlinux #linuxmint
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Debian for the win!
My lovely little Chromebook now runs Debian.
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Linux microblog update:
Dear Arch Linux,
Your guidance is amazing, until we reach the bit about choosing partitions.
Tonight I needed one single "good enough" recipe to start from - but I found a repeat of the ancient text "deep thoughts on partition tables".
Debian is looking nice, this time of year, though.
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Linux Mint microblog update:
Why not put Mint on a cheap Chromebook?
It's really difficult to get a modern Chromebook to boot to install media that isn't ChromeOs.
Really really difficult.
But once booted to the Linux Mint install media, things are just moving along with the usual chill simplicity...so far.
I will update again once I am finish.
(Update: No luck so far. But I will turn this into a thread with updates until my Chromebook runs some version of Linux.)Also, I clicked past so many warranty voiding warnings.
I genuinely wouldn't bother if:
1. Google's terms of service were short enough to read.
2. Google had stayed out of my news feed for privacy concerns for, let's say, the past five years.But lacking both of those, I'm going to continue to wipe Google's OS off of any device I use.
#ivoidwarranties #chromeos #linuxmint #chromebook #microblog