UngodlyAudrey🏳️‍⚧️Jul 25, 2023

Built-in software ‘death dates’ are sending thousands of schools’ Chromebooks to the recycling bin

https://beehaw.org/post/6797585

Built-in software ‘death dates’ are sending thousands of schools’ Chromebooks to the recycling bin - Beehaw

There are few things quite as emblematic of late stage capitalism than the concept of “planned obsolescence”.

Show threadBaroqueInMind
Anyone know where I can buy or place bids on batches/pallets/etc of them? I want to self host a bunch of shit using those cheap computers that are being thrown out.
Jul 25, 2023 at 3:05amWeb
Show threadTerryTPlatypusJul 25, 2023
Same here!
Show threadcerementJul 25, 2023

Sourcing Chromebooks from the Reviving Chromebooks with Ubuntu I posted elsewhere

easiest looks like just calling the IT department of your local school

Reviving Chromebooks with Ubuntu: Autonomous Servers, Planned Obsolescence, and Permacomputing

A tutorial and slight manifesto on reviving end-of-life Chromebooks. How to make them into autonomous servers, and why we need to rethink computing in the age of climate collapse.

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Show threadpinkpatrolJul 25, 2023
Interesting article, I don’t think I have a use for them though.