This laptop released in 2016 no longer receive OS updates. Which means I can't update Chrome Browser

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You mean there's not still a team of developers working full time to make sure your 8 year old hardware is still getting software/security parity? Color me shocked. Shocked I say! They should support your hardware for free forever! How dare they advance in such a way that it's not possible for my 8 year old hardware to run the exact same as modern hardware that's been updated and iterated hundreds of times since then.

I have 11 years old phone that still gets updates. For free. And all my computers will have updates for ever. For free.

what kind of phone is getting updates that long?

Galaxy S4, (was) officially supported by LineageOS :)

oh dope. I'm on graphene run, so I think that gives me 7 years, but 11 is impressive. any idea how long they plan on supporting it? also, is that your daily? I feel like a phone that old would be quite slow by now.

My daily is Pixel 7a with GrapheneOS. Galaxy S4 is my mom's old old old phone. I have no idea how. On lineageos wiki it says that this device is not maintained anymore, but a month ago I got a system update. It's on Linegae 18.

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Google can choose to not update the operating system but I don't see why the browser is left behind.

Google supported chrome on windows 7 longer than Microsoft itself, they can't do it on their own Linux distro?

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