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

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Built-in software ‘death dates’ are sending thousands of schools’ Chromebooks to the recycling bin
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There are few things quite as emblematic of late stage capitalism than the concept of "planned obsolescence".

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Agree. I've got a chromebook running Linux, for that I had to open it up and remove a screw. It takes around 15 minutes if you've done it before, so for bulk migration to Linux it's not feasible.

You had to remove a screw to install Linux? Is that like a physical tampering prevention measure? Makes me think of how I had to swap a jumper to install a GPU in an old HP tower that had integrated video.