Doubling the lifespan of older Chromebooks would save California’s schools $225 million, according to advocacy group CALPIRG.

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

  • ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    Same thing it does for any instution that loans out hardware, e.g. employers:

    • monitoring

    • remote lockdown / wipe

    • remote management of installed software

    • etc.