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Cake day: July 12th, 2023

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  • I converted one of these Chromebooks to Linux as a test project and the results were, not good.

    To start, they have a bootloader lock screw under the motherboard, so you have to take the entire laptop apart to load anything but unsupported ChromeOS.

    Then you have to use a Google tool, can’t remember the specific one, to swap the bootloader. That might be possible to automate but I didn’t look into it because…

    … The hardware sucks. We’re talking like 4GB of storage on a lot of these Chromebooks. The driver support is all over the place, and there are issues everywhere even on “supported” distros.

    With the vast amount of junk Chromebooks out there, I’m sure community hospice support will get better, but it’s never going to be an easy bulk conversion because of how common the bootloader locks are.





  • I agree, the “award” systems, are one of the least offensive monetization strategies I’ve seen.

    Keep in mind that awards don’t have to behave like Reddit and Discord have implement them. I’m sure there’s room to innovate in a community focused manner.

    Reddit however, has decided that they need to crush everything and go full Silicon Valley vampire in order to squeeze a lifetime of upper class earnings into a get rich quick payout scheme.





  • Hey, you know the only perk you get with Reddit Premium that isn’t available through a free browser extension?

    Yeah that’s going away in 60 days.

    It will be replaced with something so awful we dare not mention it while people are still pissed off about the other popular thing we killed with little notice.

    We here at the Reddit management understand you have concerns about the destruction of the global hub of collaboration, but you’ll get over it.

    Peace!