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No security or feature updates, but selling as "new." I guess they need to switch to Linux if able..

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[–] housepanther@lemmy.goblackcat.com 41 points 1 year ago (5 children)

There should be a legal requirement to make documentation available for all unsupported Chromebooks to unlock the boot loader and allow for installing an alternative OS. Furthermore, they should be required to release engineering docs.

[–] al177@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Agreed, though I thought that all ChromeOS devices could be bootloader unlocked.

[–] housepanther@lemmy.goblackcat.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That could very well be the case and I could be wrong. I kind of operated under the assumption that Chromebooks are heavily locked down.

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