Comment on Forced E-Waste PCs And The Case Of Windows 11’s Trusted Platform
Baguette@lemm.ee 1 month agoChromebooks sound good in theory but fall short because kids are great at breaking them and there is a lack of repairability.
There is also chromeos being kinda ass
coffee_tacos@mander.xyz 1 month ago
Idk about the lack of repairability, those things are really easy and cheap to fix in my experience. They are at least no less repairable than 95% of laptops on the market.
Baguette@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Depends on what. The most common thing i see is that the kids mess with either the keyboard and or the screen, which you’re basically forced to scavenge another broken Chromebook for because the replacement parts are pretty much like half the cost of the chromebook
If it’s something simple then yea I agree, but kids are menaces against their chromebook so damage usually ends up being on the extreme side.
towelie@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I couldn’t bear to make e-waste, so I repaired two c.~2012 era chromebooks. The end result was equal parts rewarding experience and a complete was of my time xD. Those sandy bridge cpus are sloooow