On 2023-05-29 18:15, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
Computers were not in classrooms until long after my time. A very few
school boards had a very few computers near the end. I admired the
Curta Calculators advertised in Scientific American -- the only hand
held digital calculators at that
| From: Stewart Russell via talk
Thanks for all the legwork! Interesting.
| On Sun, May 28, 2023 at 10:25 PM James Knott via talk
| wrote:
| In summary, for us, as Linux users,
| Chromebooks don't hard-"brick", as I suggested they might. But it seems
| that, in a school exam situation, Chrom
I haven't done much with performance for a while, but the ACM is
restarting their "Jack" series, so I wrote an article about how we all
go down the same blind ally when we're starting out doing performance work.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3595862
--dave
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I have an early Samsung from *a while* ago, it started showing "this
product won't receive more upgrades" a couple years ago but it still works
just fine. ChromeOS hasn't been updated in a while, and it's just plugged
in the TV as my Youtube app for a dumb TV. I have a Lenovo too, it's
receiving up
On Sun, May 28, 2023 at 10:25 PM James Knott via talk
wrote:
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> Do they actually "brick"?
On Mon, May 29, 2023 at 11:20 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <
talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
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> So: I would think that this is stupid reporting but a useful but partial
> Public Service Announcement.
>
>
So
Google support page listing AUE dates for every make/model:
https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/6220366
Surprisingly some of them get updates up until 2032.
> On May 29, 2023, at 11:19, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
> wrote:
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> | From: Stewart C. Russell via talk
> |
> | TIL that Chr
| From: Stewart C. Russell via talk
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| TIL that Chromebooks brick themselves when they hit a hard-coded date: the
| date when Google stops providing updates:
|
https://coloradosun.com/2023/05/26/colorado-schools-chromebooks-churn-outdated/
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| The article's about Denver Public School District,
