This laptop released in 2016 no longer receive OS updates. Which means I can't update Chrome Browser

Install Linux and have updates for the Rest of your life. And more performance.

Edit: typo

Came here to recommend nuking it with Linux to get a much slicker experience but I see everyone else had the same idea.

Also gtf off chrome.

This device looks to be supported by the custom firmware project over here: https://mrchromebox.tech

Basically it allows you to replace the stock firmware and just run regular ol' Linux, entirely replacing ChromeOS.

There's also a pretty good video outlining most of the process here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6oyqrrXTLM

This post is like catnip for Lemmy users.

Which means it's time for you to switch to Linux

A chromebook? You can install Linux then.

Asus 202c from 2016. They're EoL, so they don't get chrome OS updates. Which means the Play Store is also outdated.

Overall, they're pretty nifty. Battery life is still solid. Keyboard and case is pretty durable.

I actually have a few of these chromebooks! (You can buy them from schools) I've reformatted one with Linux. Another is Chromebook + side loaded for coding. This one is just for browsing and taking notes.

But just the thought that some old person buying a computer and going, "Lemme pick up these Google Things that are $100" only to end up with these errors makes me sad.

Big companies want more e-waste for their own bottom lines.

Fuck chrome

I've got this huge fancy samsung tablet from 2015. It's made to be like a table top display. Has a mount on the back to keep it standing up.

It can't really do anything now. The android version on it stopped being supported by anything. No youtube or Netflix or nothing. There was a bit of homebrew effort to get root and a newer version of android on them about 4 years ago, but it kind of fizzled out. Now it went from a great portable streaming mini TV (what I used it for, anyhow) to e waste.

Linux gang raise!

most websites just check the browser useragent, and if you spoof the useragent, it works. most websites are blocking it artifically even if the website works fine with your browser. so i think it's worth a shot if there are chrome plugins who can spoof the browser useragent.

give it the mrchromebox treatment, and then install linux on it. Good shit.

Now my chromebook is an extremely low power idling node for anything i need it to be, with incredibly like UPS standby times.

Linux and Firefox would get updates!

Something something _linux profit?

If I was you... I'd..nah, nevermind

Probably every comment but install linux

Is Firefox an option?

Does it still supported by Chrome OS Flex?

there crappy things are basically made to be thrown away, they're not even supposed to outlive their software support range.

Arch. Arch! ARCH! /pumping_fist_like_Arsenio

It's Linux time!

Sorry for the advertisement, but someone had to do it.

Linux should revive your machine from both a performance, and from an update perspective.

If you have a SSD: Linux mint Debian edition: https://www.linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php

If you don't: you can still try Linux mint, or go with Spiral Linux for something faster:

https://spirallinux.github.io/

Pretty sure you could still update manually.

I think I had a similar one. Is that the one you can detach and use as a tablet?

I tried cracking mine open .. I succeeded, in a sense.

It is not a good idea to use EOL software. It really sucks but you are putting yourself at risk. The only option is to find third party software that is supported.

Time to get a last gen laptop 🧐

Edit: angry loonix users beware!

Not trying to be the fifth dentist here, but at some point all devices reach the end of life. While I’m sure it’s possible for you to install Chrome OS Flex, or some other kind of Linux, at some point isn’t it just time to buy a new computer?

You mean there's not still a team of developers working full time to make sure your 8 year old hardware is still getting software/security parity? Color me shocked. Shocked I say! They should support your hardware for free forever! How dare they advance in such a way that it's not possible for my 8 year old hardware to run the exact same as modern hardware that's been updated and iterated hundreds of times since then.