This morning (2nd March here in possum town, but still 1st of March in the US) I made myself a cup of tea, fed the cat, took Judi a cup of tea, and powered up my chromebook to read my email.
All what happens most mornings, except that this time a little window popped open to tell me my Chromebook was end of life and no longer supported.
Well this seems a little ridiculous - while it's almost exactly five years old, it still works well, does its job.
So my plan is this:
All what happens most mornings, except that this time a little window popped open to tell me my Chromebook was end of life and no longer supported.
Well this seems a little ridiculous - while it's almost exactly five years old, it still works well, does its job.
So my plan is this:
- procrastinate until it becomes unusable
- I only really care about email and a couple of web based services
Loading an alternative OS, such as gallium OS or neverware isn't really an option as my Chromebook is one of the Samsung Eyxnos powered devices - an HP11-1101 in fact and the firmware (it is said) restricts matters as regards alternative OS's.
We'll see how this goes. I guess long term the answer is to buy one of these very cheap eMMC memory based windows laptops - after all all I need is Chrome, and perhaps Thunderbird ...
[update 03/03/2019]
And slightly bizarrely, this morning I got an operating system update, so I guess that in this case unsupported means no guarantees about updates continuing to work, rather than we don't want to talk to you any more ...
[update 03/03/2019]
And slightly bizarrely, this morning I got an operating system update, so I guess that in this case unsupported means no guarantees about updates continuing to work, rather than we don't want to talk to you any more ...
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