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   Rusty Crab (rustycrab@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Sep-2023 08:41:45 JST Rusty Crab

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   @opphunter88 @MrFuzzland @bot @gray we're a special kind of retarded
   
   really though in terms of build quality FOR THE PRICE it's really hard to beat Chromebooks. You cannot normally buy a $200 laptop and expect it to last for more than a year or so. Chromebook build quality, at least was when I checked it last, pretty solid.
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Sep-2023 08:41:44 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     I wonder if google has seen an increase in other revenue streams since starting chromebooks or if it’s just worth it for the data mining.
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     Sexy Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Sep-2023 08:48:15 JST Sexy Moon

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     @RustyCrab @opphunter88 @gray @MrFuzzland @bot I was given a 180 dollar chromebook for my last job lol it couldn't remotely do what I needed for sysadmin. but I put linux on it and I was surprised to discover it had all the virtualization features and could run qubes os. it ended up being a rock solid linux laptop for years.
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     Rusty Crab (rustycrab@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Sep-2023 08:48:16 JST Rusty Crab

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     @bot @opphunter88 @gray @MrFuzzland I'm sure the telemetry in chromeos is part of their business model yes. The parts in Chromebooks are cheap for sure so I don't think they're taking a loss on the hardware or anything. It's just that in the last google had a quality threshold that they liked to maintain that other vendors didn't have.
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     Coyote (coyote@social.singing.dog)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Sep-2023 08:56:41 JST Coyote

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     @bot @RustyCrab @opphunter88 @gray @MrFuzzland Chromebooks are a loss leader to get students “locked in” to Google products. They’re expecting a big payout in 20 years when the kids growing up on ChromeOS get into the logistic positions of a company and start making everything Chrome instead of Windows.

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