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What is a product you would never recommend? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by TheArstaInventor@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 19 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Chromebooks suck ass but Pixel phones are pretty solid

[–] seaQueue@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Chromebooks are amazing for a certain type of low technical skill person. Older parents and grandparents in particular are exactly the kind of people that Chromebooks are for. There's zero technical support burden and if anything goes wrong a power wash solves it.

[–] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That sounds pretty good, why wouldn't you recommend it then, are there better alternatives?

[–] seaQueue@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh I totally recommend Chromebooks, they almost entirely eliminate the tech support burden from having a parent/grandparent who doesn't get computers. It was the dude above me who crapped on them.

[–] myersguy@lemmy.simpl.website 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You're the one who replied "any google hardware" though.

[–] seaQueue@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

So buy Chromebooks from other oems?

Chromium is about 99.5% open source, there's no real problem with the OS itself. If you're afraid of Google tracking just use the machine with the guest account.

[–] Persen@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

To be fair, they are just expensive mid-range phones (except the hardware security and build quality), but the tradeoff is worth it for GrapheneOS.

[–] pkill@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

they have nice cameras. but the battery life is attrocious and sometimes will run into radio issues (iirc fixed only one or 2 generations ago)... lack of otg support is also one minor issue