{"id":148,"date":"2019-08-26T16:29:45","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T23:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packdude.org\/blog\/?p=148"},"modified":"2019-08-26T16:30:01","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T23:30:01","slug":"chromebook-final-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/packdude.org\/blog\/2019\/08\/26\/chromebook-final-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Chromebook &#8211; Final Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today I get this notification after updating my Acer Chromebook.  &#8220;Final Software Update&#8221; meaning it will no longer receive feature or security updates.  Google, what the literal Hell??  This machine is not even five years old yet and is still plenty capable of running your lightweight Linux-based operating system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is every bit as bad as Apple&#8217;s planned obsolescence.  From now on, I won&#8217;t be buying any hardware from these two companies except a new iPhone.  No more Macbooks, no more Chromebooks.  What a crock of shit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/packdude.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_3345-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/packdude.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_3345-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/packdude.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_3345-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/packdude.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_3345-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/packdude.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_3345-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I get this notification after updating my Acer Chromebook. &#8220;Final Software Update&#8221; meaning it will no longer receive feature or security updates. Google, what the literal Hell?? This machine is not even five years old yet and is still &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/packdude.org\/blog\/2019\/08\/26\/chromebook-final-update\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/packdude.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/packdude.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/packdude.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packdude.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packdude.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/packdude.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/packdude.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packdude.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packdude.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}