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Posted by speckx 2 days ago

I switched from Mac to a Lenovo Chromebook(blog.johnozbay.com)
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aykutseker 1 day ago|
Grass is greener works at month two. By month nine your muscle memory is still wrong.
coredog64 1 day ago||
I actually tried this last year and the show stopper was Citrix. The version for Chromebooks is some abomination that hasn't been kept recent and so fails validation with my employer's Citrix infra.
copypaper 1 day ago||
I just have a workstation at home that I SSH into from whatever device I feel like (within my tailnet). All my tools available on the CLI and vscode available via remote-ssh. You can connect from an iPad, macbook, chromebook, etc. The only thing it doesn't handle well is creative apps (video editing, blender, photoshop, etc.).

Obviously this whole setup requires an internet connection, but I'm rarely without one so it works great for me. Anyone else do something similar?

Marsymars 1 day ago||
I have this exact laptop - I just use it for casual web browsing, but it does have a significant problem that I've encountered - although it has a 3.5mm stereo port, it's unusable due to static sounds.

Possibly this bug that's been floating around for the past 6 years: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/172339479

tantalor 1 day ago|
It's probably simply defective, I would warranty/replace it.
Marsymars 1 day ago||
Hm, that's possible. Not sure I use headphones enough with it to bother going through a warranty replacement, but I'll keep that in mind in case I get motivated with some free time to do so.

The static pattern seems odd to me, but I assume would make sense if the root cause was identified:

* Plug headphones into laptop: no static.

* Open youtube tab: Static.

* Mute audio: Static.

* Tab away from youtube: Static stops after ~10s.

* Tab back to youtube and start video: Static resumes.

* Adjust volume: No effect on static. (At normal listening volumes, static isn't audible over music audio.)

I'll note that there are various reports of something almost identical being triggered by a ChromeOS software update ~6 years ago across multiple brands of Chromebooks, e.g. https://old.reddit.com/r/chromeos/comments/fx9y19/samsung_ch...

theanonymousone 1 day ago||
A Mediatek chip rivalling Apple M2? Is this claim supportable?
ototot 1 day ago|
It's basically dimensity 9400, and I think it's fairly comparable.
yegle 1 day ago||
To me the most amazing thing of using Chromebook is that you can run the Tailscale _Android_ app and get your ChromeOS connected to your tailnet.
BirAdam 1 day ago||
My biggest issues with ChromeOS revolve around crap keyboards, bad/clunky Linux implementations (unless you just replace ChromeOS, but why not just get a cheap or older laptop?), and not trusting Google at all.
pjmlp 1 day ago||
Basically someone that doesn't take advantage of macOS features, doesn't develop for Apple platforms, is happy with a thin client OS, alright I guess.
cryo32 1 day ago|
I love these articles. I await the inevitable post-mortem 6-9 months down the line.
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