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I bought a Chromebook back in 2014 (so, 8 years ago). As I bought in early, by the time Google added the ability to run Android apps to the OS, my hardware was too old and they wouldn’t support it. But, then, they stopped updating the OS.
I’m actually writing this post on it and it works just fine… most of the time. It’s a little sluggish, but usable. Except, when it isn’t. And that’s because when Google stop providing updates, they really do. And that includes the Chrome browser.
Chrome is currently on v104, but my Chromebook is very much stuck on v76. As a result, I regularly get issues with websites that, for good reason, don’t support older browser versions.
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Like Thanos, it was inevitable.
After a couple of months cycling through the local park on the cycle path, I finally came a cropper.
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Every week I join the audience of the recording of the PC Pro podcast. It’s live every Thursday at 1pm on Mixlr, where you can listen to the recording (warts and all) as well as join in with text-based chat.
At the end of each podcast is discussion of a piece of hardware – what they call the “Hot Hardware” part, as everyone votes whether it’s hot, or otherwise. This week, the latest M2-powered MacBook Air was reviewed. Now, I’m not here to argue either way but this comment by one of the listeners grabbed my attention…
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We’re coming to the final weeks of the sabbatical now and I’ve already started writing a summary – what I did, what I didn’t, what worked and what didn’t. But that’s for another day.
For now, let’s talk about the last week…
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