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To: ShadowAce; Swordmaker; dayglored; bitt
2 posted on
02/15/2022 10:14:16 AM PST by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
Never liked Chrome and don’t want yet more Google access to my life.
3 posted on
02/15/2022 10:14:59 AM PST by
EinNYC
To: Red Badger
4 posted on
02/15/2022 10:15:00 AM PST by
Cold Heart
(Has Any Bio-Weapons Lab Shutdown?)
To: Red Badger
I want nothing to do with ‘the cloud’
5 posted on
02/15/2022 10:15:31 AM PST by
Magnum44
(...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
To: Red Badger
Sounds like it could be a game changer.
6 posted on
02/15/2022 10:16:10 AM PST by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Red Badger
Google today announced a new operating system, Chrome OS Flex, a free-to-use, cloud-based OS built to convert old PCs or Macs into Chromebooks. If the product is free, then YOU are the product...
10 posted on
02/15/2022 10:18:38 AM PST by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: Red Badger
Or you could just use Linux.
11 posted on
02/15/2022 10:18:43 AM PST by
\/\/ayne
(I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
To: Red Badger
No thanks. I like owning the physical storage I use.
12 posted on
02/15/2022 10:19:30 AM PST by
Rurudyne
(Standup Philosopher)
To: Red Badger
Using an old computer as a "dumb terminal" connected to the latest "cloud computer" has been promoted for decades now.
It still runs into the same problems. Companies writing anti-malware programs do not update them to support old hardware so putting an old computer onto a network is just begging for trouble.
Then there's...printing...old computers not working with new monitors...etc.
Users would be better off with a $200-$300 netbook with a mouse, full size keyboard, and full size monitor/s.
To: Red Badger
> a bold claim we are eager to try out once we can get our hands on an Apple PowerBook G4.
Oh! I’ve got one somewhere that I haven’t fired up in years. It will give me something to do with it other than be a brick.
14 posted on
02/15/2022 10:26:19 AM PST by
glorgau
To: Red Badger
I have a Chromebook laptop. Works perfectly. Google has eliminated many of Windows’ annoying features. It’s fast and robust.
I would like to rejuvenate one of my old netbooks running XP. This may just be my cup of tea.
15 posted on
02/15/2022 10:26:51 AM PST by
I want the USA back
(Government is to be feared much more than the chicom virus.)
To: Red Badger
No thanks. “All your data are belong to us!”
Linux Lite is working fine on the 2008 iMac I keep in the shop for playing music, checking email and surfing FreeRepublic.
17 posted on
02/15/2022 10:28:57 AM PST by
Sparticus
(Primary the Tuesday group!)
To: rdb3; JosephW; martin_fierro; Still Thinking; zeugma; Vinnie; ironman; Egon; raybbr; AFreeBird; ...
18 posted on
02/15/2022 10:29:33 AM PST by
ShadowAce
(Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack )
To: Red Badger
Google....the Aqualung of big tech
20 posted on
02/15/2022 10:31:52 AM PST by
V_TWIN
(America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
To: Red Badger
Chrome, the greatest surveillance tool ever devised? Now in a convenient OS for your old computer to monitor you even more closely? I can’t wait (/sarc) Chrome sends every site you visit, every mouse movement, keylogs of keystrokes; all sent to you friends at google. Creepy, what could go wrong? They just want to sell you stuff. It’s not like they manipulate searches, manipulate trending and control information to control you. They would never do that.
Why not just get linux and keep some of your privacy intact?
To: Red Badger
22 posted on
02/15/2022 10:37:52 AM PST by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
To: Red Badger
Most of my activities revolve around deleting Google’s access to my life.
23 posted on
02/15/2022 10:41:06 AM PST by
Redleg Duke
(“I’m not the only one!”)
To: Red Badger
My 2009 HP is running just fine with Win-7 Pro v64, and I have a back-up identical unit on the basement electronics’ shelves. But this is a viable alternative, yet I don’t trust Google on anything.
25 posted on
02/15/2022 10:41:42 AM PST by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
To: Red Badger
Perhaps this would be interesting to test drive in a VM under VMware. Fedora 35 runs on my "over the hill" hardware. The drivers are mature against the "mature" hardware and the OS is lightweight. Before I pour much time/effort into Chrome OS, it would need to be adopted by customers that want products built on it.
29 posted on
02/15/2022 11:04:33 AM PST by
Myrddin
To: Red Badger
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