<story><title>Parents, environmentalists to Google: stop Chromebooks from expiring this summer</title><url>https://pirg.org/edfund/resources/chromebook-expiration-full-letter/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>zokier</author><text>To be completely clear, I think this sort of short expiry for devices is bullshit. BUT&lt;p&gt;But, it was completely predictable thing, the schools knew perfectly well that they would expire. Saying that the expiry &amp;quot;jeopardizes students’ educations&amp;quot; is straight out dishonest when its just poor planning that is jeopardizing anything. This feels bit like people buying disposable cameras and then complaining that they can&amp;#x27;t change film on them. Yes, the expiry on Chromebooks is bit more arbitrary. But nevertheless it was something that would have been very clear if they did basic due diligence when purchasing the devices.</text></comment>
<story><title>Parents, environmentalists to Google: stop Chromebooks from expiring this summer</title><url>https://pirg.org/edfund/resources/chromebook-expiration-full-letter/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rtpg</author><text>It would be a very big win for goodwill if Google built out a team that took over as much of this as possible. Just have a bunch of this hardware and try to keep these machines up to date.&lt;p&gt;The biggest problem from the outside feels like people working at Google might not be super hype about this (no I&amp;#x27;m not talking about the &amp;quot;new project to get promoted&amp;quot; treadmill, just vibes), and really there&amp;#x27;s probably external people who are up to this.&lt;p&gt;But seriously, just figuring out how to get these to run &amp;quot;forever&amp;quot; in whatever degraded capacity is possible. At least until the hardware itself starts falling apart of course.</text></comment>