This laptop released in 2016 no longer receive OS updates. Which means I can't update Chrome Browser

Install Linux and have updates for the Rest of your life. And more performance.

Edit: typo

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- It's a Chromebook. That's just the real answer to OP's issue regardless of where they ask about it.
False. They're dropping support for 20+ year old cpus like it doesn't even matter!
- You can still run it. It's just slightly more inconvenient.
I don't usually like all the Linux posts on Lemmy, but this is 100% the correct answer here. The computer will likely run a lot better if you do everything right!

Came here to recommend nuking it with Linux to get a much slicker experience but I see everyone else had the same idea.

Also gtf off chrome.

Have you tried Firefox?
- God damn furrys! :p

This device looks to be supported by the custom firmware project over here: https://mrchromebox.tech

Basically it allows you to replace the stock firmware and just run regular ol' Linux, entirely replacing ChromeOS.

There's also a pretty good video outlining most of the process here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6oyqrrXTLM

Running xfce4 Fedora brilliantly on an old Dell Chromebook thanks to this, fully recommended!!
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Which means it's time for you to switch to Linux

Looks like a Chromebook, which means Linux would be a bit hacky and not guaranteed to work well at all.
- It's arm right? Just fiddle a bit with the bootloader and that's it. Similar to Andorided phones
- Chromebooks are actually Linux.

A chromebook? You can install Linux then.

Asus 202c from 2016. They're EoL, so they don't get chrome OS updates. Which means the Play Store is also outdated.

Overall, they're pretty nifty. Battery life is still solid. Keyboard and case is pretty durable.

I actually have a few of these chromebooks! (You can buy them from schools) I've reformatted one with Linux. Another is Chromebook + side loaded for coding. This one is just for browsing and taking notes.

But just the thought that some old person buying a computer and going, "Lemme pick up these Google Things that are $100" only to end up with these errors makes me sad.

Maybe an unpopular opinion around here, but getting 8 years out of a $200 laptop is a fucking steal.

I don't think it's reasonable to expect more.

Had this been a $1200 laptop, the expectation would be different.
- For me it's not about the price, it's about owning your hardware in ways that allow you to easily install whatever you want. As for chromebooks, that's not the case and you need to hack your way around. In the case of phones, many vendors don't allow unlocking the bootloader. This kind of practices means that in many cases, completely useful (maybe old) hardware goes to the dumpster.

Big companies want more e-waste for their own bottom lines.

Linux gang raise!

I use Fedora btw
- I use Qubes btw
- m'OS

most websites just check the browser useragent, and if you spoof the useragent, it works. most websites are blocking it artifically even if the website works fine with your browser. so i think it's worth a shot if there are chrome plugins who can spoof the browser useragent.

Usually they're building the website with browserlist and polyfills, and they specify how old a browser they wish to support, usually by analysing percentages of public usage, or they allow types only supported in newer browsers. Meaning if they use a feature only available in newer browsers, then it won't be automatically backported to support older browsers.

But that's only if they actually use those features, they're just available to them. And it'll only break in those places they do use them, which could be quite little of the site.

So often it's just "we can't guarantee it'll work in your old browser and enough of our users use newer browsers that we'll block you and not care".
- yupp, and i hate that. i use a firefox version that don't supports private fields, and because a common js lib uses them a lot of websites suddenly stopped working for me just because of this bs. instead of just using a normal variable they use private fields and kill a ton of older browsers by doing so. and most website owners don't care so asking them just leads to them saying "just upgrade bro".

give it the mrchromebox treatment, and then install linux on it. Good shit.

Now my chromebook is an extremely low power idling node for anything i need it to be, with incredibly like UPS standby times.

Linux and Firefox would get updates!

Firefox won't for much longer. Or at least not without significant spyware installed. I'm hoping it gets forked before the new CEO can do too much damage. Sucks that it will split the community with such a small user base already. But I guess that's the point.
- ???
- So which browser are you using then?

Something something _linux profit?

Probably every comment but install linux

Does it still supported by Chrome OS Flex?

there crappy things are basically made to be thrown away, they're not even supposed to outlive their software support range.

I think I had a similar one. Is that the one you can detach and use as a tablet?

I tried cracking mine open .. I succeeded, in a sense.

Any laptop is a tablet if you try hard enough and tape the wires sticking out of the hinges.

Pretty sure you could still update manually.

Not trying to be the fifth dentist here, but at some point all devices reach the end of life. While I’m sure it’s possible for you to install Chrome OS Flex, or some other kind of Linux, at some point isn’t it just time to buy a new computer?

As long as computer works why replace it?
- You need Linux then
Until George R.R. Martin gives up his DOS computer, then there's never an excuse to upgrade so long as the machine you use can perform the actions you ask of it!
- Sure, but by making that decision George also had to accept he can't install the latest version of Chrome. Maybe George is ok with that, but OP isn't.
- Ok, but the only action George needs to perform on it is to not write a book. I don't even need a computer to do that.
"At some point" yeah. But that point though... Must not be 8 years
It depends really. If you need to use old software or hardware, then no. I have some automotive tools that don't need the greatest PC to run and I'd rather not mess up my installation of the software they need to work, so I have an ancient Thinkpad with windows 8 on it that I can boot up and use for diagnostics. I just maxed out the ram and put in an SSD so it runs halfway decent.

It is not a good idea to use EOL software. It really sucks but you are putting yourself at risk. The only option is to find third party software that is supported.

You mean there's not still a team of developers working full time to make sure your 8 year old hardware is still getting software/security parity? Color me shocked. Shocked I say! They should support your hardware for free forever! How dare they advance in such a way that it's not possible for my 8 year old hardware to run the exact same as modern hardware that's been updated and iterated hundreds of times since then.

Today I'll update my Chrome version in my 2013 media box desktop running Debian in honour of your terribly written comment!
Google can choose to not update the operating system but I don't see why the browser is left behind.

Google supported chrome on windows 7 longer than Microsoft itself, they can't do it on their own Linux distro?

Time to get a last gen laptop 🧐

Edit: angry loonix users beware!