Chromebooks already have great screen reading capabilities built in...
Awww Google, how cute of you. Great? Nope. Next time, remember. Nothing about us, without us. ChromeVox has barely been updated in years, just like VoiceOver for Mac, and Narrator. ChromeVox barely has any options for fine-tuning verbosity, keyboard commands, pronunciation, and some keyboard commands, like Search + Control + A for accessibility actions, aren't even well-documented. I should know. I had to use an Acer Spin 713 for a good 3 months as my primary laptop. So kindly stop talking, then ask, then act before you speak further.
"Updated keyboard shortcuts and first-letters navigation in Google Drive"...
First letters navigation? Come on. Any blind person can tell that this wasn't written by anyone who uses these technologies.
And nowhere in this article is anything new for ChromeVox. See? This is the kind of, frankly, bullshit that I hate on GAAD. Just shut your mouth and listen for once.
Linux distro's heading to where macOS today: where the root filesystem is mostly immutable, but not entirely. #ChromeOS arrived there a decade ago, but everyone seems to be moving in the same direction.
Here's another #macOS rant (gosh I fucking hate this junk don't I): it loves creating problems out of non-issues (literally never had this problem on #Windows 10/11 or the many #Linux distros I've used and still are actively using) and append a number to it.
One being... external disk mounts. For whatever reason, what started out to be an external device that's formatted appropriately, as vanilla as can be using Disk Utility and mounts to, say, "SSD1TB", will randomly at times just started consistently mounting to a directory it creates by itself, "SSD1TB 1" - which fucks up all my symlinks to that drive until I manually fix the issue so it mounts to the right mount point again.
Another being, which is more confusing honestly how it's able to fuck it up, which is its own local hostname. I set the hostname as "aerith", which macOS compulsorily add a suffix to it, ".local". It's been on that hostname perfectly fine for a week ~2 weeks or so - then out of nowhere one day while being out, it says that that hostname's already used in the network and they then changed it to "aerith-2.local". Weird, I thought, but I thought maybe it's a one-time thing at that Mamak (eatery) I was at. Since then though, even at my home or anywhere else, changing it back to "aerith" is impossible and it'd always change it back to "aerith-2" - which TRIGGERS me.
#Apple, please just dump macOS already and use any of the Linux distros or Windows (jk hell no) or #ChromeOS (HELL NO). Y'all clearly have no idea what you're doing.
Late night thought. Why would anyone spend $300, $350, $450 or more on a Chromebook (even a "Chromebook Plus" when you can spend $200 on a A-condition Early 2015 Macbook Air 11"? Or $250 on an excellent condition 2017 era Macbook Air 13"?
Both can also be converted 100% to being Chromebooks if that's your vibe.
Today I managed to flash #libreboot to my (new-to-me, abandoned by #ChromeOS ) ASUS Chromebook Flip C101P. It's now able to boot postmarketOS from the internal eMMC (with fde!)
> Techniquement, #ChromeOS étant aussi un système Linux, la part de marché représenterait même en fait 6,32 %. « En termes de pourcentage global, c'est encore relativement peu, mais quand on pense au nombre de personnes que cela représente, c'est beaucoup », souligne #GamingOnLinux.
Hey all! Do you love #Android and #ChromeOS? Our team is #hiring! We’re looking for a developer advocate (we call them Developer Relations Engineers) to join our team in Silicon Valley or NYC. You'll help developers optimize their Android apps for ChromeOS, teach them about large screen Android, work with us to build a happy and thriving ChromeOS developer ecosystem, and more!
Des millions d'appareils #Android , #Linux et #ChromeOS sont vulnérables aux nouvelles attaques #WiFi ! Les #pirates peuvent voler des données ou vous espionner.
Aucun correctif pour l'instant, il est conseillé deconfigurer manuellement les certificats CA pour la protection.
If you're a longtime #Windows user who might want to give #Linux a try but you don't know where to begin and are worried it will all be too overwhelming for you, then I suggest #Fedora#Onyx. You'll get a very similar desktop experience via #Budgie with a very low maintenance Linux experience under the hood. And yes, you can game with it 😎.
Imagine if #ChromeOS looked and felt more like #Windows, but is free, runs out of box on most modern hardware, and you don't have to sign up for an account anywhere to use it. You're always just one reboot away from your system and firmware being up to date so you can focus on actually just using your computer. If this sounds appealing to you, then welcome to #Fedora#Onyx.
❝Today, thanks to Android and ChromeOS, Linux is an important end-user operating system. But, before Linux, there were important Unix desktops, although most of them never made it. …❞
We released version 0.3.0 of Chisel Operator, our FOSS inlets-operator competitor, allowing you to easily reverse-proxy to your local cluster. It now supports integration with cloud providers for automatic provisioning, starting with #AWS, #DigitalOcean, and #Linode.
We released version 0.2.0 of Submarine, our bootloader for Depthcharge/Chromebooks. This release adds initial support for ARM Chromebooks, starting with the mt8183 SoC.
Our first hardware product is currently in R&D. While we're making rapid progress, we're not 100% ready to share what this product is.
🆕 post — Why CES was a bust for Chromebooks this year
Every January, the Consumer Electronics Show sets the tech stage for the upcoming year. There are thousands of products launched, many of which won't even be available for a few months. And every year, I've seen ten or more new #Chromebooks and #ChromeOS devices. Except for this year. #CES 2024 was basically a bust for new Chromebooks.
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🆕 post -- A removable Chromebook display that’s an Android tablet?
Imagine a #Chromebook that looks like any other #ChromeOS laptop. What if it had a removable display that was a standalone #Android tablet? You’ll have to simply imagine it for now because this device doesn’t exist. However, the Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 5 Hybrid announced at #CES2024 is a Windows laptop version of this very concept.
🆕 post -- Here’s what’s in the ChromeOS 120 release for Chromebooks
The #ChromeOS 120 release adds several new features including a Virtual Desks button, pinch & zoom PiP resizing, custom keyboard \ mouse settings, and more. Here’s what’s new for #Chromebooks.
I thought I might be able to install #linux on an old #Acer#chromebook, but after a few searches, it doesn't look like you can completely replace #ChromeOS.