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by yjftsjthsd-h 1059 days ago
Okay? My point was that

> one of the dirty secrets about how Chromebooks manage to get so cheap is they use the cheapest ARM processors with ridiculous amounts of binary blobs patched in that will never go upstream, so kernel updates are almost nonexistent

doesn't seem to be true. Google doing its own thing in userspace is separately annoying to me but actually an advantage in terms of keeping the machine's kernel up to date.

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Except it hardly matters when most stuff are actually drivers running in userspace, aka binary blobs.