Nobody Cares: Technology-only Edition

[Erich Templar]

Google Books: Find, Preview, and Read Books Online.

Google Books is already a name in use for a Google product. Confusion awaits!

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

RIP ChromeOS

 

[Noodles]

Too bad the original website is gone.

P-P-P-Powerbook! | Know Your Meme

P-P-P-Powerbook refers to a replica of an Apple Powerbook laptop handcrafted by Something Awful member Jeff Harris to prank an eBay buyer who tried to scam

knowyourmeme.com

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

I know where it comes from. But I'd hoped the "netbook" fiasco would destroy any future efforts. I'm afraid that hope might be dead.

I dunno, I'm gonna be contrarian and say I like "notebook" better than "laptop".

 

[Veritable Quandry]

Since I usually go for gaming or workstation models, "lugtop" works for me.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Especially for the Surface style floppy keyboards that literally can't be used in the lap.

 

[Free]

I dunno, I'm gonna be contrarian and say I like "notebook" better than "laptop".

I don't have a problem with calling them notebooks, per se.

Laptop is fine, too. But, would you carry around a PowerTop? A Chrometop? Googletop?

I usually refer to the ones I own as a mobile or portable PC. Even if it typically just sits on my desk.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

But, would you carry around a PowerTop?

Well, that's a rather personal question

 

[Lori Claremont]

Well, that's a rather personal question

I carry around a muffin top, does that count?

 

[Free]

I carry around a muffin top, does that count?

Hopefully you eat it, eventually.

 

[Free]

Coverage of the software side of the "Googlebook."

The ‘Googlebook’ Is Reinventing the Mouse Cursor—but Little Else

It looks like Chromebooks and ChromeOS aren't quite dead yet.

gizmodo.com

In its announcement on Tuesday, Google didn’t differentiate its newly announced Googlebooks from its age-old Chromebooks in any particularly useful way. We’ve scrolled through a mountain of leaks and rumors about the so-called Aluminum operating system. Google has stated that the name is an internal designation but has yet to publicly disclose the system’s actual name or any identifying details.

But what we’ve seen so far has positioned Aluminum as a mere upgrade to Chrome OS rather than an overhaul. Notorious Google leaker Mystic Leaks shared a full 16-minute video of this new operating system on Telegram (first spotted by Android Authority) in the hours before Google’s Googlebook announcement. Mystic Leaks claimed to have run this supposed copy of Google’s OS on a MacBook Pro using an emulator.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

If your computer is older than two years and you haven't updated the UEFI in the last two years, its Secure Boot certificates are about to expire next month. It's not a catastrophic emergency that will leave you locked out of your computer or anything, but here's a video to explain what it means and what needs to be done about it:


The short version is, if you're on Windows 11 this problem should be handled automatically by the Windows updater. If the update panel has a message saying your system is too old to get the updated certificates, and just waiting a few days doesn't resolve things, you may need to flash your motherboard with a new UEFI/BIOS, bearing in mind the attendant risks.

If you're on a Linux, and you have Secure Boot enabled, the certificates can be updated with a couple of console commands, as shown in the video. If you're in Legacy Boot mode, you don't have to care about this.