I am in my 70s, but still do some work as an architect/software developer so I am going to hang on to my Mac computers for a while.
When I finally get past my “sell by date” and completely stop working, I really like the Chromebook since the UI is nice enough and the Linux containers work well enough for light weight coding for fun projects. I would hang on to my iPhone and Apple Watch. Maybe keep an iPad instead of a Chromebook if not having Linux containers is OK.
I virtually never turn on any of my Mac computers anymore if I am not in work mode. Even with valid criticisms of recent UI changes, macOS is great for getting work done.
Good question! I am aware of it, do not love it though.
I have made peace with Google and privacy by carefully setting my account privacy settings, basically asking them to not store any of my data except for my music and YouTube history (I want good recommendations).
I am a heavy user of Colab and prefer GCP over AWS, and I buy books from Google Play because of family sharing. And I worked at Google in 2013.
I have read the major new books on privacy by Carissa Velez and Shoshana Zuboff and take privacy seriously but for me it is a value vs. costs thing.
When I finally get past my “sell by date” and completely stop working, I really like the Chromebook since the UI is nice enough and the Linux containers work well enough for light weight coding for fun projects. I would hang on to my iPhone and Apple Watch. Maybe keep an iPad instead of a Chromebook if not having Linux containers is OK.
I virtually never turn on any of my Mac computers anymore if I am not in work mode. Even with valid criticisms of recent UI changes, macOS is great for getting work done.