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Me too

• rbanffy 7mo ago
  I recently helped liberate about 70 EOL'ed Chromebooks. Now students in a college near me will get free laptops they can actually use for college work, running the latest and greatest Linux distros.
  • card_zero 7mo ago
    Oh well that's a different matter. Nobody hates acceptable cheap hardware.
  • westurner 7mo ago
    SusyQ USB-C Cable + USB-A to USB-C Cable + Coreboot? Recently liberated a Chromebook that powerwashed my hours of manual provisioning again due to remote login control failure FWICS Can't believe how much faster the same machine is with a modern Linux distro. (ChromiumOS was originally Gnome and Chrome on a Gentoo derivative by Linux workstation users, but now has a "Turn on Linux" button greyed out for all the kids.) Mrchromebox > Supported Devices: https://docs.mrchromebox.tech/docs/supported-devices.html https://docs.mrchromebox.tech/docs/supported-devices.html It's possible to install a list of apps with a script on Win, Mac, and Linux computers. Try to `adb install com.google.android.calculator`. Which should be the security priority? App download counts or automated provisioning?
  • nytesky 7mo ago
    Oh I thought it was a very dodgy process. Can you give some pointers? I will also ask an LLM?
    • iamnothere 7mo ago
      Here you go https://mrchromebox.tech/ https://mrchromebox.tech/
      • rbanffy 7mo ago
        This was it. It involved dismantling the machine, removing a screw, and some other maneuvers.
        • iamnothere 7mo ago
          Depends on the Chromebook. Some use a screw as a write protect jumper, some do not.
          • rbanffy 7mo ago
            Agreed. This was, so far, my worst experience with liberation of locked down machines. It’s fun that it scaled to that many units.