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My Chromebook can run Ubuntu in a Chrome tab for 10 hours. ~350 bucks.

by logicrime 11y ago

theonewolf 11y ago
What do you mean run Ubuntu in a Chrome tab? Is this a full virtual machine?
- ramayac 11y ago
  He is probably using Crouton : https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton
anonyfox 11y ago
Google Products are a no-go for me and for an increasing number of people i know. Be it hardware, software or languages/frameworks, it actually doesn't matter how good they are. The exception is search itself for now, because the competition often doesn't cut it (yet). This is of course just my stance/view.
- phelm 11y ago
  Why are Google products a no go for you and people you know?
  - anonyfox 11y ago
    This is a long story of issues mixed with political reasons and sprinkled with european anti-google stances. While this may be interesting to discuss with others, my experience is that it would end in fundamentalisitc flame wars... This doesn't belong into this thread.
  - toyg 11y ago
    Somebody with a nickname like ANONYfox clearly cares about privacy more than average. If you care about privacy, Google (or Facebook or or or...) is a no-go.
- blueblob 11y ago
  I have come to like duckduckgo instead for search. Even when I do want to use google for a search, it's as simple as typing "!g search term" in the bar. I find it nice for searching and then if I don't find what I want I can switch quickly to get google scholar results "!gsc search term". There's a rather large list of "bang" search options[1]. [1] https://duckduckgo.com/bang https://duckduckgo.com/bang
- logicrime 11y ago
  Yet, Kevin Mitnick (yeah really) endorses them to people who answer his question "Would you spend $300 to amp up your security" I don't pipe sensitive data through the Google cloud, but as far as hardware prices go, the Chromebook has ABSOLUTELY got Apple beat. Furthermore, Google makes efforts to fight back against NSL's, and even have canaries implemented. I don't use Google products when there is something better, obviously but refusing to use something of a superior quality for some reason you can't actually articulate seems ridiculous to me. I have no sympathy who are afraid to use things because someone might be watching, especially not when that person can't be bothered to consider just using something else for sensitive data, but instead whine and moan about how SuccessfulCorp is ruining everything, blah blah, etc. Too many 'anons' are obsessed with security, yet oftentimes they are the most security-ignorant demographic on the market.
  - anonyfox 11y ago
    The funny thing is, that I actually never mentioned privacy concerns here, my "anon" name comes from funny times on 4chan several years ago. I just don't want to build anything of value ontop of their products, either because work customer contracts demand privacy policies, or work today must be maintained the next 20years to come (non-startup environment) and my experience with google is that they don't care about these scenarios.

My Chromebook can run Ubuntu in a Chrome tab for 10 hours. ~350 bucks.

theonewolf 11y ago

What do you mean run Ubuntu in a Chrome tab? Is this a full virtual machine?

ramayac 11y ago
He is probably using Crouton : https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton

anonyfox 11y ago

Google Products are a no-go for me and for an increasing number of people i know. Be it hardware, software or languages/frameworks, it actually doesn't matter how good they are. The exception is search itself for now, because the competition often doesn't cut it (yet). This is of course just my stance/view.

phelm 11y ago
Why are Google products a no go for you and people you know?
- anonyfox 11y ago
  This is a long story of issues mixed with political reasons and sprinkled with european anti-google stances. While this may be interesting to discuss with others, my experience is that it would end in fundamentalisitc flame wars... This doesn't belong into this thread.
- toyg 11y ago
  Somebody with a nickname like ANONYfox clearly cares about privacy more than average. If you care about privacy, Google (or Facebook or or or...) is a no-go.
blueblob 11y ago
I have come to like duckduckgo instead for search. Even when I do want to use google for a search, it's as simple as typing "!g search term" in the bar. I find it nice for searching and then if I don't find what I want I can switch quickly to get google scholar results "!gsc search term". There's a rather large list of "bang" search options[1]. [1] https://duckduckgo.com/bang https://duckduckgo.com/bang
logicrime 11y ago
Yet, Kevin Mitnick (yeah really) endorses them to people who answer his question "Would you spend $300 to amp up your security" I don't pipe sensitive data through the Google cloud, but as far as hardware prices go, the Chromebook has ABSOLUTELY got Apple beat. Furthermore, Google makes efforts to fight back against NSL's, and even have canaries implemented. I don't use Google products when there is something better, obviously but refusing to use something of a superior quality for some reason you can't actually articulate seems ridiculous to me. I have no sympathy who are afraid to use things because someone might be watching, especially not when that person can't be bothered to consider just using something else for sensitive data, but instead whine and moan about how SuccessfulCorp is ruining everything, blah blah, etc. Too many 'anons' are obsessed with security, yet oftentimes they are the most security-ignorant demographic on the market.
- anonyfox 11y ago
  The funny thing is, that I actually never mentioned privacy concerns here, my "anon" name comes from funny times on 4chan several years ago. I just don't want to build anything of value ontop of their products, either because work customer contracts demand privacy policies, or work today must be maintained the next 20years to come (non-startup environment) and my experience with google is that they don't care about these scenarios.