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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.


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

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?


Oh well that's a different matter. Nobody hates acceptable cheap hardware.


Oh I thought it was a very dodgy process. Can you give some pointers? I will also ask an LLM?


Here you go

https://mrchromebox.tech/


This was it. It involved dismantling the machine, removing a screw, and some other maneuvers.


Depends on the Chromebook. Some use a screw as a write protect jumper, some do not.


Agreed. This was, so far, my worst experience with liberation of locked down machines. It’s fun that it scaled to that many units.




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