I recently helped liberate about 70 EOL'ed Chromebooks. Now students in a colleg...

westurner · 2026-03-20T13:59:56 1774015196

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?

card_zero · 2026-03-20T13:56:11 1774014971

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

nytesky · 2026-03-20T14:18:43 1774016323

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

iamnothere · 2026-03-20T16:34:23 1774024463

Here you go

https://mrchromebox.tech/

rbanffy · 2026-03-20T17:38:10 1774028290

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

iamnothere · 2026-03-20T21:27:01 1774042021

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

rbanffy · 2026-03-21T10:18:40 1774088320

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