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Fight Chromebook and win

Who said anything about an Android tablet? I want this thing to be the computer it's supposed to be. I want it to be capable of dealing with Calibre and connecting to that 2 tb Toshiba portable hard drive which I haven't even used yet because I can't make that hunk of junk behave correctly. I would also like to get minimal adb + fastboot and maybe do some phone fixing. None of that seems really out there to me. How do I get pass that password garbage and put this crimebook into developer mode?
is there a forget password option? you might have to enter some bogus password a few times before the option appears. did you setup an account with google initially when you set the chromebook up?
 
No, my hatred of googoo would make that about the last thing that I would do. I want to kick them to the curb or as close as possible to it. I just want a real, usable computer for once.
 
No, my hatred of googoo would make that about the last thing that I would do. I want to kick them to the curb or as close as possible to it. I just want a real, usable computer for once.
then skip the chromebook and get a pc.

if you did not setup an account then i do not know why it is asking for a password when you did not setup one. maybe you might want try and do a hard reset on the chromebook:
 
It's not as intense but it's there. I hate social media, too. That stuff is just a waste of time and apparently it messes with people's minds. I would like it if we could design our own bloatfree,, nonspying tech and have it reliably deliver what we want and when we want it. Then we should know when we've had enough and move on to something else.
 
What you're missing is that I cannot put this thing in developer mode. If I ever can, then I would be able to put Linux on and then, I hope, get rid of googoo. After that I might customize it to my liking and make it actually usable.
 
What you're missing is that I cannot put this thing in developer mode. If I ever can, then I would be able to put Linux on and then, I hope, get rid of googoo. After that I might customize it to my liking and make it actually usable.
Why not just boot from a Linux installation disk?
 
That won't work. First of all a Chromebook has no CD-ROM drivev, and it has a weird BIOS that won't allow booting from USB or the internal card reader. There used to be a convoluted procedure to get my C720 to get a full Linux (limited at the time to Ubuntu 14.04) onto it, using a form of shell built into it (didn't need developer mode it was just some weird Fn shortcut to get that shell) that allowed it to download and install Ubuntu like it were a software update OTA.

Problem is, these things are so low-specced a full Linux distro will run like crap. They're specced worse than a Core 2 Duo system.
 
The specs haven't really changed that much. The reason they run ChromeOS is because it's low-resource and they don't need to put a lot of expensive parts into one. That's why they sell so cheap. Also, and until Garner says what model he is running, I'm betting it's an older, used model that someone handed him.
 
Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's "refurbished" (such a pretty word) and somebody did indeed hand it to me in a box. I was in a rather good mood about it until I found out that I'd been blindsided by a crimebook. Isn't that the kind of crap that used to get foisted off on students in the '80s and '90s? For what it's not worth, it's a Samsung,and that probably makes it even junkier.
 
It's Samsung in name only. Without their unique software it's not a true Samsung. (Yes, I'm one of the few who adored Touchwiz.)

in the 80s schools (the Chromebook's primary customer) were still rocking Apple //e's. Oregon Trail, Odell Lake, Jenny's Journeys, anyone?

The sound effects of Number Munchers and Odell Lake are permanently burned into my brain.
 
Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's "refurbished" (such a pretty word) and somebody did indeed hand it to me in a box. I was in a rather good mood about it until I found out that I'd been blindsided by a crimebook. Isn't that the kind of crap that used to get foisted off on students in the '80s and '90s? For what it's not worth, it's a Samsung,and that probably makes it even junkier.
What if you simply replaced the hard disk with one that had Linix installed onto it?
 
Because the BIOS has some sort of security that won't allow booting an 'unapproved' OS. These aren't regular X86 machines that you could just slap Windows 10 or something to.

Also, disk swapping in Linux isn't as easy as you might think. For a while I had a system running VectorLinux 6.x with a heavy theme that made it look a lot like those computers in the Jurassic Park movie (Irix, 3D File System Navigator, the console, etc) but just popping that IDE disk out and slapping it into another system was met with a "KERNEL PANIC UNABLE TO MOUNT ROOT FS NOT SYNCING" error. Put it back in the system it came from it booted fine.
 
Because the BIOS has some sort of security that won't allow booting an 'unapproved' OS. These aren't regular X86 machines that you could just slap Windows 10 or something to.

Also, disk swapping in Linux isn't as easy as you might think. For a while I had a system running VectorLinux 6.x with a heavy theme that made it look a lot like those computers in the Jurassic Park movie (Irix, 3D File System Navigator, the console, etc) but just popping that IDE disk out and slapping it into another system was met with a "KERNEL PANIC UNABLE TO MOUNT ROOT FS NOT SYNCING" error. Put it back in the system it came from it booted fine.
Maybe selvage the hard disk and memory, or just donate it.
 
It's long gone now. I was unable to salvage the data (and the man hours of work that went into it) enough to make use of it, and the system it came out of was lost long ago. It was just a drive taking up space otherwise. Nothing I own today even has IDE.

If you're talking about the chromebook SSD that Garner has, well, I doubt anything important is even on it. I think the only user data that would be stored on it would be the OS (obviously), any music, photos and other documents. Chrome OS doesn't really store much else to the SSD, as it's so cloud dependent.
 
If you're talking about the chromebook SSD that Garner has, well, I doubt anything important is even on it. I think the only user data that would be stored on it would be the OS (obviously), any music, photos and other documents.
I meant salvage the hard disk for the disk itself, not necessarily for the data.

Chrome OS doesn't really store much else to the SSD, as it's so cloud dependent.
Depends on how you use it. I use Chrome OS (or rather, Chromium OS), and I have it saving files to the SD card. Of course, I'm using Chrome OS as Android rather than as the cloud-service-browser-in-a-box Chrome OS was originally meant to be.
 
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