Mastodawn

Local bulk store are dumping Lenovo 500e 2nd gen Chromebooks. Got one to use as android emulator (instead of a smartphone for a few crucial apps' sake) and the pen (EMR stylus) for teaching, noodling, notes. Mrchromebox' incredible firmware work doesn't cover its CPU (yet) so Linux is constrained to crouton/crostini (chroot) (OK-ish I guess, at least for this bargain price). Then this popped up on last reddit round before bedtime.

https://www.reddit.com/r/chromeos/comments/riux24/breath_linux_on_modern_post_2018_chromebooks_with/
#chromeos #chromebooklinux #chrx

Breath: Linux on modern, post 2018 Chromebooks with all drivers (including audio) working

Posted in r/chromeos by u/AMilkyDeveloper • 140 points and 121 comments

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Korben Dallas Jan 21, 2022

Dev took the Chrome OS firmware and fitted a distro build on top with container tools cloud root file systems. Amazing - if it works :) Testing first thing tmrw.
Toots courtesy of #fedilab inside #fdroid. There are sooo many cheapo used chromebooks for sale out there, many of them a fine fit for most users #linuxlaptop,

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Korben Dallas Jan 21, 2022

and...https://github.com/sickcodes/dock-droid seems to be a viable way to keep some android/fdroid apps running under Linux, outside chrome os

GitHub - sickcodes/dock-droid: Docker Android - Run QEMU Android in a Docker! X11 Forwarding! CI/CD for Android!

Docker Android - Run QEMU Android in a Docker! X11 Forwarding! CI/CD for Android! - sickcodes/dock-droid

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