Mike Mar 6

Yooooo, this is exciting. I've always written off #arm #chomebook as un-saveable since they can't be jailbroken with MrChomebox.

I just got like 50 of these Asus C100P arm chromebooks that are "expired". Digging around, it looks like #postmarketOS will run on this!

Still stuff to figure out but DAMN this is promising. Being able to save even ARM chromebooks is epic. Dammit I love #linux and #openSource

Show threadPaul BlackMar 6
@codemonkeymike Cool! I was recently donated a (x86_64) HP 14 G4, which I'm still deciding what to do with since it only has 16GB of storage. I'm leaning towards building my own images of openfyde and hosting my own OTA server currently.
Show threadMike Mar 6
@Techwizz yeah the 16g of storage ones are rough. I actually have a blessed way i've been upcycleing them with debian 13 XFCE. I'm thinking about doing a video and article on it
Show threadPaul BlackMar 6
@codemonkeymike My only concern with that would be major updates (if you're not already handling that in some way)
Show threadMike Mar 6
@Techwizz I enable unattented upgrades with debian 13. It won't auto upgrade to debian 14, but debian has such a long support window, this seemed like a good tradeoff
Show threadPaul BlackMar 6
@codemonkeymike Yeah, that is true, that seems reasonable to me. Thanks for sharing, I'll see what route I end up going. I'm also considering making a desktop/laptop version of my distro from scratch (currently just for virtualization, but very small base), and just include xfce as a DE and flatpak. It's immutable using BTRFS snapshots and is likely feasible here.
Show threadPaul BlackMar 6
@codemonkeymike For now I think I'll go with Debian 13 though, I think that is a good route to go with these.
Show threadMike 
@Techwizz i mean there's no wrong way to Linux! use whatever calls to you. But debian is always a good boring, but solid, choice
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