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Re:Unboxing a $100 Chromebook by public_defender on Saturday July 23, 2022 @06:39AM (#32202099)
I didn't know about Mr. Chromebox. Very cool. You can also press CTRL+D at boot when you have dev mode enabled to boot an OS from external storage. This is viable on ARM architectures with, for example, Arch Linux ARM.
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Re:Unboxing a $100 Chromebook by yjftsjthsd-h on Saturday July 23, 2022 @10:38PM (#32209763)
You can, but it's loud, freezes boot for 30s or until you hit the key combo, and if you hit the wrong key it wipes your device. Developer mode is a decent escape hatch but I wouldn't want to use it in "normal" use.
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Re:Unboxing a $100 Chromebook by public_defender on Saturday July 23, 2022 @11:15PM (#32209993)
Yes, this is what I meant by "not the most frictionless experience."

However in my mind it was all paid back to me 100 fold when a customs officer at an international border tried to open my laptop and examine it, but was subjected to the sonic-boom beeping of dev mode boot timeout.

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Re:Unboxing a $100 Chromebook by rnk on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @05:48PM (#32257468)
What happened next? Did they say log in? Don't some countries, maybe the us say they will keep your laptop for "study" if you don't log in and let them snoop?
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