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Giving an old chromebook new life with linux (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello! I just went through the process of getting PopOS onto a chromebook. It went pretty smoothly and appears to be functioning which is great news. However the drive is soldered to the board, there are no slots for a second drive, and it's only 30gb in size.

Depending on how my friend wants to use it this may be fine (like if it is going to be a glorified browser). I'm trying to figure out a good way around it though. My current thought is to get one of those really small USB keys and basically use it like a semi permanent hard drive.

Any thoughts on potential other solutions, or suggestions for USB keys that would work well for this? Is there anything about Linux/Pop that would make the USB solution a bad idea? Or maybe a good beginner friendly distro with lighter requirements than Pop that still works well with chromebook hardware?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

True, but in the U.S. it's illegal to upload not download/stream. So you should be fine. Especially with large companies downloading terabytes of data to train AI and fighting that it should be overlooked. You don't upload any data, and can in theory download movies/shows if you had space and wanted to watch them later. That's rare for me though. I use a RustDesk setup if I want to do so, and remote in from my phone's start the movie. Pause, hit download and it downloads not as a torrent but as a normal download. A .mkv or such, then play with a video player.

Then again, I'm from dbzero, piracy is kind of our thing