I find myself with one spare Chromebook, and I figured I’d see what else I can do with it.

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    5 days ago

    You can; however it will always show a message that leaves you a keypress away from nuking your system on boot

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        5 days ago

        Chromebooks have a special bios, it works with a chip on the motherboard to detect if chromeos is running or if some unverified os is running. If chromeos isn’t running, it displays a warning message on boot. This behavior cannot be disabled.

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          4 days ago

          Thanks! That is such pretty, jealous behavior.

          It was unlikely that I was going to buy one of those before but now it’s absolutely out of the question.

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            4 days ago

            I’m assuming you were going for “petty,” not rhapsodizing about the UI on the error.

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                3 days ago

                Sometimes, being an editor sucks. I try to hold back, but when you end up with a different word than intended – and it’s funny – I feel I have no choice but to point it out.