I am a teacher in the Hawaii school system and I need to blow the whistle on a couple things that have been bothering me

No you either run a live Linux session off a usb flash drive or you wipe Chrome OS off the internal ssd drive and replace it with an open Linux kernel and desktop.

running a live Linux session will not alter anything on the Chromebooks hard drive and the OS on there. It is just sitting there as you are running your OS code from an attached USB drive.

While in a live USB linux session you can choose to run a full bl;own desktop session or you can choose to install linux over top of the hard drive and the chrome os installed at the factory. It can delete and create new partitions, wipe / over write the disk just as it is and format it so it is just a blank hardrive, or you can do all the above and permanently write the new Linux OS where Chrome OS once called home.



So you boot the usb drive and use it as you find it.

If you wipe the internal hard drive you can use it as storage space but you will not have a chrome os to boot your chromebook from, So you must use a USB. It is like a hardware key to your chromebook.

You can encrypted the internal hard drive so if any one tries to scoop up your book with out the usb drive key drive to boot and decrypt the data that may be stored inside. You pass word protect the boot sequence on the key so evenm if they scoop up the book key inserted they have to get pass the password lock at boot.

In essence book it is a brick for most people, even if a Linux hack booted your book from their on key the worst they could do is wipe the disk clean. The data and the device is lost but not your privacy or digital security.


So A live usb Linux session will run on Chromebooks ./, by passing chrome os but not changing anything.

You can wipe the hard drive and have a blank slate using only usb drives to boot your book from here on in, never using or changing the internal hard drive or use it as internal storage only, or..

You boot a live session and choose to wipe and over write Chrome OS with Linux. You will loose access to chrome apps store etc. In truth if you really need to run a chrome os app via the installer you can emulate it on your book with little performance hits.

Living in Hawaii for a year broke as fuck was one of the most educational experiences of my life. I do think it will collapse, maybe it already has..the communism there is thick. So many missing people on the wall at wall-mart... I had a dream one night about the native spirits of the island telling me I had to leave while behind them, I could see cannabalism starting to take place in the background. So many fraudulent, illegal things going on there, all protected by the law somehow.. Felt like living in a video game or an anime even. I hate the way that animals are treated there, many locked up in small cages, it’s inhumane. Human trafficking there is off the charts too.

First of all, it's subtle but all throughout the curriculum in this school system I'm finding subtle racism against white people. An example that comes to mind is they teach the kids that the Europeans who came to Hawaii came here to rape and pillage and they never mention anything positive that they contributed. They are indoctrinating our children to be racist from a tiny age in the public school system. It's subtle but it's all over the curriculum.

But that isn't my biggest concern, my biggest concern is that every single student in this school system is assigned a Chromebook. That means that from the time a child is in kindergarden Google is tracking every single thing that kid does on the internet against the child's knowledge or consent. THIS IS A STALINISTS WET DREAM COME TRUE!!! Never before has a government had this kind of unmitigated access to the psychological profiles of individuals even as they are maturing (yes, I'm pretty sure that Google gives the USG whatever data it wants). Think of the longterm implications of this for a minute, especially if it's happening in most school systems in the country! That would mean all of our children's psych profiles will be readily available to the government when they turn 18. The ability to manipulate their psyche at that point using targeted advertising or more direct means cannot be underestimated.

they wanna go back to the long pig days