still over here waiting for chromeos to allow me to pass my usb-c yubikey through to the linux vm so I can use it for ssh/pgp. (it only supports passing android devices through right now, so you can develop apps that benefit the platform owned by the company that makes chromeos). it's been "coming soon" for like a year
@alrs i will never use a computer from lenovo; they have shipped malware too many times. also, are there even ME-disablement firmwares available for those?
@alrs wait core 2 duo?! that thing is ancient and slow. no way. my main laptop has 64gb ram.
@sneak yeah, not my main machine, but recently my favorite. You have a chromebook with 64gb of RAM?
@alrs is the root readonly? does it have secure boot? is the root user prevented from being accessed/tampering with the OS?
if the answer to any of these are no, i respectfully disagree that you are using it the way you would use a chromebook.
@sneak I'm making no argument that the security posture is equivalent, just the niche it fills in my life.
@sneak yeah, I'm using the X61S the way I would a chromebook, not for VMs or development. Browses, runs a few interesting containers.