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I picked up 2 chromebooks after having never used one because my kids are probably never going back to school and this is what they are used to using in their elementary school. Is there really no way to log into this thing as a child without either a) having them type a crazy complex password for a 7 year old or b) having a google account with a real lovely password they remember? What the heck do schools do here?
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Hdip posted:Which chromebooks? I was just looking into them as my 5 and 7 year old are going to start google classroom stuff. I picked up Lenovo 100e 2nd Generation since they were the only things both cheap and locally available and I needed them quick. It looks like I just missed these or else I might have snagged it: https://www.costco.com/lenovo-11.6%22-2-in-1-touchscreen-chromebook---intel-celeron.product.100519438.html waffle iron posted:You can set a PIN on an unmanaged device. No clue what school managed devices let you do. Yeah appears that's only for unlocking, I guess we'll just let them sleep and deal with restarts as needed. There must be some fancier options with managed devices, sounds like they use a different login process according to what my kids described. Maneki Neko fucked around with this message at 23:04 on Mar 20, 2020 |
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Mar 20, 2020 23:00
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One of my kids changed their google account password like 2 days ago and her chromebook will still only accept her old password. Is there some magic trick to making it notice this or something? My google skills are failing me and all I'm seeing are "OH HERE'S HOW TO CHANGE YOUR PASSWORD" result garbage EDIT: Well apparently posting about it was the fix, because it finally noticed about 15 minutes ago Maneki Neko fucked around with this message at 19:07 on Dec 8, 2020 |
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Dec 8, 2020 17:02
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bull3964 posted:I think my Pixelbook bit the dust Author John Scalzis pixelbook died and then randomly started working again after 2 weeks so I guess maybe don't give up quite yet? https://twitter.com/scalzi/status/1529224998359281665
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Jun 7, 2022 23:23
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anakha posted:Has anyone tried installing ChromeOS Flex on their old laptops? I have a couple of old ones lying around and was thinking of repurposing them and donating for educational purposes after installing that OS. I found an old laptop I had laying around that was on the list of supported devices (A Dell from 2015 and is supported by google on ChromeOS Flex until 2026) and gave it a try yesterday. Install was super quick and easy, I haven't had tons of times to play around with it but so far so good, seems exactly the regular chromebook experience. Maneki Neko fucked around with this message at 16:07 on Jul 15, 2022 |
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Jul 15, 2022 16:00
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So it look like I've hit the chromeos bug where it thinks you have a captive portal when you totally don't. If I switch over to Google DNS that seems to sometimes fix it, is there some more universal fix? I can't find anywhere that seems to imply that Google has actually acknowledged this. Every other device on our network is fine, except for the ChromeOS ones.
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How decent is the chromebook android app experience in the year of our lord 2022, assuming the app I'm using doesn't lock itself to a phone size? There's a couple of android apps I was hoping to use but otherwise most of my other common stuff would be better on a chromebook vs a tablet.
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