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   Janneke (janneke@todon.nl)'s status on Sunday, 01-Jun-2025 20:34:52 JST Janneke

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   Geert-Jan Meewisse and Raoul Kramer presenting "presenting the FOSS stack for schools" in Kleine spoel at @tdose
   #tdose

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     Janneke (janneke@todon.nl)'s status on Sunday, 01-Jun-2025 21:07:47 JST Janneke

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     @amirbkhan @tdose I'm sure that @gj@eerlijkdigitaalonderwijs.nl can tell you all about it!

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     Amir Khan (amirbkhan@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Jun-2025 21:07:48 JST Amir Khan

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     @janneke @tdose
     Love to get the details of this one. Got a couple of old school chromebooks that I’d love to liberate

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     Janneke (janneke@todon.nl)'s status on Sunday, 01-Jun-2025 21:12:14 JST Janneke

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     @amirbkhan @tdose wait, that's an email address, possibly try @CEDO

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 01-Jun-2025 23:43:26 JST 翠星石

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     @janneke @tdose @CEDO Very nice - 100% free software right? Or only partially free?
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 01-Jun-2025 23:58:18 JST 翠星石

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     @CEDO @tdose @janneke >open source as far as practical
     If all the software isn't free, that's quite impractical.
     
     >It's still a modern Intel chipset, that has Intel ME and some binary blobs
     I would highly recommend supporting chromebook hardware that isn't handcuffed, or some other hardware - as doing lots of work on hardware that will never be free and calling it "liberated" is a bit yikes (posted from my GNUbooted computer).
     
     >But bios-chip runs Coreboot,
     Coreboot doesn't really do much on such hardware - intel's proprietary init runs and then jumps to coreboot, which doesn't have much to do but load GRUB.
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     eerlijkdigitaalonderwijs.nl (cedo@mastodon.nl)'s status on Sunday, 01-Jun-2025 23:58:19 JST eerlijkdigitaalonderwijs.nl

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     @Suiseiseki @tdose @janneke It's de-Googled completely and open source as far as practical. It's still a modern Intel chipset, that has Intel ME and some binary blobs. But bios-chip runs Coreboot, that loads the GRUB loader that boots Debian.

     #opensource #Coreboot #intelme

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 02-Jun-2025 00:07:37 JST 翠星石

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     @CEDO @janneke @tdose Ah yes, such chromebooks also use sound cards that are handcuffed to only run proprietary software ((mostly) source-available, developed under an "open source" development model and released under a free license, but it is not free software, as you cannot run a free version on the only computer you want to run it on.
     
     If you want to make a change, you need to purchase an expensive handcuffed SBC, except the sound card doesn't happened to be handcuffed and do gratis work for intel and beg them to sign a binary containing your modifications - but that binary may not even end up working, as chances are the chipset is slightly different as to what's in the chromebook.
     
     The result is that the sound card does not work and you can't fix it.
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     Amir Khan (amirbkhan@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Jun-2025 01:08:42 JST Amir Khan

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     @CEDO @janneke @tdose @kkeijzer
     Geweldig. Thanks 🙏

     Janneke repeated this.
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     just small circles 🕊 (smallcircles@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 02-Jun-2025 01:08:42 JST just small circles 🕊

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     @amirbkhan @CEDO @janneke @tdose @kkeijzer

     I just watched the presentation (in Dutch) via the recorded YT livestream. Entertaining, informative, and giving a good outlook to feasible solutions. Congratulations #CEDO on the path you set in and progress already made. 💪

     Here's the livestream (doesn't allow pinpointing the starting point.. you have to thumbnail scroll to the starting point.. 3hrs 10mins back rn)

     https://www.youtube.com/live/0bO_f4toYTA

     #FOSS #Education #OER

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     eerlijkdigitaalonderwijs.nl (cedo@mastodon.nl)'s status on Monday, 02-Jun-2025 01:08:43 JST eerlijkdigitaalonderwijs.nl

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     @amirbkhan @janneke @tdose We used this manual, and support from @kkeijzer https://docs.mrchromebox.tech/docs/firmware/flashing-firmware.html for the model we have the 'battery disconnect' method was needed to disable the write-protect. (HP chromebook 11 g8 ee)