Chromebooks and Mild Paranoia
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I'm looking at the ASUS C201 and it looks pretty solid. The only hardware concern i really have is the lack of an Ethernet port. Depending on how I like the ChromeOS I may go the Mint or Korora route, but that remains to be seen. There's also the mild amount of paranoia that I have since it's a Google device, and the user data they may gather. Anyone happen to have any thoughts on one of these?
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That's the exact laptop that I have. I love it.
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I wish that it had an Ethernet port, but really, that's not the purpose of the device. The wifi is rock solid and the device is too small to fit a port. It's the nature of a device this small.
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@scottalanmiller Awesome, I'm guessing no issues dual booting or are you just running ChromeOS with a terminal application for your Linux management?
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@scottalanmiller I bought one after MangoCon this year. It has been amazing.
@R3dPand4 if you have a gmail account, what else do you think they can get on you? They already have all your data.
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I actually have this laptop as well. It's worked like a charm and have actually developed a good portion of SodiumSuite on it. No issues at all.
Side tag because I had someone ask which chromebook I have: @DustinB3403 this one is the one that I have.
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@r3dpand4 said in Chromebooks and Mild Paranoia:
@scottalanmiller Awesome, I'm guessing no issues dual booting or are you just running ChromeOS with a terminal application for your Linux management?
Just assume you can't dual boot and you don't want to install anything else on it. If you want to run Linux, you really don't want a Chromebook.
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@r3dpand4 said in Chromebooks and Mild Paranoia:
...or are you just running ChromeOS with a terminal application for your Linux management?
Yup, just a terminal app. Which is all I would use if it was a full Linux laptop anyway. So perfectly good there.
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@rojoloco Not sure why you think gmail has anything to do with any locally stored data. Sure they have my browsing habits and history, but so does every browser that's not remotely what I'm talking about.
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@quixoticjeremy Nice!
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@scottalanmiller Sweet.
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@r3dpand4 chromebooks aren't really made for local data storage. You might want a regular laptop.
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@scottalanmiller said in Chromebooks and Mild Paranoia:
@r3dpand4 said in Chromebooks and Mild Paranoia:
@scottalanmiller Awesome, I'm guessing no issues dual booting or are you just running ChromeOS with a terminal application for your Linux management?
Just assume you can't dual boot and you don't want to install anything else on it. If you want to run Linux, you really don't want a Chromebook.
That's fair, thanks for the heads up.
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@r3dpand4 said in Chromebooks and Mild Paranoia:
@rojoloco Not sure why you think gmail has anything to do with any locally stored data. Sure they have my browsing habits and history, but so does every browser that's not remotely what I'm talking about.
Storing locally? What do you plan to do? Chromebook is just a web browser.
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@scottalanmiller I was just planning to use an SD card for development projects nothing crazy.
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As Scott and I hashed out last week or the week before, Google is responsible for properly managing your data and not to use it against you. Since then, I've began to consider getting a Google Home. Something that I would not have normally considered.
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@nerdydad I certainly hope they wouldn't do something like that, but honestly it's that thinking that's made me avoid an Alexa, Home, etc. That's interesting that you're considering one after that nonsense where someone found their Home recording every conversation and relaying the data back. I haven't read too much on it other than it may have been an actual issue that needed to be patched, so I'm not sure it was the intended behavior.
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I'd love to see the looks of horror on the faces of anyone listening to conversations (and other sounds) that might be heard in my house... They'd probably remotely deactivate the microphone.
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@r3dpand4 said in Chromebooks and Mild Paranoia:
@nerdydad I certainly hope they wouldn't do something like that, but honestly it's that thinking that's made me avoid an Alexa, Home, etc. That's interesting that you're considering one after that nonsense where someone found their Home recording every conversation and relaying the data back. I haven't read too much on it other than it may have been an actual issue that needed to be patched, so I'm not sure it was the intended behavior.
I have heard of hacks to where you can put a switch in-line with the mic on the home, but to me, that kind of defeats the purpose of the device. I've seen a switch built-in to the Home mini's but have not yet heard what it is there for.
The Home has to have the mic on in order to listen for the correct speech pattern in order to activate. There is not much hardware in the Google home itself, so it has to relay that information back for interpretation. Whether that is a bug or was designed that way, I'm not sure.
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@rojoloco LOL
