[nmglug] Time to resign,

[Ted Pomeroy]

NMGLUGers, Well, still celebrating my"retirement" and I did attend the
in-person on Thursday. It was a small group, but Jason and I had a chance
to check out the Xubuntu on Asus Chromebook. We discovered a few, maybe
significant, limitations. The screen resolution is not too high, and the
top row of keys and the bottom row (no Super key) are lacking certain
abilities. Notably the row of "F" keys is modified for the other OS, labels
do not match the layout of a standard keyboard. And we found the trackpad
would regularly quit working when we typed some combinations of keys. For
now I do not know more, but I hope to acquire more data in the next few
weeks. Of course this will be a slow process, due to my rate of work.
Perhaps others can add to this discussion. In the meantime I am a little
less enthusiastic about the capacities of the hardware and discovering the
limitations of taking a web-terminal kind of device and converting it to
full functionality. In a way it boils down to: What do I want to do? Will
this device do all I require?
Thanks for your support and interest in free software, Ted P.

On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 11:57 AM Ted Pomeroy <ted.pome at gmail.com> wrote:

> NMGLUGers, I think it is time for me to resign my active membership in the
> GLUG. Although I keep computing, I am no longer breaking new ground and not
> interested in being the hobbyist I once was.
> Oddly though, I am still doing some things. I am writing this on Xubuntu,
> Gnu/Linux installed on a former student  11 inch Chromebook(tm). The
> conversion removed all of the former OS after borrowing a script to rewrite
> the boot system with SeaBios or one of the other Coreboot varieties.
> Instructions are found at MrChromebox dot tech or other pages on the 'net.
> No major glitches, no major issues. I am limited by the emmc chip on the
> board - 16 Gb, but it works.
> Nice to have a really functional terminal and man pages and such. As well
> as the freedom to choose my applications and modifications. Used student
> C-books are cheap because the support for each hardware is only 4 years. A
> real waste of resources and trash producer for the landfill.
> I may try to be present at this weeks meeting, I will have nothing to turn
> in and the recent discussions have gone beyond my level of activity, but it
> is fun to listen.
> Be well, Thank you, Ted P.
>
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