30 Jul
2023
30 Jul
'23
6:32 p.m.
How many of us can make it to the August meeting? I'm just wondering if it's
alright to start moving forward with promoting this event, or if we need to pause until we
have a stronger consensus. I have a basic flyer ready to go, and Silver has asked if
it's okay to share it on Omni's social media.
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On Thursday, July 27th, 2023 at 9:27 PM, Jake via sudo-discuss
<sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org> wrote:
just a detail, Paige and I worked on a "pogo-pin" connector that should be
able to flash the chromebooks from the accessible side of the logic board, so
that only the bottom of the computer has to come off (which needs to come off
anyway because of the write-protect screw that has to be removed)
and when the time comes that we've dealt with the unlocked Latitudes and if we
still need to reflash the chromebooks (maybe the school district will actually
deprovision them?) then I will have time to work on that project more.
-jake
On Thu, 27 Jul 2023, tom r lopes via sudo-discuss wrote:
The chromebooks are not so easy to give out
because they are all cloud
locked. The organization that owned them previously could deprovision them
via a web control panel or, I believe, script it using the api (if they had
like a csv of the serial numbers.) Anyways, the chromebooks have been here a
while and not deprovisioned yet. A workaround is to manually reflash the
firmware (bios) and install Linux the usual way. This is connecting an spi
flash programmer to the flash chip. Access requires completely removing the
motherboard.
So I feel the giveaway should focus on the Latitudes which are more
straightforward.
As for the chromebooks: I thought I'd try making a print and video guide
for reflashing. So in the future if someone wants a machine they could go
follow the guide to make one themselves. And probably refuse any dump of
locked machines in the future. Or at least until the current stock is
depleted.
Thomas
On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 1:16 PM Jonathan Cadle via sudo-discuss <
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I like to work iteratively - I think a smaller
event (I was proposing
August 26th; perhaps in the afternoon around 3pm?) with just the latitudes
would be a good way to identify what works and doesn't work with the
meet-up itself, while we work to resolve the issues with the chromebooks.
I'm sure someone can do better what what I've got here for a weekly flyer,
but perhaps this can get us started?
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On Wednesday, July 26th, 2023 at 10:41 PM, Paige P via sudo-discuss <
sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org> wrote:
Yea I like the art idea but was just trying to update that most laptops we
have are not yet ready to give out to people who are not already hacker
types.
Though that second flyer about "calling in hackers"... that event could be
really great to get us closer to that point. What we really need right now
are people figuring out the technical kinks. We could run that asap and I
think thatd be great.
We have one WNB coding flyer that Romy made and is dope, but an ongoing
discussion is talking about rebranding to welcome ppl interested in
electronics and digital fab, not just coding. So we could make a new flyer
for that. But we gotta figure out an event name first or if we want to
change it actually.
One thing I would love is a general sudo room flyer with all events, that
is printable. I could post some around town/in other makerspaces.
Paige
On Wed, Jul 26, 2023, 10:07 PM Z Silver Zahn natashazahn27(a)gmail.com
wrote:
_______________________________________________ My goal for the initial post is the see who has
knowledge and interest
through data collecting then having a collective meeting about what the
process would look like.
Jake prose the importance of needing to remove the corporate labels
before any rebooting. Then Johnathon suggested a mix media version of this
which could be a cute meet and greet of how to go about the laptops!
Without fully sending them all out until a concrete plan and structure for
tracking the efforts is in play.
But I hear you said removing the logos were pretty easy.
My general call out would just to bring in more voices and ideas but
definitely down to wait since you guys are on to something!
I’m generally just trying to boost Sudo room more, so whatever ideas
events workshops lmk happy to support with outreach/marketing!
Also quickly made this for tuesday hardware nights, should I make one for
non binary Mondays too?
On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 10:58 PM Paige P pgeplan(a)gmail.com wrote:
> IMO we should wait till we get the flashing procedure down for the
> chromebooks and figure out some good distributions (and configurations) to
> recommend.
>
> 3 and I were working last night on this, and I had a lot of problems
> with the bios flashing (could connect and read, but was only able to
> successfully erase and write once out of maybe 50 tries). 3 was trying to
> figure out audio drivers for antiX but no luck either. I think that would
> be overwhelming to throw non-sudoers in to work on. Unless we are just
> telling people to use the latitudes. Or unless someone has this all figured
> out and willing to help host this night
>
> Paige
>
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2023, 5:58 PM Z Silver Zahn via sudo-discuss <
> sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org> wrote:
>
> > Hey y’all Johnathon brought up a laptop decorating party post
> > rebranding it. Then they need a bit of hacking to they are ready for
> > deployment , how do folks feel about me sharing this flyer Johnathon and I
> > made?
> >
> > Can make a google form for folks Intrests
> >
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