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Google announces a new laptop lineup called Googlebook, with a unified OS that merges ChromeOS and Android, a "Glow bar" rainbow LED design element, and more (Kyle Kucharski/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/googlebook-news-premium-chromebook-for-an…

First look at Googlebook: A premium Chromebook alternative for Android users
Googlebooks use an all-new OS that merges Android and ChromeOS with more premium hardware.

An Indonesian court sentences Gojek co-founder and ex-education minister Nadiem Makarim to 10 years in prison for power abuses over a Chromebook contract (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/business/indonesia-trial-nadiem-makarim.html

Prominent Tech Founder in Indonesia Is Found Guilty in Corruption Case
The case against Nadiem Makarim, a co-founder of Gojek, has fueled concerns about judicial fairness in a nation where foreign investors were already growing wary.

I sometimes get a wild hair to buy a ~$150 Chromebook or Win notebook, probably to run Linux, as a 2026 version of the #iOpener. Then I remember the junk I've bought but didn't really use:
* $50 Black Friday Android tablet ~2012, I literally never opened.
* used ASUS eee pc $50 ~2015, ran Linux on it, but didn't use much
* Amazon Kindle 8 inch tablet 2017, screen wasn…

An ancient X230 with a quad-core mod is surprisingly usable with all cores pegged building a kernel. Much more so than the Zen1 Ryzen 7 ex-Chromebook. Strange!

Former Gojek CEO and Indonesian education minister Nadiem Makarim is charged with taking ~$46M in rewards tied to a Chromebook procurement contract for schools (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

A ThinkPad X230 (2012) is all the computer you need and if you need more computer then a ThinkPad C13 Yoga Chromebook (2020) is all the computer you need and if you need more computer than git gud and if you're unable to git gud for any reason then ask Claude to git you gud and if you're unable to ask Claude for any reason then idk mate consider moving to a tiny house in Montana or sth or maybe find your nearest Jacquard loom and give it the ol' percussive tune-up

Unbricked laptop after connecting a PC keyboard (since the Chromebook keyboard doesn't have native F-keys to switch VTs, and I don't keep an ssh server running for paranoia reasons). kwin (_x11 and _wayland) was trying to access a symbol in kscreenlocker that was somehow not present in the installed version of the library, causing it to bomb out, causing the entire house of cards to collapse. I shoved a decent binary into place, and the box began working. As per my personal policy of…