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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 haven't seen the need to replace my #chromebook yet. I bought it to handle email, social media apps, language courses, read news and web browsing. Machine is four years old and works well enough for me. Wife wants to buy me a tablet, but I keep asking her why as I have devices that are good enough.
Is it fast? No, but it is fast enough to do what I want.
Does it have …

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…

I really wish Google would allow us to modify the themes in a chromebook. Black or white sucks. I prefer the title bar to show a different colour to indicate it is the foreground task. Also set up a border around the app to make it visually obvious where it is. That pathetic shadow doesn't cut it at all. Similar rant for Windows. For my #linux boxes I have them set to make it obvious …

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…