Véra turns on her Chromebook after a few weeks, and instead of offering her to boot Linux in developer mode as usual, it declares itself a piece of "Hangouts Meet hardware" and demands that she go through "Entreprise Enrollment". WTF, Google bricked her laptop???
After much mucking around, Véra's computer is back running GalliumOS. I suppose what happened is that one of the sisters opened the computer and played with it. Which means ChromeOS is amenable to all-but-bricking itself in a few keys of random typing from a 4yo.
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AFAIR, in developer mode all it takes is to press space during boot to wipe it. At least that's how it was couple of years ago.
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That is still the case, at least on that two year old machine. But then something not much more complex must have happened to transition ChromeOS into this Enterprise Hangouts meet hardware.
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