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???
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And of course, if I try to enroll with my personal email, it tells me "This user account is not eligible for the service", whereas with my work address, it tells me I "do not have enough software licenses to enroll this device. Please contact sales to purchase more." WTF????
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It adds "If you believe you're seeing this message in error, please contact support." Of course there's notoriously no way in the known universe to contact Google support. Or has that changed?
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Happily, you can still get the "Powerwash" menu by hitting Ctrl-Alt-Shift-r, and have it reinstall a vanilla ChromeOS, from which I can hopefully reenable developer mode. Sigh.
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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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Replying to @Ngnghm
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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