Last week, I wrote a bit of an editorial piece that made the case that for the first time in years, a new, Google-made Pixelbook actually makes perfect sense thanks to the impending shift of ChromeOS to the Android kernel. It was a speculative, forward-looking article based on connecting a few dots that I thought […]| Chrome Unboxed – The Latest Chrome OS News
The desire for a new, Google-made Pixelbook never really goes away, does it? The original Pixelbook and the Pixelbook Go that followed were iconic, beloved devices that still represent a high watermark for Chromebook hardware (yes, I’m leaving the Pixel Slate out of this part of conversation). Yet, for years, I’ve argued that a new […]| Chrome Unboxed – The Latest Chrome OS News
With Google’s recent announcement of support for running real Linux apps on Chrome OS, I picked up a Pixelbook, since I’ve been long awaiting the viability of Chromebooks as development machines. After setting up a dev VM and experimenting with various projects, I found that one Tensorflow application I was playing with would lock up, hard, inside the Crostini VM on my Chromebook. After adding some debug prints, I discovered that virtually any calls into numpy.linalg.inv were hanging. I c...| nelhage debugs shit