Lenovo N23 Write Protection (Video 📼)
On my last plane ride, I caught up on a paper I’ve been meaning to read,
Junkyard Computing: Repurposing Discarded Smartphones to Minimize Carbon
and it reinvigorated my efforts to breathe a second life into discarded
chromebooks not only because they are
dirt cheap (I paid $17 per machine last week), but because they are also a
great carbon offset. However, my latest batch of 3 machines still had their
write protect screws in place, which means they’re not immediately reusable as
x86_64 Linux laptops without popping open the case and removing a tiny screw.