chromebook is coming tomorrow.
plans for tomorrow as soon as it comes:
boot it, view system specs and stuff to make sure its the right one. dont wanna get scammed again lol. also verify the codename
take it apart and find the WP jumper and solder it closed
follow the instructions on mrchromebox.tech for flashing the firmware
boot into the gentoo ssd I have prepared
get it set up for compilation — plug it into an Ethernet adapter, use ectool to limit battery SOC, place computer on a fan, and plug in power.
set the compile opts in make.conf as they should be and set up distcc
set up the USE flags, and re-emerge the whole system except for the kernel
emerge firefox in amd64 chroot
while all that's going, set up keyd
format the emmc to have a small ESP and the rest as F2FS for rootfs
when everything is done, verify it still boots and everything is okay
copy rootfs from ssd to emmc (using tar so we preserve hard links, permissions, xattrs, etc)
might also need to re-emerge grub
peruse the kernel options and trim it down
also trim down linux-firmware
this may seem really complex but thats because I'm intentionally doing it all in a fuckass way for optimal funniness