I thought I could bring myself once again to love Chromebooks once I've found out that there are 16gbRAM Chromebooks being sold in Facebook Marketplace. Better processors, better storage, better battery. Alas, even with these powerful Chromebook Pluses I still witnessed Chrome's memory greed on idle, taking up nearly half to two-thirds of RAM. More so, you couldn't configure the VM to gain allocation of extra cores, so browser and browser-based applications in the Linux VM remain choked in a ChromeOS.
Thus, I found myself really lucky when I stumbled upon CCD Debug Boards in Lazada. It was really a surprise, I thought I've exhausted my search for SuzyQables before, but I found no source in Philippine IT groups or elsewhere really. Before these Debug Board existed, the only solution forums could provide was a E-Bay listing and scattered tutorials on soldering your own Debug Board. I was already mentally prepared to do some soldering myself, but this discovery allow me to skip the DIY electronics part of my journey.
In Lazada at least, these stores happen to be ROOQs and Henggan. But these stores are nothing more than distributors of the CCD Debug Boards manufactured by Huang Li electronics. It says so in the product listing. I bought the Opaque Shell variant. I received it approximately 5 days from order.
So these devices. What are they? From what I can understand, these are adapters that will allow to you access a Chromebook's privileged ports from a main machine. Once you attached the Debug Board to a USB Cord, you then connect said board to the Chromebook, while you attach the other end to the machine from which you will sniff out the ChromeOS ports to which you'd run your escalation commands.
Again, this is the idiot-proof advice I'll give you. Two machines. The target Chromebook device, and the device (most likely a Linux device) from which you'll run the escalation commands. Connected together by the USB cord, with the end that has the debug board attached connected to the target Chromebook device.
I am not going to cover CCD and Chromebook deGoogling; MrChromebox.Tech remains the authority on this matter. I followed their tutorial and was able to convert a Chromebook with CR50 security chip to a Fedora via CCD using this Debug Board.
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