Gallium workshop's flagship model By Gallium Workshop Software
Abstract
The Jankbook is a collection of efforts from many developers to create the Quran of security breaching, from developers of Sh1mmer, to the developers of Linux Mint. Jankbook explores the limitations of school issued devices. The Jankbook v1 is from a Dell 3100 2-in-1. Using Sh1mmer from Mercury Workshop which unenrolls the Chromebook from enterprise Enrollment. These devices are all underpowered intel chips with no general uses. Which ultimately leads to a pinnacle of Jank, and helps make it look “hacker”.
Intro
Why?
Cuz why fking not? -KaitoTLex
The Jankbook is a device that puts actual use to the shitty school issued Chromebooks. These Chromebook has hardware that existed since the dinosaurs and engineered by Lenovo and Dell. To create Luther’s 95 Theses of poor engineering and easy security breach.
How it was done
Sh1mmer
Shimmer is a software that is written by Mercury Workshop which is one of Gallium Workshop’s alliance organizations. Sh1mmer requires rewriting the partition in the Chromebook’s enterprise enrollment. We used Sh1mmer to remove the enterprise enrollment and trick the Chromebook to believe that it isn’t enrolled, by jamming the “Dev Mode” in the Chromebook. The Chromebook was enrolled into the district’s enrollment which was an issue. With Sh1mmer rewriting the disk partition, Sh1mmer ridded the district’s enrollment. Then Sh1mmer allowed “dev mode” to work on the Chromebook.
Mr.Chromebox
“Dev mode” being enabled, the Chromebook was abandonded for a few months. The project was revived when one kid wanted arch on his Chromebook but Sh1mmer was patched so the “Sh1mmered” Chromebook was given to him to continue the legacy. Mr. Chromebox basically rewrites the coreboot of the Chromebook to run a Legacy Bios or UEFI.
Xero Linux
After the UEFI was flashed within a tricked Chromebook, the first initial test was to see whether the Chromebook’s specs can keep up with the bloat that is XeroLinux. XeroLinux is a distro of the Arch distro that may look “hacker” or “jank”. Honestly it’s just filled with bloat but it looked cool.
Manjaro
Afterwards the team shifted from Xero Linux to Manjaro which is peak of Arch-based distributions. Manjaro was deemed the most jank part of this Chromebook’s life.
MINT
Afterwards the Chromebook was abandoned which eventually led to the final form of the computer, Mint. Mint is a Debian-based distribution that is deemed the world’s most stable distribution. The distribution can do Linux stuff in a more user-friendly way.
Conclusion
Don’t do it unless you are a medically trained professional, you must be able to diagnose yourself. Each process of this project was done in a safe environment in a professional and educational setting. We are not liable for any damage done to the Chromebook. This project is to prove the potential use cases of these majestic pieces of art if it weren’t for the enterprise enrollment or being on ChromeOS.
