John Spahr

Hey, reader!  You may have noticed that my website has suddenly undergone some significant changes. In terms of styling, it's about the same as always, but the content is way different. For some context, this summer, I aim to start doing freelance photography. To reduce steps for potential clients, I want to make my homepage centered around this. That's not to say I'm abandoning the other projects on my site. Far from it. However, this will be my main focus for the next several months. Anyway, I hope this explains some of these changes. I'm super excited for this next chapter, and if you're nearby, you should totally hire me. ;) Until next time, John

Chromebooks have always been an interesting product category for me. Similar to cars, I'm interested in things that compromise features to make themselves more accessible to the masses. I love economy cars, and I love economy computers.  Being the owner of a 2023 MacBook Pro, maybe I'm a little warmer to these basic computers than I would be if I had to use one. But I do own a $300 Asus Chromebook tablet PC which I do a lot of writing on. I'm actually writing this post on it. So, when a lot of Dell Chromebook 3100s came up on eBay, I splurged. What I got was 4 C-grade Chromebooks that were totally functional. I immediately got to work. Many say that you cannot use alternative OSs on Chromebooks, at least not natively. And they're kind of right. Depending on your model and chip architecture, alternative firmware may not be available. Further, many operating systems do not have all the necessary drivers available for Chromebooks. Take Windows 10 for example. It does not s...