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by simonvc 1299 days ago
It really is. I guess this'll be quite useful for people on chromebooks and iPads as well.
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Chromebooks can run linux containers out of the box, you don't need to hurt yourself like this. The experience is similar to WSL.

https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/9145439?hl=en

Not school-issued ones, as my son and I discovered. He told me that the school had assigned a Chromebook to each student. I said: "Great, let's install Python on it."

Nope. Locked down like a crab's arse.

Sad. The Chromebook went under his bed, and came back out at the end of the school year when it had to be returned.

I’ve never mentally rendered a crab’s ass but now your comment got me thinking, is it some sort of chitin-based mechanical trap door? Or maybe an iris like the star gate but with fewer petals? This is a particularly glaring gap in my intuition’s ability to improvise an answer.
I didn’t believe it when I first read it but I can indeed run arbitrary code on my iPhone with Jupyterlite. This is great! So finally I can analyse data using the iPad on a plane, hopefully… if I find a way to reliably start Jupyterlite from the iPad‘s local storage, load my data from there, and have a persistent python environment.