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by westurner 1236 days ago
VSCode + containers + the powerwash feature would enable kids to STEM.

Are flatpaks out of the question? Used to be "Gnome and Chrome" on ~Gentoo.

Shouldn't the ChromiumOS host be running SELinux, if the ARC support requires extended filesystem attributes for `ls -alz` and `ps -aufxz` to work?

Chromium and Chrome appear to be running unconfined? AppArmor for Firefox worked years ago?

https://www.google.com/search?q=chromium+selinux ; chrome_selinux ?

It seems foolish to have SELinux in a guest VM but not the host.

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Task: "Reprovision" the default VMs and Containers after "Powerwash" `rm -rf`s everything

`adb shell pm list packages` and `adb install` a list of APKs and CRXs.

Here's chromebook_ansible: https://github.com/seangreathouse/chromebook-ansible/blob/ma...

Systemd-homed is portable. Still, "Reprovision" the broken userspace for the user.

Local k8s like microshift that does container-selinux like RH / Fedora, with Gnome and Waydroid would be cool to have for the kids.

Podman-desktop (~Docker Desktop) does k8s now.

K8s defaults to blocking containers that run as root now, and there's no mounting thee --privileged docket socket w/ k8s either. Gitea + DroneCI/ACT/ci_runner w/ rootless containers. Gvisor is considered good enough for shared server workloads.

Repo2docker + caching is probably close to "kid proof" or "reproducible".

VScode has "devcontainer.json". Scipy stacks ( https://jupyter-docker-stacks.readthedocs.io/en/latest/using... ) and Kaggle/docker-python (Google) take how many GB to run locally for users < 13 who we don't afford cloud shells with SSH (Colab with SSH, JupyterHub (TLJH w/ k8s),) for either.

Task: Learn automated testing, bash, git, and python (for Q12 K12CS STEM)

> It seems foolish to have SELinux in a guest VM but not the host.

- [ ] task manager: optionally show SELinux contexts like `ls -alz`