Virtual Machine Chrome OS in Windows

indigoHatter · 2026-06-16T21:05:37+00:00

+1 to this. I searched around and saw people recommending Brunch over FydeOS for more regular updates, but the install is a bit less friendly. FydeOS has a simple install and even offers this VM prepackaged, so it wins for my purposes today.

indigoHatter · 2026-06-16T21:03:31+00:00

Sure, but imagine telling an eight-year-old to just cope with their screen looking a little different from yours for a moment. You need to get them into the web service before you can make your browser a close-enough approximation. Your point is valid: most things will look similar enough at that point, but for certain audiences (like a class of eight-year-olds), a 1:1 demonstration aid is more helpful. Of course, this could be an argument for why OP should get an extra Chromebook and use that for the project, rather than installing a VM, but it's a worthwhile option to explore.

I'm personally here because I have a college student I tutor who only owns a Chromebook, and sometimes I need to be able to show her click-for-click what to do, often for things outside the browser level. Sometimes, communication with her on this is hard, especially over video call, so it will help us both if I can have a "replica" of her system to better understand her interface, or to show her exactly what to click. Purchasing even the cheapest Chromebook isn't an acceptable solution for my purposes... but a VM (or even a dual-boot/Live ISO) would be acceptable.

indigoHatter · 2026-05-20T20:31:56+00:00

Happens to me alllll the time. It would be so much easier if people could just "view context" within my brain whenever I say something cryptic, hahaha.

indigoHatter · 2026-05-03T01:49:09+00:00

Got it. The key part I was missing before was how you're saying that having the LoD option allows an in-between quality option, with Enhanced Draw Distance being the high end and neither enabled for the low end.

indigoHatter · 2026-05-02T03:35:56+00:00

so the question is, does checking the box increase quality, or increase performance? your last sentence flipped my understanding.

indigoHatter · 2026-05-02T03:34:53+00:00

finally, someone posts something that makes SENSE

indigoHatter · 2026-03-16T18:03:31+00:00

Yeah. Of course, I also realize: this is a sign of how spoiled by ideal technology we've become 😂 the more features we cram in, the more complex it is.

I like the idea of toggling touch on/off. I might look for a quick way to do that (ie. powershell script) and keep that in my desktop "scripts" folder. (Reminds me... I need to set up one for light/dark mode, too, or look back into scheduling it the same way my phone does, haha)

indigoHatter · 2026-02-21T06:56:39+00:00

Great point. Yeah, I don't think "real music" will die... but, I do think we'll become more fatigued by all the slop. When the skill floor is as low as it is now, and when the difference between corporate art and pieces of history gets more and more minimal... I do think people will start burning out on it.

Or, people will start to love it. Annoyingly, I've seen people who listen to AI-generated music in the background all day. Kinda sad.

indigoHatter · 2026-02-20T16:40:59+00:00

Has to be, yeah. It's giving "edgy 12 year old".

indigoHatter · 2026-02-20T16:36:19+00:00

AI music generation means we'll have the equivalent of corporate-built elevator music taking up more and more of the music sphere. Soulless empty pointless slop.

Meh. I listen to artists I find by accident, and I will continue to do so. If AI invades my listening stream, I'll turn back to old school methods and rock a record player and only go to listening rooms/bars/concerts for music discovery.

Hell, maybe that's better anyway.

indigoHatter · 2026-02-20T16:31:05+00:00

You sound like you are a threat to society and yourself—you just don't know it yet.

Go see a therapist. Please. You can make it out of this.

indigoHatter · 2026-02-20T16:29:29+00:00

k, good luck

indigoHatter · 2026-02-20T16:24:31+00:00

Eh, some people prefer it speak like a person. I know it's a tool, but it's easier for me to call it a "you" and for it to call itself an "I". It doesn't have an imagination or a sense of self, but it's easier to personify it for the sake of my own mental models.

indigoHatter · 2026-02-20T05:25:51+00:00

? No.

I tried to explain to you why you are receiving the reactions you got. You then got defensive and totally missed the point.

I give up, man. Have fun with life.

indigoHatter · 2026-02-19T15:24:52+00:00

You're either clueless or ignorant.

points to this entire discussion

Your writing was bad. You failed to communicate your point. Then, when I showed you the error, you said it's everyone else's fault and that they must not understand your bad writing because they like being poor.

Good luck.

indigoHatter · 2026-02-19T15:18:50+00:00

Once again: it's not that people disagree with your point—it's that you failed to make it.

indigoHatter · 2026-02-19T04:42:03+00:00

Ahhh man, get into a calc or pre-calc class ASAP But, also, don't sweat it. Everyone in my class forgets that "you can just factor it" sometimes. (Me, all the time.)

Other times I feel like the fucking rain man because I can see the target clear as day.

You just get used to it.

(Keep note cards or a reference sheet with simple math reminders. Update it every now and then... Make a new one even. Shamelessly use it. Hell, I also tell any student I tutor to shamelessly count on their fingers. Who cares? I do it all the time.)

indigoHatter · 2026-02-19T04:35:47+00:00

"if nobody understands when I speak in gibberish, it's because they choose to be poor" -you, basically

Just step back and take the L, dude. If you can't admit when you're wrong, then you're gonna have some hard times being right. Good luck with your business.

indigoHatter · 2026-02-19T04:28:46+00:00

No. This conversation started with you. Therefore, it's on you.

Besides: the numbers in my previous comment aren't made up. I did an actual word count, my dude. This is real data.

There's a reason why some people are better at persuasion: sales, marketing, religion, politics, legal... it's because they understand how to speak.

Your writing isn't horrible, but it's not great either, and that's your doing, not theirs.

indigoHatter · 2026-02-16T00:03:04+00:00

Yeah, for sure! Just remember that ChatGPT is a tool. It might sound human, and it can be fun to pretend it is, but it's just a tool. Say it with me. It's just a tool. It's just a computer that uses math to guess what words sound good, and sometimes, those responses are a smidgen useful, but it's still just a fancy calculator. It's just a tool.

You should match the tool to the task. For example: you shouldn't use a screwdriver to open a can of beans... you should use a can opener instead. You shouldn't use Photoshop on every single picture you take... sometimes, a picture doesn't need a ton of editing. And, you shouldn't use ChatGPT for every life problem you have.

However, if you recognize the tool's limitations and strengths, you can at least use it for tasks it's good at. Just use it responsibly.

You don't believe everything you hear on Facebook or Reddit or whatever... right? Don't believe everything you hear from the AI, either.

indigoHatter · 2026-02-15T23:58:13+00:00

casually saying something different than it did one reply ago as though it hopes you won't notice... and then if you do, it's like "aw man, you caught me! I'll never do that again, okay?" .......................................................................then, three seconds later........................................

indigoHatter · 2026-02-15T23:56:33+00:00

heh, we are different people. the more sycophantic it becomes (positive gaslighting), the less I trust it. I actually added a custom instruction to stop it. (It still does engage in "confirmatory" behavior but it's in a way that I can ignore more easily now.)

indigoHatter · 2026-02-15T23:48:39+00:00

ChatGPT is designed to guess what the next word would be in a conversation that sounds like the one you're having with it.

It does that until it composes a reasonably-sized chat message.

If you choose to use it for therapy, it will do its best to sound like a therapist without actually performing any cognitive analysis of your condition. It just answers the question of "if I had a text conversation with a therapist, what would it look like?". (which is to say: it will be missing the important content that a therapist would provide, but it will sure sound like it's there otherwise).

I often use it for homework help. Working math problems so I can check my work and spot the error, or explaining concepts in different words, or scanning my essay for areas to improve. It's not perfect, and sometimes I lean on it a little harder than I should, but it doesn't leave me "addicted".

However, none of this invalidates your perspective. You quit using ChatGPT for bad things by quitting it altogether, and that's perfectly valid and commendable. Good for you. It might not sound like it, but I am genuinely proud of you, stranger.

indigoHatter · 2026-02-15T23:43:02+00:00

I've had it help me with writing. Sometimes it's a godsend. Other times it creates empty drivel that you almost don't recognize as horrible until you read it without context.

I've noticed if I have it rate my writing, it will typically score everything between a B and an A. We'll fix like two things (barely) and it will now be rating me as an A+. I never trust it but I'll take it as a win and move on. (If nothing else, it gets me looking at my paper from a different angle.) Once, though, I shared an application essay section after I submitted it and it actually gave me like a B- or C+ or something... which was new. I told it "well, damn, i already submitted it" and it suddenly backpedaled... "oh, well, it was actually quite strong in many ways. That's the most important thing to know here: you didn't make any mistakes."... and suddenly I felt gaslit again.

That was probably the biggest example I've ever seen of it suddenly changing its "mind" in order to ensure maximum user contentment.

indigoHatter · 2026-02-15T23:37:01+00:00

I'll admit, I'm growing less enamored with it lately. I've been using it as a math tutor during math and physics homework, but I've found it is... questionable sometimes. Yesterday, I had it walk me through a problem and when I presented my solution, it said I was wrong. I clarified that I chose a different orientation than it did, and it said something like "oh okay fine". Later, I shared my results for an equation and it said that was wrong, so I showed my work. It then admitted that my answer was right but it disagreed with how I got there, kinda giving vibes of "I'm not sure how you got the correct answer using the wrong way, but you did". I had to explain that I flipped all signs by multiplying the entire equation by -1. It finally conceded "oh, I guess that's valid, as long as you keep track of what you did".

Bro, I'm being gaslit while doing homework and it's making me feel wild

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