Will Chrome OS Stay Stable Off Grid?

[Greg Dickens]

I am thinking about taking my Chromebook off grid for an extended period of time and have put together a library of information that I want to take with me to access from a flash drive.  But I am hearing that it will shut down if there is no internet connection that will let it "phone home" every 90 days or so.

There are SEVERAL conversations in these forums, but every question of this nature seems to get an answer of "you can still do a lot with a Chromebook without an internet connection", and instructions about how to go into settings and put it in offline mode (and the apps that will still work, etc).  

I am not concerned about getting updates or anything like that.  It runs just like I want it to run, and does everything I want it to do right now.  I just need to know if Google has a kill switch built into the OS that will stop the rig from working or keep me from doing a local login (my account, not a visitor account) if it doesn't "touch base with the mother ship" within a specific period of time.

[Mike Frysinger]

are you using a personal device or is this an enrolled system?

a personal device should work indefinitely offline...  please link to examples of the behavior you're describing for personal (unenrolled) systems.

-mike 

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[Greg Dickens]

The issues I have been hearing about are with school computers that were put into storage for the summer, but the laptops (which normally log in to the local account without an internet connection) can not log in until / unless they get a wifi connection.

Hope you are right about personal machines!!!

[Mike Frysinger]

fairly certain these are admin policies that the admins of the devices have chosen to enable.  so CrOS is entirely WAI -- the school admins want devices to checkin periodically, and the admins want the devices to "stop working" if they don't.

-mike

[dragon788]

This also can be explained by the Admin setting to require a minimum version be within current - n releases back  (which helps reduce sh1mmer exploits and the like) which is separate from the last check in time but results in the same limited functionality until the device updates, and blocks devices where someone has prevented the system from updating to the latest releases.

On a personal device used offline there should be no such limitations.

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