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1 HN user recommended this in 2020, in one comment.
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1 HN user recommended this in 2020, in one comment.
Each tall tick is one HN user's first recommendation. A short tick is the same user again. Click a tick to jump to the comment.
I have the same Chromebook, and have had good results charging it from USB-A via a 5V-12V boost converter with a barrel plug on the 12V end. The one I use [1] was $8 on Amazon back in 2019, and I wouldn't trust it with a high-current load, or leave it unattended while charging - it gets pretty warm charging the Chromebook, enough so that I'm glad I only got it for occasional emergency use with the big 26Ah USB pack that lives on the side of my backpack.
I fully expect it to let the smoke out some day, but with a supply voltage less than half what it's delivering, I don't think it can fail in a way that'll hurt the Chromebook, and until it does I'm happy to have it as an option. And I bet those dinky little un-heat-sinked boost converters from the article likewise get pretty warm, too.
(Also, passive USB-C to USB-A female converters are trivially inexpensive, enough so that I just got a big bag of them so I don't have to care if they disappear on account of being tiny. For a new-build project, it makes sense to go straight to the connector, but for back compat purposes I can definitely recommend having a good supply of them on hand - USB-C cables seem in general to be either expensive or unreliable still, so being able to adapt old cables to new sockets saves a lot of headache. Especially when the old cables are permanently mounted to devices!)
[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01ID90K4A - no longer available, but plenty of similar ones are. Don't trust any of 'em, would be my advice