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[-] mlg@lemmy.world 33 points 2 months ago

I completely blame schools adopting ChromeOS for this generational failure.

At least give them a functional OS god damn. People out here not knowing you can do more than access like 5 websites and apps with literally anything that has a microprocessor in it.

[-] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 14 points 2 months ago

My school actually had Linux mint set up for everything. It even resetted every time you boot it, so you couldn't do any real damage. The only reason we had this was, because one of our CS teachers was very good and actually cared. He is also the one who managed the entire IT infrastructure.

[-] lonerangers1@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Thats awesome. Was Mrchromebox your teacher?

[-] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 3 points 2 months ago

I dont know who that is, so i guess no.

[-] lonerangers1@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Mrchromebox made a replacement firmware for chromebooks so you can install other operating systems on them.

[-] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 2 points 2 months ago

Nice! Hadn’t heard of this project. The old chromebooks are easy to find in e-waste lots, mostly from schools. Hardware’s not ancient. Presumably optimized for web services. Just a lot of broken screens and keyboards.

But if you stack ‘em like server blades in a beowulf cluster you might have a decently power-efficient and scalable host for microservices, web apps, lemmy instances, whatever. With UPS for each node lol. Basically free.

I dunno, could be a fun class project for the kids to learn on with a minimal budget?

[-] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago

Intersting. He devinetively wasnt him. We also didnt had chromebooks. We had thinkpads and normal office PCs (all with the same configuration)

[-] rmuk@feddit.uk 11 points 2 months ago

I can't find the photo I took, which is annoying, but I was working in schools a couple of years back and in the IT room there was a huge display on the wall with the title "Amazing Things We Can Do With Computers" and the list was, literally, this:

  • YouTube
  • Facebook
  • TikTok
  • Amazon
  • Spotify
  • WhatsApp
  • FaceTime

FWIW, Chromebooks can be used as more than just web browser devices. The real problem is who is setting - and teaching - the curriculum. Some other schools had amazing curriculums but they usually had one, single, solitary, clued-up teacher.

[-] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

As if the average schoolteacher knows how to properly teach how to use a full OS to kids. Many millennials lack basic IT skills as well.

[-] Muffi@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

My municipality also bought all students Chromebooks. Then they proceeded to block Google Drive on all government and school WiFi, because for some reason they thought OneDrive was the only safe and therefore allowed cloud storage. Fucking hilarious.

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