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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (14 children)

Well, maybe a school-issued computer should be designed differently than a consumer device.

Maybe such things should be considered beforehand.

In industrial ergonomics you are supposed to, ideally, present a worker with a few buttons with abundantly clear results of pressing them and no forbidden combinations leading to unexpected\undefined\dangerous results.

Kids sticking things into what's given to them are not an unexpected event. I'd say kids doing that are better than kids not doing that. And if it's expected, then this is almost entrapment.

Oh, oh, OH, you can't just put a consumer device with a web browser with Google and MS and Apple shit into schools then? No kickbacks from those companies? So fucking sad.

Forcing a kid to wear around a centrally managed device with a microphone and a camera makes me want to vomit. That should be illegal as many other things. It's a disgusting world.

These should be military-level (by resilience to attempts to throw them out of the window, sink them in the water, overheat them and so on) devices with something like FreeDOS+OpenGEM. That's by far enough to run school programs. If you think it's not, then you are possessed by collective delusions, that's a thing in crowd psychology, so drink a glass of water, listen to cars\birds, look at the sky and answer which fundamentally new tasks you need to solve as compared to having year 1999 Internet (as in open a static webpage, follow links, send forms), WordPerfect and Basic. Especially at school.

We use axes, knives, hammers and screwdrivers and other stuff to do things, more or less as they existed 300 years ago, when we are not professionals, who of course use power tools.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Sadly, this makes me miss when people pretended to slip and fall at the grocery store so they could throw milk jugs in the air and make a mess.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Wouldn't the port get shutdown/disabled if you try to overload it?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

the wise committee who designed such ports made the directly access the rest of motherboard and CPU

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

Man I'm so sorry to my highschool Chromebook. They gave me that shit in yr seven and I was incapable of keeping things in one piece at that age. I think every key had been taken off by the end of the year and there were several holes in the outer casing.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Behold the next generation of voters.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

It's how the US got Trump. The "Trump Train" was a meme, first.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Man I feel like a large part of the internet is out of reach.

Why have I got to sign up for tiktok just to watch this happen?

Shit like this used to be easily finable on google or something. Now I can't seem to find shit. All I get get in news articles about it.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Chromebooks are absolute garbage.

Most computers I have used over the last 15 years will disable USB power if you short out the port (working with electronics you tend to replicate the "sticking scissors into a USB port" with some regularity)

Pencil lead I am sure causes other issues though... it gets red hot and melts eventually

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Is there a better option schools should be buying at a similar price point?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

When I was a middle schooler I definitely wanted to see what would happen from messing around with things like that would be like...

But I also wasn't inundated by short form videos trying it out and encouraging me to do it myself also as part of a trend...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I thought system will turn off USB port if notice current over draw. Look like I am wrong.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

What i saw they were shorting the charging ports, not the USB slots.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (10 children)
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