AtmaJnana @ AtmaJnana @lemmy.world

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I carry a bit of gaffer's tape everywhere for those little obnoxious blue bastards.

Even if that were technically feasible from an interoperability perspective (which in many cases it is not, due to them using proprietary software) a parent putting Linux on it would certainly violate the acceptable use policy when the school inevitably finds out. Consequences from there will vary dramatically, but none are likely to be desirable outcomes. At the very least, they'd probably tell you to either restore the device, or pay for the cost of having their person do it.

Parents don't generally own these devices and are not going to be legally authorized to install software on them, generally. In the US, for example, unauthorized access along with "damaging" the device by removing the OS could very well be a crime (or several.) I doubt it would be prosecuted, but I personally don't have money to burn on lawyers.

edit: to be clear, where I live, these systems are typically owned either by the school system, or by a third party leasing agent.

I can tell you're not a parent. School systems choose these things without consulting us. Parents don't have much say in it. There isnt an opt-out.

So by your statement, because I can't afford to send my kid to private school, I must not be a caring parent.

That... doesn't work how you apparently think it does.

Sure, but not all readers of the thread will be familiar.

I assume because Bitcoin has a public ledger and Monero doesn't. Its more than that, but that's the gist. Monero literally exists to offer additional privacy over Bitcoin.

No idea about those VPNs in particular, but I assume its a similar privacy issue, such as keeping logs...

That's been going on since Blockbuster was a growth company. Like 20 years ago, for the TV (or maybe DVD, I forget which) release of Get Shorty, they 'shopped in an Oldsmobile Sillouette minivan as a product placement, replacing the original vehicle.

"Its the Cadillac of minivans."

edit: Actually, the Olds was the one in the theatrical release, which got replaced with another make/model for TV. All the releases I can find so far include the Sillouette.

Let us also not forget that AI does not work.

Only someone who has never touched one would claim AI literally doesn't work. So I have to assume that's just for the sake of hyperbole because Lemmy hates AI. You probably just mean it doesn't live up to the marketing hype? Okay, thats... That's just how marketing works.

AI really will transform everything,

But, like, not yet? When will you declare it useful so I can go back to using AI in my daily life?

Holy fuckballs. The economic illiteracy in this thread is shocking. We need civics and economics taught in highschool.

I could see how you might think that if you're really bad at math and clueless about how our economy works. Unemployment is only 3.7 percent, nationally.

Right, my lived experience isnt valid because of your lived experience.

On the contrary, i hate the smell way more than my have-never-smoked peers.

I quit cold-turkey ages ago, after a decade as a pack-a-day smoker.

I never missed cigarettes, never really craved them except when binge drinking. But i quit that too, mostly. By the time I quit, I absolutely hated the smell and taste, so that helped a lot. It caused me to just avoid places where I'd encounter lots of smokers. Bans in restaurants and bars helped a lot.

edit: one key being that when I quit, I didn't like smoking. I didn't want to be a smoker anymore. So I stopped thinking of myself as a smoker.

By spending $100 at Goodwill.

Exactly.

Poe's Law. But for TikTok morons/"influencers".

Is it a moron? Is it someone "pretending" to be a moron for attention?

They're the same picture.

Sorry, best we can do is some unrelated ASCII art.