#chromebooks — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #chromebooks, aggregated by home.social.
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Free Buses, Dark Screens
On the Thursday before Labor Day, the principals of New York City's public schools opened a memo from the Education Department. The free T-Mobile internet service built into 350,000 student Chromebooks would end that Sunday, August 31. Classes begin September 10. Four days of warning, ten days of scramble, and then the school year opens on machines that still power up, still glow, and can no longer reach anything. The laptop survives. The world inside it has been repossessed. During the pandemic the city handed out some 725,000 devices and never tracked how many still function; the Chromebook program was the sequel, the do-over, the one arriving with a plan attached. The plan lasted a year. […] -
Boing Boing: Latest idiotic social media trend has kids setting their laptops on fire. “Pulling the fire alarm to get out of class has been replaced by setting actual fires. Students are setting their Chromebooks on fire while participating in a viral TikTok trend. Schools across Connecticut have had to evacuate due to the smoke and fire caused by students inserting conductive objects like […]
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3. #ChromiumOS
The Dark Horse
Pros:
- #Chromebooks are pretty common now
- Most of the #security, less of the #Google
- It's just the webCons:
- It's just the web
- Not hackable / locked down beyond the point of curiosity
- Google
- Hardware restrictions?
- Weak ecosystem