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David Boles @[email protected] · 2026-09-03 · 12:03 UTC

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. […]

https://bolesblogs.com/2026/09/03/free-buses-dark-screens/

#ailiteracy #aimoratorium #artificialintelligence #broadbandaccess #chatgptban #chromebooks

ResearchBuzz: Firehose @[email protected] · 2026-04-21 · 12:58 UTC

Associated Press: Google denies involvement in $125 million Chromebook graft case in Indonesia. “Google’s investment in Indonesia’s ride-hailing company GoTo wasn’t in anyway connected to the country’s Education Ministry’s decision to procure Chromebooks for schools during COVID-19 pandemic, former Google executives testified in court on Monday.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/21/associated-press-google-denies-involvement-in-125-million-chromebook-graft-case-in-indonesia/

#chromebooks #corruption #crime #google #governmentcorruption #hardware

Brad Linder @[email protected] · 2026-01-13 · 23:40 UTC

Lilbits: Apple’s new Final Cut Pro & Logic Pro subscription, Game Boy-like controllers for smartphones, and another new keyboard phone

Apple has announced a new subscription that bundles access to the latest versions of Final Cute Pro, Logic Pro, and other professional media applications with a few bonus features including AI and premium content for use with the company’s Keynote, Pages, Numbers, and Freeform applications.

The new Apple Creator Studio subscription launches January 28th, and it sounds a lot like the company’s […]

#8bitdo #8bitdoFlippad #appleCreatorStudio #chromebooks #computeModule #finalCutPro #gameController #gamesir #gmesirPocketTaco #lenovo #lilbits #logicPro #pocketTaco #radxaNx4 #rk3576 #smartphoneGameController #subscription #unihertz #unihertzTitan2Elite Read more: https://liliputing.com/lilbits-apples-new-final-cut-pro-logic-pro-subscription-game-boy-like-controllers-for-smartphones-and-another-new-keyboard-phone/

#8bitdo #8bitdoflippad #applecreatorstudio #chromebooks #computemodule #finalcutpro

Noah Tobias Carver 👨🏼‍🦯🇺🇦 @[email protected] · 2025-05-19 · 21:31 UTC

#Accessibility hive mind, I have some questions about #ChromeVox as well as #Chromebook accessibility & #usability in general. I'm working with a #PixelBook that has never been used. ChromeVox is telling me to use commands involving the search key as a modifier, but these seem not to work as any use of the search key invokes #Google #Gemini. What's going on here? Additionally, how are #blind people using #Chromebooks? In what tasks do they excel. In what tasks do they fall short? Any input and/or information would be greatly appreciated.

#Blind #BlindMasto #BlindMastodon #BlindFedi #a11y @mastoblind

#accessibility #chromevox #chromebook #usability #pixelbook #google

ResearchBuzz: Firehose @[email protected] · 2025-05-16 · 20:14 UTC

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 […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/16/boing-boing-latest-idiotic-social-media-trend-has-kids-setting-their-laptops-on-fire/

#children #chromebooks #fires #hardware #internetculture #internettrends

Brad Linder @bradlinder · 2025-04-23 · 16:40 UTC

There's evidence that the first Chromebooks with Qualcomm Snapdragon X chips could be on the way, although so far we're just seeing the X1-P42-100 though, which is one of the lower-performance Snapdragon X chips. https://chromeunboxed.com/finally-snapdragon-x-plus-chromebooks-are-on-the-way/ #Chromebooks #Qualcomm #SnapdragonX