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Built-in software ‘death dates’ are sending thousands of schools’ Chromebooks to the recycling bin (www.mercurynews.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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There are few things quite as emblematic of late stage capitalism than the concept of "planned obsolescence".

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

Really if they were going to do anything it'd be thin clients, the real "immutable" distro

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thin clients require thick servers, and if there's one thing worse than a kid rm -rf /ing one laptop, it's rm -rf /ing the entire school all at once.

Moreover, if the school can't afford decent laptops, how is it going to afford beefy servers?