UngodlyAudrey🏳️⚧️@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.org · 1 year agoBuilt-in software ‘death dates’ are sending thousands of schools’ Chromebooks to the recycling binwww.mercurynews.comexternal-linkmessage-square304fedilinkarrow-up1791arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up1791arrow-down1external-linkBuilt-in software ‘death dates’ are sending thousands of schools’ Chromebooks to the recycling binwww.mercurynews.comUngodlyAudrey🏳️⚧️@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.org · 1 year agomessage-square304fedilinkfile-text
There are few things quite as emblematic of late stage capitalism than the concept of “planned obsolescence”.
minus-squarecerement@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 year agogreat scenario for an immutable distro
minus-squareScrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoReally if they were going to do anything it’d be thin clients, the real “immutable” distro
minus-squareargv_minus_one@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 year agoThin 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?
great scenario for an immutable distro
Really if they were going to do anything it’d be thin clients, the real “immutable” distro
Thin clients require thick servers, and if there’s one thing worse than a kid
rm -rf /ing one laptop, it’srm -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?