@neauoire Chromebooks are already there. I am shocked/concerned...

@neauoire @aw covid closing the schools really accelerated this push to get them in the hands of every kid in the local school districts, which from an equality perspective was much better than the previous status quo.

but the rollout here was done in such a way that the chromeos sandbox/firewall was trivially bypassed and you could get a full debian chroot just by asking the OS nicely, which was kind of awesome. granted most kids will continue to see the computer as an appliance, but the kids who are curious will find their exploration rewarded.

@neauoire @aw covid closing the schools really accelerated this push to get them in the hands of every kid in the local school districts, which from an equality perspective was much better than the previous status quo.

but the rollout here was done in such a way that the chromeos sandbox/firewall was trivially bypassed and you could get a full debian chroot just by asking the OS nicely, which was kind of awesome. granted most kids will continue to see the computer as an appliance, but the kids who...

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19 Jun 2022 at 20:45 | Open on icosahedron.website

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@neauoire @aw Chromebooks actually rule. You can drop into real Linux and do whatever you want with just a few clicks. And if you totally screw it up, you can reset it easily.

19 Jun 2022 at 20:46 | Open on merveilles.town

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@neauoire @aw I know dozens, if not hundreds, of teachers via my volunteering work over the past decade with FIRST and VEX robotics, and yeah, they pretty much all have 100%-Chromebook schools. Many of them have for 3-5 years.

19 Jun 2022 at 21:05 | Open on merveilles.town

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@neauoire this article is 5 years old but describes a lot of the dynamic https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/13/technology/google-education-chromebooks-schools.html

19 Jun 2022 at 21:34 | Open on merveilles.town