 I don’t think I would’ve gotten into computers if my grade school computer lab was all Chromebooks (like so many are today). There's the old trope about Windows PCs being unfavorable to creativity/exploration. But my god, a Chromebook with air-tight profiles gives you NOTHING to work with. Messing with Keynote, iMovie, writing AppleScript “viruses” just to see what would happen. I don’t think anyone could have that fun on a Chromebook locked to G-Suite and the school intranet. 9 comments
@phillmv The ones at my high school disabled dev tools and iirc view-source:// as well   @grishka The ones at my high school disabled dev tools and iirc view-source:// as well  @samhenrigold Chromebooks are just subsidized e-waste. Even brand new they’re basically trash. My kids aren’t on the path to be comp sci majors but they both vastly prefer their Macs and bring them to school  @samhenrigold I've observed that we grew up in a really interesting window where computers were ubiquitous but fairly obtuse and difficult. That difficulty curve gave us something to learn. Now, with everything built around easy buttons, it makes it much harder to learn it.  @samhenrigold 100% In the effort to protect kids we’re stunting their development. Similar to how they don’t explore anymore — they barely play outside. |
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@samhenrigold can’t you at least pop a javascript console?