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Used to consume not produce (lemmy.world)
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[–] 18 points 2 years ago (6 children)

My school actually had Linux mint set up for everything. It even resetted every time you boot it, so you couldn't do any real damage. The only reason we had this was, because one of our CS teachers was very good and actually cared. He is also the one who managed the entire IT infrastructure.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Thats awesome. Was Mrchromebox your teacher?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I dont know who that is, so i guess no.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Mrchromebox made a replacement firmware for chromebooks so you can install other operating systems on them.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Nice! Hadn’t heard of this project. The old chromebooks are easy to find in e-waste lots, mostly from schools. Hardware’s not ancient. Presumably optimized for web services. Just a lot of broken screens and keyboards.

    But if you stack ‘em like server blades in a beowulf cluster you might have a decently power-efficient and scalable host for microservices, web apps, lemmy instances, whatever. With UPS for each node lol. Basically free.

    I dunno, could be a fun class project for the kids to learn on with a minimal budget?

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