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Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 35 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Perhaps it's more like "Kids short-circuiting school issued chromebooks because of excessive surveillance."

...but probably not (or at least, not entirely) because many kids are dumb.

source: was a dumb kid.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Nah, before Chromebooks we'd vandalize the text books and desk.

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  • [+] -20 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Excessive surveillance? It’s school property lol

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    It's school property with a camera and microphone in their homes lol

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  • [+] -8 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    You’re assuming that they’re ones that leave the school property. You’re also assuming that they are constantly recording audio and video, which being chromebooks we know they’re most likely not since they’re low spec low storage devices since they’re cloud based.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    This is also assuming there's some mastermind at the school compiling all this data versus some teacher working essentially a second job dealing with broken chromebooks every day because kids are irresponsible. Suggeating this is anything but good old fashioned vandalism of school property is ludicrous, but it's also an expected conclusion for here on Lemmy. Some of the comments in this thread are seriously unhinged.

    To sum it up, kids are dumb and always have been and it's nothing more than that.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Check out the down/up votes on your comment vs mine, and also the stupid conspiracy theory one I replied to. People on here are so brainwashed that they follow every dogpile they see, which in this case is purely because of who is saying something - me in this case. I’ve got a bunch of lemmings following every comment I make across instances just spouting hatred and abuse and downvoting and reporting everything. An admin has even confirmed to me that 90% of the reports they get, and there are lots, are from the same users over and over and over on every comment I make.

    Lemmy is so far beyond gone it’s not even funny at this point. The actual reality and truth doesn’t matter, only what the mob decides does.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah, here and Reddit, I find myself nodding along often enough, and that's when I know I should perhaps adjust my viewpoint, just for the sake of making sure I'm not just nodding along. It's unfortunate you're perhaps being brigaded a bit, but it doesn't matter. I say what I'm gonna say, people can think whatever. I like to think that we can come here speak on things, have philosophical discussions, but it feels like sometimes the whole discussion has been aimed in a certain direction before it even got underway.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago*

    Yeah I don’t care about “karma” or any scores, but I do like to use it as a way to gauge the “temperature” of the conversation. As soon as the dogpiling starts happening, and benign comments that are in no way disagreeable - or even the same as other comments that are highly upvoted - are mass downvoted, you know that you’re in a circle jerk echo chamber.

    I’ll happily continue voicing my opinion and defending my stance, but I know it’s a losing battle because the majority aren’t here to actually learn or discuss or change their minds - they’re here to circle jerk and tell each other how bad the thing they hate is and shame those who don’t hate it as much as they do.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Hi there, I'm currently in highschool. You don't understand how school laptops work. There was a court case where a school laptop was recording from a child's home - it actually happened.

    Also when you shut the screen it doesn't turn off all the way. I've had times where I shut the screen, out it in my bag and 45 minutes later on my Bluetooth headphones I'll head the windows notification sound.

    And just for clarity, do I personally believe that they are spying with audio/video? probably not tbh.
    Do they track EVERYTHING you do on the laptop? yes. Very obviously yes.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago

    Hi there, I’m a tech enthusiast who has worked in the industry longer than you’ve been alive. I know how they work, but thanks for trying to teach me (honestly, good on you for the way you’ve gone about your post)

    Closing the screen hasn’t been a complete shutdown in at least a decade. It defaults to a low power state. On devices that are more “always on” like Win10onARM and Chromebook devices, they default to a low power state that still receive notifications etc. This can be changed, but likely not on a school owned and issued device.

    Yes, they obviously track everything you do on school issued devices. This should be clear to everyone. It would be spelled out in the terms and conditions of getting it in the first place. The case you’re talking about was almost 20 years ago iirc (2007 I believe), and the photos taken by the device were part of a “help us retrieve stolen devices” thing, that was “not adequately explained” to the parents/kids. It would regularly take photos so it could have evidence of who stole them and where they might be.

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