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Parents opt kids out of school laptops, ask for pen-and-paper (www.nbcnews.com)
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The middle schooler had been begging to opt out, citing headaches from the Chromebook screen and a dislike of the AI chatbot recently integrated into it.

Parents across the country are taking steps to stop their children from using school-issued Chromebooks and iPads, citing concerns about distractions and access to inappropriate content that they fear hampers their kids’ education.

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[–] 7 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I did! The IT department literally laughed at me. I also tried to get them to let teachers install uBlock Origin, because they apparently will watch educational YouTube videos in class sometimes, and then get random ads for everyone to suffer under. But uBlock Origin doesn't have their support... Ironically, they only support Windows computers and iPhones on the school network. Android, MacOS, and Linux are all officially unsupported.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Thank you for your service. That's not surprising, but still disappointing. Do they install DNS filters locally on the machines at all? My work computers do that.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Well, I unfortunately failed.

    Do they install DNS filters locally on the machines at all?

    No, the kids are allowed to bring their own laptops, because some rich parents insisted on their kids using MacBooks. I tried pushing Linux for the kiddo, but turns out whatever CISCO wifi system the school is using actively blocks Linux (including, for some reason, black listing the arch repos). A lot of stuff is blocked — though easily bypassed by VPNs or the wireguard router proxy I set up — by wifi black lists, including random stuff like duckduckgo and dict.cc

    Actually, I did get an ad for a vibrator on dict.cc once, so maybe that makes sense after all. I, a man. Not sure what I'd use it for.

    I'm unfortunately not a parent, just a relative, so there is only so much I can do to harass the school about it. I also live abroad, so 🤷 — I try though.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Well at least they had it questioned and now they know some parents might actually care about this shit.

    Not allowing specific OSs? Fuck dat. If I want to use Kali, I should be able to use Kali. I actually didn't know that was possible with DHCP. Gross.

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