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Google fucked a whole generation with Chromebooks, and now they're fucking the next generation with AI
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Enshittification
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What is enshittification?
The phenomenon of online platforms gradually degrading the quality of their services, often by promoting advertisements and sponsored content, in order to increase profits. (Cory Doctorow, 2022, extracted from Wikitionary) source
The lifecycle of Big Internet
We discuss how predatory big tech platforms live and die by luring people in and then decaying for profit.
Embrace, extend and extinguish
We also discuss how naturally open technologies like the Fediverse can be susceptible to corporate takeovers, rugpulls and subsequent enshittification.
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Is the option actually there, as in it's allowed by school policy? Would you be able to show an example confirming this?
I highly doubt a school IT department would be okay with this. The very post were discussing asserts that it was marketed to schools as something that can be locked down.
I'd also argue that even if it was allowed, whether or not it was encouraged undoubtedly matters.
These are kids we're talking about, not engineers. Additionally, were discussing technical competence at the generational level, so we'd have to rule out outliers, which I'd handily believe "kids who installed linux on their school Chromebooks" would fall under.
I don't have my Chromebook to hand but I believe the setting is in the Prefs. When you set up Linux it's a virtualized Debian that you can pretty much do anything with but it can't mess with ChromeOS outside. Not all Chromebooks support it since it's space / CPU dependent but if it does then it's Linux. I was even running graphical apps since the screen is a Wayland server.
I don't....think that answered my question?
Would this be against school policy? Are there examples to confirm this?