Comment on Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout

Norin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• SaltSong@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Desks are cheaper, and the hole only slightly impairs functionality.

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  • TryingToActHuman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’m not so sure about cheaper. A quick google search shows the desks I used in school are priced around $400-$600 depending on type (different subjects had different desks), whereas the Chromebooks are around $250. I definitely agree with your second point, though.

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    • SaltSong@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Huh. Never realized chromebooks were priced that low.

      Thanks for the correction.

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      • TryingToActHuman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Chromebooks are designed to be cheap and disposable. I’ve seen some as low as ~$100. That doesn’t mean you can’t get some very expensive ones, but since they basically only allow you to use Google and a select few apps from the play store, I don’t know why the expensive ones exist.

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      • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        They are very cheap. We had to buy them ourselves for our kids, which at least gave choices. We settled n $400 because for the cost of the cheapest piece of shit laptop, we could get a high end Chromebook that ran circles around it: faster, much more durable, much lighter, multiple times battery life

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    • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      What sort of hole were you drilling in a deal with a pen in order to completely render the desk unusable?

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    • IllNess@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      i don’t know much about school desk but I can get a nice standing desk for $600. That is nuts.

      Also I wonder if they sell replacement parts.

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      • GoatTnder@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Industrial strength furniture that can withstand decades of abuse is not cheap.

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      • TryingToActHuman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I’m sure the schools don’t pay that much for the desks (or the Chromebooks) since they buy in bulk – those are just the prices I could find for single units. I was more trying to show the difference in price, rather than exactly how much the schools spend.

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    • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Also, most school laptops are old. Someone did this at my school and got charged (iirc) $175 since it was the really old kind

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    • dave@lemmy.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      its cheap when you consider the desk could still be fully functional 100 years from now. good luck getting a chromebook to last even a quarter of that

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  • ililiililiililiilili@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They also don’t release magic smoke. All my homies hate vandalizing desks.

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• IMongoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Pen is less likely to start a fire and or create toxic smoke.

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• LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’ve never done that either. The fuck? did you eat paint as a kid?

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• slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  We did it for the love of the game and not to impress strangers

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  • magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Bullahut you did it to impress the other nosepickers, same reason these kids are doing it.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yup, the nose pickers just moved online.

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• kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Thank you, it’s relieving to see that some people don’t fall for the “kids today” bullshit

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• hoch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Drilling a hole in your desk doesn’t lead to cancer.

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