Comment on Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout
FireWire400@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Oh man, first planking, then breaking into cars and now this. What’s next; just shooting yourself with a rifle and who survives wins? Darwinism is real.
Google didn’t respond to Ars Technica’s request for comment.
To be fair, I don’t really see why they should. Chances are they didn’t factor in that level of stupidity when designing those things.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It makes sense that they wouldn’t have anything to comment anyway. Google themselves don’t actually manufacture most Chromebooks, they only provide the OS. I imagine the majority of the mass of Chromebooks in the world by weight are actually designed and made by Lenovo, Asus, Dell, HP, etc.
It’d be like demanding Microsoft explain to the news why your Dell caught fire simply because it had Windows installed on it.
FireWire400@lemmy.world 3 days ago
That’s another thing I was wondering about; Google used to make their own Chromebooks, but those always were the premium options and way too expensive for school use.