Comment on YSK that giving kids a laptop doesn't improve their academic performance.

• Montagge@lemmy.zip ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  TIL I’m no one

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  • Oni_eyes@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ve heard there are songs for you

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  • Jarix@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    TIL my friend didn’t actually have a job and just gets paid to do nothing

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  • IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah

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• Oni_eyes@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s how you get a generation that needs to be taught how to use a printer when it’s dead simple if you have any basic troubleshooting skills.

  Bare minimum is what you need to be stagnant and forget.

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• Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Businesses repair laptops every day.

  I’ve replaced 2 keyboards in my family in the last year, and 2 batteries.

  I’ve replaced fans in laptops. Recently replaced the cpu paste in one.

  Just because you never see it because everyone you know buys shitty consumer laptops, doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen. Business-class laptops are maintainable, and they cost more because of it.

  In the last year my friends in the SMB space have replaced half a dozen keyboards, numerous batteries, etc. And these are in companies that have regular replacement cycles.

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• lauha@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  also no one bothers repairing laptops anymore

  Just because you don’t doesn’t mean no-one does it. I know plenty of people who do. I know plenty of local repair shops.

  Of course if you are a mac user (which are made to be hard to repair) or otherwise have plenty of spare income just to buy a new computer every time the old breaks, but a lot of people dpn’t have that money these days.

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