Comment on Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead
modus@lemmy.world 5 hours agoThank 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.
Uebercomplicated@lemmy.ml 4 hours ago
Well, I unfortunately failed.
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.
modus@lemmy.world 3 hours 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.