Incredibly this makes me miss when people pretended to slip and fall at the grocery store so they could throw milk jugs in the air and make a mess.
Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout
Submitted 11 hours ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
veeesix@lemmy.ca 3 hours ago
It’d be a crying shame if the students were required to complete the school year with physical books and a notebook.
ButteredMonkey@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Normally that’s exactly what they would do if enough students destroyed their computers to blow through the loaners. The frustrating thing is this is happening right when schools are set to do state testing and state testing is mostly online now. This requires every student in the building to have a device at the same time. Normally all the loaners would be for kids who forgot theirs that day.
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 6 hours ago
the so-called Chromebook Challenge includes students sticking things into Chromebook ports to short-circuit the system.
I am rather surprised that works. I thought any modern device would have overload protection in place. I think I even remember accidentally tripping it on some device, but it would just reset after reboot.
I also tried to see the max output current of my previous phone this way. Load it up till the protection trips. Result: Stable up to 2.1A, tripped at 2.5A.Oh, yeah. A Xiaomi phone charger I have also shuts down if I either overload it or immediately load it near max rating rather than gradually increase the load.
Retro_unlimited@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Maybe they are poking a hole in the lithium battery
TerHu@lemm.ee 5 hours ago
once put usb-c in a usb-a port and my desktop pc performed an immediate reboot without any permanent harm…
ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 11 hours ago
I don’t get it. I was never this stupid as a kid.
WhiteRice@lemmy.ml 10 hours ago
Are you sure? Kids are pretty stupid.
ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 9 hours ago
I never intentionally destroyed expensive electronics to “try to impress” anyone in real life, let alone online (although that didn’t quite exist yet).
So, yeah, I’m sure.
peregrin5@lemm.ee 8 hours ago
I used to be a teacher in the 2010s. I remember boys having this ghost pepper challenge they would do that would put them in literal tears.
I never stopped them. Some just have to learn through experience that being an idiot to impress your buds isn’t going to result in a good time for you.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
That’s, like, a normal logical one. It’s actually food, it’s spicy. It makes sense to compete to see who can handle the spicy food.
Stealing faucets from public bathrooms? That’s not a normal logical one. That’s a devious lick, and something invented to be highly memetic and propelled by a highly optimized algorithm that incentivizes recency, novelty, and dopamine hacking. It even had a marketing/brand name!
Bezier@suppo.fi 5 hours ago
Eating a spicy pepper is just harmless fun. I’d join in that activity today.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
Same, but I had classmates who were.
sexy_peach@feddit.org 10 hours ago
I was pretty stupid
paraphrand@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
You didn’t have the same social and monetary incentives TikTok provides.
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
Some of my shenanigans definitely involved breaking electronics
rabber@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
I was. When the bell would ring and the halls were hectic I would put popcorn in the communal microwave and put like 20 min and leave and sometimes nobody would notice till it catches fire
I almost burned down the school a couple times
ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 9 hours ago
Hopefully you’re less of a piece of shit now
Norin@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Youthful rebellion transcends technology.
Is there much difference between this and, say, using a pen to drill a hole in your desk?
SaltSong@startrek.website 10 hours ago
Desks are cheaper, and the hole only slightly impairs functionality.
TryingToActHuman@lemmy.world 10 hours 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.
ililiililiililiilili@lemm.ee 10 hours ago
They also don’t release magic smoke. All my homies hate vandalizing desks.
hoch@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Drilling a hole in your desk doesn’t lead to cancer.
IMongoose@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Pen is less likely to start a fire and or create toxic smoke.
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 hours ago
I’ve never done that either. The fuck? did you eat paint as a kid?
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 9 hours ago
We did it for the love of the game and not to impress strangers
magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 hours ago
Bullahut you did it to impress the other nosepickers, same reason these kids are doing it.
kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 hours ago
Thank you, it’s relieving to see that some people don’t fall for the “kids today” bullshit
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 7 hours ago
Perhaps it’s more like “Kids short-circuiting school issued chromebooks because of excessive surveillance.”
…but probably not (or at least, not entirely) because many kids are dumb.
source: was a dumb kid.
terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
Nah, before Chromebooks we’d vandalize the text books and desk.
SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
I would take the balls from mice
And also computer mice
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 4 hours ago
Excessive surveillance? It’s school property lol
DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 4 hours ago
It’s school property with a camera and microphone in their homes lol
macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Good, chromebooks suck.
Bezier@suppo.fi 11 hours ago
Aren’t the families responsible for the damages?
JaymesRS@literature.cafe 10 hours ago
Yes they are. These 9th graders are feral though. That realization would require forethought.
Some of these kids should have been sent out to cut trail for a year between HS and Middle School.
mean_bean279@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
This is highly dependent on the state and even the areas within a state. Here in California for instance we have the Williams Act which lays out a ton of guidance. Some of which impact students paying for things at schools. Some districts in the state view Williams Act and 1:1 Chromebook deployments as being something that the student/parents aren’t responsible for paying for even when they purposefully damage it. This can change though from region to region in the state based on how a districts legal team and its board chooses to read the law since no one so far (at least as far as I was last aware and I work in edtech) has pushed to see where it stops or starts. I’ve worked for districts that were on separate ends of that spectrum and even in the district that made parents pay for damages we still would give them a replacement and not charge them since it was added to a “tab” and only if they wanted transcripts did they have to pay.
Warehouse@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
What does “cut trail” mean in this context? Do you mean literally going to walking trails and maintaining them? Is there precident for that?
KelvarIW@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 hours ago
As I age I find myself feeling more and more like the cool step-dad or uncle.
Y’know I hate everything Chromebooks stand for. “You get 'em, kid. Now how about we get some pizza?”
Ryick@lemm.ee 8 hours ago
If this were an unbiased and honest article; then it would read “Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for social clout.” The subtle message, in this article, is TikTok = bad, which is illogical because events such as this will occur regardless of platform or even lack of a platform. It will ALWAYS happen. The question is how to mitigate these events as much as possible, because it’s impossible to completely eradicate “kids doing X for social clout.” It’s a part of learning and being human.
TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
Yes but without tik tok this is a kid or two being stupid and charged a couple hundred at one school. I think we had 3 kids today at school destroy their laptops.
Ryick@lemm.ee 8 hours ago
You can replace TikTok with any social media platform. That’s why this argument is illogical in that it blames TikTok.
w3dd1e@lemm.ee 8 hours ago
Yeah, could have been called “kids are learning how circuits work thanks to TikTok trend” and suddenly the story has a whole other meaning
Wildfire0Straggler3@lemm.ee 10 hours ago
Fuck chromebooks anyways, Google shouldn’t be allowed to steal so much information about our youth directly from the devices they use at school. They should be using laptops with Linux installed on them, preferably Pop!_OS to preserve the kids privacy.
I don’t condone damaging school property, although I think it’s a lesser evil to Google’s privacy practices on Chromebooks.
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 5 hours ago
I agree but I’m not sure why specifically popos though
Wildfire0Straggler3@lemm.ee 4 hours ago
Pop!_OS is an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution featuring a custom GNOME desktop.
It is designed to have a minimal amount of clutter on the desktop without distractions in order to allow the user to focus on work.
This distro was also designed with security and privacy in mind.
So students can more easily focus on their work while also being more secure and private while using an easy to use interface, I know it’s not the only one but its a good one!
paraphrand@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Yeah, no worries about the lithium fires. Fuck those chromebooks.
trash@lemm.ee 6 hours ago
I’m with you, but that’s not the reason these kids are doing this. It’s because they are idiots.
asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 8 hours ago
What does “clout” mean?
MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 7 hours ago
Another word for fame
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 hours ago
Also reputation
throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
more like a rap sheet
asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 6 hours ago
Thanks
catloaf@lemm.ee 1 hour ago
www.dictionary.com/browse/clout
Are you not a native English speaker? It’s not an uncommon word.
ccdfa@lemm.ee 4 hours ago
Yeah basically it’s like good aura
tonyn@lemmy.ml 5 hours ago
Net Cred
ephrin@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
Just got a notification about this from my kids school district in Northern CA.
TomMasz@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Behold the next generation of voters.
Telorand@reddthat.com 10 hours ago
It’s how the US got Trump. The “Trump Train” was a meme, first.
cubism_pitta@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Chromebooks are absolute garbage.
Most computers I have used over the last 15 years will disable USB power if you short out the port (working with electronics you tend to replicate the "sticking scissors into a USB port with some regularity)
Pencil lead I am sure causes other issues though… it gets red hot and melts eventually
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
Is there a better option schools should be buying at a similar price point?
cubism_pitta@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I would ask what value chromebooks add to education?
We are not teaching kids to do anything with them other than consume Google and Adobe services.
It’s no better than schools were when I was in school where we used windows and mainly learned to consume Microsoft products.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 hours ago
Just gotta get some of that Magic Smoke.
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 hours ago
We live in hell
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
When I was a middle schooler I definitely wanted to see what would happen from messing around with that would be like…
But I also wasn’t inundated by short form videos trying it out and encouraging me to do it myself also as part of a trend…
hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
TikTok is poison for the mind.
sheogorath@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
It literally shrinks your brain with excessive usage.