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

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• cubism_pitta@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Is there a better option schools should be buying at a similar price point?

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    • cubism_pitta@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      pine64.com/…/14″-pinebook-pro-linux-laptop-ansi-u…

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• aTun@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I thought system will turn off USB port if notice current over draw. Look like I am wrong.

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  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What i saw they were shorting the charging ports, not the USB slots.

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    • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Both ports the same. Two girls, one port? Killing two birds with one port?

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• venusaur@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  These kids know they’re gonna be replaced by tech and they’re fighting back

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  • pulsewidth@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The ones that are dumb enough to do this won’t be getting jobs to be replaced anyway.

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• const_void@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Good. Less spyware machines in the world.

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• Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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…

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• LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We live in hell

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• SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Just gotta get some of that Magic Smoke.

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• Guns0rWeD13@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  r/kidsarefuckingstupid

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