There are few things quite as emblematic of late stage capitalism than the concept of “planned obsolescence”.

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      you think school districts pay their IT departments enough to deal with that shit? If they even have one, at least here in Texas a lot of schools just hire random dudes to come in every so often

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        yea apparently they only have part-time teenagers lol

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          11 months ago

          Wouldn’t surprise me in the least

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      The schools would probably get sued out the ass.

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      Even if you manage to get the chromebook into developer mode and put a new BIOS to install Linux through USB theres something baout the chromebook firmware that doesn’t like it. I installed Zorin on my personal chromebook and after 2 weeks the hard drive got randomly wiped.

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        It could also just be Zorin since somehow despite literally just being an Ubuntu reskin it manages to be buggier than pure Ubuntu.

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      If anyone wants a good guide on how to this go here this also uses coreboot which is slick