HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml to Late Stage CapitalismEnglish · 1 year agoBuilt-in software ‘death dates’ are sending thousands of schools’ Chromebooks to the recycling binwww.mercurynews.comexternal-linkmessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up172arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up172arrow-down1external-linkBuilt-in software ‘death dates’ are sending thousands of schools’ Chromebooks to the recycling binwww.mercurynews.comHiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml to Late Stage CapitalismEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square22fedilinkfile-text
There are few things quite as emblematic of late stage capitalism than the concept of “planned obsolescence”.
minus-squareImOnADietlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·1 year agoyou 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
minus-square小莱卡linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·11 months agoyea apparently they only have part-time teenagers lol
minus-squareImOnADietlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·11 months agoWouldn’t surprise me in the least
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
yea apparently they only have part-time teenagers lol
Wouldn’t surprise me in the least