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

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[-] PenguinTD@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 year ago

After reading all the comments, I'm just gonna say that if you don't allow kids to tinker and do their thing, they will learn a lot slower and your "investment" will be left mostly unused. (age range proper hardware/OS of course.) The school policy is not doing the kids a favor, it's a waste of time and tax money that you cultivate a generation of people get used to chrome book and google apps. That's the ultimate purpose for school license being cheaper.

[-] Catasaur@lemmy.catasaur.xyz 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We've got young adults entering the workforce that cannot comprehend what a filesystem and directory structure is due to 10+ years of these sandboxed, guard-railed tech products.

[-] PenguinTD@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

I now understand that existential crisis that people become too dumb or not capable of operating technologies developed by previous generation.(like the Walle movie.)

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