Built-in software ‘death dates’ are sending thousands of schools’ Chromebooks to the recycling bin (www.mercurynews.com)

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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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[-] ImOnADiet@lemmygrad.ml 27 points 1 year ago

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

[-] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 1 year ago

yea apparently they only have part-time teenagers lol

[-] ImOnADiet@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 year ago

Wouldn’t surprise me in the least

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