glhf :3

back around 2013 I was working on a school project, did the ol’ get out my laptop without putting on my glasses bit, and ran “rm -rf” on the wrong folder because the characters sorta looked similar to my farsighted eyes.

Since I didn’t make backups, that was a few weeks of work down the drain.

I still have a lightscribe drive in my main PC. No lightscribe discs though.

No doubt

Things like this were certainly better before social media, when a trend like this would be contained to a school and would be less likely to spread across the world.

I think if we knew what the capabiltiies of social media platforms would be 25+ years ago, it would certainly be something we would see coming. The idea that a teenagers telling a bunch of other teenagers hundreds of kiometeres away what dumb and dangerous idea they came up with is probably one of the more predicable things that has happened.

uh oh, this is gonna upset the top 1%.

I meant more broadly than just breaking computers, but I guess for as long as computers have been in school teenagers have been finding creative ways to break them.

Was always a BYOD kid since our school allowed it (and I think most if not all should) and I preferred using GNU/Linux over Windows so I never really did anything like this myself. I’ve scavenged parts from (usually ewasted) school computers before, but that’s a story for a different day.

The kids in our schools were also surprisingly well behaved in this manner. It’s not even that I haven’t heard of kids doing stuff to their school computers elsewhere I just haven’t really noticed it to be too bad where I was. Maybe a few incidents of kids picking the keys off the keyboard but otherwise not really much. I wonder if it’s still the same way or if it’s changed, but I guess I’ll know that once I start working for a school IT department.

Unless it’s Google hardware I don’t really know what they could say. It would have been better for them to contact actual Chromebook manufacturers such as Lenovo, Acer, or Dell.

Its a stupid trend, but at the end of the day teenagers will do stuff like this no matter what generation you look at. I hope they can become educated to why this is bad and you shouldn’t do it.

probably the kind of person to scream “woke DEI” everytime they see someone who isn’t white working at burger king.

you see, free speech is only for reactionaries.

Good thing is that GIMP 3.0 is right around the corner, bringing a port from GTK2 to GTK3 and with that a much more modern GUI.

Inkscape would still be better for this in particular though.

Where is her free speech?

There are many valid reasons outside of a sitewide protest for a subreddit to go from public to private, so Reddit doing this is a scummy move on more than just one level. Just one more reason why free alternatives like lemmy are superior.

there is absolutely no excuse for this

were they a Republican?

My fifth grade teacher never had any kids, and considered us as her children. Maybe something like that is what she is referring to?

Nice to see another openSUSE Tumbleweed user!

After having talked to some on the GTA V SCUD, so many think we are in support of the cheaters and are framing our frustration around us just wanting the cheaters back.

something that perplexes me to this day

Pixel 2 XL, also no issues or even any noticeable deltas between Chromium based browsers and Firefox.