Marxism-Fennekinism to Late Stage Capitalism@lemmygrad.mlEnglish • 2 years agoBuilt-in software ‘death dates’ are sending thousands of schools’ Chromebooks to the recycling binwww.mercurynews.comexternal-linkmessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up172file-textcross-posted to: technology@beehaw.org
arrow-up172external-linkBuilt-in software ‘death dates’ are sending thousands of schools’ Chromebooks to the recycling binwww.mercurynews.comMarxism-Fennekinism to Late Stage Capitalism@lemmygrad.mlEnglish • 2 years agomessage-square22fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: technology@beehaw.org
There are few things quite as emblematic of late stage capitalism than the concept of “planned obsolescence”.
minus-squareImOnADiet🇵🇸 (He/Him)linkfedilinkEnglish27•2 years 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linkfedilinkEnglish12•2 years agoyea apparently they only have part-time teenagers lol
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