Is it true that kids are given chromebooks in school now? So everything you do is tracked by Google starting as a child?

Makes me feel old my classrooms only had a few crt screens in the corner.

i wrote on pencil and paper

Better than being tracked by crapple or microsoft?

>>105961789 (OP)
Yes they are given chromebooks and required to have the webcam on whenever they're doing testing on them. During the covid lockdowns there were tons of videos leaking out where parents were getting caught doing illegal things like smoking pot in the background while their child was attending online classrooms.

The chromebooks come with a lot of spyware to constantly monitor everything the child is doing. It regularly sends back recordings from the webcam and microphone. Along with anything that was captured by the keylogger and it takes screenshots of whatever is on screen every 10 seconds or so. Along with a bunch of "anti-cheat" spyware to prevent the kid from googling for answers while taking a test.

They also send them home with little routers that allow them to access the internet through the cell phone network. This is for students that didn't have access to broadband at home. Although they sent them home with every child for some reason. No way to plug a ethernet cable into them either they're purely wireless. They connect to WAN through cell network and offer access over LAN with wifi.

>>105961797
All you need. Computers and tech in the classroom are a fucking meme.

>>105961789 (OP)
I've used chromebooks as my primary device for the past 8 years. (I don't run chromeos on them)

>>105961789 (OP)
What does it even matter when the parents are letting their kids get raised by tablets/ipads anyway? Were you not around when all those web cam videos of little kids were being uploaded to Youtube? Or is everyone pretending like all that pedo shit didn't happen because its Google?

>>105963815
This.
It's smart marketing, rope 'em in while they are young. And better Google than Apple.

When I was in middle school they gave every kid apple laptops and that was almost 20 years ago

kids as young as kindergarten have a iphone.

there was no electronics allowed in my school, zoomers are lucky.

>>105963905
Yeah when I went to high school (2006-2010) kids would pay $1 to leave their phone at the bodega store, gas station, or 7/11 near the school. We also had metal detectors, we couldn't bring in shit, although some kids had an in with some of the guards that would let them bring their phones in.

>>105963859
> It's smart marketing, rope 'em in while they are young.
>And better Google than Apple.

>>105963946
>>105963905
lol at america
when I was in high school, basically everyone had a phone, blackberrys, ZTEs, LG Cookies, Samsung Toco Lites, HTCs, iPhones.
Everyone would be texting each other in class, I even did skype calls during classes before.

>>105963990
I mean we were allowed to bring phones in when I went to private school. But that was my freshmen year, I ended up getting expelled, ended up going to public school. In public school it was cucked. We would bring in USB sticks with Halo CE, ZSNES emulators, and portable versions of AIM to talk with friends during our computer classes. But yeah way too many fights, kids getting robbed and gang violence that they didn't allow us to do that shit. I remember one December there was this crazy ass blizzard, it got so bad that our school actually closed early, and some hispanic kid has his $300 coat stolen kek he had to walk home in a fucking hoody. I thought we had shit bad but nowadays you have literal 5th graders plotting fucking murders. I can't even imagine how shit it is to be a zoomer.

>>105964049
My school had a SEP so bringing in USBs would be useless, as you couldn’t run applications not on their approved list. They’d also done it by hash as well, so you couldn’t just rename an exe and be on your way.
The only real useful thing you could bring in on a USB would have been either porn or maybe .swfs you could open in AFP.

>>105964055
Damn that's shitty. Our school just blocked websites. Were still were able to install shit. So after we rushed and did our work, it'd be like 8 of us playing HALO CE on LAN fucking around. Or like 3 of us huddled around 3 keyboard playing Bomberman multiplayer on ZNES. Some niggas would also install Icy Tower and play that. If I wasn't playing bomberman or icy tower than I was probably glued to AIM, talking in some groupchat.

>>105964115
>huddled around 3 keyboard
I meant 1 keyboard. Someone would use WASD, someone would use arrow keys, and then 3rd person would use num pad. Good times.

>>105964123
>>105964115
I eventually got given a ThinkPad T42 and I just started bringing that to school, later replaced by an Acer Aspire 5315 running Vista.

>>105961797
good for you