K12 Admins powerwashing their Chromebooks for a new school year. (Summer 2023, Colorized)

3 years ago by RCMaehl [Any] to c/technology

I didn't see anything against memes in the rules, but feel free to remove if not allowed :)

CaptObvious 49 points 3 years ago

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housepanther 30 points 3 years ago

I continue to maintain that Chromebooks are toys. Any real productivity is just not possible with them. I would rather an older Lenovo ThinkPad T4XX series that I bought off of Amazon than a brand new Chromebook.

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bdonvr 20 points 3 years ago

Eh? They're fine, especially now that they can run Android apps.

At least, for the kind of person who does 99% of their computing in a browser. Which nowadays is actually quite a huge percentage....

Not for me, but I don't hate them at all. For what they do they are quick and reliable. I'm just not the intended consumer

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housepanther 3 points 3 years ago

I am struggling to figure out who the intended consumer is in the first place. 🤣

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bdonvr 20 points 3 years ago

I'm telling you, the average person nowadays (if they even use a desktop/laptop computer at all!) just uses the browser and basically nothing else ever. Maybe an office suite. Chromebooks are perfect for them.

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housepanther 2 points 3 years ago

Yes, I know. I was being facetious. I cannot help but hate all things Google.

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zxo 6 points 3 years ago

Probably schools, those bad boys are pretty much designed to be used in schools. They are easy for the sysadmin to manage and they are easy to use for the student. They charge fast and stay charged for a long time, and most things a student would need can be found online. They also make it harder for a student to brick their own computer or do things they shouldn't. Even if they are horribly Google-ridden, they do work well in schools.

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JoYo 1 point 3 years ago

arcvm is completely screwing the android support on Chromebooks.

they should have nixed it when they realized that aarch64 support was impossible.

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Pandantic 11 points 3 years ago

As a teacher who teaches students with Chromebooks, I concur.

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mean_bean279 37 points 3 years ago

As a former K-12 sysadmin who maintained 10,000 chromebooks on my own I think that either of you doesn’t fully grasp how crucial these devices are. Web access is 99% of school device usage and for the few random CTE/STEM products or PASCO devices for science I’ll get a dedicated laptop locker with 10 laptops in it for checkout that run Windows with a base golden image and (preferably entune, but let’s be real) apps in SCCM Software Center so I can quickly wipe them when inevitably a student with more free time than myself either breaks it, deletes system32, or loads it full of porn or Counter Strike.

It’s for students. It’s cheap, it’s effective, it has minimal vulnerabilities that cannot be quickly resolved in 1 minute with a power wash. It has an easy admin interface for techs so I can have them manage smaller details, and it allows me to quickly get them repaired, or cheaply replace them.

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zxo 7 points 3 years ago

Chromebooks are nearly perfect student devices, especially newer ones.

They charge quickly, have long battery lives, and most things students would need are easily accessible on Chrome. As well, it's a little bit harder for students to exploit and put their own apps on in my experience, because it requires more knowledge than what most students have to counter things like social media blocks (Games are kinda an exception though).

While they probably aren't the best for other forms of usage, they are very good school devices. I wouldn't even consider using Macs or Windows laptops at schools instead.

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mean_bean279 6 points 3 years ago

Back in 2013 when the first Chromebooks were rolling out to education they basically subsidized the hell out of them. Google Admin and the licenses came free for the first like 1k or so devices if I recall. It allowed small districts to get them even cheaper and lessened the costs for us larger districts as well. It made it impossible to deny over a comparable windows device that would have easily cost 3x as much and more importantly it required 1/100th the work to setup and maintain. Plus GADS included a whole suite of apps that still had a cost on the windows side since O365 was still in its infancy and MS wasn’t sure how to charge for it.

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JoYo 4 points 3 years ago

ive been using high performance Chromebooks as my main Dev laptop for more than a decade.

if you buy a toy then it's a toy.

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i_lost_my_bagel 2 points 3 years ago

Yeah I've used ChromeOS on computers with decent specs and it's not bad. I don't like using it now because I care about privacy a lot more but when I did it was nice.

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Quentinp 1 point 3 years ago

Just curious what sort of dev, and what kind of tools do you run on a Chromebook. Is it better than a standard laptop?

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JoYo 0 points 3 years ago

I do system level development for Linux, Android, and Windows.

I use rustc, clang, and MSVC depending on the target platform.

I can build iOS and macOS but testing is impossible without an iPhone or macOS device.

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blindbunny 4 points 3 years ago

If the os would stop breaking my Linux install I might disagree with you.

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cousinofjah 1 point 3 years ago

I stopped trying to do Linux on the Chromebook after the third time this happened to me. Lust SSHed to another machine and tried Termux, then gave up and went to a regular laptop.

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SexyTimeSasquatch 1 point 3 years ago

Lenovo is a Chinese government data gathering operation though.

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Bobert 0 points 3 years ago

The same Lenovo that couldn't keep their internal web pages from being public accessible that then allowed the shimming of every other manufacturer's Chromebooks? Fuck Lenovo.

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housepanther 4 points 3 years ago

Right now the build quality of Dell and HPs are worse. I should know. I have at least 4 fail per week.

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Bobert 2 points 3 years ago

And two years from now it'll be Lenovos and HPs shitting the bed. Four years Dells and Lenovos. It's all cyclic. Always has been.

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housepanther 3 points 3 years ago

Although to be honest, HP never built a good laptop.

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housepanther 2 points 3 years ago

Yeah, you could be right about that. When their brand reputation takes too much of a hit they have to recover by improving the quality for a period of time and accepting less profit.

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INeedMana 13 points 3 years ago

Well, if it's completely dry before plugging in, it can definitely get rid of dirt. On hot surfaces it sometimes gets baked in and compressed air is too little

Just put it in rice afterwards /meme

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eric5949 7 points 3 years ago

There's an old video on derbauer's channel where he throws his motherboard used for ln2 overclocking into the dish washer and explains how it's actually totally fine if you're not stupid.

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teft 6 points 3 years ago

I would suggest dumping it in a 99% alcohol bath afterwards if you're gonna wash electronics in water. Alcohol will push out any water that gets stuck in any nooks and crannies and then it will dry without any residue.

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INeedMana 3 points 3 years ago

Well, using IPA instead of water would probably be a better idea in the first place. But beggars can't be choosers, I guess ;)

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willeypete23 2 points 3 years ago

What if we don't have any IPAs will a lager be all right?

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INeedMana 1 point 3 years ago

Only if from a green bottle

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IdiosyncraticIdiot 13 points 3 years ago

Please remember to tag gore as NSFWMR

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Tzayad 13 points 3 years ago

Boss: did you wipe all the laptops before the new year?

Me: like... With a rag?

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raspberry_confetti 10 points 3 years ago

If there's one thing we learned from COVID, it's that the best way to get rid of a virus is by soap and water.

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GameEnder 4 points 3 years ago

Needs more stickers that are glued on, or marker stains all over the case.

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Bobert 1 point 3 years ago

It's not the power washing that gets tiring. It's the lugging of Chromebooks in and out of the cooker!

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joey 1 point 3 years ago

Idk we had Linux machines in high school. We never washed or dusted them.

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Voyajer 1 point 3 years ago

Do we have an equivalent magazine to techsupportgore?

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JoYo 0 points 3 years ago

just logout the users and you dont need to worry about powerwashing unless the ssd is full.

each user has encrypted home directory, removing the user removes the decrypt keys.

if you're worried about the NSA getting to the user dir then you're on your own.

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JoYo 0 points 3 years ago

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jungle -18 points 3 years ago

Admins: please add a rule against memes.

OP: please post in a memes community, or create a new one if none fit your purpose.

Thank you.

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Supervivens 19 points 3 years ago

Literal community description: “All the content!” I’m pretty sure memes about technology count as content about technology. I see no reason for them to be banned.

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Sivaru 2 points 3 years ago

I agree with you.

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jungle -12 points 3 years ago

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JoYo -3 points 3 years ago

I'm ok with top shelf memes. mid memes result in a ban tho.

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