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A comment on Google Chromebook outlawed in Danish public schools. Parent comment

Re:Google Chromebook outlawed in Danish public schools by sofixa on Friday July 15, 2022 @05:16PM (#32112893)
Eh, I don't think playing trivia games and Worms instead of doing trivial (for me) stuff with Word/Excel or writing useless (for me) Visual Basic had much to do with how i became a programmer (taught myself PHP and then used it to write a terribly insecure CMS for the school parliament, partially to impress a girl).

I do think that the "curiosity" spirit applied when trying to circumvent restrictions (in school or from my parents) did help though.

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Re:Google Chromebook outlawed in Danish public schools by er4din on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @01:53PM (#32155456)
My school used chrome books and one of my classmates ((sixth form)last 2 years of high school for Americans) literally took it apart and reassembled it again to replace a certain part after it fried and he didn’t want to pay for another one, he found the chip code and bought it from Amazon. That guy is in uni for compsci now,
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