A bunch of bored kids found a way to unenroll their school Chromebooks

Re:A bunch of bored kids found a way to unenroll their schoo... by ethbr0 on Monday January 30, 2023 @09:30AM (#34579979)

I believe the point is that if Google gave a @&#$ about not being evil, they could have sandboxed a shell, included basic unix tools and a compiler, and made this non-disableable.

Instead, they catered to the same jackasses who featurespec'd SharePoint. Missed opportunity.

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Re:A bunch of bored kids found a way to unenroll their schoo... by jamespo on Monday January 30, 2023 @10:56AM (#34581378)

https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/9145439?hl=en-G...

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Re:A bunch of bored kids found a way to unenroll their schoo... by ethbr0 on Monday January 30, 2023 @11:37AM (#34582224)

>> Important: If you use your Chromebook at work or school, you might not be able to use Linux. For more information, contact your administrator.

>> {enable developer mode}

If it were sandboxed, that's shouldn't be something it's possible for managed administrators to disable.

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Re:A bunch of bored kids found a way to unenroll their schoo... by XionXIV on Monday January 30, 2023 @11:46AM (#34582391)

It definitely is sandboxed. I think the concern is that kids will get off task with it by installing games and stuff.

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Re:A bunch of bored kids found a way to unenroll their schoo... by ethbr0 on Monday January 30, 2023 @11:55AM (#34582572)

IMHO, a limited (read: CLI) but general-purpose computing environment is exactly what we should be providing our kids.

No one would play TI-83 games if they had other options... but it'd be hard to say writing and modifying them wasn't educational.

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Re:A bunch of bored kids found a way to unenroll their schoo... by jamespo on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @03:50AM (#34592840)

Yes but that's a decision for the administrators, they may well not want portscans etc happening on their network.

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