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> these school districts bought a $250 computer 7 years ago I have not tried to confirm this myself, but the petition ends by stating that some of these produc
by mcherm 3y ago
> these school districts bought a $250 computer 7 years ago
I have not tried to confirm this myself, but the petition ends by stating that some of these products are still available for purchase today.
> you can easily install a Linux distro on Chromebooks and extend the life yourself
It is entirely possible that YOU can do that. But I have worked in school technical support departments (once long ago, I led one) and I can assure you that in most cases THEY are not capable of installing a Linux distro on their Chromebooks.
- hospitalJail 3y ago>It is entirely possible that YOU can do that. But I have worked in school technical support departments (once long ago, I led one) and I can assure you that in most cases THEY are not capable of installing a Linux distro on their Chromebooks. Lets say they need to buy a new computer for $400, for 1,000 students. Can you spend less than $400,000 to figure this out? Lets expand it to a school district, can you spend less than $4,000,000 to figure this out? Feel free to expand this to a national level.
- paxys 3y agoWhose responsibility is it to ensure that students have access to free computers? Yours? Mine? The government's? Google's? Add up the salaries of all the administrators who signed that letter and you'd be able to buy new laptops a hundred times over. Yet it's Google engineers who must volunteer their time, or they'll get publicly shamed over it.