for one reason or another

Greed, mostly lol

Don’t let the gatekeepers put you off. The Linux community is quite helpful if you can get past their garbage. Every guru was once a noob 👍

Why wait? Install it now. I would recommend Mint as a beginner distro.

Kinda feels like humanity is in the process of jumping the shark on this one

Damn, that last line. The PTSD is palpable.

YOU LOST THE FIRST TIME, JUST LIKE THE GERMANS, TAKE THE HINT

It’s not my job to educate you on how the education industry works. Go and read what qualified people have already written about it in academic journals.

No assessment method is perfectly suited to every student.

Coursework can be similarly adapted.

All this moral panic is garbage.

Easily solved by using essays with an unseen question written in exam conditions as assessment instruments.

Literally a pencil and paper solves this problem.

This whole thing gonna take the U outta the USA

It was good knowing ya, murrica

The key thing is that teachers can ban phones in their individual classrooms if the school permits it.

There are many schools in which the senior admin don’t institute phone bans (you’d be surprised how common this is).

Legislating it helps maintain consistency and parity between schools nation wide, which is important as it’s a quality of education issue, so the policy should be consistent across all schools.

I’m not from North America, but the situation is similar across most western democracies.

You could always pass it on to someone who can’t afford a new one, a school student for example

Yes, they really do. There’s nothing that business types love more than smelling their own bad ideas and thinking it’s genius.

You can be sure that a CEO on $10 million thinks regular people would think nothing of subscribing to ten different services because he does personally, so what’s the big deal?

People are still people. Doctors are just as susceptible to compromising their ethics as everyone else, the only difference is that they probably have a higher bribe threshold.

Me too. Feelin’ mighty fine about that decision now. Long Live Lemmy

I’m not in IT and had no prior experience.

I bought a used Dell Optiplex for cheap and used installation guides provided on the websites of the services I wanted to install (pihole, jellyfin, home assistant etc)

This is by far the easiest method to get started. Learn by doing.

Make all your services LAN only to start; don’t open anything up to be accessed outside your home network until you know a bit more, as making it secure requires a bit more time and knowledge.

Hot tip: use chat gpt to help you. If something doesnt work, feed the error messages to it and it will explain why and give you the commands to fix them.

Odoo might have bits you want/need. Linux based.

I use Mullvad with great success, give that a try. It has advanced configuration options baked in. Has GUI and CLI interfaces, and a dead mans switch for dropouts.

Sure, but only a fraction will be saved. It’s criminal how much ewaste Apple and Microsoft are responsible for. That’s what happens when people are taught that profits can only increase year on year.

That’ll make you go blind