back around 2013 I was working on a school project, did the ol’ get out my laptop without putting on my glasses bit, and ran “rm -rf” on the wrong folder because the characters sorta looked similar to my farsighted eyes.

Since I didn’t make backups, that was a few weeks of work down the drain.

there is that (as someone who had parents and grandparents who were smokers) but it is also quite unfair, you never asked for them to be smokers or smoke around you and when you are a child your attempts to convince them to stop smoking is met with laughter more often than not.

I think a big part on why I’m not a smoker is I saw what it did to people, and how second hand smoke has affected me. I’d be in a room with my mother and grandfather, trying to find clean air inside my grandfather’s small apartment because both of them were smoking at the same time. I never want to make another human experience that.

Best thing you can do is to break the chain if others in your family do it I guess. I will never smoke, there’s literally nothing in it for me or those around me.

No doubt

Things like this were certainly better before social media, when a trend like this would be contained to a school and would be less likely to spread across the world.

I think if we knew what the capabiltiies of social media platforms would be 25+ years ago, it would certainly be something we would see coming. The idea that a teenagers telling a bunch of other teenagers hundreds of kiometeres away what dumb and dangerous idea they came up with is probably one of the more predicable things that has happened.

I meant more broadly than just breaking computers, but I guess for as long as computers have been in school teenagers have been finding creative ways to break them.

Was always a BYOD kid since our school allowed it (and I think most if not all should) and I preferred using GNU/Linux over Windows so I never really did anything like this myself. I’ve scavenged parts from (usually ewasted) school computers before, but that’s a story for a different day.

The kids in our schools were also surprisingly well behaved in this manner. It’s not even that I haven’t heard of kids doing stuff to their school computers elsewhere I just haven’t really noticed it to be too bad where I was. Maybe a few incidents of kids picking the keys off the keyboard but otherwise not really much. I wonder if it’s still the same way or if it’s changed, but I guess I’ll know that once I start working for a school IT department.

Unless it’s Google hardware I don’t really know what they could say. It would have been better for them to contact actual Chromebook manufacturers such as Lenovo, Acer, or Dell.

Its a stupid trend, but at the end of the day teenagers will do stuff like this no matter what generation you look at. I hope they can become educated to why this is bad and you shouldn’t do it.

probably the kind of person to scream “woke DEI” everytime they see someone who isn’t white working at burger king.

I mean as cliche as this seems to be an an answer, I think the best solution is to not try them in the first place. You can’t lose if you never play the game.

There are many valid reasons outside of a sitewide protest for a subreddit to go from public to private, so Reddit doing this is a scummy move on more than just one level. Just one more reason why free alternatives like lemmy are superior.

there is absolutely no excuse for this

After having talked to some on the GTA V SCUD, so many think we are in support of the cheaters and are framing our frustration around us just wanting the cheaters back.

something that perplexes me to this day