There are few things quite as emblematic of late stage capitalism than the concept of “planned obsolescence”.

  • fogetaboutit@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    I haven’t (will never) had the experience of owning chromebook as a student, what does the MDM will do here? Cheating prevention?

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        1 year ago

        I wonder what it would look like without these measures?

        Back in My Day™, we had minimal MDM on the school computers.

        Yes, the kids that wanted to fuck around (look at porn, download music, play games) fucked around, but they would have the old-fashioned way, anyway. The most common thing was just changing the desktop photo to a Lamborghini, or something. Anyway, we turned out…. Well… not necessarily ok, but I don’t fault the computers for lack thereof where applicable.

        Admittedly, these weren’t personal laptops but just ones in the library or computer labs, but still.

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      1 year ago

      Same thing it does for any instution that loans out hardware, e.g. employers:

      • monitoring

      • remote lockdown / wipe

      • remote management of installed software

      • etc.