They should praise you and incorporate your skillset into a volunteer IT slaveforce to keep up on all the fuckery they have to combat on the daily basis.
I mean, in exchange for your freedom – that would be the smart reaction to learning someone has skills you lack and need. Of course they could go with the whole “u threaten my smart, lets suspend you cuz I have small 1” pp" – honestly not had to predict total systems failure and clusterfuck in the near future with such incompetence.
Chromebooks run Linux already: chromeOS
when I attended uni, almost 2 decades ago, I had wifi speeds that were basically something like 20 or 30/Mbps or very close to max for wifi a — was one of the first times a public place (uni library only, nowhere else on campus, save for certain labs or the programming classroom I took an elective Java class in had wifi).
Anyway, friends were getting awful speeds. I’d play a video and it’d just be there. Pretty much the fastest I’d experienced until about 4 years ago via wifi when i got my wireless ac router and a gigabit connection in Seoul.
anyway, back to my story stateside, in my last semester… I can’t remember now, but someone — a library tech or other IT guy, saw me using Fedora Core 4 or 5, the one before zod, and he said come with him. Anyway, turns out the school had a big medical wing, sciences stuff, etc running Unix/Linux, and I guess the way the routers worked was they took Linux/Unix (and OSX) traffic and shared bandwidth equally. Windows PCs, also, were split equally. The two sets were seperated, and each had half the bandwidth. So I was sharing with the few other students who used Linux, and like 5 or 6 servers. So they just politely asked me to let them add a line to my wifi settings that limited my share. Which was fine, I still had noticeably faster internet than in Windows XP, the windows of the day. I reinstalled linux to get Zod fc6 at the end of my last semester, and i could no longer connect to wifi, so I think they changed the authentication system to avoid what I was able to do early on – and by that point wifi was in the Student Union and a few more places as well, and like the LG chocolates and voyagers, etc, those early internet phones were getting rather popular… not sure how they looked or worked into this, but if that guy wasn’t blowing smoke, the schools super computers would’ve gotten borked on connection share a few years later by android phones taking up the shared connection method.
This was when I first started using Linux, so I can’t really remember the config line, but I think it did a lot to turn me onto the platform because it felt so badass, and this is coming from my last attempt to run linux (failed) on a core 2 duo laptop that didn’t have the required 1gb (!!) luckily, I’d either upgraded, or Fedora was less intense.
Wtf! As a professor, if some IT guys at the university tried to tell me I couldn’t run Linux on my computer, in my lab, or wherever else, I might lose my mind. Can people not even use a Mac on your school’s network? In some fields, it makes no sense to run windows in the first place. What an insanely counterproductive and ridiculous policy.
Brave stranger.
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please tell me this is a joke.
Got sent to the principals office for using hackertyper in my “freshman seminar” class.
The irony is that class is about computer literacy…
I’m a teacher and I encourage my students to boot from their USBs. Heck we even use it in class because school won’t allow us to install linux directly so they just boot their own
I had a teacher stop the class once to tell me to stop using the command prompt, when trying to load some ancient software, though to be fair it was dosbox I was using
I almost got in trouble for tping random stuff into the password field of the admin account on Windows XP. (If you didn’t know; you can reset the admin password faster than you’d be able to guess tha password)
at university around 2007, I would boot a mac in the design lab off my iPod so I could run Leopard (the macs were still running Tiger), and I played minecraft and WoW in the back. Unfortunatly, a year or so later, they were locked down from booting external drives.
I’ve talked to my oldest son about that. He has a Tails system on a flash drive and I’ve warned him about using that on school computers. Lately, he’s been complaining because Duck Duck Go is blocked. He’s realized the easiest way around the blocking software is to just tether his phone and use his data plan.
My middle son has been patting himself on the back for finding a way around the schools block on YouTube. He’s been getting frustrated though because the updates that blocked Duck Duck Go have also cut off some of his tricks.
I’m just waiting for the day the principal calls and I have to try to defend what they’re doing.
I used to risk that shit when I was in college a couple of years ago. All I wanted was to install Genymotion on their computers.
I did that on daily basis in my previous school. I think the teacher liked jumping cow screensaver when we went for a break. (Knoppix)
JFC. I cant believe you’d be marked down for using a proper IDE instead of that abortion called wing.
Regardless of context even, being marked down for “ineffective use” is stupid… as long as you get it done.
Same they they thought I was a wierdo because I used pycharm on my Manjaro and the all black and green theme didn’t help either. They thought me to be a hacker but thankfully the device was my own so no one could do anything and I did submit my assignment beforehand.
I really hate how people get hung up on everyone needing to use the same toolchain. I see it a lot at work, too - God forbid that someone uses WebStorm instead of VS Code for Angular development!
If you’re delivering quality code, I couldn’t care less if you use Notepad. I get it in a university setting, but if you choose to use something not supported by the professor, then you shouldn’t expect any help on setup and that should be the end of it. Actively penalizing someone for using different tools (particularly industry-standard tools like the JetBrains suite) in a class that’s all about the end result is just ridiculous.
“uhh, i was compiling glibc”
When I was in highschool I created a batch file with a recurring loop that would constantly open up windows to the point where it would overload the ram and cause the computer to restart. I did this in a computer lab once and had a similar situation.
I got permanently banned from the computer lab for my English 3 class because I multi-tasked in MacOS. I opened an encyclopedia to look up if I was right about something in my essay. Stupid 80 year old teacher couldn’t grasp that you could do more than one thing.
Same teacher failed me for the entire semester because I aced her midterm without having read the book. I did the test backwards and guessed on the rest and got lucky.
Only time I was ever failed for a class other than PE. Yes, I failed PE, because my chest hurts like hell when I run… Which I now know to be related to my EoE.