Thanks, I hate it

Had to spin up a virtual windows machine the other day and was just honestly appalled at how bad the desktop experience is these days

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

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.

Well so far I’ve painted all the rocks in my garden neon yellow, so I’ve done about the same as those twats.

Oh, and also all the things I mentioned in my previous post (except run for Parliament), so there is that.

Doesn’t actually take that much fucking effort. I can’t guarantee that my actions will have definite results, but what I can say for sure is that at least I’m doing things that are actually targeted at fixing the problem and not just getting attention so that a bunch of useless wankers can feel self-righteous.

Certainly my solar panels will contribute something at least.

So, what have you done?

Does anyone else find the term “creatives” to be so damn condescending? It’d be like calling executives, “Admins” or “powerpointers”

They’re not doing anything except virtue signalling.

What did you do during the climate crisis, grandpa? Did you canvass politicians? Did you install solar panels? Did you vote for the green party? Did you blockade drilling sites? Did you run for Parliament?

No Jimmy I sprayed paint on some old rocks

May as well stay at home and stab yourself in the head with a fork until you black out.

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

It’s not just nostalgia. I absolutely want a phone I can throw at a wall and put back together without it costing me money.

That’s every instance, not just Lemmy world

What? Why?

Because they’re trying to monetize your third space.

The time is ripe for a new contender, so expect a bunch of The Next Big Thing ™ apps that are almost identical, begging for your email address and contacts list so they can sign all your friends up too!

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Education is, unironically, the best tool to combat inequality, but the effect only kicks in after the students have finished school.

In the meantime, uniforms cut down on bullying. What else do you want them to do? They don’t have a magic wand, nor do they have magic money to hand out to struggling parents.

Edit: unironically some of the dumbest takes I’ve ever read on the internet in this thread.