School computers are riddled with spyware & proprietary software, the fact that they use windows is bad enough, but then you are forced to use edge or chrome and other proprietary software and often you are blocked from installing open source alternatives like librewolf or duck duck go may be blocked.
What I am asking is, how can we get around this, do i just need to bring my own laptop using FOSS privacy respecting software. or is there another way around this. Thanks for the help.
I got banned from the school computers one year back in high school for the “crime” of using portable apps off a flash drive! This was back when IE6 was the standard and I wanted to use Firefox. Maybe 2006? Sounds funny now in retrospect but it was pretty annoying at the time.
Literally, nuts. I imagine that was the end result of a handful of meetings trying to figure out what to do with you.
Oh yeah. The principal and the other administrators floated suspension, among other things. My parents had to take off work to come in and fight them with me. The staff were all so hopelessly ignorant of all things IT that they were acting as if I’d been using some kind of malware. After they decided to kick me off, they emailed all my teachers telling them I’d been banned for “hacking” and “deploying computer viruses”. It was all quite surreal. This was in Virginia, USA.
that's exactly the level of stupid I expected to hear. Absolutely nuts.
I once booted Linux off a flash drive on a school PC just to see if I could in like 08-09 and nothing happened to me lol.
so i have did more horrible things, when i was in school, so i just tried to flash gentoo near windows 7 on fu**ing leagcy hardwareduring a lesson called "informatichs" just for fun, when i did that i have weak linux terminal experience and forget about first to shrink fs then the partition, and their fat partition is unresponsive and they have spftware for remote control on it, old laddies that who not even hear anything of pc start to scream at me, saying that if i not correct i'll get right to the school "administrative red carpet", but somehow i attached it back and get mark 2 of 10 at rest of the day, then i have no laptop even chip shit to bring by have no work and parents not spend on me except food and clothes, they leave me paper and pen and i wrote "programs" pascalABC on it)