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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.

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[–] flactwin@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 days ago

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)