"Sister Kathaliynnry, you made a simple error, you only reset the Mirror of Many Pixels, not the Tower of Processing. My Millennial Master Father Steve taught me such, may the Omnissiah watch over his soul."

"I pray for the birth of the Star Millennial to usher in the new golden age of tech!"

Edit: I was kinda hoping the response to this post would more be people joking about my Warhammer reference, but instead y'all be posting serious analysis here. Real buzzkill.

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[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 15 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I've been on the deployment end of all of these. I have photos of me in a room at our middle school kitterally drowning in Chromebooks during COVID working by myself (we rotated on site early on to get these devices ready) to inventory, assign, and distribute the Chromebooks we had. It was a huge undertaking and resulted in what I think became an unhealthy relationship with devices. Kids went from having Chromebooks at home to being responsible for taking them home very night after the rollback of lockdowns. This has gradually been dialed back and now devices only go home of their is work to do.

Parents are expressing frustration that their kids had been bringing a device into the house that the parents had no control over. Parents who had not thought about parental controls or even house rules about screen time and device use where now building the plane as they flew. It really is this double edged blade.

Kids are more creative then ever at getting around controls so that they can chase robux, victory royals, or the mines. Its an ever escalating war of exploits and interconnected google docs, highlighting shadowy websites offering AI services, "proxy" browsing, and more.

School IT work is interesting stuff to say the least.

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 12 points 9 hours ago

The only even marginally valid argument in favor of parental control software is as a training tool for bypassing user-hostile corporate malware.