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  • defunct_punk@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    Bring your own OS on a stick? There are ways around it lol, especially in a university setting where youre pretty much expected to fuck up the IT restrictions

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      8 days ago

      Getting mad about adblock evangelism is cringe imo but bringing your own os on a stick to use in a corporate environment is a great way to get fired (and probably not be able to access the corporate tools you need to do your job anyways). Maybe less so in a university but messing with the public computers like that is probably not a good idea either.

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        8 days ago

        I dunno about uni or anything more ‘serious’, but I did this a decent bit in hs to let me sidestep the parental/student control bullshit and let me play games while the box I was using was ‘offline’. Helps that I was far and away the smartest kid in the room for tech, and so I’d often aid teachers and they’d look the other way when I finished my assignment in 15 minutes and proceeded to do whatever I wanted for the remaining 75. In computer hardware class, I ran a minecraft server for others to join. In business and finance, played tanks, tower defense, and other 2D multi-player games with others in my row. In both drivers ed and physical ed, I’d play racing games on my laptop; because there was no internet in either location, I’d hotspot my phone. I remember another student I was friends with bringing their laptop and playing WoW on my hotspot as well.

        Good times.

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          8 days ago

          Yeah it’s much easier to get away with that stuff in HS depending on the school, they often don’t have the funding for competent IT.