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Hi,
I will be writing petition to my government (Poland) to try to get them to ban Windows at schools. I believe it should be illegal to force children to use systems that are paid and use children’s data for AI and advertising.
Maybe you will do it as well? Let’s end this insane practice.

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[-] Prior_Industry@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Which given the budgets that most schools have for equipment, software and staff is currently entirely reasonable.

It's probably doable if a country pushed to create a defacto well documented distribution that's paired with a MDM and online office suite. Basically replicate a locked down Chromebook environment, a lot of edu resources are online these days so most activity is through the browser.

EU Office appears to be the start down that road.

[-] bleustenns@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

I mean, hell, Fedora SOAS is a thing.

[-] mrnngglry@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

The good old OLPC interface.

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