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it's not the schools responsibility to take on the liability of what comes with that (ie. Holding onto thousands of dollars worth of tech with the ability to keep that tech in the same condition it was in when it was confiscated for an untold amount of time),

But it is, actually. Lol. It's always been. I've had my phone taken in class a few times, and it was always returned at the end. It's really not a big deal.

I don't know what you mean by "Holding onto thousands of dollars worth of tech". Its up to the teachers to keep it for the duration of the classes, and to return them at the end. They don't need a safe to keep them in. It really isn't that big a deal.

it is the parents responsibility to make sure their children aren't ringing such distracting material to school.

It should be, but again, they aren't. Which is why the schools must intervene. And it's not really something they want to do, it is something they have to do, by government mandate.

Sure, but we're talking about a way different scale. "If you knew what you were doing" being a key word here.

It's never been easier to come across this garbage when youtube/Instagram/Tiktok comes installed on most phones by default. What's worse, there have never been so many grifters spewing the same shit.

Back in the day, you might have been able to call Limbaugh an isolated instance of a clear grifter getting paid to spread lies.

Nowadays, the Tate clones are so ubiquitous that it's hard to point out the flaws in thinking because so many people seem to believe in them. But its just the algorithm feeding you more of the same, over and over.

And that is the fault of the parents who chose to hand phones to these kids. It is not the fault of the school, nor is it something the school should have to do anything about

Okay so, because some parents are bad and fail at educating their kids properly, society shouldn't take a role in correcting that behaviour and instead should just let kids be damaged for life, did I understand you correctly?

I don't know where you're from (although I can guess), but here in Europe, and this is an article about France, we recognise the state has a role to fulfill in society, we all pay taxes and expect them to be used for the benefit of all. I don't see any problems with schools being the enforcers of government legislation in this instance.

Also, everything else you wrote... I mean, it is obvious that your school system is very different from what I'm familiar with. Because yes, it IS the school's responsibility to make sure that rules are applied properly in their premises, the money/resources necessary to do so are a secondary thought. This shouldn't be something that needs to be explained, but well, here we are.

Does anybody but me remember when schools banned walkmen? What about portable CD players? Gameboy?

Except none of these things were feeding Andrew Tate or Joe Rogan garbage straight into their highly impressionable skulls.

I, for one, support the banning of phones in schools. The social media addiction has been shown to cause depression, particularly in girls, and the brainwashing is ever more apparent.

If anything, this policy fails by not going far enough. I question whether kids should have access to social media at all before a certain age.

Perhaps.

I mean, it's not like YouTube creators are happy with the state of the platform either. They keep getting paid less and less to the point that they have to resort to begging for donations or include sponsorships in the videos.

I imagine at this point other platforms are well positioned to capitalize on what YouTube has been doing to the platform for some time now. Personally I really like what platform aggregators like Grayjay are doing: basically the idea of following creators, not platforms.

So you can just install Grayjay now through their website and you'll be surprised by how many youtubers you follow are already on other platforms.

Don't lock it down. Just buy a cheap phone, populate it with inane stuff like pictures of food and travel.

Create a puppet Instagram/facebook account and do the same, and don't install WhatsApp until you're past security.

Better yet, don't visit the US. Who knows how much more fucked up it will get as time goes on.

European here.

Same.

Religious

ALL religions, though? What about Buddhism?

Both are.

However, and I'm not so familiar with Slimbook, but at least Tuxedo makes changes to the hardware they get from Clevo (or TongFeng?), to build what is ultimately a more premium product.

They also ship their own Linux distro that is optimised for the hardware they choose to put on their laptops and has a control panel that allows you to fine tune performance, battery, and so on.

You can check reviews of Tuxedo laptops. People are generally happy with what they get. I'm buying one before October this year before windows 10 drops all security patches. I'm already running linux out of a pendrive and happy with it.

I really want to like grayjay (love Louis and his philosophy), but the perma dark mode kills it for me. I don't understand how some people enjoy that, it's so depressing.

that's the next phase of them trying to kick us off is just not serving people who do not have an account. So I would expect this to only increase over time.

A losing business model considering the growing amount of people who are sick and tired of the aggressive ad placements all YouTube.

Kicking out everyone who doesn't log into a Google account would lead to an immediate loss in viewership throughout the month/year, and that wouldn't do well with investors.

Also if you are going through the effort of changing email providers then now would be a good time to look into buying your own domain to use in order to decouple your address from the email provider.

How so you come up with an easy, memorable email for day to day use?