Re: [tlug] e-Tax and the timid gaijin

[AbH Belxjander Draconis Serechai <belxjander@example.com>]

And *this* is how social engineering students to have the same systems as the corporate overlords dictate begins as a slippery slope towards Bill Gates original vision of everyone using his system.

I dont really see this is BYOD where anything is acceptable.
More a social hammer to make sure everyone uses whats taught and little else.

No wonder "mainline or bust!" is the ongoing theme for the dev teams on projects like python and the latest debacle from Linus own Kernel "Team"

On Sat, 15 Mar 2025, 01:14 Stephen J. Turnbull, <turnbull@example.com> wrote:

Claus Aranha writes:

Hi, Claus, good to hear from you!

 > I'm sad to say, but I'm not sure how long this is going to last. At
 > least in the CS department, 2/3 of the dual boot labs were replaced
 > with "BYOD" style labs with just monitors desks

If the students can afford it, that actually makes a certain amount of
educational sense to me, at least for the kind of things our
undergrads in Shako do.  They'd spend 15 minutes of each lab period
just booting the computers and getting everybody on the same page.
Not sure if that could really be streamlined by having everyone have
their own environment to CD into, especially nowadays when students
are used to the "document == application" model that works pretty well
on phones, but which even Macs don't implement that well.  But it's
worth a try!

It would be very problematic if the site licenses for Office, Teams
(much as I hate that software), Mathematica, and SPSS went away,
though.

 > (and it was an uphill battle to make sure that we at least had a
 > couple of dual-boot laptops

That would be evil to omit!

Steve