This is some sage advice!!!

I’m not gonna be a Luddite and say smart phone bad. However, you seem concerned so I’d recommend locking it down as much as possible if you want to keep them off stuff like TikTok or Xitter.

As an anecdote, having a smart phone made school much more tolerable since it let me watch TV during lunch, browse memes when waiting in awfully long lines daily, and being able to listen to music when allowed was awesome. They’ll definitely be grateful for one, just gotta make sure it’s not abused.

Also, they’re going to need to be acquainted with the little computer in their pocket eventually. Good to do it before they reach the rebellious phase.

Because it is.

Don’t think they are open source but they do provide a ton of free, high quality icons. Presumably they make money off the organizations paying for the icon packs.

I’m not sure what OP has against them. He should take a look at how Nike has hypnotized a portion of the population into giving them money for shoes with a check mark.

I despise branded clothing but that does look like something funny to wear.

I don’t use it often but lately it stopped being able to turn off my flashlight for no reason. Can only turn on. I wonder if it’s just to get people to use Gemini. It’s a shame because I found the normal assistant capable enough for my needs.

I would definitely say so. Personally, I’d just not have one. Let them face the consequences of lack of sleep so they know how important it is. I think it’s weird that sleep schedules are never emphasized to teenagers. Probably a lot less sleep deprived teens if they were encouraged to get all the fun done before night hits and then easing into sleepy time.

But not having a set time could also backfire and they end up like I did with only sleeping like 4 hours but getting naps in whenever possible at school. Always surprises me how good the human body is at adapting.

Between Netflix and Hulu I don’t find myself lacking dubbed anime, so could just try those if you already have them. Isn’t Crunchy Roll almost entirely subbed stuff, anyways?

That’s neat, thanks for answering.

I’ve always wanted to do that but isn’t the pay usually like half of what you put? Do you usually help students or staff or both? Is it in the public school system or private?

What exactly is that? Microsoft 365 is Word, PowerPoint, etc., no? I didn’t know there was anything to administrate.

I don’t get the people shitting on this. It’s a very fair plan. Something I’ve been wishing existed for the past month, even. Like the article states, it’s for people who use YT to watch TV (me).

I just hope there’s a yearly plan to get a little bit more of a discount. Student plan is the same price but no yearly plan, so it comes to ~$90 per year.

I find it funny that a lot of cyberpunk settings have rampant (usually legal) drug use because employers want you to perform at any cost but real life is a boring dystopia that demands worker suffering.

Wish I could have used Thunder but it didn’t support older phones (think it was related to something about a certificate with Flutter???). I just use Connect now and customized it to be how Baconreader was for me. Been a great app so far.

I think it’s more you as a person understand that the sentence is that, a sentence. You understand how the sentence is made, why it means what it means, not just what it means.

The dog only understands the what.

Doesn’t mean you still can’t help teach dogs to communicate. Even saw a segment recently on PBS about dogs learning to use buttons that produce words and using them to make short sentences to communicate with their owners.

Never been homeless but I’d definitely take it over slavery. It has to be better than being a flesh robot.

Not only is freedom priceless (my opinion), but I’m sure as hell not enriching someone else to my own detriment.

VSCode. I don’t get why Microsoft hasn’t monetized it but I’m glad it is free. Has so many extensions and gets great updates, even if I don’t understand half of the stuff in their patch notes when I open up the program.

Another one is a little program called Stacher that basically serves as GUI for yt-dlp. It’s a very pretty one though! And all the settings and buttons are super great. I’m not very good with CLI stuff so I’m glad it exists for free, saves so much time.

Wow is this me? Same situation, but conflicted because even though I find him an awful person he’s always provided for my family and continues to let me live rent free. We probably interact once a week.

I don’t get the boner the feds have for making Google sell Chrome. Maintaining a browser looks like a huge investment and as bad as Google is, there are much worse companies that would jump at the chance to buy it. Imagine some Tencent-tier corporation making you pay to have the ability to install extensions.

I utterly despise programming. I can not think of a more miserable, dreary existence than becoming a professional programmer

That’s hilarious to me because I feel the exact opposite way. Love programming except when it involves heavy math (e.g. lighting). Saps all the enthusiasm out of me. I hope you find the right career path for you because from reading your comments you seem super stressed and overworked!