• Cataphract@lemmy.ml
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    25 days ago

    Hopefully wikipedia recognizes this as the official Canary in the Chrome mine. I was first impressed with chrome book because of seeing them used for education, getting my own laptop during school would’ve been mindblowing to kid me. I was unimpressed with the strangulation process of the OS but again shocked when they added a linux boot mode. There needs to be better alternatives by now, I would be ok with an OS developed by the department of education in conjunction with higher educational institutions. Could have a decent non-profit approach to a browser and ad blockers could legitimately be built in as a “protect the children” aim of approach.

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      25 days ago

      I take it you’ve never been involved in such an endeavor? What you propose would take a decade a minimum due to the sheer number of nested advisory committees that would be required for those groups to interface. Better a non-profit group begins the work and then solicits these group’s input at the design stage.

      • JohnDoe@lemmy.myserv.one
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        25 days ago

        I think super-apps are the way to go, only way to prevent one company from monopolizing click-stream data for advertising.

        some apps already do this and their users don’t suffer from the same issue (granted, they have different issues)