K12 Admins powerwashing their Chromebooks for a new school year. (Summer 2023, Colorized)

It’s a Chromebook. It certainly can’t operate any worse just because they washed it. ;)

I continue to maintain that Chromebooks are toys. Any real productivity is just not possible with them. I would rather an older Lenovo ThinkPad T4XX series that I bought off of Amazon than a brand new Chromebook.

Eh? They're fine, especially now that they can run Android apps.

At least, for the kind of person who does 99% of their computing in a browser. Which nowadays is actually quite a huge percentage....

Not for me, but I don't hate them at all. For what they do they are quick and reliable. I'm just not the intended consumer
- I am struggling to figure out who the intended consumer is in the first place. 🤣
- arcvm is completely screwing the android support on Chromebooks.
  
  they should have nixed it when they realized that aarch64 support was impossible.
As a teacher who teaches students with Chromebooks, I concur.
- As a former K-12 sysadmin who maintained 10,000 chromebooks on my own I think that either of you doesn’t fully grasp how crucial these devices are. Web access is 99% of school device usage and for the few random CTE/STEM products or PASCO devices for science I’ll get a dedicated laptop locker with 10 laptops in it for checkout that run Windows with a base golden image and (preferably entune, but let’s be real) apps in SCCM Software Center so I can quickly wipe them when inevitably a student with more free time than myself either breaks it, deletes system32, or loads it full of porn or Counter Strike.
  
  It’s for students. It’s cheap, it’s effective, it has minimal vulnerabilities that cannot be quickly resolved in 1 minute with a power wash. It has an easy admin interface for techs so I can have them manage smaller details, and it allows me to quickly get them repaired, or cheaply replace them.
ive been using high performance Chromebooks as my main Dev laptop for more than a decade.

if you buy a toy then it's a toy.
- Yeah I've used ChromeOS on computers with decent specs and it's not bad. I don't like using it now because I care about privacy a lot more but when I did it was nice.
- Just curious what sort of dev, and what kind of tools do you run on a Chromebook. Is it better than a standard laptop?
If the os would stop breaking my Linux install I might disagree with you.
- I stopped trying to do Linux on the Chromebook after the third time this happened to me. Lust SSHed to another machine and tried Termux, then gave up and went to a regular laptop.
Lenovo is a Chinese government data gathering operation though.
The same Lenovo that couldn't keep their internal web pages from being public accessible that then allowed the shimming of every other manufacturer's Chromebooks? Fuck Lenovo.
- Right now the build quality of Dell and HPs are worse. I should know. I have at least 4 fail per week.

Please remember to tag gore as NSFWMR

Well, if it's completely dry before plugging in, it can definitely get rid of dirt. On hot surfaces it sometimes gets baked in and compressed air is too little

Just put it in rice afterwards /meme

There's an old video on derbauer's channel where he throws his motherboard used for ln2 overclocking into the dish washer and explains how it's actually totally fine if you're not stupid.
I would suggest dumping it in a 99% alcohol bath afterwards if you're gonna wash electronics in water. Alcohol will push out any water that gets stuck in any nooks and crannies and then it will dry without any residue.
- Well, using IPA instead of water would probably be a better idea in the first place. But beggars can't be choosers, I guess ;)

Boss: did you wipe all the laptops before the new year?

Me: like... With a rag?

If there's one thing we learned from COVID, it's that the best way to get rid of a virus is by soap and water.

Admins: please add a rule against memes.

OP: please post in a memes community, or create a new one if none fit your purpose.

Thank you.

Literal community description: “All the content!” I’m pretty sure memes about technology count as content about technology. I see no reason for them to be banned.
- I agree with you.
- I know reading is hard, but try again and read my comment above. Maybe this time around you'll realize that you're replying with a straw man argument.
I'm ok with top shelf memes. mid memes result in a ban tho.

Needs more stickers that are glued on, or marker stains all over the case.

just logout the users and you dont need to worry about powerwashing unless the ssd is full.

each user has encrypted home directory, removing the user removes the decrypt keys.

if you're worried about the NSA getting to the user dir then you're on your own.

It's not the power washing that gets tiring. It's the lugging of Chromebooks in and out of the cooker!

I do system level development for Linux, Android, and Windows.

I use rustc, clang, and MSVC depending on the target platform.

I can build iOS and macOS but testing is impossible without an iPhone or macOS device.

Do we have an equivalent magazine to techsupportgore?

Idk we had Linux machines in high school. We never washed or dusted them.