Comment on Anon sets up a prank at school

• Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  That, plus a school computer lab running without something like Faronics Deep Freeze (even my shitty Mississippi public school in the 90s had that or something similar), and the lack of permissions control that apparently allows student users to delete and restore program files at will is giving the story some real “that happened…” energy.

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  • mosiacmango@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You give woefully underfunded school IT departments too much credit, especially in the “desktops are new tech” days.

    Honestly, sounds like your Mississippi school was ahead of the curve from a lockdown perspective.

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    • Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It was one of the main city schools, so I suppose they could have been. That place was a shithole, otherwise, despite the best efforts of some really good teachers with the misfortune of being stuck working there.

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  • DaddleDew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    All I knew from my perspective was that this teacher was angry at the existence of those games and the IT guy never removed them. To be that tells me school admin either allowed it or simply didn’t care.

    The computers weren’t really that locked down or secure from user tampering. Some idiots would even install malware all the time on them like Bonzi Buddy. The IT guy didn’t strike me as the hard working type and would only re-image a computer if it was no longer functioning.

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    • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      probably just school management doing something correctly for once, and the IT guy being based.

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      • DaddleDew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        The IT guy just liked to play games at lunch time. He even organized a few LAN parties every year at the school.

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