How do they know? I thought this stuff was theoretical at best.

But let's have it without the corp-sponsored surveillance and monitoring of employee life outside of work.

Minimizing energy use vs resources obtained is actually a very successful survival strategy generally speaking.

The rest of your post is a combination bro-flex and whining about "kids these days".

How many giraffes is this? I'm from the US.

I wish my mom had said she was moving.

Perhaps, but that is also a compelling reason why it should be included. Putting more RAM on the SoC has got to be a relatively inexpensive additional cost. The markup has always been high, but now it is both obscene and absolutely unjustified -- except when you factor in pure greed.

They'll still charge you an obscene amount for more than 8 gigs of RAM.

Where do you live where teachers are literally beating you?

Quote: "We'll have taken one more step into lowering our educational standards"

This ship has sailed. What you're talking about is even worse; It'll end up being AI-based learning, but only enough to do the jobs your overlords need you for.

Once education professionals (the real ones, not the ivory tower academics that publish bullshit then go on to shovel the same bullshit into classrooms as part of their personal ed tech companies) are completely out of the picture there will be nobody stopping the inevitable (and now standardized!) dual-level education system.

Public School will be for poor kids who need to know how to work at Amazon and their parents need a babysitter while working their three jobs. Real education will be entirely left for the rich.

We are going to FAR surpass it. Just as things are now. What the true consequences of that will be is going to be for our children to find out, and their children (if they survive).

So when do the normal people start benefiting from this 'free market' capitalism that I keep hearing about?

Oh, wait. Our politicians have sold out yet again?!? I am SO SURPRISED.

Remember, Reagan-boomers. You did this. Too bad your flip phone won't be $5 a month anymore.

1) Your data will be harvested, no matter what the terms or conditions say (they'll do it offshore).
2) It will most certainly not be sustainably reclaimed. Even the briefest look at those conditions existing RIGHT NOW related to e-waste reclamation suggests this is a joke.

They make a profit; you get a clean conscience.

In our case, a school board member's child complained about the no phones at all policy so it was changed to "enforcement by teacher", instead of "school wide no phones at all".

Yes, our discipline issues and academic performance dropped accordingly, but who cares as long as we keep those seat time dollars rolling in.

But as a teacher in the US, I spend more time dealing with cell phones than almost anything else, mostly because parents don't do their jobs.

I've even been told by a parent that their child needs a phone during class because the mom might need the child to leave early and pick up another younger kid (nevermind that the older student had chronic truancy issues and straight Fs)

You want to fix education in this country? Pay teachers. Join a union. Start telling parents that they are responsible for their own children and make it stick.

If I see a cell phone out during class, a student is either expected to come to me and explain why they need to take a call (emergencies happen, although I have always said that we managed these fine when parents simply had to call the school) or it is confiscated and returned to a parent. No exceptions.

Look, if you want to scalp electronics, fine. When you're not in my classroom.

I taught fully virtually for almost 18 months (because COVID, of course).

I'm back in person now, but I use computers and phones as little as possible. The benefits are simply not there for students. Yes, access to information is amazing, but not if you're lacking the discipline to use it properly. I have a lot to manage, and whether or not you're using your laptop for appropriate work is not going to be something I waste cognitive energy on.

Here's a life lesson, kid. You won't always be able to do what you want, when you want. If that means you can't skip virtual school to do your side hustle, then too bad. I'm going to take you outside to catch bugs for environmental science class, and as a teenager you're not in a position to make a decision about whether or not you'd like to do that. As it should be.