Thanks, I hate it

Had to spin up a virtual windows machine the other day and was just honestly appalled at how bad the desktop experience is these days

for one reason or another

Greed, mostly lol

Don’t let the gatekeepers put you off. The Linux community is quite helpful if you can get past their garbage. Every guru was once a noob 👍

Why wait? Install it now. I would recommend Mint as a beginner distro.

Kinda feels like humanity is in the process of jumping the shark on this one

It’s not my job to educate you on how the education industry works. Go and read what qualified people have already written about it in academic journals.

Your entire post is a series of straw man arguments that are completely fabricated.

No assessment method is perfectly suited to every student.

Coursework can be similarly adapted.

All this moral panic is garbage.

Easily solved by using essays with an unseen question written in exam conditions as assessment instruments.

Literally a pencil and paper solves this problem.

OP proposed many ways to let his co-workers know he doesn’t like chatting and none of them are what you quoted. In fact, he expressly created this thread to figure out how not to be rude to them

People are allowed to keep to themselves. Why does it bother you so much? Why are you so personally offended by this? I’ve never understood why extroverts feel as if the world owes them attention.

Some people need socialising

Great, so find some people who want to socialise. Having that need does not give them the right to force OP to socialise if he doesn’t want to. He’s not stopping them from doing it, he just doesn’t want to partake in it himself, and he has every right not to.

OP owes exactly nothing to his co-workers other than doing his job and being polite. If you think he does, then you’re the problem.

Why do you think it’s OK to force someone else into interacting with the world the same way you do, just to please you? That’s not what OP is doing.

Does anyone else find the term “creatives” to be so damn condescending? It’d be like calling executives, “Admins” or “powerpointers”

The key thing is that teachers can ban phones in their individual classrooms if the school permits it.

There are many schools in which the senior admin don’t institute phone bans (you’d be surprised how common this is).

Legislating it helps maintain consistency and parity between schools nation wide, which is important as it’s a quality of education issue, so the policy should be consistent across all schools.

I’m not from North America, but the situation is similar across most western democracies.

You could always pass it on to someone who can’t afford a new one, a school student for example

Gastrointestinal Obstructions are seriously painful, you can’t take that stuff lightly

It’s not just nostalgia. I absolutely want a phone I can throw at a wall and put back together without it costing me money.

That’s every instance, not just Lemmy world

What? Why?

Because they’re trying to monetize your third space.

The time is ripe for a new contender, so expect a bunch of The Next Big Thing ™ apps that are almost identical, begging for your email address and contacts list so they can sign all your friends up too!