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Enshittification

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What is enshittification?

The phenomenon of online platforms gradually degrading the quality of their services, often by promoting advertisements and sponsored content, in order to increase profits. (Cory Doctorow, 2022, extracted from Wikitionary) source

The lifecycle of Big Internet

We discuss how predatory big tech platforms live and die by luring people in and then decaying for profit.

Embrace, extend and extinguish

We also discuss how naturally open technologies like the Fediverse can be susceptible to corporate takeovers, rugpulls and subsequent enshittification.

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[โ€“] arc99@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I don't have my Chromebook to hand but I believe the setting is in the Prefs. When you set up Linux it's a virtualized Debian that you can pretty much do anything with but it can't mess with ChromeOS outside. Not all Chromebooks support it since it's space / CPU dependent but if it does then it's Linux. I was even running graphical apps since the screen is a Wayland server.

[โ€“] papertowels@mander.xyz 1 points 8 hours ago

I don't....think that answered my question?

Would this be against school policy? Are there examples to confirm this?