Also, most school laptops are old. Someone did this at my school and got charged (iirc) $175 since it was the really old kind

laptops > raspberry pi imo. Having a screen is SO useful. I just got an old laptop to watch YouTube and mp4s on my TV without ads. Way better than the slow ad filled Roku OS

Hi there, I’m currently in highschool. You don’t understand how school laptops work. There was a court case where a school laptop was recording from a child’s home - it actually happened.

Also when you shut the screen it doesn’t turn off all the way. I’ve had times where I shut the screen, out it in my bag and 45 minutes later on my Bluetooth headphones I’ll head the windows notification sound.

And just for clarity, do I personally believe that they are spying with audio/video? probably not tbh.
Do they track EVERYTHING you do on the laptop? yes. Very obviously yes.

Snapchat for only texting other people

Instagram for memes & some minor ““celebrities”” (YouTubers and some trans folk that give tips)

Pinterest for outfits/tattoo designs/etc. I get memes from there and post to 196 sometimes.

discord for uhhhh… discord stuff, idk. I scroll meme channels sometimes. and sometimes chat

YouTube for 99% of my online things. Unhealthy AF addition

Lemmy for more memes and news (not the best practice tbh) I mainly use just bc I want to support the fediverse and it’s better than scrolling reposted Instagram reels

I don’t use any twitter/bsky/threads/mastodon type platform, I just don’t mesh with the type I guess. It’s just short political stuff that’s depressing and memes which I get from literally everywhere else 🤷‍♀️