Wouldn't the port get shutdown/disabled if you try to overload it?
this post was submitted on 09 May 2025
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Yes, this can basically only happen by puncturing the battery
the wise committee who designed such ports made the directly access the rest of motherboard and CPU
As I age I find myself feeling more and more like the cool step-dad or uncle.
Y'know I hate everything Chromebooks stand for. "You get 'em, kid. Now how about we get some pizza?"
Sadly, this makes me miss when people pretended to slip and fall at the grocery store so they could throw milk jugs in the air and make a mess.
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Fuck chromebooks anyways, Google shouldn't be allowed to steal so much information about our youth directly from the devices they use at school. They should be using laptops with Linux installed on them, preferably Pop!OS to preserve the kids privacy.
I don't condone damaging school property, although I think it's a lesser evil to Google's privacy practices on Chromebooks.
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If this were an unbiased and honest article; then it would read “Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for social clout.” The subtle message, in this article, is TikTok = bad, which is illogical because events such as this will occur regardless of platform or even lack of a platform. It will ALWAYS happen. The question is how to mitigate these events as much as possible, because it’s impossible to completely eradicate “kids doing X for social clout.” It’s a part of learning and being human.
Yes but without tik tok this is a kid or two being stupid and charged a couple hundred at one school. I think we had 3 kids today at school destroy their laptops.
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Just got a notification about this from my kids school district in Northern CA.