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- banana439monkey
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WELL TRUEi usually take my laptop in although it's considered by my entire maths class as a space machinesure - i would be surprised why someone is bringing a RGB filled gaming laptop to math class
it's gained the nickname “space machine”, to the point where it's literally the device name
Banana
- JoshAtticus
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About 6 months ago, I set the wallpaper on every school laptop I could get my hands on to a picture of my mouth with uwu written underneath it. They still don't know who did it.
Last edited by JoshAtticus (Aug. 21, 2022 01:01:43)
- dhuls
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I like how schools let you play pc games during indoor recess, and then block all of them
- DifferentDance8
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About 6 months ago, I set the wallpaper on every school laptop I could get my hands on to a picture of my mouth with uwu written underneath it.Why, though?
They still don't know who did it.

- DifferentDance8
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(ik doubleposting is frowned upon, but)
I found a funny thing that relates to this that I would like you guys to see.
Moral of the story: gpedit.msc is a powerful tool, that under 0 circumstances should fall into the wrong hands.
I found a funny thing that relates to this that I would like you guys to see.
Dear Administrator,
Please allow me to use explorer.exe
Thank You.
Moral of the story: gpedit.msc is a powerful tool, that under 0 circumstances should fall into the wrong hands.
Last edited by DifferentDance8 (Aug. 21, 2022 03:51:51)
- ZZC12345
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I like how schools let you play pc games during indoor recess, and then block all of themWhat, your school lets you play games during school?
- DifferentDance8
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IK you were talking to dhuls, but my school lets us play Minecraft Education Edition, I suppose? And also friv4school?I like how schools let you play pc games during indoor recess, and then block all of themWhat, your school lets you play games during school?
- Chiroyce
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the most popular game in our school's computer lab is chrome dino, we recently got an upgrade to 8th gen i3s and 8GB of RAM and used hard disks from 5 years ago (performance is still horrible and the bottleneck is the disk, its always at 90-100% usage)
even though we have PyCharm installed on most of the PCs, the teachers only let us use IDLE
even though we have PyCharm installed on most of the PCs, the teachers only let us use IDLE

Last edited by Chiroyce (Aug. 21, 2022 04:30:56)
- DifferentDance8
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the most popular game in our school's computer lab is chrome dino, we recently got an upgrade to 8th gen i3s and 8GB of RAM and used hard disks from 5 years ago (performance is still horrible and the bottleneck is the disk, its always at 90-100% usage)That's school IT for you, I suppose.
even though we have PyCharm installed on most of the PCs, the teachers only let us use IDLEHave you asked your teachers why that is? I am assuming though that they would say something along the lines of:
You can't use PyCharm because that has plugins that are outside our reach of control [of trying to censor our students].
- DifferentDance8
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HIThis wouldn't be the best place for a first post. Maybe try the New Scratcher subforum? Then again, my first post was in the Suggestions subforum, so I can't say very much.
- 9gr
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even though we have PyCharm installed on most of the PCs, the teachers only let us use IDLEmake an extension for pycharm (really its just intellij IDEA reskinned for python) and then reskin the whole editor and make it look like IDLE.

- Socialix
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DISCLAIMER: this may not be about school it but there are 3 really bad things in our school and this is a really long post ranting about some horribly made program!!! please tell me if i should make a new topic for number 2 instead!!!
1 (ancient): we have 1 pc with a windows xp sticker on it (we have great economy thats why)

2 (EXTREMELY BAD, maybe thats just because i have a habit of playing around with the boards because school is boring): they installed some really horrible program on the windows mode of our smartboards (it runs on android) that says “oh, please insert a valid usb or enter a pin to use this!!!” with a 59 minute shutdown timer, the program “freezes” occasionally making it impossible to unlock the board with a pin (you have to wait a while when inserting the usb when its “frozen” and the timer doesnt pause when you do that)
the program is also stored in the desktop for some reason making it VERY EASY to delete it as long as you get a teacher to unlock it for you
and since the board actually runs on android and the program is only on the pc you can use the board (there is a whole office suite and a cool drawing app)
but most of the time when a teacher quits the app and returns to the windows mode the program already “freezes” so they blame it on me for playing around with the android mode (primarily the wonderful drawing app that has no grey color) when the android mode doesnt interfere with the windows mode AT ALL (i keep trying to explain it to them but since they know nothing about how badly this program was made they dont believe me)
and since it runs after you log in windows you can get in the troubleshooting options area and delete it with the power of cmd (i dont think you can do it though because there is no keyboard) very cool thing right?
and it has this “always always ALWAYS on top #1” mode it can get on top of that one annoying message that tells you to use microsoft 365 (oobe)
i wonder who coded that program, i would like to tell them that nothing would be better than this program with too many flaws
“but socialix, wouldnt the pin thing be easy if you remembered it???” it changes every time (very clever)
so yeah, thats the really bad program i had to rant about in a topic that isnt even about the topic (and i probably revealed my location by describing the program)
3 (very good): we dont have horrible school internet filtering!!!!!!
4 (very bad, probably not about the topic): in computer class we dont really get to even use a computer the teacher just teaches us a hard language for others and we take note of it with pen and paper (because the economy here is very very good REFER TO NUMBER 1) and sometimes we get to code it by ourselves collaboratively on the on the smart board (and it takes way too long without me) i also suck at the language but who cares
and i forgot to mention, thats the only board who doesnt have that horrible school program!
i will post number 2 in a new topic if it isnt about school it
thank you for reading
1 (ancient): we have 1 pc with a windows xp sticker on it (we have great economy thats why)

2 (EXTREMELY BAD, maybe thats just because i have a habit of playing around with the boards because school is boring): they installed some really horrible program on the windows mode of our smartboards (it runs on android) that says “oh, please insert a valid usb or enter a pin to use this!!!” with a 59 minute shutdown timer, the program “freezes” occasionally making it impossible to unlock the board with a pin (you have to wait a while when inserting the usb when its “frozen” and the timer doesnt pause when you do that)
the program is also stored in the desktop for some reason making it VERY EASY to delete it as long as you get a teacher to unlock it for you
and since the board actually runs on android and the program is only on the pc you can use the board (there is a whole office suite and a cool drawing app)
but most of the time when a teacher quits the app and returns to the windows mode the program already “freezes” so they blame it on me for playing around with the android mode (primarily the wonderful drawing app that has no grey color) when the android mode doesnt interfere with the windows mode AT ALL (i keep trying to explain it to them but since they know nothing about how badly this program was made they dont believe me)
and since it runs after you log in windows you can get in the troubleshooting options area and delete it with the power of cmd (i dont think you can do it though because there is no keyboard) very cool thing right?
and it has this “always always ALWAYS on top #1” mode it can get on top of that one annoying message that tells you to use microsoft 365 (oobe)
i wonder who coded that program, i would like to tell them that nothing would be better than this program with too many flaws
“but socialix, wouldnt the pin thing be easy if you remembered it???” it changes every time (very clever)
so yeah, thats the really bad program i had to rant about in a topic that isnt even about the topic (and i probably revealed my location by describing the program)
3 (very good): we dont have horrible school internet filtering!!!!!!

4 (very bad, probably not about the topic): in computer class we dont really get to even use a computer the teacher just teaches us a hard language for others and we take note of it with pen and paper (because the economy here is very very good REFER TO NUMBER 1) and sometimes we get to code it by ourselves collaboratively on the on the smart board (and it takes way too long without me) i also suck at the language but who cares
and i forgot to mention, thats the only board who doesnt have that horrible school program!
i will post number 2 in a new topic if it isnt about school it
thank you for reading

