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Chromebooks have been a major hit for schools of all grades as their low costs and easy UI have blended into a great platform for cloud-based schooling. Google is trying to take tech in school to a new level by providing numerous tools and reasons for schools to start their own in-house repair classes where students can repair broken Chromebooks (potentially even their own Chromebook). This program is already a hit with us as it enhances an all too often underwhelming technology education source for the upcoming generations. It would allow students to not only learn basic tech repairs but would also help schools reduce costs and waste with broken devices. Acer and Lenovo have been featured in these programs as many of their current educational Chromebooks have a focus on the ability to self-repair the devices. Resources offered by the program can be found on Google’s repair website and are provided in highly detailed PDF documents with lessons, pictures, and all sorts of information that students would need to repair the device. While how many schools adopt programs like this will take time to figure out, we are excited that not only is Google pushing skills that will be highly practical for our youth, but also supporting the right to repair devices at the same time. View full article

Chromebooks have been a major hit for schools of all grades as their low costs and easy UI have blended into a great platform for cloud-based schooling. Google is trying to take tech in school to a new level by providing numerous tools and reasons for schools to start their own in-house repair classes where students can repair broken Chromebooks (potentially even their own Chromebook). This program is already a hit with us as it enhances an all too often underwhelming technology education source for the upcoming generations. It would allow students to not only learn basic tech repairs but would also help schools reduce costs and waste with broken devices. Acer and Lenovo have been featured in these programs as many of their current educational Chromebooks have a focus on the ability to self-repair the devices. Resources offered by the program can be found on Google’s repair website and are provided in highly detailed PDF documents with lessons, pictures, and all sorts of information that students would need to repair the device. While how many schools adopt programs like this will take time to figure out, we are excited that not only is Google pushing skills that will be highly practical for our youth, but also supporting the right to repair devices at the same time.

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I just want my dislike button back 😅

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That is actually not a bad idea at all! Give my a few to set up some things!

I would like dubbed more, but overall dubbed voice acting is generally just not as good and I end up on subbed all the time.

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Discord is adding a new Premium Membership to multiple content creator servers that will allow users to have a paid subscription directly to that server. Currently, around 10 creators have the feature live with expectations that it will be going live for everyone shortly if everything goes well. This feature is also reported to have a 90/10 revenue split with Discord only taking 10 percent of the subscription money and the community owner getting the rest. Server admins will also be able to create tiered packages and set their costs for those packages with varying rewards available to members. Currently, the focus is to use this feature to lock and unlock channels of the Discord server depending on the user’s paid tier. However, it does appear that Discord is mostly sitting back and seeing what creators will do with this feature going forward. Currently, users will only be able to subscribe to features on the Desktop client as Discord does not seem to want to pay the Apple and Google App store fees and that is likely a key point to allowing such a high creator ratio for the revenue. Overall, this could be a massive move for both Discord and the servers on their platform as paid subscription content have become a massive industry in the tech world and content creators have created vast income using these services. Image: Denys Prykhodov - stock.adobe.com View full article

Discord is adding a new Premium Membership to multiple content creator servers that will allow users to have a paid subscription directly to that server. Currently, around 10 creators have the feature live with expectations that it will be going live for everyone shortly if everything goes well. This feature is also reported to have a 90/10 revenue split with Discord only taking 10 percent of the subscription money and the community owner getting the rest. Server admins will also be able to create tiered packages and set their costs for those packages with varying rewards available to members. Currently, the focus is to use this feature to lock and unlock channels of the Discord server depending on the user’s paid tier. However, it does appear that Discord is mostly sitting back and seeing what creators will do with this feature going forward. Currently, users will only be able to subscribe to features on the Desktop client as Discord does not seem to want to pay the Apple and Google App store fees and that is likely a key point to allowing such a high creator ratio for the revenue. Overall, this could be a massive move for both Discord and the servers on their platform as paid subscription content have become a massive industry in the tech world and content creators have created vast income using these services.

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Forums are finally coming back into my hobby list like they were in the old days.

Ya, Microsoft got hammered with antitrust laws back in the day. Nearly crippled the company. It does seem like they have used Apple's and Google's success as reasons to go back to just trying to be a tech Monopoly (which in many ways I can't blame them), but stuff like setting the default browser is what brings way too much attention to that fact and brings their customers into action. That last part is what I figured they would want to highly avoid.

I basically have no local shops. We have a Best Buy and there PC components section is maybe 5 feet long at best. Basically, you get 1-2 CPUs, 1-2 GPUs, a single cooler, and a rack with little stuff like RAM and Storage as options. So for me, it is completely online.

This is completely true! And once you get into more budget friendly laptops, non-gaming, etc. the 17" options disappear. I do see 16" screens popping up a lot anymore, and I wonder how they will affect things.