but the faculty leaders insist, against empirical evidence, that they’re smart enough.
To be fair, you’re only seeing the dumb ones.
If that user-installed RAM stick had worked, they wouldn’t have come to you about it.
If they had installed their dual boot Ubuntu setup correctly, they wouldn’t come to you about it.
Presumably, there are a lot of smart students out there fucking with their laptops without breaking them, which you never know about because they never bring those laptops to you to fix. And locking down the computers would prevent those smart students from being able to do the things they want.
I guess I forgot to point out (six months ago, well done) that these are free loaners provided by the university. Usually high-end, current-generation hardware. They can be smart on their own devices, that’s neither my concern nor my responsibility, but these are not theirs to disembowel.
To be fair, you’re only seeing the dumb ones.
If that user-installed RAM stick had worked, they wouldn’t have come to you about it.
If they had installed their dual boot Ubuntu setup correctly, they wouldn’t come to you about it.
Presumably, there are a lot of smart students out there fucking with their laptops without breaking them, which you never know about because they never bring those laptops to you to fix. And locking down the computers would prevent those smart students from being able to do the things they want.
I guess I forgot to point out (six months ago, well done) that these are free loaners provided by the university. Usually high-end, current-generation hardware. They can be smart on their own devices, that’s neither my concern nor my responsibility, but these are not theirs to disembowel.