Waste of money.

"For Modal, a robust app sandboxing story is essential to creating a Free Software OS that is competitive with modern mobile platforms."

Why? Focus should be desktop, not mobile.

We have enough mobile stuff that creeped in already.

This is focus on desktop. They just want as good app sandboxing as it is on mobile platforms.

I don't think the point is to create mobile apps, rather than reaching the same level of sandboxed separation between the apps and other components of the OS that exists on iOS and android. Including easily handling permissions for apps etc.

You can run your own afaik, but most MNOs prefer to outsource (big surprise here).

Just brilliant!

There's a fallacy in there somewhere.

I bet they're not spending $X/m on any of your free things, they're sitting on underutilised resources they're paying for anyway at probably very handsome rates.

At worst this is included in their marketing budget.

It used to be the case in the past, perhaps, but not now.

Now you just get fscked twice.

Return to pen and paper, particularly for testing. Extend school time for doing supervised "homework" that doesn't involve the Internet.

Like that?

Yes, make the teachers on $25-35K annual salaries do /more/ work for no extra money. I'm sure that will fix education.

Just to be accurate, median annual salary is over $62k accross the US for kindergarten and elementary school teachers, with California nearing 100k.

[1] https://www.onetonline.org/link/localwages/25-2021.00?st=CA

I am conflicted on this. One part of me think that they deserve a lot more compensation. But I am not really sure if that should be in the form of a salary rise.

Why not?

Because those who are attracted by the high pay might not be the best ones to do the job.

I left teaching and have, literally, 10x'd my annual income after a few years. While teaching, I couldn't afford to support my family of four.

We don't need people stressing and struggling financially for the privilege of teaching our youth. That leaves those without a better option or have a working spouse.

So that is why I said teachers should be compensated well but may be by other means than paying out a large sum as salary.

For example, if you were able to get free education for your children as part of your payment, wouldn't that have made your life a lot easier?

that's true about every job. Even computers were better when nerds ran them.

While true, not all jobs are equally critical in that regard. A bad programmer probably can be detected easily. But the effects of a generation of bad teachers might only show up after many decades!

That's a straw man.

That pay range is roughly what teachers get in former-USSR/Warsaw Pact eastern Europe, and in those countries it's a comfortable income.

Also, going back to what they did a few years ago isn't "more work". May actually be less, given how often people look at AI output, roll their eyes, and say "ugh, slop".

Also also, questions of pay are obviously after society decides what it wants the role of a teacher to be and finds out how much it needs to spend to hire enough people who will do whatever that job turns out to be.

While a bit hyperbolic this is a major issue.

“Workload” has been a constant argument for just about any tech product we acquired at school. I’m very conflicted about this issue to be honest. I’m a member of one of those parent management boards type things, not sure what’s it called in English.

One the one hand I know how busy teachers are, on the other I also know how they never work to 5PM have twice my vacation days, while somehow never being able to meet to talk about issues. We get one ten minute session every few months at best.

If you put pressure on them they call in sick for weeks and good luck finding a replacement. I’m deeply worried that if teaching as a whole doesn’t get it together we will slowly be forced to use AI for everything because of lack of alternatives.

I'd love to see the pic, but imgur has banned the UK. Any chance you can upload this elsewhere?

Does this work? https://imgbox.com/p2O8aADv

India for the most part.