It sounds like you received a version that was manufactured by a bad supplier, one we've moved away from.
Let me know if we can offer you something new and fresh to make up for the fumble here. Happy to give you anything from our current line. You will be impressed and overjoyed.
> Think it's a shame that [...] the Chromebook is the "standard" for kids and classrooms.
Chromebooks are cheap to buy and maintain, that's why they are in classrooms.
Whatever the $OS, we don't #teach# privacy. In fact, privacy and critical thinking are the subjects that we teach #worse# than math.
Although Chromebooks are GOOGware, you can make them better by switching to dev mode and installing SeaBIOS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeaBIOS). I boot Debian Linux on a CB with premium hardware. Cheapest "ultrabook" that you get, and with Firefox DoH and ESNI, you bleed less into the surveillance system.
The openness of Windows is why it’s not suitable for school environments or even many professional environments. ChromeOS is hard to break, and even if you did, it’s a 5 minute process to restore it to a workable state.
With that said, I hope that future tinkerers find a way to get their hands on Windows or Mac computers at home or in computer literacy labs.
In a third of cases, classrooms throw out, then replace computers rather than repairing them. Even if only one component is down.
More than 5 billion dollars is spent by US schools in this way.
While the original Kano focused on "make your own" as an experience, the new Kano PC is "click in and click out" for sustainability as well as see-through-ness.
one of the comments is brutal if you are HP. Didnt Grandad have one of these? All the money that HP spends on marketing and they are the grandads laptop!
Here's us talking about the product and the Microsoft partnership on TV: https://www.instagram.com/stories/alexnklein/235848341696754...
You can reach out to me directly at alex at kano dot me
Alex