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Bring your own OS on a stick? There are ways around it lol, especially in a university setting where youre pretty much expected to fuck up the IT restrictions
Getting mad about adblock evangelism is cringe imo but bringing your own os on a stick to use in a corporate environment is a great way to get fired (and probably not be able to access the corporate tools you need to do your job anyways). Maybe less so in a university but messing with the public computers like that is probably not a good idea either.
I dunno about uni or anything more 'serious', but I did this a decent bit in hs to let me sidestep the parental/student control bullshit and let me play games while the box I was using was 'offline'. Helps that I was far and away the smartest kid in the room for tech, and so I'd often aid teachers and they'd look the other way when I finished my assignment in 15 minutes and proceeded to do whatever I wanted for the remaining 75. In computer hardware class, I ran a minecraft server for others to join. In business and finance, played tanks, tower defense, and other 2D multi-player games with others in my row. In both drivers ed and physical ed, I'd play racing games on my laptop; because there was no internet in either location, I'd hotspot my phone. I remember another student I was friends with bringing their laptop and playing WoW on my hotspot as well.
Good times.
Yeah itβs much easier to get away with that stuff in HS depending on the school, they often donβt have the funding for competent IT.