I think it's pretty amusing how so many schools are blocking TikTok and AI sites and such from their own networks, as if the students' didn't have wireless data plans on their own phones.
@lauren So I'm mentoring an #frc team this year out of a trade-magnet high school.
During a meeting at the school, needed to get on Discord voice chat with a team member outside the building because cell reception is too crap for a phone call. And of course, the school IT had locked down Discord's voice ports.
Put my head in my hands and *may* have muttered something moderately un-gracious-or-professional about sometimes feeling like doing work on school networks is like solving problems post-lobotomy.
One of the students saw me and came over with his phone patched through the voice channel on the Discord server. I asked him how he did it. "Oh, I spend some of my after-school job money on a VPN because the school locks down so many ports I need."
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