What is really crazy is that things that should be just an application locally installed on the device (such as PowerPoint) need a login at all.

There's a secondary issue of schools pushing children to use proprietary applications when perfectly serviceable alternatives exist (especially for school level work).

How the hell we all normalized this crap is maddening.

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paradox460 21 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It's not even new. 20 years ago I got a bad grade in highschool because I used StarOffice and not Office 2003 for a project

My father and I had an unreasonably long conversation with the dean of students about how requiring someone to purchase a $300 software suite for a basic highschool English class was egregious

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port11 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The school in the linked post actually requires 3 separate logins before you can see the presentation, that’s just…

	▲	WorldMaker 14 hours ago \| parent [-]
		One of the "best" parts being the first one of those was meant to be an "SSO" but apparently is design-by-committee and very bad at it. (Requiring too frequent logins, not saving usernames between logins [for kids?!], requiring login dances at downstream logins.)