Chromebooks are also pretty good if google sheets/docs would suffice for excel/word.

They usually work well with printers, but I've run into some situations where I was just plain unable to get it to work with my Brother laser printer after a certain ChromeOS update. They screwed up something with the CUPS drivers and it just never worked.

On MacOS at least I have a chance of being able to fix this stuff. ChromeOS is so locked down you can't even fix things.

My son is in a co-op with around that number of kids, but that's total (through HS).

The co-op I was in 30 years ago was a bit smaller but sounds like it's still going strong (no clue how big it is these days though).

So there definitely are homeschooling co-ops around that size. I do wonder what the average size of a co-op is though

From those slides (I did have to open them via google, the direct link didn't seem to work):

  Discussion
  • Evidence from this study and others suggest that homeschoolers may not
  be a socially isolated group
  • Instead, homeschoolers in these samples seem to have peer networks
  and social connections that arise in conventional and unconventional
  social settings and they report being well-connected later in life
  • It is important to note that although this study contributes to the
  literature, it has methodological limitations (e.g. small sample, self-reports)

Dealing with adult problems shouldn't be something kids have to learn, as long as the problems scale with their development that's not a problem

Most of them can be turned into a vanilla linux laptop fairly easily, and even support custom coreboot firmware: https://docs.mrchromebox.tech/

That being said, it's also pretty easy to get a full linux shell and even install gui apps via flatpak or whatever.

If you haven't used something like i3/sway/awesomewm/hyprland on the linux side you won't know what you're missing.

While there are several apps to create custom keyboard commands, only yabai+skhd come close to what's available on linux, and it's not even that close tbh.

I’ve used i3 and awesomewm and bspwm etc etc. I’d be happy to never use them again!

yabai is as close as I've seen, but yeah nothing close to awesomewm or even something like sawywm

In the data science/engineering world apache arrow is the bridge between languages, so you don't actually need to serialize into language specific structures which is really nice

GA flights will typically broadcast over 978MHz UAT, and in controlled airspace TIS-B can share context across frequencies.

But yeah, it's still not required unless you are flying in rule airspace: https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/technology/equipadsb/researc...

My school just had an official cls file, so my initial setup was just to download the template. So if that's where you're coming from (the journals I submitted to also had official templates), it's really minimal setup.