A First Amendment group sued Texas Governor Greg Abbott and others on Thursday over the state’s TikTok ban on official devices, arguing the prohibition – which extends to public universities – is unconstitutional and impedes academic freedom.

  • billwashere
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    21 year ago

    Gaming computers? Really? I work for our distance education dept (well it’s called digital education now since pretty much everything has on online component) and we have a group doing lots of 3D media creation (3D scanning, virtual environments,etc). Guess what that requires? High end gaming machines. It seems a little short sighted by your university. Luckily we don’t have bean counters scrutinizing every purchase like that. Man would that get annoying.

    I guess I’m starting to realize how good we have it hearing about all these weird restrictions being placed on purchases.

    • Irlut
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      21 year ago

      The powers that be seem to be under the impression that workstation class computers are suitable replacements, while failing to realize that those are several times more expensive for the same performance and also mired in a whole mess of driver issues.

      It’s basically a clusterfuck. I know the dean and his staff are working to solve the problem, but we’ll see how that turns out. Hopefully the magical words “impacts student success” and “inability to acquire grants” will work.