We're at b52j now, b52x would be 14 variants away. Stardate 53000 is 351 years away.
That's 25 years per variant average, a lot less than I thought it'd be!

Here in Australia they fill it and give it to you, no refills.

McDonald's USA has free soft drink refills.

The venues were pretty cool I thought. Nice break from 'generic sport stadium A'.

There's other ways - write it into the conditions of loan that it's not the school's responsibility to monitor student use when at home.

There are solutions that allow monitoring only on campus - both the monitoring person and the student need to be on-site for the software to contact a licensing server. No server contact=no monitoring.
And never bring 'AI' into it.

Like doing homework in your room? Where now the monitor can turn on your webcam without you knowing and watch you in your personal space?

OK so that's nuts they installed a private 'AI' monitoring software that they have no oversight or control over. From the article, they can't even see what it flags as inappropriate - it just flags and deletes.
A school admin should never hand over that much control!

Around 11,000EUR it looks like

Needs sound

This is so frustrating when trouble shooting - trying to re-find where that one settings page was because you opened another.
It's not a phone - it's a windowing desktop environment. Allow multiple instances!

Sooo many issues getting wifi or sleep working in the past. It's so much better now.

As an Australian, here's the real war.