I don't care about them performance-wise, but I hate how stores (especially BestBuy and Future Shop) mix them with regular laptops in display as an attempt to push them as cheap laptops towards people who are not paying attention. So poorer families or students will go like "OMG WOAH! A $200 LAPTOP??!?? WANT!!11one!11!!oneonone" then buy it for important school projects, only to end up discovering that it cannot run their favorite Windows 7 or 8 programs.

In other words, Chromebooks are not all that bad by themselves if you don't care about privacy nor being able to run Windows programs IMHO, but they're too often used to scam people (by trying to pass chromebooks off as regular laptops to unsuspecting customers).

maybe because slow internet connection

Chromeos is a browser and a kernel. So not much you can do with it.

Chromebook means chromeos. Chromeos is basically a customized Gentoo.

Gentoo is a source Linux distribution. Which means that you download everything as source instead of pre compiled binaries.

It's automated fortunately. Plus Google is nice and did it all for you.

Back to the topic, the reason Omnimaga is blocked (especially true if your school uses Blue Coat proxying) is because of games.

One possible cause is the former forum arcade; another is that Omnimaga is in general more games-oriented than Cemetech and other sites are. (Compare the programs featured in news on the two sites.) I've tried to get the label off (to replace with Computers/Internet which wasn't blocked at my high school) but failed

SOCKS is your friend

Quote from: aeTIos on June 15, 2014, 04:31:04 pm

We don't swear over here (not much, anyways). Probably listed under gaming-related web sites. Not much you can do about it.

I mean the funny OmniIRC quotes thread. I could email the teachers

That thread is only visible to registered members, so that's not it.