Charleston, SC  ·  Monday, November 9, 2026 Vol. 1  ·  Issue No. 002 100% Original Articles
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Weekly Tech

Tech notes from a school IT desk.

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Welcome, readers! · ¡Bienvenidos, lectores!

Thanks for stopping by my newsroom. I'm Felipe — I keep a school's technology alive by day, and I write about it here every week. Read, like your favorites, and join the conversation in the comments below.

Gracias por pasar por mi sala de redacción. Soy Felipe — de día mantengo viva la tecnología de una escuela, y cada semana escribo sobre eso aquí. Lee, dale like a tus favoritos y únete a la conversación en los comentarios.

— Felipe E. Perez, writer & MISIT Technician

One desk.
Hundreds of devices.
A story every week.

This is Felipe's newsroom for the work behind the classroom: the updates, batteries, networks, and loaner carts that decide whether technology helps a student — or gets in the way.

✦ Original reporting ✦ From real experience ✦ Written by Felipe E. Perez
5 minThe swap — a charged loaner in the student's hands, repair laterHabit 2
3 minThe check before anything goes out for repair: power, update, accountHabit 3
10 minFriday cart check — Monday me is always grateful to Friday meHabit 5
<1 minTo find any device — every Chromebook has a name, a number, and a homeHabit 1

Latest Article

Featured story · Full text

Gaming Special

Bonus story · Gaming

Gaming Special Vice City · Leonida Launch · Thu, Nov 19, 2026 PS5 · Xbox Series X|S

GTA 6 Is Almost Here: The Biggest Launch in Entertainment History Lands November 19

Back to Vice City — Lucia, Jason, and the biggest entertainment launch in history, seen from a school IT desk.

$79.99Standard Edition — Ultimate is $99.99
475MTrailer 2 views in 24 hours — a record video launch
7.7MPre-orders — roughly $751M before the game is even out
$3.2BForecast first-year revenue — around 40 million copies

Thirteen years. That's how long the world has waited since Grand Theft Auto V — and on Thursday, November 19, 2026, the wait ends: GTA 6 launches on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S.

Rockstar is taking us back to Vice City, in the state of Leonida, with two protagonists — Lucia and Jason — in a Bonnie-and-Clyde-style story. There is no PC date yet; consoles get it first, just like the old days.

The numbers around this game don't look real:

  • $79.99 for the Standard Edition ($99.99 Ultimate) — the first Rockstar title to break the $70 line.
  • 475 million views in 24 hours for Trailer 2 across platforms — the biggest video launch in history, according to Rockstar.
  • An estimated 7.7 million pre-orders and roughly $751 million in revenue before the game is even out (Sensor Tower estimates) — already rivaling the best-selling games of 2026.
  • Analysts at DFC Intelligence forecast around 40 million copies and $3.2 billion in its first year.

And a word from the school IT desk: on November 20, every student hallway conversation will be about this game. The good news for us techs — it's console-only, so the Chromebook fleet is safe. The bad news: scammers are already pushing fake "GTA 6 beta" downloads loaded with malware. If there's ever a week to remind students don't download games from random links, it's this one.

Are you taking November 19 off, or are you stronger than me?

#Gaming #GTA6 #RockstarGames #PS5 #Xbox #TechNews

Coming Monday

Preview · Issue #003 · Nov 16, 2026

Preview — Coming Monday Issue #003 Generation X Mon · Nov 16, 2026

We Grew Up Offline: What Gen X Learned Watching Technology Change Everything

The last generation that remembers both worlds — wall phones and beepers, cassettes and dial-up, arcade quarters and AI.

The phoneBolted to the kitchen wall → beepers → flip phones → a computer in every pocket
The musicSongs taped off the radio → CDs → Napster → releasing his own songs worldwide
The informationEncyclopedias & card catalogs → the AOL dial-up screech → students asking AI
The gamesArcade quarters & blown Nintendo cartridges → GTA 6 selling millions pre-launch

Generation X might be the last generation that remembers both worlds — the one before the internet, and the one after. We didn't adopt technology all at once. We watched it arrive piece by piece, and we had to learn every piece the hard way.

The phone. Ours was bolted to the kitchen wall, with a cord that stretched exactly as far as your privacy allowed. Then came cordless phones, beepers (yes, we had codes), flip phones, and now a computer in every pocket that's more powerful than what sent astronauts to the moon.

The music. We recorded songs off the radio onto cassettes, holding our breath so nobody talked over the intro. Then CDs, then Napster turned the whole music store into a download, and now I release my own songs to the whole world from a computer — no record label, no studio that costs more than a house.

The information. Homework meant the encyclopedia set and the library's card catalog. Then one day a screeching dial-up modem connected us to AOL, and information stopped living in books. Today my students ask AI a question and get an answer in two seconds — and my job is teaching them to check if it's true.

The games. We fed quarters into arcade machines and blew into Nintendo cartridges to make them work. This month, GTA 6 sells millions of copies before it even exists in anyone's hands.

Gen X became the translators: we speak analog and digital fluently, because we lived the change one screech at a time.

Working in school IT, I spend my days fixing Chromebooks for kids who have never heard a busy signal or rewound a movie for Blockbuster. And I've realized Gen X became the translators: we speak analog and digital fluently, because we lived the change one screech at a time. That patience — learn it, break it, fix it, adapt — is the real skill technology taught us.

Fellow Gen Xers in tech: what's the one piece of "old technology" you secretly miss?

#GenX #K12IT #EdTech #Technology #SchoolIT

Opinion

Opinion column · By Felipe E. Perez

Opinion Column No. 1 AI & School IT EN + ES

The view from the IT desk — not news, opinion

OPINION: AI Won't Replace the School Tech — It Will Replace the One Who Refuses to Learn It

Every few months somebody tells me AI is coming for my job. I fix Chromebooks, reset passwords, and keep a school's technology alive — and I've heard the speech enough times to smile through it.

Every few months somebody tells me AI is coming for my job. I fix Chromebooks, reset passwords, and keep a school's technology alive — and I've heard the speech enough times to smile through it.

Here's what I've actually seen: AI didn't take work off my desk. It changed which work lands on it. The password resets didn't stop. The broken screens didn't stop. What changed is that now students ask a chatbot first, teachers draft with AI first, and half my tickets start with "the AI told me to try this."

And honestly? That's fine. The tech who only repeats steps will struggle. The tech who understands the why — who can tell when the AI's answer is wrong, who can calm down a frustrated teacher, who knows this building, these kids, these machines — that tech is not replaceable. A chatbot has never crawled under a desk to find which cable a student kicked loose.

"A chatbot has never crawled under a desk to find which cable a student kicked loose."From this column

My opinion: stop fearing the tool and start mastering it. I use AI to draft, to summarize, to learn faster — and then I do the part it can't: show up in person and fix the problem.

The future doesn't belong to AI. It belongs to the people who learn to work with it. Especially the ones who grew up without it.

— Felipe E. Perez

Article Archive

2 articles · Growing weekly

Issue #001 · Nov 7, 2026
Testing SeasonEN + ES included

The 2-Week Rule: How I Prep Our Chromebooks Before Testing Season

Everything gets verified 14 days before the first test, not the week of — updates, batteries, the test app on real devices, Wi-Fi under load, and a labeled loaner cart. Versión en español incluida.

By Felipe E. PerezIssue #001 · Archived

From the Desk

What this column covers

Devices & Fleets

Chromebooks, Windows machines, carts, batteries, and the unglamorous prep that prevents test-day chaos.

Networks & Accounts

Wi-Fi under load, Google Workspace Admin, Microsoft 365, passwords, filters, and keeping a whole school connected.

Original, Always

Every article is written fresh from Felipe's own school IT experience. No copied content, no plagiarism — his work, his words.

More from Felipe

Music page · Official hub

🎵 Also from Felipe

Tech by day.
Music by night.

By day I fix school tech — by night I make music as DjMrPerez. Visit my music page: listen to the latest releases, support with a donation, browse the merch store and check out my other sites.

🎧 djmrperez-musica.pages.dev →
🌐 Official Hub

Everything DjMrPerez.
One address.

The official hub brings it all together — videos, the merch store, the fan club, the tip jar, and music services like custom theme songs and track licensing.

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