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Public Blue Screens Of Death

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Public Blue Screens Of Death

Public displays and digital infrastructure software failing to do their job because of blue screens, crashes or other problems

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[โ€“] WidowsFavoriteSon@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I was performing an exam on a patient with a USB linked device and the little fucker did this.

That was the last time I used a Windows computer in my practice.

[โ€“] qyron@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I worked for a short time in the medical business and every single technician would spell the exact same rule: medical machines live off the web.

That meant no updates, no added software, nothing that was not stricktly relate with the function they had been built for.

It would be our necks if a machine did anything like you describe.