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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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[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Having something like this happening in a business venue I owned would send me over the edge. That is actively interfering with the daily activities.

[–] 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.

[–] 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.

[–] FQQD@feddit.de 6 points 2 years ago

it's always the windows updates lmao

[–] amenotef@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

This song plays at the airport and everybody dancing every time this happens.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

I'm honestly surprised that airports use Windows. I figured they used a custom OS for these boards.

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

What sort of security update needs eight gigs of space?

"Get help" is right.

[–] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Why would you not just use a raspberry pi or one of the even cheaper single board computers for digital signage? Especially when it's just a mostly static table with graphics that can probably be run on a Commodore 64?