Comment on Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers

MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It’s probably only the screen component that is running an old version of embedded windows.

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  • jjlinux@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That’s what I think too. And then I see “Their systems are built into everything around us”, which basically only applies to PCs and laptops. What is built into pretty much everything around us is GnuLinux.

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    • lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Not even GNU - just Linux.

      Yeah yeah, something something GNU/Linux blah blah copypasta…

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    • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      What is built into pretty much everything around us is GnuLinux.

      Many things, but far from that.

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      • jjlinux@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Yeah, it was a statement, not a question. But it’s partly my fault for not using the comma appropriately. Fixed.

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Screen? In a elevator?

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    • SomethingBurger@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      How else are you gonna show ads?

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      • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I hate that you are right.

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    • e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yes? That is not that unusual and it is mentioned in the third sentence of the article.

      I rode up to the 14th floor, my eyes were drawn to a screen built into the side of the lift.

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      • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Those screens can easily run on an integrated Raspberry Pi microcontroller, they dont exactly have complex graphics

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• perviouslyiner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  But how else can it book requests for priority access, and verify the credit card for whoever booked the elevator?

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Ah, the blossoms of unregulated wild capitalism.

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• GenosseFlosse@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  In highrises with lots of stops and users, it uses some more advanced software to schedule the optimal stops, or distribute the load between multiple lifts. A similar concept exists for HDD controllers, where the read write arm must move to different positions to load data stored on different plates.

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  • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    This requires little more than a 286. It’s an elevator. Responding in times measured in seconds. What kind of computations do you think are required here? Imaginary quaternion matrixes? Squared?

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    • GenosseFlosse@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yes, but if you have it as a Windows program it’s easier to configure on a screen with mouse and keyboard, change settings, display help files or give the source code to someone else to make changes or add features.

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      • fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        also it was probably not too expensive to grad a bog standard PC off the shelf and do it on that. I’ve see raspis in the wild doing tasks like that. and those will be outdated by the time they’re replaced too

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• Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Qube cinema servers only got off XP in 2015. They’re still on 7 though.

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• HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  But how else can it be safe to connect to the internet?

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You need to be on-site to fix it anyway, just access the debug port.

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