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

• jjlinux@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Not even GNU - just Linux.

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

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  • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Screen? In a elevator?

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  • SomethingBurger@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    How else are you gonna show ads?

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    • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I hate that you are right.

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  • e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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      • e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        We are far away from the release of the Raspberry Pi if that screen is running an early version of Windows CE. Putting a PC in the elevator to drive the screen was probably the most cost effective solution.

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      • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        RPi is not a microcontroller.

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