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

• SomethingBurger@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  How else are you gonna show ads?

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  • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I hate that you are right.

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• e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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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      • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Was but theres no reason to keep doing that

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    • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      RPi is not a microcontroller.

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