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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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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why do people use Windows for these displays?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

What else could you possibly use? Mac? We all know mac is too expensive. Windows is the cheapest option. Nothing cheaper. Yessir. They're not fancy -they just need a simple Windows license and some up-to-date, current gen hardware to run that display...

e: (/s, because even the most obvious sarcasm seems to need a label)

[–] fartsparkles 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looks like people are downvoting you because they don’t understand sarcasm. This is why the whole /s thing started on Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I hate the /s and could not have made it clearer otherwise... 🤷 At least you got it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

A custom made Linux distro that starts a x server with a single program open would probably do it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Afaik there are already kiosk display Linux distros.

https://porteus-kiosk.org/index.html

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oh golly. That sounds like the devil's work. (/s)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

i don't even think it would have to be custom made, just install arch or something similar

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can't read that, the moire is too strong

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I think it's complaining that the setup isn't found, maybe trying to update or repair?

[–] LudwigvanBeethoven 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"The process entry point 'GetUserDefaultGeoName' was not found in the DLL "

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At least they let you uinstall onedrive

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Over and over again...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

My policy editor says otherwise.