Public Blue Screens Of Death

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At Food Basics grocery store on what I assume is a facial recognition device

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[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Windows embedded seems like such a strange choice. I mean, there’s so many free operating systems to choose from. Do people use it just because it ships with the device? It seems like a strange choice that would drive up costs and increase complexity.

[–] julianwgs@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago

At a supermarket they once restarted the scale in the vegetable section and it was on Windows 8. It literally took 5 minutes. I dont know why they dont use Linux…