Public Blue Screens Of Death

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Price checker at Macy's Department Store (sub.wetshaving.social)

submitted 1 day ago by walden@sub.wetshaving.social to c/pbsod@lemmy.ohaa.xyz

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I had to walk to a different price check scanner.

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[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

Looks like it’s trying to be remotely updated. Who knows if it will finish or if it has crashed. It’s Macy’s so it’s probably been like that for weeks.

[–] argh_another_username@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A long time ago I took a picture of a price checker at a Toys R Us with the WindowsCE desktop. It had the IE shortcut and everything.

[–] InquisitiveApathy@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago

They still run Windows CE these days too lmao

[–] lnxtx@feddit.nl 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Price scanner needs Windows?

What else does it show?

[–] InquisitiveApathy@lemm.ee 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

These price checkers are basically just thin clients working off the central store PoS server. These models run a super old version of Windows CE that loads the store applications at startup. This one just looks like it can't connect to the server.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 2 points 14 hours ago

The server is doing the best it can, no need to call it names.

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