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Obviously a stunt.

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So obvious in fact that nobody was under any other impression, making this comment essentially a “the sky is blue” kind of thing.

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You mean, the stunt that they describe in detail in the article?

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Obviously.

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I mean they indicate as such if you read the article…

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Use Linux already

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Linux has a BSOD kernel panic screen now too sooooooooo

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5 points

RTFA already

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Read the fucking annual?

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Article lawl

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Rim that fucking anus.

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I’m sure they would not entrust such a thing to a Windows OS in reality lol

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My friend, have you ever configured an LED signboard before? If not, what you will learn will shock you…

…a lot of these boards are controlled by proprietary chinese software that only functions on Windows XP… even today.

As to why they don’t have a more modern OS connected to a signboard that obviously supports at least VGA and probably HDMI… I don’t know. Especially since the BSOD is a Windows 10 BSOD… XP did not have QR code sad face BSODs at the time.

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There’s one LED advertisement board in my area that I see pretty often. Nowdays I’d say it shows something it’s not supposed to more often than an advertisement.

Previously I’ve seen BSOD on it a couple of times, but recently a lot. Also “Finish setting up this device” and part of the desktop showing Windows 11 wallpaper.
My guess is someone upgraded it from Windows 10 to 11, and now it works even less.

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Because they don’t want to change the drivers or have to revalidate the entire system. And if they’re not connected to the Internet then it really doesn’t matter.

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This was a prerecorded video, if you did not catch that.

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Now that makes more sense.

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A lot of ATM cash machines run Windows 7. Yes, still.

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Video scalers my dude. Proprietary yes, but Chinese is questionable. Crestron, Extron, QSC, all major video products based out of the US, tho I believe only Crestron manufacturers in the US.

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I say it and mean it - when the software is in chinese language or has a very broken english translation for an interface…

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Funny when companies use M$ for production systems. So unreliable for anything other than secretarial duties and gaming.

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So unreliable except for what 98% of the world uses it for?

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Nah brah, 100% of the important stuff runs Linux. Do your research.

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It was a premade video…

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