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Aw man my work most likely got hit
Aw man my work most likely got hit
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Viesta
OP
•
7/19/24, 10:14 PM
and we MAINLY USE self checkout kiosks
V
Viesta
OP
•
7/19/24, 10:15 PM
otherwise we can
't keep up cause they dont put enough people on the belts
J
Johnny Appleseed
•
7/19/24, 10:15 PM
I guess you
'll find out lol
J
Johnny Appleseed
•
7/19/24, 10:15 PM
I don
't imagine everything has the combo of windows
+ cloudstrike but a lot of the larger companies use it
V
Viesta
OP
•
7/19/24, 10:15 PM
They might call me in tomorrow
.
.
. and im not supposed to work then
.
.
.
C
cave monster
•
7/19/24, 10:16 PM
Keep a beer by the phone
V
Viesta
OP
•
7/19/24, 10:16 PM
i shall keep a seagram there
.
C
cave monster
•
7/19/24, 10:16 PM
As soon as it rings
, you crack it open
"Sorry boss
, can
't
, had a beer
"
V
Viesta
Aw man my work most likely got hit
P
Pez
•
7/19/24, 10:16 PM
big if true
J
Johnny Appleseed
•
7/19/24, 10:17 PM
I don
't imagine there
's any easily accessable USB ports to plug in a keyboard and fix stuff
J
Johnny Appleseed
•
7/19/24, 10:17 PM
apparently the biggest oh crap moment is that if you got bitlocker you can
't get to safe mode to fix it without the key
P
Pez
•
7/19/24, 10:17 PM
there sure is if you work there
P
Pez
•
7/19/24, 10:17 PM
every kiosk i
've ever touched swung right open
A
AfterStory
•
7/19/24, 10:17 PM
@Viesta just hope the computers don
't use bitlocker
, typing the keys are so much fun
C
cave monster
•
7/19/24, 10:18 PM
I keep a copy of my work laptop bitlocker key for whenever an automatic firmware update borks it
P
Pez
•
7/19/24, 10:18 PM
keeping in mind the cheapest way for vendors to produce a self
-serve kiosk is to just hide a NUC inside a big rectangular safe with a touchscreen on the front
C
cave monster
•
7/19/24, 10:19 PM
Imagine a self service kiosk using something newer than XP
C
cave monster
•
7/19/24, 10:19 PM
My favourite is the DOS based POS systems still in use
P
Pez
•
7/19/24, 10:19 PM
any decent corpo stopped doing that and moved their kiosks up to win7
+
P
Pez
•
7/19/24, 10:19 PM
at least in my area
P
Pez
•
7/19/24, 10:20 PM
the 386 order pickers you could use as a medieval flail really are the best part of the experience
P
Pez
•
7/19/24, 10:20 PM
"this computer sent us to space and now it will sent burger to you
:
)
)
)
"
A
AfterStory
@Viesta just hope the computers don't use bitlocker, typing the keys are so much...
V
Viesta
OP
•
7/19/24, 10:20 PM
they
're all windows 11
V
Viesta
OP
•
7/19/24, 10:21 PM
unless they didn
't update the OS then it
's windows 10
P
Pez
•
7/19/24, 10:21 PM
shocker
V
Viesta
OP
•
7/19/24, 10:21 PM
and you know what
? those cash register PC
's and kiosks still go down like crazy
V
Viesta
OP
•
7/19/24, 10:21 PM
even after going modern
P
Pez
•
7/19/24, 10:21 PM
yah it doesnt change anything
P
Pez
•
7/19/24, 10:22 PM
not a single thing about how they work
, tbh
P
Pez
•
7/19/24, 10:22 PM
any version of windows is just as liable to crash when you put it in those sort of conditions
C
cave monster
•
7/19/24, 10:22 PM
Pretty rare for embedded windows stuff to be on a recent version
V
Viesta
OP
•
7/19/24, 10:22 PM
imagine if i could convince my work to switch to linux
C
cave monster
Pretty rare for embedded windows stuff to be on a recent version
P
Pez
•
7/19/24, 10:22 PM
it
'll all be on win7
+ now
C
cave monster
•
7/19/24, 10:22 PM
We
're making brand new equipment and it gets windows 7 imaged
P
Pez
•
7/19/24, 10:23 PM
not XP
C
cave monster
•
7/19/24, 10:23 PM
Oh we
've got lots of equipment in the field still running pre
-7 OSes
P
Pez
•
7/19/24, 10:23 PM
sure but you ain
't putting new XP licenses out there
V
Viesta
OP
•
7/19/24, 10:23 PM
my dentist is windows XP
C
cave monster
•
7/19/24, 10:24 PM
Only a problem if someone networks it
. What are the chances of that
? A computer getting networked
? One in a million
J
Johnny Appleseed
•
7/19/24, 10:24 PM
The internet of things is a magical palce
J
Johnny Appleseed
•
7/19/24, 10:24 PM
You know all these crazy unreliable systems with questionable security we love
J
Johnny Appleseed
•
7/19/24, 10:24 PM
lets add an internet connection
P
Pez
•
7/19/24, 10:24 PM
and the entire reason any of these places update their shit is interop so eventually the XP stuff is going to disappear from public sight
C
cave monster
•
7/19/24, 10:25 PM
Win7 embedded is already out of support
P
Pez
•
7/19/24, 10:25 PM
and the kicker is when all you need to do for anything built in the last 20 years is a drop
-in replacement
P
Pez
•
7/19/24, 10:25 PM
we probably will actually see consumer
-facing stuff all move to modern windows at some point
P
Pez
•
7/19/24, 10:25 PM
not because it makes sense lol
P
Pez
•
7/19/24, 10:25 PM
because it makes microsoft more money pushing boundaries
P
Pez
•
7/19/24, 10:26 PM
C
cave monster
•
7/19/24, 10:26 PM
Just put the crappy application in a VM with a LTS host
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