fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoStill booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computerswww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square88fedilinkarrow-up1167arrow-down16
arrow-up1161arrow-down1external-linkStill booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computerswww.bbc.comfne8w2ah@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square88fedilink
minus-squareMonkderVierte@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·edit-21 month ago The elevator was running Windows XP. Clearly an extreme case of overengineering. A elevator has no business running more than a few microcontrollers.
minus-squareperviouslyiner@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 month agoBut how else can it book requests for priority access, and verify the credit card for whoever booked the elevator?
minus-squareMonkderVierte@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 month agoAh, the blossoms of unimpeded, wild capitalism.
minus-squareHugeNerd@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoBut how else can it be safe to connect to the internet?
minus-squareMonkderVierte@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoYou need to be on-site to fix it anyway, just access the debug port.
Clearly an extreme case of overengineering. A elevator has no business running more than a few microcontrollers.
But how else can it book requests for priority access, and verify the credit card for whoever booked the elevator?
Ah, the blossoms of unimpeded, wild capitalism.
But how else can it be safe to connect to the internet?
You need to be on-site to fix it anyway, just access the debug port.