• DudeDudenson@lemmings.world
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    I’ve always been surprised to find all the ATMs in my country run different versions of windows (XP, Vista, 7)

    Like even from purely an accountant point of view, if you’re using some shitty proprietary software why wouldn’t you implement it in an OS that doesn’t require commercial licences???

    Then again the entire software stack of any established financial institution is just spaghetti code and things held on with duct tape and prayers

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      Embedded systems are frequently Windows based. It’s always a little surprising. Also, it’s downright terrifying how many of those embedded systems rely on a version of Internet Explorer that’s been deprecated for 20 years.

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        Banking systems running COBOL on IBM mainframes. So archaic that even hackers can’t understand the code, and if they did the bank would pay them voluntarily tp sort it out, and the hackers would say no, because COBOL, eww.

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          I actually have a friend who is the old meme – his mother is a sysadmin for a small regional bank and he’s been training under her for years to take over when she retires. No one in the open market can even begin to understand what she does.

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    I saw a display running Ubuntu on a Railway station and I get fucking amazed.

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    Me with raspberry pis. Also complain when digital notice boards don’t use low power systems like the pi and use windows PCs instead when all they do is show picture slideshows.

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      And you know it’s some 8 year old Optiplex crammed in a corner somewhere just giving its all for that slideshow, absolutely choked with dust bunnies. Its survival somehow an exception to the rule.

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    Runs SUSE. Used in state healthcare in Russia.

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      There’s a Hebrew expression that goes like “Because of hatred of Haman , not out of love of Mordecai”

      Adjusting for context , it is because of mistrust of Microsoft, not out of love of Linux.

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      Even freaking Russia has a nationalized healthcare system, the fuck!? Medicaid and Medicare runs windows 95 on dialup.

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        It got healthcare system from USSR. Now it’s chronically underfunded for last 25 years. There are improvements in regional centers(like digital records and appointments system), but in regions(and even some regional centers) there are less and less doctors, and buildings themselves have self-disassembling ceiling from neglect, disrepair and systemic corruption that builds yachts and palaces in Gelendzhik for Putin.

        But in Moscow and SPb it’s good. Also dialup? I don’t think there any of it left here.

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          They used dial up for certain claims up to about 10 years ago, they claimed it was for security.

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    You won’t know which devices are running Linux because they’re all working and displaying what they should.

    I think you mean Linux users whenever they see something that runs embedded Windows in public (because obviously it crashed)

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      It’s not Ubuntu but the fuel control systems and the pumps at Speedway run linux. They also boot really fast.

      Michigan lotto terminals are also all linux.

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    Yep, I used to do this, when I was in highschool, now I don’t think I found that many in the wild, perhaps I just don’t go out that often.

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      I don’t even see the screens anymore. All I see is Vista, 8, 8, XP POS, Ubuntu, 10…

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    I mean, you’re looking at it when you’re browsing the internet all day. You’re going to be rubbing yourself off with that hand a long time.