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[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 38 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The elevator was running Windows XP.

Clearly an extreme case of overengineering. A elevator has no business running more than a few microcontrollers.

[-] e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 2 months ago

It's probably only the screen component that is running an old version of embedded windows.

[-] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That's what I think too. And then I see "Their systems are built into everything around us", which basically only applies to PCs and laptops. What is built into pretty much everything around us, is GnuLinux.

[-] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago

Not even GNU - just Linux.

Yeah yeah, something something GNU/Linux blah blah copypasta....

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