this post was submitted on 30 Jul 2025
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Public Blue Screens Of Death

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Public Blue Screens Of Death

Public displays and digital infrastructure software failing to do their job because of blue screens, crashes or other problems

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yep. It somehow managed to load the kernel and the initial ramdisk, and then died screaming. The parts already scrolled out probably tell a tale of a busted file system.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I like how Lemmy's reaction to a quick shot a of a broken slurpee machine is to quickly and precisely diagnose the problem. And it's interesting to me that this would even be networked.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Camera in the machine assesses who is looking to decide which animation to play to get the attention to the right place to adjust which flavours people choose to ensure proper stock rotation and so they never run out of a flavour. Plus the A/B testing that feeds back to the marketing department to tell them which animations successfully manipulated the choice.

I'm making this up but it's scary that all the technology exists and could actually be true.

[–] Zeppo@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

2025? Probably just feeds images into facial recognition and sends it to ICE