Airport advertising sign, looks like they forgot to make the looping video full screen.

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    17 days ago

    It’s literally in every display you see in the world. OEMs stopped fucking with Windows years ago.

    Go to any fast food restaurants with those vertical displays? Linux.

    Check-in kiosks that have been deployed in the past 5 years? Linux.

    Your router, most platforms you interact with online, media devices, cars (they should be using RTOS, but many use Debian), movie theaters, POS systems…

    Linux is the most deployed OS on this planet by far. I’m kind of annoyed when people don’t realize this.

    I actually hate when engineers are just letting a desktop sit like this. It’s sloppy and unnecessary.

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      17 days ago

      engineers are just letting

      That’s a bold claim cotton, I’m sure there are no project managers, middle managers, or executives involved

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        As an engineer who actually made one of these systems, can confirm management drove the use of Ubuntu desktop