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[-] bitwaba@lemmy.world 78 points 9 months ago
[-] anguo@lemmy.ca 50 points 9 months ago

Took this picture a couple of days ago: 1000006180

[-] mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world 31 points 9 months ago

JSYK a lot of embedded devices use XP and 7, and some of those manufacturers pay for extended support. The military also pays for extended support for XP

But yeah, most of those devices are not patched and vulnerable AF.

[-] Pra@sh.itjust.works 25 points 9 months ago

I always laugh at, after being in the military and a government employee, things being marketed as military grade. So what, it runs on windows server 2003 and hasn't been in production for 20 years?

[-] mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

From what little I've seen, there's a divide between old and new tech.

Like how headset visual tracking for attack copters was a thing already back when Nintendo released the Virtual Boy, alongside the fact that there is still equipment in service running software that had to be millennium bug patched.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

My mother-in-law ran an Army reserve center in the 1990s. They were still using DOS once XP came out because the Army wouldn't pay for the upgrade.

[-] anguo@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago

I was aware of that, but had imagined that newer machines would have slowly migrated to something else. I'm also always astonished by the fact these are running full OSes.

[-] mods_are_assholes@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

No manufacturer wants to take the risk to reinvent a wheel that may be less secure.

I mean, yeah it would be ideal of the manufacturer created their own OS but I also know that nearly everyone hires the cheapest, least skilled devs for projects like this.

And not all of them are full OSs, XP had a bunch of creative ways you could remove system components to make basically a kiosk with almost no other functions.

[-] 0x2d@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago

i saw a kiosk once booting opensuse

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