jabjoe @ jabjoe @feddit.uk

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I've not touched Windows Embedded much, but I did once know Windows guts well. For 11 years it was my work development platform . Last thing I did was a virtual filesystem of an internal version control system for game artwork and I put a TortoiseSVN like interface for it into Explorer. Doing those destroyed what respect I had for Windows. I've been in embedded Linux for 12 years now.

Edit: 24 years of developing stuff. I'm getting old!

I'm sure these brands/sector will end up Linux too at some point. I'm half expecting MS to move to the Linux kernel themselves in the not too distant future, so no matter how trailing edge they are, they could get dragged in.

Reddit wasn't my first or last news forum platform. (Newsgroups were my first)

Unfortunately this bit of Lemmy reminds me of gote/goat (whatever it was called), that turned into pit of Nazis kicked out of Reddit. Or Twitter as rules are removed.

Seams to be, were there is no decent code of conduct, you get Nazis. Be interesting to see how it plays out on a federated platform.

Putin is too paranoid to ensure succession is in place. If he goes, and it will be bloody infighting until a new strong man arises.

But just insisting nations bend over when he decides he wants them is no mechanism for peace.

Giving up liberty doesn't buy you security. You just end up with neither. Putin won't stop with Ukraine.

I've not worked directly with any of these payment systems, but I can't believe the only solution is go all 90s style Windows based system. There will be embedded ways that comply to regs.

I can see they are Windows based when there is issues. I'm sure of Tesco and Morrisons but Sainsburys I don't go to often enough to have see an issue that bring up Windows. I was being flippant, but I don't hold using Windows to build stuff in high regard. In my experience the software engineers who doing that don't know anything else.

Man, there is a lot of crazy and/or bots/trolls here.

Appeasing people like Putin doesn't lead to peace.

A common way is to have two (or more) system partitions. You update one, charge the boot one and reboot. Typically the system partition is read only use. The bootloader tries the one it is told to try first, if it finds itself back in the bootloader it boots the other. You have a watch dog that resets if not kicked.

Buildroot and Yoctor give you a few update options. Then there is things like: https://swupdate.org/

And it's not really that hard to role your own.

This because their checkout are just Windows PC with what I guess is some big wigs' nephew's VB/C# app running?

It's not just the wastefulness of the overly large software stack, and the massively overblown hardware requirements that adds, it's the size of the attack surface. Oh and lack of control of a closed platform.

What a grown up would have done is a tiny Linux thing that ran nothing but what was required and locked down. Made with Buildroot or Yocto. Running on some low power ARM thing.

I'm guess they have got some Windows infection.

That exactly the house white goods in Cory Doctorow's "Unauthorized Bread".

GPL works again, though maybe not much useful to merge back from Trump Media....

Surely they just integrate tab tree. I've used it for years and feel lost without it. It's a very clear way of showing relationships between tabs.

We'll end up fixing it one way or the other, and the sooner we start, the better. There is a lot money pumped into doom mongering to try slow progress as progress will lose certain rich parties a lot of money. But we just keep doing our best and looking for ways to do better. At the end of day, using less saves money and green energy is cheap energy. No one wants to live in poison.

Money into soon to be stranded assets? Guess they pissed lots of other money up the wall....

Market share is only any kind of excuse for desktop. Linux dominates servers, routers, and any IOT big enough for a OS. This article is about servers.

For Linux you install unattended upgrades and security updates are done automatically.

It was a problem before IMs on phones. Or smart phone. (Maybe not IMs because of IRC). Microsoft have been conflating monopolies with standards since forever. Not only dominating desktop operating systems, but office software on it. Using monopoly of one to get a monopoly of the other. And lets not forget what they did with browers. The EU is only body in the world dealing with the problem at all.

Phones in Asia sound even more dystopian than here in the UK. Surely you can still go LineageOS, GrapheneOS, etc?

All true, but they are also failing at simple stuff. Requiring a closed company's format or services is a monopoly. Especially if "everyone else is doing it". That is when regulators need to step in as it's a market failure when there is a single vendor "everyone is using".

Guake. Has been for years. I am in and out the terminal all the time, so F12 works well for me. Plus I used to play Quake and used the in game terminal to do all kinds of things. Plus I'm an old RISC OS kid and F12 was the key to get the "star line".