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[-] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What sort of security update needs eight gigs of space?

"Get help" is right.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Windows updates, that's what sort. They have no respect for your hardware, budget, or time. It's always great when they force a restart without even giving you a chance to save your work, or when you're in the middle of a meeting.

[-] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

It's to make up for their piss poor software and the fact that they have a major security vulrnability every other week.

[-] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

My question isn't entirely facetious. Presumably a security update is a binary generated by compiling code. How much code would it take to generate an 8gb binary? What would that much code possibly be doing? Or are they including an enormous database of some sort? I assume they're not including video...

[-] qyron@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 year ago

Having something like this happening in a business venue I owned would send me over the edge. That is actively interfering with the daily activities.

[-] WidowsFavoriteSon@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I was performing an exam on a patient with a USB linked device and the little fucker did this.

That was the last time I used a Windows computer in my practice.

[-] qyron@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I worked for a short time in the medical business and every single technician would spell the exact same rule: medical machines live off the web.

That meant no updates, no added software, nothing that was not stricktly relate with the function they had been built for.

It would be our necks if a machine did anything like you describe.

[-] FQQD@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago

it's always the windows updates lmao

[-] amenotef@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This song plays at the airport and everybody dancing every time this happens.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

I'm honestly surprised that airports use Windows. I figured they used a custom OS for these boards.

[-] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why would you not just use a raspberry pi or one of the even cheaper single board computers for digital signage? Especially when it's just a mostly static table with graphics that can probably be run on a Commodore 64?

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