The next departure leaves in... have you thought about a Microsoft 365 subscription?
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Today's display in dismay was spotted by a Register reader on an essential journey to Glasgow's Braehead shopping centre. It is usually to be found showing bus times, but is instead in the throes of Windows Setup. Fresh from the box, so to speak.
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It looks like the sound is on, although one can but hope there is no physical speaker fitted to the digital display, otherwise the incessantly perky voice of the Windows Setup might be heard echoing across the carpark and frightening the horses. Or at least alarming the hard-pressed residents of Glasgow, seeking a brief bit of retail respite from reality.
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"Let's finish setting up your device," pleaded the relentlessly cheerful setup wizard. We're not sure what more a bus stop might achieve with a Microsoft 365 subscription – perhaps Outlook for Omnibus? Maybe, but since such a vehicle would be likely to either explode without warning or take up an inexplicably large amount of space on the road, we don't expect there'd be many takers.
The ability to unlock one's device "with a touch or a smile" was also on offer. The former, of course, is frowned upon in these trying times. The latter? Heaven forbid that the handshake of the Glasgow variety might be an option, and few people smile at their Windows 10 PC during the unlocking process.
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The interior of Braehead shopping centre in Glasgow back in pre-pandemic times
A world-weary sigh maybe. Or a scowl while trying to work out the perfect angle for the Windows Hello camera before resigning oneself to tapping in a PIN.
Sadly, there was no way for our reader to hit continue (and we certainly would not recommend stroking any public screens in this day and age). Instead he was forced to wait, having no idea when the bus might turn up.
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We suspect that Windows having a problem is an occurrence more regular than even the most ambitious bus timetable. ®
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Re: Not just bus stops
Yeap, we've seen it a lot on updates when machines don't have an MS account linked to them.
So any machine running on a local account - "We see you aren't linked to an ms account, if you don't want to do this we won't include a 'no' option, just an 'ask me later' option"
Re: Not just bus stops
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda status=progress
Re: Not just bus stops
I think the latest Sequential Art cartoon sums up this process very nicely.
[1]https://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=1183
This one is SFW , but some of the site's other content is probably NSFW .
[1] https://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=1183
Blue death......
I believe some buses are blue, or have a substantial element of it.......
In that case, and if going to the less salubrious areas of Glasgow.... is it then showing the Blue Bus of Death on screen (when it works)
Not necessarily fresh
Recent versions of Windows will periodically pop up that nag screen after a reboot. It was only the last major update that had an option to prevent it from doing so. Really effing annoying when you're trying to automate things.
Will no-one make the obvious comment?
"It's a bus error!"
No-one? Am I really that old?
Re: Will no-one make the obvious comment?
Ah, you'll be the one who changed the jumpers we were using as goasl posts
I'll get my coat
Re: Will no-one make the obvious comment?
Bus error! Driver terminated.
Re: Will no-one make the obvious comment?
An OmniBusShambles in fact.
Not just bus stops
The last Windows update applied to my laptop took me back through the setup step - particularly the ones I had previously disabled.
Expect more borkage in the future if they continue down this slippery slope.