The Great Borkish Breakfast: I'll have a cup of tea, a sausage roll and a side of bork, please
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Spotted by Register reader Darren, the screen is usually found displaying breakfast treats like bacon rolls or hot bevrages for a price that would make any local artisan coffee house weep fair-trade tears.
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The message is one that is becoming all too familiar nowadays. [5]Windows 7 dropped out of support just over a year ago and Microsoft would really like IT staff to update it. After all, it's not as if those same IT staff have had much to do over the last year or so.
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Behold the baked bork
Failure to update will result in no security fixes, no software updates and no tech support. Three things that - we imagine - a digital display more used to tempting punters with tasty treats is not overly concerned about. As for viruses and malware? The less said about that the better.
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Sadly, there was no mouse attached to the screen to permit the clicking of one of the options on offer, leaving customers to ponder the price of a steak slice or sausage roll. It likely costs a bit less than ponying up the cash for the “Windows 10 on a new PC” that Microsoft is strongly recommending, although possibly it's accompanied by the same thought: "Should I really be doing this to myself?" ®
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[1] https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/24/bork/
[2] https://www.visitsoutheastengland.com/places-to-visit/yateley-p1415511
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Re: A coffee, sausage roll and a Windows license please
I suspect that quite a few people here are old enough to remember our managers pleading with directors, executives and accountants to NOT go with Windows.
It was a mixture of a "status thing" proving you had your tecchies under control and following the latest management fashions. It continues today with the descendants of those business leaders being disgusted with the idea of paying a hundred pounds for the PC to run a web based app when they could get something much cooler for £1,000 or more. We can run whatever operating system they think they want. We are just used to sensible recommendations being dismissed as "not really our style".
Once you have got these overpriced status symbols in place the wearers of bespoke suits like to forget about them and move on to the next shiny thing. The IT department will know exactly what is needed - upgrade or replacement, but they will have been blocked by people who see their ignorance of computers as a sign of their superiority..
Re: A coffee, sausage roll and a Windows license please
Possibly they're also linked to the till system so price updates are accurately reflected and maybe even display real-time availability of vegan sausage rolls and steak bakes?
Re: A coffee, sausage roll and a Windows license please
Possibly they're also linked to the till system so price updates are accurately reflected and maybe even display real-time availability of vegan sausage rolls and steak bakes?
That's still not a feature that requires Windows.
Also, they don't. I don't think they even have stock levels the way a grocery store would as they bake fresh throughout the day and don't keep things overnight. So you can tell the availability of a product by looking in the cabinet.
Re: A coffee, sausage roll and a Windows license please
Yeah, but it's not like it's guaranteed to be stable either. Plenty of images of broken Linux signage online too.
Re: A coffee, sausage roll and a Windows license please
Links or search terms please - I've not found any so far but have to believe there are a few.
Pie?
Given that it's being used to flog pastry-based produce, I would have thought the best candidate is a Raspberry Pi
Re: Pie?
Plenty of foody placed get by with a big board on the wall. Onto this they actually write items and prices. This piece of exotic technology is able to survive blackouts, earthquakes and possibly the apocalypse. It consumes no energy when in use and can be recycled into a shutter for preventing zombie ingress.
Updates are required periodically and are performed manually but support is available indefnitely although no guarentee can be made that all colours of chalk or paint pens will be avilable at all times.
As I explained to my son, sometimes a pencil and paper are the right tools for the job. The best answer isn't always high tech
Re: Pie?
Oddly enough, I've recently been playing with the Raspberry Pi Pico, which can be had for the princely sum of £3.60 (slightly more if you want someone else to solder GPIO pins onto it for you). Whilst it doesn't have enough memory itself to buffer anything more than a few hundred pixels square at 16 bits colour depth, there is a demo VGA board available for it for £18 which will read from an SD card.
I reckon you could cobble something together to drive a couple of HD monitors with a fixed display for less than some punters pay for sausage rolls in a week. No OS required at all, let alone a Windows installation, and you could tape it to the back of the screens.
If you need to change the lightbulb, stand on your shoulders.
"Failure to update will result in no security fixes, no software updates and no tech support."
But updating will result in new security issues, and software updates that have new features that change the way things used to work, and no tech support - if you try to get tech support from Microsoft then you are just redirected to a forum when you see lots of people complaining about the same issues.
Re: If you need to change the lightbulb, stand on your shoulders.
Updating will probably also require fishing out the mouse and keyboard from a cupboard, which, if they are in a cafe will by now be covered in a thin layer of dust and grease which no amount of Swarfega will get off your hands again.
If that's Yately as in the place near Camberley...
It's spelled "Yateley".
A coffee, sausage roll and a Windows license please
Why oh why is Windows being used in this way? Lots of perfectly good Linux builds for kiosk or signage uses, eg Porteus or Binary Emotions, plus behind the scenes software for managing them (Foyer on Wordpress for those really simple use cases). Although you could attribute this to 'nobody ever got sacked for buying Windows', it's going to cost more in the long run to deploy Windows, surely?