this post was submitted on 25 Oct 2023
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Public Blue Screens Of Death

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Public Blue Screens Of Death

Public displays and digital infrastructure software failing to do their job because of blue screens, crashes or other problems

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Can I get uhhhhh... Intel Boot Agent with mayonnaise, please?

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

40,000 locations. If they get 1 bsod a week, that's 99.8% uptime across their entire empire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald's

The bigger the organization, the more frequent their issues will be, its the ratio and uptime per store that matters.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I see. I guess that explains it

[–] [email protected] -4 points 10 months ago

no you don't guess, that does explain it, period.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I love going to these restaurants with all display menus that rotate between ads. It's seriously awesome when I go up to the counter and ask them what they even have and they tell I need to wait a minute till the ad changes. I am not going to immediately walk out of the next restaurant that does that to me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Annoys me too, they either expect you to know the menu by heart or just buy what they advertise. As far as I know it's not that bad at McDonald's germany, since we have a small printed out menu at the wall near the counter.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wait what are they doing‽ I don’t go out to fast food often at all and haven’t heard of this before. The extreme pervasiveness of advertising feels like people trying to parody themselves

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

A bunch of restaurants, not even chains but trendy new places too, put up a big screen tv to display their menu. But because you can, they will rotate between the menu and photos of goulash being made with child labor. While I'm in favor of kids making goulash I wanted to look at the menu. So the menu's back and you start reading it. Then suddenly, you guessed it, kids making goulash.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I didn’t notice the black screen. I didn’t know what community this community was. I thought you were pointing out the “McShart Menu”

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I don't think I like the way you're smiling at me

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

It's just a list of items you can order that will give you the McSharts.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's a franchise business, so it's up to the local owners to keep things maintained well enough.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

But then you'd have to pay for skilled staff. Who can afford that?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

It's a McSmart Menu. So it did the McSmart thing, and quit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What is that sandwich to the left of the malfunctioning menu, a McVegan?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure that's a chicken burger

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Ah, thanks! A Big Mac is [top, burger, bun, burger, bottom], this looked to me like that but with the burgers removed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Sorry, we're all out. Would you like to try Coreboot?