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drrodneymckay_@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Same thing with retail POS terminals. Old weak system , out of date software , no security updates, limited support response. Yet it’s must be secure and isolated… maybe it needs to be isolated because they know it’s not secure on its own…
Blaster_M@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
POS systems all live up to their acronyms. Intel Atom (or the lowest end chinesium) CPUs, barely enough RAM to function, an out of date build of Windows (or Android), and software that feels like it was designed in 1993 and never grew out of that era. Often requiring a screen resolution of 800x600 for PC on VGA touch displays that feel like they’re 25 years old, and force disable all ipv6 because we don’t want to risk the network working better than the recommended static ipv4 setup from hell.
drrodneymckay_@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I forgot about the 800x600. We have windows scaling set up to stretch and fill a nice 1920x1080 fhd touch screen. Had to find some creative solutions to allow our security software and policies to work.
More power, current hardware, better experience, less money. Doesn’t sound possible.