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.
What sort of security update needs eight gigs of space?
“Get help” is right.
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.
It’s to make up for their piss poor software and the fact that they have a major security vulrnability every other week.
This song plays at the airport and everybody dancing every time this happens.
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?
You’re assuming every IT department has some sort of unlimited budget to go out and refresh all of these equipment to something that is more practical and makes more sense. And even if Raspberry pis are cheaper, the labor required to not only having to change all of these devices are usually more expensive, but also not every IT department has field tech staff that know anything about raspberry pis, which are far more niche than windows terminals.
