>be me
>at American airport (LAX)
>gate attendants still using win 7 4:3 machines with a CLI interface for managing tickets
>underneath is a fucking fax machine
The absolute SHANTY-TOWN of American transportation
Be me
cool blog, how do I unsubscribe?
By putting sage in the namefield :)
California is a third world shithole.
Why would you replace it if it just werks?
At least they do some things right there
>at Brazilian airport
>gate attendants using cheap national-made AIOs with heavily modified Windows Vista-ish that runs solely an old Win 3.1 UI for managing tickets
>only other thing around is a corded telephone
>the shitty Atom AIO freezes and the attendant has to call someone via phone
>takes at least 2 minutes for someone to pick it up, and it's the wrong support number, so the attendant has to write down another one with borrowed pen and paper and call it
>takes more 5 minutes for the second call to get picked up
>after some 20 seconds explaining, a couple of 'yes'es, the guy is instructed to just turn the power stabilizer off, wait 10 seconds and turn it back on.
>takes more 5 minutes for the thing to load everything up, log back in and continue the procedures
1st world problems, muh dood.
>be at Jow Forums airport
>gate attendand running riced atch linux with loli wallpaper
>easily 300lbs yet wears programming socks
>ticketing system is maintained via blockchain
>more than 5 people tried to checkin at the same time so the whole system goes down
>mumbles something about proprietary software and runs away
they're just terminals to a central mainframe, why do you think that would benefit from a ryzen with botnet 10 and an objectively inferior 16:9 media tard aspect ratio?