Oct 24, 2026, 11:43 PM@deadsuperhero grub is also a slang term for food in Britain..
(I'm curious also as to which of these large displays are Linux-compatible...)
- Oct 24, 2026, 11:43 PM
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LeBonkLeBonk@wetdry.worldOct 25, 2026, 12:03 AM@vfrmedia @deadsuperhero
it's a slang term for food across the anglosphere wym
DracoDL_Draco_Rex@mastodon.socialOct 25, 2026, 4:12 PM@LeBonk @vfrmedia @deadsuperhero The fucking Brits think they're special.
Oliver D. Reithmaierodr_k4tana@infosec.exchangeOct 25, 2026, 8:59 PM@DL_Draco_Rex @LeBonk @vfrmedia @deadsuperhero usually that's an American birthright
- DracoDL_Draco_Rex@mastodon.socialOct 26, 2026, 8:45 AM
@odr_k4tana @LeBonk @vfrmedia @deadsuperhero Where do you think we got it?
EndlessMasonEndlessMason@hachyderm.ioOct 26, 2026, 9:22 AM@DL_Draco_Rex @odr_k4tana @LeBonk @vfrmedia @deadsuperhero
Same place y'all got "grub"
Oct 25, 2026, 1:05 AM@vfrmedia @deadsuperhero I see these every now and then at fast food places. It's a variant of Ubuntu that is used for fast food menus and POS systems, sold and serviced by a for-profit company, of course.
🧛♀️Sloppified Linux and Arcylic Yarn 🦇linuxandyarn@hachyderm.ioOct 25, 2026, 5:36 PM@ned @vfrmedia @deadsuperhero When I worked at Pizza Hut in 2010 our POS and back of house systems ran on SuSE.
- Oct 25, 2026, 7:29 PM
@linuxandyarn @vfrmedia @deadsuperhero I used to work at Starbucks around the same time. The computers then ran on Windows 98 with the actual POS being a DOS 7 program. I had several other jobs after where I had to use DOS, but never Linux.
- 🧛♀️Sloppified Linux and Arcylic Yarn 🦇linuxandyarn@hachyderm.ioOct 25, 2026, 7:30 PM
@ned @vfrmedia @deadsuperhero I somehow managed to work only in Mac and Linux/Unix environments since the age of 24, more than half my life ago.
NetzblockiererNetzblockierer@tech.lgbtOct 26, 2026, 6:14 AM@linuxandyarn @ned @vfrmedia @deadsuperhero I recently saw an ad display at a #BurgerKing that had a #KernelPanic due to a corrupted #initramfs…
ozamidasozamidas@mastodon.socialOct 25, 2026, 10:11 PM@linuxandyarn @ned @vfrmedia @deadsuperhero in 2016 i worked at the McDonald’s of my city; they used windows 2000 to process earnings and stuff. It was so slow that an iPhone 5c of the time would have done the task much faster.
Oct 25, 2026, 8:53 PM@ned @vfrmedia @deadsuperhero piece of shit systems? I don't know what else POS stands for
chris actuallackattack@mastodon.socialOct 25, 2026, 9:54 PM- NetzblockiererNetzblockierer@tech.lgbtOct 26, 2026, 6:24 AM
@lackattack @clf @ned @vfrmedia @deadsuperhero granted, #POS systems are usually run on relatively shitty hardaare even when they are freshly announced.
- But that's often due to the fact that they are designed with longterm maintenance and support (10-20+ years) in mind than performance…
- The only advantage they had was PoweredUSB, (not to be confused with USB-PD which uses #USBc - Connectors), and unlike USB-C is owned by #IBM, charging Patent Licensing Fees for it…
- But that's often due to the fact that they are designed with longterm maintenance and support (10-20+ years) in mind than performance…
James 🌈💜shaknais@mastodon.socialOct 25, 2026, 3:06 AM@vfrmedia Most of them work well! Because most of them are VGA. A lot of the specs were designed around DOS machines, and changing spec in any industry is difficult.
clewclew@ecoevo.socialOct 26, 2026, 2:08 AM- James 🌈💜shaknais@mastodon.socialOct 26, 2026, 6:17 AM
Nah. They don't accept ANSI sequences, unless there's an added preprocessor machine.
Tends more to be VGA text mode, than tty emulation.
- clewclew@ecoevo.socialOct 26, 2026, 3:10 PM
- NetzblockiererNetzblockierer@tech.lgbtOct 26, 2026, 6:28 AM
fassil maispasquefassil@piaille.frOct 25, 2026, 11:12 AM@vfrmedia @deadsuperhero
So & what about:
Grub rescue>
Starved to death..? 😉