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We finally know what caused the global tech outage - and how much it cost (www.cnn.com)
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[โ€“] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This crowdstrike stuff seems an expensive subscription

I saw a lot of photos of crashed ad screens.

Why the hell are corps paying this much money for windows+cloudstrike for a glorified digital picture frame?? Wouldn't be 100x cheaper to do it with some embedded stuff instead of having a full desktop computer running a full desktop os????

[โ€“] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah, an RPi or similar with a screen would be more than plenty for this, and the Pi Zero is really small. Connect that to a central Linux server with a hot backup or two (through local DNS) and you'll have a hard time crashing it.