Facial-recognition data is typically used to prompt more vending machine sales.

  • Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    A low end Windows PC can be had very cheap these days. Why bother doing something proprietary, if you can just cobble together something from off the shelf parts?

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      8 months ago

      This isn’t even remotely true. Everyone knows that if you’re trying to do a cheap embedded product, you use SBCs and Linux. Using Windows for these kinds of applications is almost always the result of a company having a contract with Microsoft that leads their development strategy towards Microsoft’s offerings rather than the best offerings.

      Also, in what universe is a Linux platform more proprietary than Windows?

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        8 months ago

        People here are delusional, booting windows eats more ram than your typical embedded product needs to run. Same goes the hard drive.

        And this people also think maintaining a yocto/build root image is proprietary 🤷‍♂️