Sam (home from EMF 😢) (@sam@cablespaghetti.dev)

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Sam (home from EMF 😢) » 🌐 2025-09-17 / 2025-09-17
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It’s time to start a new #BrokenPublicComputers hashtag.

Windows is low on memory at Heathrow airport…

Cc: @slowe@mastodon.me.uk

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More of the departures board with the crashed machine for context

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Sam (home from EMF 😢) » 🌐 2025-09-22
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Not really a #BrokenPublicComputers but I was amused to see that at least some (maybe most) of the VBB train ticket machines in Berlin run on Windows that hasn’t been activated.

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Train ticket machine with a German “please activate windows” watermark in the corner

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My God. It's full of sitars. boosted

Sam (home from EMF 😢) » 🌐 2025-09-24
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It’s time for another #BrokenPublicComputers! 🎉

Here’s a screen at Starbucks with a double whammy of Windows that isn’t activated and a crashed application.

This is a pretty sad hobby but I’m enjoying myself and so I will continue.

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Two Starbucks vertical screens, the left one says “Pumpkin is so back”. The right has a sideways error dialogue about an app that has crashed and a small watermark in the corner in German saying Windows isn’t activated.

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Sam (home from EMF 😢) » 🌐 2025-09-28
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Today we are at Marwell Zoo and we have a #BrokenPublicComputer having a problem with libsvg on an ARM64 processor. I wonder if it’s a Raspberry Pi…

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A projector screen with a “Seeing Energy” sign next to it. On the screen is a lot of identical error messages. White monospaced text on black background.