• @[email protected]
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    593 months ago

    Some of them are more like a giant, non-touch-screen tablets than monitors.

    This probably just has this image saved into memory, and they can easily make it display something else.

      • @[email protected]
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        193 months ago

        This displays often are not static, often displaying short video ads for seasonal items which take up the whole monitor.

        Probably less than the burn-in of a taskbar or window header

        • @SpaceNoodle
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          63 months ago

          Reminds me of our old typing PC with the WordPerfect header and footer burned into the orange phosphor

      • @[email protected]
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        63 months ago

        Yes.

        There will either be a remote or just buttons on the display itself. You can select the source of what’s being displayed from a USB drive or SD card, that’s how it’s displaying the current image. Some of them have built-in casting options like chromecast.

        If it doesn’t have something built it, it will have HDMI in, which makes a chromecast, roku, firestick, or even just a PC a quick option.

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          33 months ago

          If it was stolen, it probably won’t come with a remote. And don’t many of these devices not have buttons anymore?

          • @[email protected]
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            33 months ago

            Commercial displays often still have buttons, at least on units that are designed to go inside.

            It also doesn’t say that this was stolen. It could have been a unit replaced during a remodel.