GRUB mentions (0)

Windows 10 IoT mentions (3)

• Average PCMR member

  I would assume that Microsoft has some presence in these kinds of spaces as well (https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/iot/), but I find that there is a fairly low barrier to entry as far as learning how to manipulate linux well enough to build this type of functionality yourself. Or you can just as easily use the same knowledge to setup your desktop how you like it or whatever. They're the same thing... Source: about 2 years ago

• Why can an ad break the Windows 11 desktop and taskbar?

  It does, but Microsoft doesn't consider that to be a "home user" use-case. Instead, in their minds, it's a use-case exclusively of interest to embedded-device system integrators: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/iot/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• Scam protection using a Raspberry Pi to perform caller ID and risk-assess incoming calls

  I originally stumbled across what looks like a silver bullet device for caller ID, the Artech AD102. This is a HID device though, not serial like a USB modem and requires DLLs to use. The node-hid package looked a plausible candidate here, but it became rapidly clear that the AD102 must be switched into a kind of "open for questions" mode to get responses out of it, mandating use of the DLLs. Those DLLs are only... - Source: dev.to / about 3 years ago