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goodmythical6 minutes ago
Could this be some kind of thin client thing? Where the physical screen is not connected to the machine whose bios we're seeing? Because then maybe we're looking at a machine running just this live poster but potentially the ones in multiple elevators or even a large section of the building.

Or even, perhaps someone's just having a laugh and put a screenshot of that particular bios screen just for debugging or maintainence or perhaps to give riders a joke.

Or, okay, wait, here me out. If it's a 4k display, and you want 60fps, and you purchased the machine in '19/'20, were the i3s of the time doing 4k/60 video output? Maybe this particular board was pushed as discount/special in '22/'24?

There's got to be any other reason than someone genuinely deciding that this was the correct device...

tonyedgecombe26 minutes ago
The excuse for bloat used to be that programmer time was expensive and that it was cheaper to throw more hardware at the problem. I wonder if this will reverse with the advent of AI.