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And these things must be done for every individual computer affected.
The work seems particularly visible in busy airports, where workers are trying to fix machines inside kiosks, attached to large information displays, or mounted high above the floor requiring a ladder.
And in one Reddit thread, people tell stories of long hours and hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of crashed machines:
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