Ah yes, millions of people installing and using energy intensive devices. That’ll be good for climate change, I’m sure
Not a programmer, but I think this is referring to electron, or things like it.
The framework is designed to create desktop applications using web technologies (mainly HTML, CSS and JavaScript, although other technologies such as front-end frameworks and WebAssembly are possible) that are rendered using a version of the Chromium browser engine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_(software_framework)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software_using_Electron
The article is about a single person having this issue, I’m not sure you can really call the hardware “dodgy” just because a single one (so far) failed.
Yeah but giant banners seem like they’d be pretty expensive