Bork ventures to the Middle of Lidl

Bork!Bork!Bork! Lidl is a well-known purveyor of inexpensive groceries, random goods via the Middle of Lidl, and now… bork.

Spotted by an eagle-eyed Register reader, this branch of Lidl has a bit of bargain basement digital signage, judging by what is on the screen of the non-booting wallware.

The boot agent has a copyright datestamp of 2013; a challenging time for the chipmaker – Intel – but nothing compared to today's woes. Back then, the company was pushing its 4th-generation chips while belatedly realizing that tablets and smartphones, not desktop PCs, were the consumer future..

2013 also marked the beginning of Brian Krzanich's tenure as CEO. Krzanich quit five years later, after some consensual hard rebooting with an Intel employee came to light - the sort of thing companies frown upon, though it pales beside the company's ...