It’s all calories, no flavor.
Usually take a GNOME all over the toilet seat.
At least it’s not too grubby
Oh hell ya! Linux boot screen is my favorite flavor.
Start plasmashell
Why exactly does this need to run a full OS?
Right? Could just use a microcontroller for each individual screen and then a separate PC to update each microcontroller if needed.
“Why make it simpler when you can make it harder?” 😬
Ads.
Maybe a button or two to initiate the machine cloaca to piss into the cup?Define full OS
One Hannah short of perfection.
Probably so they can easily swap out flavors or mark OUT or OUT OF SERVICE, etc
If you’re swapping flavors (which won’t happen often) your already having to clean it. Swapping out the button insert isn’t a big ask. This doesn’t solve anything a physical sign could do better.
You’re right, in just speculating why a screen could be there. Seems overkill, even if it ran the icee machine itself
Boot
Systemd having a special it seems
They didn’t enter the machines date of birth…
Its the underlying filesystem
Under where?
NSFW version
This image was seared into my memory 20+ years ago (maybe I saw it first in a PC magazine?) & has never left it, not even for a moment.
(Wait, was it all penguin propaganda all long?? Is this why I like foss?)
There are many reasons to enjoy being nerdy.
Nudity is merely one of them.
Exactly!
Live
longand nerd is what I always say.
mountGay sex. /j
(Wishful thinking)
Lemmy moment
Excuse you I’m on piefed >.>
Which is spelled pieced but pronounced Lemmy. Everyone knows that.
That storage is riding the struggle bus
that seems, inefficient
That was pretty close to my first thought, too
Imagine having an old Slurpee machine Kubernetes cluster
I bet the actual logo display is a full screen browser too, multiple computers each running chrome just to display ads.
“Tastes like wires.”
The refreshing taste of systemd
Call the slurpadmin.
What a horrible design to require an individual computer for EVERY screen. JFC just have one device run multiple displays.
Might be a single computer that’s just the primary display.
Nothing in that boot sequence is a deal breaker it’s just missing an Internet connection I think.
Nah, storage is fried.
People always focus on systemd whenever this is posted, but all systemd is saying is that it can’t read the service files when it tries to start something. Earlier on the kernel is complaining about I/O errors as well.
Oh yeah youre right, I was squinting real hard to try and read that on on a phone and was only looking at the bottom
And then they blame ai for the ram shortage
If every single dispenser is a self contained unit, which then is put together in groups of how many different kinds of drink you need? That seems cheaper than having each group of dispensers individually built because all displays have to be wired up to a single computer. This way a single dispenser can be replaced quickly without needing a technician to come or replacing the whole thing.
They make display boards with modular numbers of outputs.
It’s probably literally cheaper to have a cheap device that supports one display than a single device capable of supporting multiple displays.
It also simplifies the design. You don’t need different hardware requirements or software configs for a slushy system of 3 or 4 or 5 flavors. You just have a single design for each slushy device.
On top of that, when a device is restarting or failed it only has a single failure. All of the other flavors are displayed.
Also, for the other “why not a sticker” comments. Having a digital display does have its advantages. You may not want your chain of stores having tacky hand drawn labels by a lazy employee. This prevents that. You can include the price in the display later if you want to. Ensuring you charge more for that “limited time” flavor and you don’t have to send stickers to each store.
Also, the cost of these displays is so little in comparison to the mechanical parts that operate the actual machine it’s likely worth the it for the flexibility in display.
Also, digital displays catch the eyes more. You’re gonna get more people that notice a flashy machine and think “I’m in the mood for a slurpy”. That alone is likely worth any other cost.
Capitalism doesn’t have to “make sense” in terms of design or simplicity. It often doesn’t. It chooses the things that return the most profit. It’s not reason based in “logic” it’s reason based in “profit”.
It also has the benefit of being able to show metrics and diagnostics right there without having to connect it to another device.
Also, for the other “why not a sticker” comments. Having a digital display does have its advantages. You may not want your chain of stores having tacky hand drawn labels by a lazy employee. This prevents that. You can include the price in the display later if you want to. Ensuring you charge more for that “limited time” flavor and you don’t have to send stickers to each store.
Ear me out: you print them, crazy right?!
You don’t have to send stickers to each store.
So purchase a nice color printer for each store? Or have an employee go to print at staples when you want to change labels?
Like, “just print them” is a lot more effort than you are making it sound to avoid the use of an extremely cheap screen.
There is a reason all vehicles put a big ass display in their car now even though people prefer actual buttons. Screens and software are dirt cheap. A printer with moving mechanical parts is expensive. Using employee time is expensive. Shipping is expensive.
You can pay other companies to print for you duh, they will print you anything for dirt cheap, it’s not like a company can’t afford it lmao
Coca cola runs windows
I imagine they have an embedded raspberry pi type computer in the screen itself.
Why not just do a sticker there? What an inefficient approach!
Sticker requires transport, inefficient as shit relative to a file download.
As if the sugar water inside teleports there through a mere downloading deployment via Ansible.
Ansyruple
A raspy W is like 20 bucks each, and has a tiny footprint. Cheaper than the screen itself, probably, and simpler than having to reconfigure the amount of displays based on available flavors in the setup.
God I remember buying an RPi for less than 10€ this company really screwed up their product.
The only Raspberry Pi cheaper than 10€ is the Raspberry Pi Zero (no wifi) that launch at 5€/$5, the Raspberry Pi Zero W (with wifi) launch at 10€/$10, both in 2015. Raspberry Pi 1, 2 and 3 launched at 35€ and since the 4 and 5, it’s a bit more complicated because they have different RAM options. Today, the RPi4 1GB is sold 37,90€. Availability is more of an issue. But in terms of pricing it’s not bad ! I have the feeling, people’s expectations for a Raspberry Pi are a bit distorted. No, you don’t get a top of the line gaming PC for 40€… But even a RPi2 is still good for a tone of useful projects!
