Every one of them is running a crypominer
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ZeDoTelhado@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It uses Linux? That’s actually nice to see (but do you really need a full blown OS to show a logo?)
mumblerfish@lemmy.world 1 year ago
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 1 year ago
At least the cooling is sufficient.
Xttweaponttx@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
🤣🤣👏👏👏
mvirts@lemmy.world 1 year ago
👀 *could be running a cryptominer
rainwall@piefed.social 1 year ago
*Should be running a cryptominer
jinwk00@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Probably there for “easily changing out logos of different flavor instead of using paper/plastic printout”
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Sure but there’s a different machine for each display.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Depending on how much is linked up between them its entirely possible each machine is basically independent from each other and simply sharing the same casing. The advantage of this would be that even if one machine goes out or is having issues the other ones hopefully aren’t. I watch enough Bringus to know that shit under the hood for these commercial machines are fucking weird.
pupbiru@aussie.zone 1 year ago
i’d imagine the company would make 2, 4, 6, 10 drink dispensing machines… having commodity hardware makes it super cheap to just have different shells and a power bus that you bolt electronics and mechanics onto in discrete parts
heck each individual controller could read an RFID tag embedded in the syrup and update its display automatically just from the inserted cartridge
adding all the sensors for each, a display out for each… it’s really just way simpler to duplicate the hardware… honestly, good engineering
st3ph3n@midwest.social 1 year ago
Seems insane to run multiple machines for something like this. I wonder if maybe it is virtualized under the hood and one VM went kaput or something?
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Find me a cheap board with that many video out’s
hansolo@lemmy.today 1 year ago
It’s likely a connected IoT device. Might simply have pinged for an open port due to bad setup and someone was trying to run an attack on it. Or maybe just a corrupted update file. Or a cosmic ray hit the ram or chipset and if just randomly crashed as a result.
Don’t over think a crashed computer. Just ask if anyone has tried turning it off and then on again.
Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
They might also monitor the temperature and amount of slurpee left so they can notify employees to refill it
kibiz0r@midwest.social 1 year ago
Not just to show the logo, but to run the entire machine. Probably IoT enabled, so monitoring and maintenance actions and OTA are important enough that it’s worth having a very slim version of Linux on there instead of taking the security risk of building up from a lower level.
Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The computer controls the whole machine the logo part is a bonus
PacMan@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
So working on ad machines before a lot of them connect to an external ftp site to pull down the latest version of the logo. Things like this you don’t care if it’s secure or not
Michal@programming.dev 1 year ago
Until it displays porn
PacMan@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I mean it would take a dns hijacking to do that and if some has control of your network work like that then you have bigger problems then using FTP
wabafee@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Then they get to watch porn while filling out their slurpies. Win win to me.
uranibaba@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Probably installed as a unit, computer with monitor. Perhaps a modifed version of a Linux OS?
siha@feddit.uk 1 year ago
The thing that gets me is that they seem to have a separate machine for each display
RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 1 year ago
easier to buy 10 rpis than a single embedded system with 10 diplay ports
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Dont need a fill rpi for this. A pico or esp32 might do the trick.
froh42@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This is being produced in relatively low numbers (thousands) , so software development is a factor. Just plopping a scripted browser in kiosk mode on Debian is cheaper than ESP32 UI development.
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 1 year ago
I hope the machine is up to the job. I'd pack at least 64 gigs of RAM and a nice GPU.
xylol@leminal.space 1 year ago
That doesn’t sound like enough, need at least like 128gb for the ai chat bot that you ask to change the picture for you
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 1 year ago
I totally forgot about the necessity to put AI into them, I'm so sorry!
GreenCrunch@lemmy.today 1 year ago
At some point you realize that the slushee has melted in the face of your system’s 1000 W TDP…
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 1 year ago
That seems too low. What kind of low spec AI slush master 7000 are you using?
hansolo@lemmy.today 1 year ago
Yeah, modular systems. Buy 2, buy 20, setup time is roughly the same.