It uses Linux? That’s actually nice to see (but do you really need a full blown OS to show a logo?)
Slurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrp
Submitted 3 weeks ago by TheBat@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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ZeDoTelhado@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
siha@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
The thing that gets me is that they seem to have a separate machine for each display
RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 3 weeks ago
easier to buy 10 rpis than a single embedded system with 10 diplay ports
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
I hope the machine is up to the job. I'd pack at least 64 gigs of RAM and a nice GPU.
hansolo@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Yeah, modular systems. Buy 2, buy 20, setup time is roughly the same.
mumblerfish@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Every one of them is running a crypominer
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
At least the cooling is sufficient.
jinwk00@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Probably there for “easily changing out logos of different flavor instead of using paper/plastic printout”
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Sure but there’s a different machine for each display.
Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
They might also monitor the temperature and amount of slurpee left so they can notify employees to refill it
kibiz0r@midwest.social 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
The computer controls the whole machine the logo part is a bonus
PacMan@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks 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
uranibaba@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Probably installed as a unit, computer with monitor. Perhaps a modifed version of a Linux OS?
mvirts@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
In 2025 we boot a whole Linux system to display a logo.
Does it run Wayland? :P
ByteJunk@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’ve never seen one of these, but I assume it performs other functions - surely monitoring sensors, probably reporting that data, maybe allowing triggering maintenance functions, etc.
That said, processing and storage is so cheap on this scale that it’s probably better (and cheaper) to go with a tried and true, widely supported system, than it is to optimize with custom hardware/firmware.
0x0@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I assume it performs other functions
Advertising.
rozodru@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’ve seen a very similar print out when installing/loading Arch for the first time.
Grass@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
a whole linux system isn’t even all that crazy. if it runs doom it can probably also run linux so probably everything from a potato to a dog’s left testicle can run linux.
MTK@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Knbd of discriminatory, what about the right??
scrion@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It actually does, if you zoom in closely.
jj4211@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Wouldn’t be surprised if they ran animated splash.
Hell, wouldn’t be surprised if they started pushing ads through the screens.
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I feel like that isn’t that far fetched, considering this machine probably has some sort of Internet connectivity so you can update the labels remotely and do other remote maintenance/monitoring tasks.
IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
Now all I want to do is invent a blended cocktail called “Kernel Panic”.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
200ml tequila 400mg ritalin 3mg lsd 3 scoops vanilla(? Need help with the flavor) ice cream 200ml milk or plain yogurt
Salt rim with cocaine and ascorbic acid
StarMerchant938@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Kernel panic indeed. 3mg is quite a bit of 'cid, and amphetamines tend to make trips pointy and bad. Tequila might balance it out tho. Lime sorbet for the ice cream maybe?
Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Ok, but … 3mg of lsd is a lot for a whole class, same with them amphetamines.
And on the other hand you serve tequila & milk in breakfast numbers?
I’m not saying I’m not writing this down, but damn.
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Eeew, vanilla!
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
With illegal amounts of alcohol, caffeine, and Ketamine
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
gotta be something with cream(derivative) and citrus.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 3 weeks ago
Next time take a better picture so we can tell you how to fix it.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Or at least how to run DOOM on it.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Oh. Easily. But you cant affordenough slushie to finish a level.
ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
The flash memory the OS is stored on is borked.
Filesystem check shows dependency errors attempting to check ext4 fs on /dev/mmcblk0p2. Assuming ext4 and fsck are installed (it should be if this isn’t a mega-custom ultra stripped down private distribution) this shouldn’t be possible.
Further down networking fails to initialize leading to a bunch of fails before it succeeds and reaches its target, only to be stopped by the dependency errors again.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
We’ve gone from SunnyD to SystemD.
…I’m sorry
PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This implies every drink and its display is handled by its own computer running linux. Potentially mtndew has a different IP than coca cola. You need to ssh to this thing multiple times to do maintenance!
lb_o@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Internet of Slurp
foo@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
I wonder if there is a refill cartridge with the flavour in it that the OS reads from to always display the right logo. Or maybe a touchscreen that the workers use to change it manually.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Is it just me who feels that having one processing unit per display is a waste?
I mean, I get it why they did it (it’s way easier to just have one SBC per-display, both on the hardware and the software sides), but if designing such a system I would still try to come up with a single board solution if only because waste gets on my nerves.
Miaou@jlai.lu 3 weeks ago
You’d think a damn sticker would be good enough
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Human replaceable printed paper labels, manual stick.
alekwithak@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
How do you charge for a service contract on a sticker?
Soup@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
But what about yet another bright light in someone’s face? Do you not want another bright light in someone’s face? Everyone loves bright lights in someone’s face!
camelbeard@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
My local gas station now has screens on the pump. Not the big unit, but the part you put in your gastank. It shows shitty ads. Also in the Netherlands you can’t lock the gas pump, so you have to manually press it to get more fuel, so you are almost forced to watch shitty ads.
It’s exactly like this team-bhp.com/…/ads-fuel-dispenser-nozzle-havent-s…
Brosplosion@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I’d argue that a custom board is more wasteful since they are single use. Using a cheapo COTS processor that drives a single display and runs Linux is reusable in the long run.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
True, such a low number of production units design would really only make sense if you could find an off the shelf solution to drive multiple displays.
If these displays are not supposed to be animated and they’re reasonably low resolution (say, 800x600 20bit RGB or less), they could be connected via SPI and pretty much every microcontroller out there has multiple SPI ports, so even a cheap SBC would work for that). However I expect that getting XWindows or Wayland in Linux to work with such displays would be a PITA.
I’ve only ever got software running under Linux to control a tiny 2-tone display via I2C - on an Orange Pi SBC - and it’s totally its own thing which happens to be running under Linux sending low-level commands via the I2C dev and not at all integrated with X-Windows or Wayland. This would also work fine if the comms was via SPI (in fact the code barelly changes since I’m using a library that does most of the low-level work for me).
To just display a static image or a sequence of static images loaded from storage in a bunch of screens low-resolution enough to support SPI (so 800x600 or less) I expect something like that would be fine.
The more I think about it, there more I expect this thing could run on a single $50 SBC as long as the connector exposes at least an SPI device and 8 independent I/O lines (given how SPI works, shared SPI bus is fine with one separate Chip Select line for each screen as long as the SPI device under Linux can run on a mode that lets your code control the CS line itself, and the other 4 I/O lines are for touch detection) assuming touch position is irrelevant.
thatradomguy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Not a blue screen… that’s maybe a kernel panic but can’t read it myself.
The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
It’s failing storage, top half of the display is EXT4 complaining it can’t read the SD card, bottom half is the result of that, services can’t start.
Jackcooper@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
My slurped machine needs an HD upgrade? But I just upgraded it dammit!
selokichtli@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
It’s not the bios and they’ll never get a bsod. It’s a damn systemd unit.
Grass@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
didn’t systemd add a bsod equivalent some months ago? iirc optional default off so nobody will ever see it?
selokichtli@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
IDK but it’s strange if true, because I’d say that a BSOD is more like a kernel panic? Obviously, I’m not an expert.
meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Nooo don’t! It’s snow crash 😱
exu@feditown.com 3 weeks ago
That only works on hackers
Ansis100@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Ba ma zu na la amu pa go lu ne me a ba du?
rumba@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Man it’s so crazy how many small computers are around us. Just a few years ago that would have been a plastic label they swapped out when needed.
cley_faye@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And it probably should be. We could even have a set of small plates embedded somewhere for quick swapping on demand.
I like computers, but having an individual computer to run a single drink display really is overkill. At least use one to drive all the labels simultaneously, if you still want the ability to display nifty animations of liquid flowing above the actual liquid actually visibly flowing.
rumba@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
They’re probably paying a dollar or two for a esp32 at volume. When one fails a tech probably just throws the old one away.
tween this and the e-ink pricetags on merchandise…
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Exactly. This implementation makes no sense. Unless the logos are animated, need to change frequently, or supposed to show advertising (I hope not), a backlit plastic label would do the same job just fine. In fact, that has done the same job for decades at this point.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And it still should be.
Cause its stupid. This is even dumber than walgreens replacing freezer doors with LCD screens that don’t let you see whats inside.
rumba@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
yeah, that is the most f’d up thing, I saw it at a travel plaza, it looks like the fever dream of some tech mogul’s kid that they just sink money into because they’re infatuated with it.
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Blue Slurpee Of Death
ayane@lemmy.vg 3 weeks ago
That’s not bios; that’s the os. It’s not a bsod; that’s systemd running on Linux.
Sergio@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Superhero origin story. What powers gained?
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
How often do they change flavors that they need a full blown computer to show the logo, probably downloading it from a remote server, compared to just a backlighted sheet with a printed image?
EldenLord@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Oh yeah baby crash my bootloader!💕 Pump me full of bloatware and make my integers overflow🥵 I want you to leave my USB port dysfunctional for days and my ram displaced come on baby do it make me BSOD!!!😮💨🥵💕💦💦
mvirts@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This is why we can’t have raspberry pi
www.fbdfrozen.com/hubfs/24-M4MF-0001_03.pdf
Doesn’t look identical but it’s probably similar.
handsoffmydata@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Flavor.exe caused a kernel panic
cmeu@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Bet you can play Doom on it
InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
MMMMM My favorite flavor, too! Blue Raspberry Pi
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
There were only so many hard edges they could put on the logo before it would crash
Siegfried@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I see this and i unconsciously accept it is my fault
Mike_Hunt@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
why does a drink machine need a fucking screen
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
The other flavors aren’t worth the empty calories.
BIOS crash though, omg. Best flavor.
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
I think that if you drink a bunch of it fast enough, you’ll definitely blue screen.
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Bad news is “bios crash” has no real flavor and every sip is just raw brain freeze.
frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world 3 weeks ago
tastes like MEMORY_MANAGEMENT
wait, what was the post about?
Wolf@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
This person trying to blue themselves.
darkreader2636@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
pHr34kY@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s no BIOS. That’s systemd.
callouscomic@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Image
salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
I guess I’m the kind of person that can spot a systemd screen from across the room now
KryptoSynth@ani.social 3 weeks ago