It uses Linux? That’s actually nice to see (but do you really need a full blown OS to show a logo?)
Slurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrp
Submitted 2 months ago by TheBat@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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ZeDoTelhado@lemmy.world 2 months ago
siha@feddit.uk 2 months ago
The thing that gets me is that they seem to have a separate machine for each display
RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 2 months ago
easier to buy 10 rpis than a single embedded system with 10 diplay ports
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 2 months 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 2 months ago
Yeah, modular systems. Buy 2, buy 20, setup time is roughly the same.
mumblerfish@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Every one of them is running a crypominer
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 2 months ago
At least the cooling is sufficient.
jinwk00@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Probably there for “easily changing out logos of different flavor instead of using paper/plastic printout”
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Sure but there’s a different machine for each display.
Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
They might also monitor the temperature and amount of slurpee left so they can notify employees to refill it
kibiz0r@midwest.social 2 months 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 2 months ago
The computer controls the whole machine the logo part is a bonus
PacMan@sh.itjust.works 2 months 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 2 months ago
Probably installed as a unit, computer with monitor. Perhaps a modifed version of a Linux OS?
mvirts@lemmy.world 2 months ago
In 2025 we boot a whole Linux system to display a logo.
Does it run Wayland? :P
ByteJunk@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
I assume it performs other functions
Advertising.
rozodru@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’ve seen a very similar print out when installing/loading Arch for the first time.
Grass@sh.itjust.works 2 months 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 2 months ago
Knbd of discriminatory, what about the right??
scrion@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It actually does, if you zoom in closely.
jj4211@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
Now all I want to do is invent a blended cocktail called “Kernel Panic”.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
Eeew, vanilla!
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
With illegal amounts of alcohol, caffeine, and Ketamine
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 months ago
gotta be something with cream(derivative) and citrus.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2 months ago
Next time take a better picture so we can tell you how to fix it.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Or at least how to run DOOM on it.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Oh. Easily. But you cant affordenough slushie to finish a level.
ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months 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 2 months ago
We’ve gone from SunnyD to SystemD.
…I’m sorry
PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
Internet of Slurp
foo@feddit.uk 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
You’d think a damn sticker would be good enough
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Human replaceable printed paper labels, manual stick.
alekwithak@lemmy.world 2 months ago
How do you charge for a service contract on a sticker?
Soup@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
Not a blue screen… that’s maybe a kernel panic but can’t read it myself.
The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 2 months 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 2 months ago
My slurped machine needs an HD upgrade? But I just upgraded it dammit!
selokichtli@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
It’s not the bios and they’ll never get a bsod. It’s a damn systemd unit.
Grass@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
didn’t systemd add a bsod equivalent some months ago? iirc optional default off so nobody will ever see it?
selokichtli@lemmy.ml 2 months 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 2 months ago
Nooo don’t! It’s snow crash 😱
exu@feditown.com 2 months ago
That only works on hackers
Ansis100@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ba ma zu na la amu pa go lu ne me a ba du?
rumba@lemmy.zip 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
Blue Slurpee Of Death
Sergio@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Superhero origin story. What powers gained?
ayane@lemmy.vg 2 months ago
That’s not bios; that’s the os. It’s not a bsod; that’s systemd running on Linux.
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
Flavor.exe caused a kernel panic
cmeu@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Bet you can play Doom on it
InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
MMMMM My favorite flavor, too! Blue Raspberry Pi
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
There were only so many hard edges they could put on the logo before it would crash
Siegfried@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I see this and i unconsciously accept it is my fault
Mike_Hunt@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
why does a drink machine need a fucking screen
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
The other flavors aren’t worth the empty calories.
BIOS crash though, omg. Best flavor.
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 2 months ago
I think that if you drink a bunch of it fast enough, you’ll definitely blue screen.
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Bad news is “bios crash” has no real flavor and every sip is just raw brain freeze.
frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world 2 months ago
tastes like MEMORY_MANAGEMENT
wait, what was the post about?
Wolf@lemmy.today 2 months ago
This person trying to blue themselves.
darkreader2636@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
pHr34kY@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s no BIOS. That’s systemd.
callouscomic@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Image
salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 2 months ago
I guess I’m the kind of person that can spot a systemd screen from across the room now
KryptoSynth@ani.social 2 months ago