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BORK!BORK!BORK! Paris might sometimes be called "The City of Light" or perhaps "The City of Love" by the romantically inclined. Judging by this hotel's elevators, "The City of Bork" is more appropriate.

Spotted by eagle-eyed Register reader Nathaniel in a Paris hotel, what we assume to be digital signage is instead stalled on the all too familiar American Megatrends BIOS configuration screen. The computer behind the scenes also seems a bit overpowered to serve information for hotel services.

Instead of enticing elevator riders into the undoubtedly delightful bars and restaurants of the establishment (apparently a Novotel not far from the Eiffel Tower) or whatever it should be doing, this screen has temptations of an altogether more technical nature.

A CometLake CPU? An i5 no less? Sort of up-to-date. And that 8 GB of RAM? The way memory prices are going, that might be enough to buy you a nice hotel room in some cities, and at least a decent coffee and a croque monsieur in Paris.

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[–] BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Honestly speaking, using readily available hardware instead of specialty made to operate an elevator isn't a bad idea.

[–] olympicyes@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

The elevator probably cost $250,000. The i5 is a laptop chip. I’m sure it’s part of a fanless industrial embedded system. I can’t imagine why this is even news.

[–] HuePony@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Arduino-like could be enough and its easy to buy/replace

[–] azimir@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

It's an elevator, you could run it on a PLC with some ladder logic.

[–] diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Arduino

STOP USING BRAND NAMES, I am TIRED of seeing it.

It's not "Arduino", it's "microcontroller". STM32 "blue pill" compatible clones are cheap enough to give away in bulk. You don't even have to consider going 8 bit anymore.

It's not "Raspberry Pi", it's "single board computer". Although dtb overlays and such are slightly more annoying on other boards, there's literally not much of any difference functionality wise. AND the other boards are cheaper.

There's no reason to use the big brands. Unless you are working for someone and your boss demands "enterprise support" Red Hat style, of course.

[–] HuePony@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

Elevators company for sure would wanted brand support, to reduce their fault or specialists size