What a horrible design to require an individual computer for EVERY screen. JFC just have one device run multiple displays.
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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
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".
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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.
Plus, I hear the systemd flavor is pretty good.
God I remember buying an RPi for less than 10β¬ this company really screwed up their product.
The only Raspberry Pi cheaper than 10β¬ is the Raspberry Pi Zero (no wifi) that launch at 5β¬/$5, the Raspberry Pi Zero W (with wifi) launch at 10β¬/$10, both in 2015. Raspberry Pi 1, 2 and 3 launched at 35β¬ and since the 4 and 5, it's a bit more complicated because they have different RAM options. Today, the RPi4 1GB is sold 37,90β¬. 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 40β¬... But even a RPi2 is still good for a tone of useful projects!
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.
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Why not use a sticker and a backlight instead of a whole ass pc?
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Oh hell ya! Linux boot screen is my favorite flavor.
The complexity of modern stuff boggles my mind. Why?
I guess it could make sense to have a small computer in a Slurpee machine to check the temperature and the consistency of the ice, maybe do some maintenance, but yeah. Paper tags would make a lot more sense.
I can see having a single node in the whole machine, but one per mix makes me think this photo is doctored. Then again an esp32 is pretty damn cheap.
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Start your shift as a server.
Take the damn upvote, and get outta here.
I'm just glad slurpee machines run on Linux and not Windows CE. π
At least it's not too grubby
Free as in beer
This is what happens when you don't drink your verification slurpee before getting another slurpee
Systemd having a special it seems
They didn't enter the machines date of birth...
Instant brain freeze. Followed by death.
It made me take a log dump. Do not recommend.
Is this a systemDrink?
that seems, inefficient
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.
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That's not bootloader. Init?
init
One sip and suddenly Iβm compiling my life choices π
Hol up though...
Is that the Arch flavor or the Fedora flavor? I think that's important information to have on hand.
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It depends on the keys you press when you drink it, you could get access to your own bios.
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