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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 6 days ago (3 children)

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 23 points 6 days ago (3 children)

You'd think a damn sticker would be good enough

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Human replaceable printed paper labels, manual stick.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

What is this? The 20th century?

[–] foo@feddit.uk 3 points 6 days ago

It could just be a backlit panel that you place a semi-transparent logo in front. Could be magnetic or slid into place. More resources than a sticker but probably far less than a system-on-a-chip running an OS and displaying the same picture on a monitor all day.

[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

How do you charge for a service contract on a sticker?

[–] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This guy B2Bs. Y'all think companies aim for efficiency when their client is a megacorp? Heeelllll no. Corporations bleed each other out, too. The buck just gets passed on to you, the poor.

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[–] camelbeard@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days 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 https://www.team-bhp.com/news/ads-fuel-dispenser-nozzle-havent-seen-anything

[–] Brosplosion@lemmy.zip 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 30 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

This implies every drink and its display is handled by its own computer running linux. Potentially mtndew has a different IP than coca cola.

[–] lb_o@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago

Internet of Slurp

[–] foo@feddit.uk 3 points 6 days 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.

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 32 points 6 days ago

We’ve gone from SunnyD to SystemD.

…I’m sorry

[–] ayane@lemmy.vg 13 points 6 days ago

That's not bios; that's the os. It's not a bsod; that's systemd running on Linux.

[–] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 24 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Not a blue screen... that's maybe a kernel panic but can't read it myself.

[–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 22 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

My slurped machine needs an HD upgrade? But I just upgraded it dammit!

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[–] EldenLord@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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!!!😮‍💨🥵💕💦💦

[–] myotheraccount@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

I hate to break ot to you, but this is a linux drink. All that will you'll get is a kernel panic

[–] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This is better than the Bill Gates and Steve Jobs skit I watched the other day. Love it! 😂

[–] EldenLord@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Thank you, I had fun writing it

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

Lol I think people are missing the BSOD reference

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 15 points 6 days ago (3 children)

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 15 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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...

[–] MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Esp32 probably doesn't have a bios crash. My bet is a raspberry pi

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 4 points 6 days ago

Not a BIOS crash but a Linux startup has been interrupted here. So likely you're right

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[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

supposed to show advertising

I'm betting on this.

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

**sharp exhale** You're probably right. It's just like the gas pumps. A big soda cup takes a few seconds to fill up, and the system knows that's when you're holding the button down, staring at the tap. All that makes you an advertising target for the duration.

Is there some version of Occam's Razor where "enshitification" is the most likely answer?

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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

The difference in what can be done and the amount of work that needs to go into it between discrete digital electronics and just having a microcontroller or even microprocessor there is HUGE.

Also with microcontrollers and microprocessors most of the work moves from Electronics Engineering and circuit-design space to Software Engineering and software development, and the latter experts are easier to find plus the development cycle is way more friendly when it's just code which you can change and upload at will rather than physical circuits were simulation can only go so far before you have to actually create the physical hardware.

Even more entertaining, microcontrollers are so stupidly cheap (the most basic ones cost a few cents) that throwing in a microcontroller is almost always significantly cheaper than doing the control stuff with discrete electronics.

(For example a screen that size can be controlled by as ESP32 which if you embed it in your circuit yourself costs maybe $1 or $2, though that wouldn't be running Linux and programming it be much more low level, plus it's probably the cheapest you can go)

I actually got an EE degree back when we embedded circuits were just starting to be used so I didn't really get taught how to use them, then went for a career in software instead of electronics and came back to digital electronics years later and it's like night and day between the discrete digital electronics age and the everything is a computing device era.

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[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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?

[–] MML@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 days ago

Have you heard of this fantastic thing called advertising?

[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

This is why we can't have raspberry pi

https://www.fbdfrozen.com/hubfs/24-M4MF-0001_03.pdf

Doesn't look identical but it's probably similar.

[–] Mike_Hunt@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

why does a drink machine need a fucking screen

[–] Samsy@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago

Murica. I bet toiletpaper has a screen, too.

[–] cmeu@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Bet you can play Doom on it

[–] yumpsuit@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago

me when I finish a cherry slurpee

[–] darkreader2636@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 days ago

tastes like MEMORY_MANAGEMENT

wait, what was the post about?

[–] Siegfried@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

I see this and i unconsciously accept it is my fault

Bad news is "bios crash" has no real flavor and every sip is just raw brain freeze.

[–] Wolf@lemmy.today 3 points 6 days ago

This person trying to blue themselves.

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