The refreshing taste of systemd

Gimmie some of that 'bootloader blue' slurpee

If you're changing out the product with something different, then swapping out an insert really isn't a big task.

And then they blame ai for the ram shortage

If you're swapping flavors (which won't happen often) your already having to clean it. Swapping out the button insert isn't a big ask. This doesn't solve anything a physical sign could do better.

“Animated”.

You mean… advertising.

Compile Gentoo

The complexity of modern stuff boggles my mind. Why?

The real reason for modern complexity is to create more bullshit jobs and ensure money keeps flowing.

If we just said "enough", which is true, we'd have a leisure society and people would have time to start thinking.

We can't have that, so instead we have Linux soft drink dispensers that need multi-core CPUs, containers, VMs, gigabytes of RAM, SSDs, always-on internet connection, and endless hardware upgrades to dispense carbonated water and sugar syrup.

Something a mechanical switch from 1855 can do.

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I bet you could hack them for crypto mining or displaying your own ads.

I drink Arch btw

Yes?

Is this a systemDrink?

Not only that, but is each flavor a different system??? Wtf

Freakazoid.

It depends on the keys you press when you drink it, you could get access to your own bios.

Design, get design approved, print inserts, package inserts, ship inserts, give lead time for most stores to receive inserts, swap inserts, discard old inserts.

As opposed to design, get design approved, send.

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".

Free as in beer

You're right, in just speculating why a screen could be there. Seems overkill, even if it ran the icee machine itself

Definitely.

Are you worried about your sleeper agent robo killer programming being activated by the soda machine?

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.

And the product just what, magically shows up? If you're swapping out the flavor, that's a whole process, not something you're doing on a whim. All promotional material would either be shipped ahead of time or with the product. We've been able to label buttons and products for a long time w/o using an independent computer + screen to do it.

Man, I haven't heard of that name in decades!

Luckly it will be virus free, unlike it's competitor.

For some reason I now want to kill everyone that I see around me, is that a bad sign?

Pepsi isn't going to print an insert for every machine. They're gonna print an insert that fits the machine you have to rent from Pepsi. Same with Coke.

Exit the matrix

Baja Bash

That'd be super nice

Maybe I could enable fast boot and a couple other settings I've been meaning to change

They make display boards with modular numbers of outputs.

Coca cola runs windows

Right? Could just use a microcontroller for each individual screen and then a separate PC to update each microcontroller if needed.

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.

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.

Ear me out: you print them, crazy right?!

Very odd, I'd have thought it's a single system too, surely there's a lot of shared signals, like temperature, cleaning and whatnot.
The only reason for those to be individual with another 'parent' system is that it would be fully modular?

I'd be interested in the actual answer/reason...

Oh yeah youre right, I was squinting real hard to try and read that on on a phone and was only looking at the bottom

Be able to change the picture remotely. New flavor? No need to print out a new sticker, remove the old one, and add the new one.

Sticker requires transport, inefficient as shit relative to a file download.

Just read through the installation and operations manual, and it looks like you’re right on the modular part. They offer 2, 3, and 4 dispenser models, along with a 1 and 2 dispenser “Multi-Flavor”. From what I can tell they have some other modules in the machine that control different things, as well as a parent module to tie them all together. The machine also tracks how often each dispenser is used, so the owner can know which flavors are popular and overall how profitable the machine is.

The machine has to manage electricity to solenoids, motors, sensors of all sorts, etc, as well as CO2, N2, compressed air, refrigerant, water, and syrup. A lot more complex than I ever thought while getting a slushy.

I drink a bootload of this stuff, it's great for starting the day.

As if the sugar water inside teleports there through a mere downloading deployment via Ansible.

I'll (kernel) panic

That's not bootloader. Init?

That’s the actual wild part; using a simple (~$5) SOC to support a dynamic, remotely manageable, UI for an industrial appliance as in this case is reasonable. But dedicated a system per dispenser head is wild.

I guess it could possibly be deemed to be worth it for an ‘industrial’ application like this as it could reduce per-head downtime if just one fails. But man, that’s a lot of silicon for such a task.