Which is spelled pieced but pronounced Lemmy. Everyone knows that.

Construct Additional Pylons?

Ansyruple

It's all calories, no flavor.

Mord important question: Why do they all have their own system?

Hol up though...

Is that the Arch flavor or the Fedora flavor? I think that's important information to have on hand.

Verify your age to drink the SystemD drink

init

CachyOS Cola

All we know is the screen isn't using HDMI 2.1.

Get me some kernel panic pancakes.

This image was seared into my memory 20+ years ago (maybe I saw it first in a PC magazine?) & has never left it, not even for a moment.

(Wait, was it all penguin propaganda all long?? Is this why I like foss?)

Get some grub

Is there anything those damn media companies won't screw up? Even my frozen Mt Dew, man.

https://youtu.be/Fuum4UcYz0o

There are many reasons to enjoy being nerdy.

"Why make it simpler when you can make it harder?" 😬

Exactly!

Live long and nerd is what I always say.

because computing is a forgotten magic and no one knows how to correctly operate those black boxes

I'm pretty sure its shopped because I've never seen a machine with actual displays in it for each flavor lol. They all use paper cut outs.

Cost, Parts availability

They're building them out of cheap SBC with sd cards.

It's cheaper to put four economy SBC's in than one computer that can handle 4 displays.

SystemDrink

It made me take a log dump. Do not recommend.

I would assume that in most cases, they arent running a mid day update, they would give prior notice that over night X will happen so make sure product is what the label is in the morning.

Being said, I also assume there is some custom-ability to the screens, as in they are probably touch screens or have a a physical button behind the control to allow to cycle through available products to ensure the right product is displayed. That or there is a network controller somewhere on premise (potentially linked to their menu manager) that decides what screen displays what.

Must use sudo to drink this slushy

• Sorry management

Not American, I assume a slurpee is a piss based beverage?

I assume thats a joke but I don't get the joke 😅

If I remember right the "fed" part is just short for federation

Close enough

Mmmm, tastes like FOSS

SystemD drink is for me and you!

One sip and suddenly I’m compiling my life choices 💀

It also has the benefit of being able to show metrics and diagnostics right there without having to connect it to another device.

You don't have to send stickers to each store.

So purchase a nice color printer for each store? Or have an employee go to print at staples when you want to change labels?

Like, "just print them" is a lot more effort than you are making it sound to avoid the use of an extremely cheap screen.

There is a reason all vehicles put a big ass display in their car now even though people prefer actual buttons. Screens and software are dirt cheap. A printer with moving mechanical parts is expensive. Using employee time is expensive. Shipping is expensive.

or, hear me out, a backlit piece of paper

Boot up obviously.

Start your shift as a server.

Login and startx?

what is my purpose?

You show a Mt Dew ad at a single store in Ketchikan, AK

sorry to easy we'd rather go with a company that specializes in this task and charges a monthly subscription

Take the damn upvote, and get outta here.

Maybe only the one on the right is a screen so you can diagnose things, but the rest are paper?

You can pay other companies to print for you duh, they will print you anything for dirt cheap, it's not like a company can't afford it lmao

Yes, if the infrastructure is in place for it it can be very cheap. But obviously, the people working at these companies decided that the benefits of the digital screens are worth the small upfront cost of the machine.

Why can't people understand that printing a physical copy of something off-site requires transport and overhead cost that are entirely eliminated by just literally using a digital screen that has a longer shelf life than the mechanical parts of the machine itself. It's not that complicated to understand.

This gives you the advantage of literally being able to change the ad instantly. Based on time of year, event, etc. Its an ad. It's good to be digital. It's an ad. It's not a label.

Why do you send an email instead of sending a letter? A smartphone is so expensive! /s

There are benefits beyond just cost. This isn't about cost. THIS IS ABOUT PROFITS.

SystemDrink

probably cheaper to use a full OS than hiring a dev to build a small embedded machine just for that i guess

I guess this is an instance where 'mission critical' actually means something!

That's a systemd slurpee.

Oh GOD, can't I pass some butter?

They did that for years. It's a good servicable option.

Of course, printing all those out and shipping them all over the world isn't without cost.

These can be animated. Ideally, they can have an attract mode to improve sales.

Corporate can force the hand of small shops to put the flavors in they want to market.

There are probably as many pros as there are cons.

You're 100% correct, they're not necessary

As is the way of marketing.