I drink Arch btw
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.
Why not use a sticker and a backlight instead of a whole ass pc?
Adverts, sooner or later
The entire screen is already an advert.
Ah but they don’t get paid extra to show it, by having a screen they can get paid by other companies to advertise for them
Adverts, sooner
or laterEvery public-facing surface will be ripe for adverts. Previews of it at gas stations in the US, and nearly everywhere in countries like Philippines.
You’re right - but at least for now they’re advertising Linux 😀
wait till you see electronic price tags. adverts and price gouging per person
Not only that, but is each flavor a different system??? Wtf
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.
Whenever you change the product or the visual of it is changes, you change the sticker, this is automatic.
If I were to make these devices I would make it so that changing the BiB to different flavor would automatically change the screen.
To show animated things and different flavours when they change without changing the sticker
“Animated”.
You mean… advertising.
Yes?
For some reason I now want to kill everyone that I see around me, is that a bad sign?
Are you worried about your sleeper agent robo killer programming being activated by the soda machine?
Oh hell ya! Linux boot screen is my favorite flavor.
Mord important question: Why do they all have their own system?
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.
or, hear me out, a backlit piece of paper
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
sorry to easy we’d rather go with a company that specializes in this task and charges a monthly subscription
As is the way of marketing.
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.
Verify your age to drink the SystemD drink
SystemDrink
SystemD drink is for me and you!
Free as in beer
At least it’s not too grubby
Start your shift as a server.
It made me take a log dump. Do not recommend.
Is this a systemDrink?
That’s not bootloader. Init?
init
One sip and suddenly I’m compiling my life choices 💀
Mtn Dew: Ludicrous Linux
Baja Bash
CachyOS Cola
This is what happens when you don’t drink your verification slurpee before getting another slurpee
