That’s not bios; that’s the os. It’s not a bsod; that’s systemd running on Linux.
why does a drink machine need a fucking screen
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!!!😮💨🥵💕💦💦
I hate to break ot to you, but this is a linux drink. All that will you’ll get is a kernel panic
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.
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
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.
True, such a low number of production units design would really only make sense if you could find an off the shelf solution to drive multiple displays.
If these displays are not supposed to be animated and they’re reasonably low resolution (say, 800x600 20bit RGB or less), they could be connected via SPI and pretty much every microcontroller out there has multiple SPI ports, so even a cheap SBC would work for that). However I expect that getting XWindows or Wayland in Linux to work with such displays would be a PITA.
I’ve only ever got software running under Linux to control a tiny 2-tone display via I2C - on an Orange Pi SBC - and it’s totally its own thing which happens to be running under Linux sending low-level commands via the I2C dev and not at all integrated with X-Windows or Wayland. This would also work fine if the comms was via SPI (in fact the code barelly changes since I’m using a library that does most of the low-level work for me).
To just display a static image or a sequence of static images loaded from storage in a bunch of screens low-resolution enough to support SPI (so 800x600 or less) I expect something like that would be fine.
The more I think about it, there more I expect this thing could run on a single $50 SBC as long as the connector exposes at least an SPI device and 8 independent I/O lines (given how SPI works, shared SPI bus is fine with one separate Chip Select line for each screen as long as the SPI device under Linux can run on a mode that lets your code control the CS line itself, and the other 4 I/O lines are for touch detection) assuming touch position is irrelevant.
You’d think a damn sticker would be good enough
How do you charge for a service contract on a sticker?
This guy B2Bs. Y’all think companies aim for efficiency when their client is a megacorp? Heeelllll no. Corporations bleed each other out, too.
Human replaceable printed paper labels, manual stick.
What is this? The 20th century?
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.
But what about yet another bright light in someone’s face? Do you not want another bright light in someone’s face? Everyone loves bright lights in someone’s face!
This person trying to blue themselves.
This implies every drink and its display is handled by its own computer running linux. Potentially mtndew has a different IP than coca cola.
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.
Internet of Slurp
Blue Slurpee Of Death
Lol I think people are missing the BSOD reference
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?
Have you heard of this fantastic thing called advertising?
We’ve gone from SunnyD to SystemD.
…I’m sorry
Not a blue screen… that’s maybe a kernel panic but can’t read it myself.
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.
My slurped machine needs an HD upgrade? But I just upgraded it dammit!
Anecdotally, a friend had a bunch of raspberry pis running inside specific devices, running hot, SDcards would eventually fail.
Started properly venting and cooling the pis… SDcards stopped failing (didn’t have to be MilitaryGrade™ either).
I see this and i unconsciously accept it is my fault
That’s no BIOS. That’s systemd.
I guess I’m the kind of person that can spot a systemd screen from across the room now
In 2025 we boot a whole Linux system to display a logo.
Does it run Wayland? :P
a whole linux system isn’t even all that crazy. if it runs doom it can probably also run linux so probably everything from a potato to a dog’s left testicle can run linux.
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Kind of discriminatory, what about the right??
That one runs BSD.
We’re not excluding that, it’s between the left testicle and the potato
Dog’s right testicles are running Java
So that’s why it keeps swelling and needs constant purging of all that pus.
The right potato will work just fine.
still windows
I’ve never seen one of these, but I assume it performs other functions - surely monitoring sensors, probably reporting that data, maybe allowing triggering maintenance functions, etc.
That said, processing and storage is so cheap on this scale that it’s probably better (and cheaper) to go with a tried and true, widely supported system, than it is to optimize with custom hardware/firmware.
I assume it performs other functions
Advertising.
I’ve seen a very similar print out when installing/loading Arch for the first time.
I meant the machine itself! The print out is your typical systemd boot, though they’re usually covered by a distro splash but it can be disabled.
Wouldn’t be surprised if they ran animated splash.
Hell, wouldn’t be surprised if they started pushing ads through the screens.
I feel like that isn’t that far fetched, considering this machine probably has some sort of Internet connectivity so you can update the labels remotely and do other remote maintenance/monitoring tasks.
Bet you can play Doom on it
me when I finish a cherry slurpee
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.
