This is weird to see so many things needing to be a screen..
this post was submitted on 07 Apr 2026
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BSOD: the Blue Slurpee of Death
What a horrible design to require an individual computer for EVERY screen. JFC just have one device run multiple displays.
A raspy W is like 20 bucks each, and has a tiny footprint. Cheaper than the screen itself probably, and simpler than having to reconfigure the amount of displays based on available flavors in the setup.
Plus, I hear the systemd flavor is pretty good.
God I remember buying an RPi for less than 10β¬ this company really screwed up their product.
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I drink Arch btw
That's a systemd slurpee.
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.
what is my purpose?
You show a Mt Dew ad at a single store in Ketchikan, AK
Oh GOD, can't I pass some butter?
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.
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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.
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.
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Reminds me of the Cathode Ray Dude's video on the nicotine ad display. Weird aspect ratio display, with an industrial PC with an immensely locked down Linux system.
It made me take a log dump. Do not recommend.
One sip and suddenly Iβm compiling my life choices π
Login and startx?
I'm just glad slurpee machines run on Linux and not Windows CE. π
Oh hell ya! Linux boot screen is my favorite flavor.
That's not bootloader. Init?
init
Free as in beer
Hol up though...
Is that the Arch flavor or the Fedora flavor? I think that's important information to have on hand.
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At least it's not too grubby
Is this a systemDrink?
Must use sudo to drink this slushy
- Sorry management
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