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
It uses Linux? That’s actually nice to see (but do you really need a full blown OS to show a logo?)
The thing that gets me is that they seem to have a separate machine for each display
easier to buy 10 rpis than a single embedded system with 10 diplay ports
I hope the machine is up to the job. I’d pack at least 64 gigs of RAM and a nice GPU.
That doesn’t sound like enough, need at least like 128gb for the ai chat bot that you ask to change the picture for you
I totally forgot about the necessity to put AI into them, I’m so sorry!
What about some blockchain to track the usage?
If AI can’t read my bank account history and generate an NFT of the Slurpee I can afford to finance, what’s the point?
At some point you realize that the slushee has melted in the face of your system’s 1000 W TDP…
That seems too low. What kind of low spec AI slush master 7000 are you using?
Stuck on a NEMA 5-15 outlet, can’t draw much more continuously. I think like 1200W is the highest continuous load you’re allowed on a 15 A circuit here in the US, but I am not an electrician so I could be wrong
Yeah, modular systems. Buy 2, buy 20, setup time is roughly the same.
Every one of them is running a crypominer
At least the cooling is sufficient.
🤣🤣👏👏👏
👀 *could be running a cryptominer
*Should be running a cryptominer
Probably there for “easily changing out logos of different flavor instead of using paper/plastic printout”
Not just to show the logo, but to run the entire machine. Probably IoT enabled, so monitoring and maintenance actions and OTA are important enough that it’s worth having a very slim version of Linux on there instead of taking the security risk of building up from a lower level.
The computer controls the whole machine the logo part is a bonus. It also changes to like a do not use when Its not frozen or out of order.
So working on ad machines before a lot of them connect to an external ftp site to pull down the latest version of the logo. Things like this you don’t care if it’s secure or not
Until it displays porn
I mean it would take a dns hijacking to do that and if some has control of your network work like that then you have bigger problems then using FTP
Then they get to watch porn while filling out their slurpee. Win win to me.
Probably installed as a unit, computer with monitor. Perhaps a modifed version of a Linux OS?
In 2025 we boot a whole Linux system to display a logo.
Does it run Wayland? :P
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.
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.
Kind of discriminatory, what about the right??
The right potato will work just fine.
still windows
We’re not excluding that, it’s between the left testicle and the potato
That one runs BSD.
Dog’s right testicles are running Java
So that’s why it keeps swelling and needs constant purging of all that pus.
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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.
Next time take a better picture so we can tell you how to fix it.
Or at least how to run DOOM on it.
We’ve gone from SunnyD to SystemD.
…I’m sorry
This implies every drink and its display is handled by its own computer running linux. Potentially mtndew has a different IP than coca cola.
Internet of Slurp
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.
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).
It’s not the bios and they’ll never get a bsod. It’s a damn systemd unit.
didn’t systemd add a bsod equivalent some months ago? iirc optional default off so nobody will ever see it?
IDK but it’s strange if true, because I’d say that a BSOD is more like a kernel panic? Obviously, I’m not an expert.
I think the idea was a visually easier to use for beginners info screen to help with diagnosing the issue but I never read too much into it
Blue Slurpee Of Death
Lol I think people are missing the BSOD reference
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
This is better than the Bill Gates and Steve Jobs skit I watched the other day. Love it! 😂
Thank you, I had fun writing it
That’s not bios; that’s the os. It’s not a bsod; that’s systemd running on Linux.
Man it’s so crazy how many small computers are around us. Just a few years ago that would have been a plastic label they swapped out when needed.
And it probably should be. We could even have a set of small plates embedded somewhere for quick swapping on demand.
I like computers, but having an individual computer to run a single drink display really is overkill. At least use one to drive all the labels simultaneously, if you still want the ability to display nifty animations of liquid flowing above the actual liquid actually visibly flowing.
They’re probably paying a dollar or two for a esp32 at volume. When one fails a tech probably just throws the old one away.
tween this and the e-ink pricetags on merchandise…
Esp32 probably doesn’t have a bios crash. My bet is a raspberry pi
Not a BIOS crash but a Linux startup has been interrupted here. So likely you’re right
They are RPis.
I saw this setup at my local 7/11
Reminds me of a Rug Doctor rental machine I saw that was proudly displaying the default Raspberry Pi OS background and a login prompt
Exactly. This implementation makes no sense. Unless the logos are animated, need to change frequently, or supposed to show advertising (I hope not), a backlit plastic label would do the same job just fine. In fact, that has done the same job for decades at this point.
supposed to show advertising
I’m betting on this.
**sharp exhale** You’re probably right. It’s just like the gas pumps. A big soda cup takes a few seconds to fill up, and the system knows that’s when you’re holding the button down, staring at the tap. All that makes you an advertising target for the duration.
Is there some version of Occam’s Razor where “enshitification” is the most likely answer?
This implementation makes a lot of sense if you think about the ability to support variable amount of screens without the need of complex routing and addressing.
It also has increased reliability where one failure doesn’t break the whole system.
As for the need of it - well, that’s “slurp” they try to sell some cold sugar to impulsive people who like flashy things. That implies animations on the screen and being “not boring”.
The fact that they changed to screens by itself means that backlit plastic label was doing poorer job than this abomination.
And it still should be.
Cause its stupid. This is even dumber than walgreens replacing freezer doors with LCD screens that don’t let you see whats inside.
yeah, that is the most f’d up thing, I saw it at a travel plaza, it looks like the fever dream of some tech mogul’s kid that they just sink money into because they’re infatuated with it.
its some serious cyberpunk 2077 shit.
I can see someone slinging a cyberdeck pinging a drink machine to infiltrate the LAN.
Superhero origin story. What powers gained?
Uncontrollable urge to tell people to install Linux.
In the florescent bathroom of food court, nano crouched by the toilet, vomiting his guts up after consuming the kernel-krush slushie.
He thought being the lowest common denominator was bad; used by noob sysadmins and confused interns, until this moment.
The slushie hadn’t tasted right. It was supposed to be “Byteblast Blueberry,” but it had an aftertaste of burnt silicone and magic smoke. Something in it was wrong. nano could feel it rewriting him from the inside.
lines of strange lua code scrawled across the back of his eyelids. His .bash_history was being overwritten. His sense of indentation… sharpened.
As his tremors subsided and the last of the neon goo slid down the drain, he looked up into the cracked mirror. Something had changed.
His terminal font was crisper. His cursor… blinking with authority. And there, under the stall’s flickering light, he whispered:
“…:wq”
Suddenly, the doors of ever bathroom stall flung open in unison, people shit themselves in fear as his inner thoughts wrote themselves onto the walls of his stall.
nano inhaled deeply, as a familiar scent wafted from under the entrance door, and a shadow stretched to the far wall.
“emacs…” He muttered to himself, before the entrance door crashed open. emacs snorted and coughed, this bloated monstrosity, confused for a text editor, was actually an operating system.
“Poor little nano” he chuckled “serves you right for trying to be more than a fuckin’ stepping stone. Why don’t you go hang out with Edge and Bing, you’re about as useful as a clippy themed Chrome extension.”
emacs’ voice reverberated through the tiled chamber like a RAM leak in a core dump. His trenchcoat, stitched from thousands of unreadable .el files, dragged behind him.
neovim exited the bathroom stall, letting emacs bask in his new glory for the first time.
“Fuck off, Emacs. You press seven keys just to copy a line.”
A silence fell across the stalls. Somewhere, a urinal cake cracked.
Emacs stepped forward, snarling. “I’m the past and the future, nano. I’ve got an email client, a music player, a fucking psychiatrist built-in. You? You’re a Hello World that got a pity install”
neovims eyes narrowed, one coloured gruvbox, the other catppuccin as he clenched his first “My name… Is Neo (vim)”
Next time:
neovim & emacs - Battle of the Keybinds
Will neovims LSP destroy emacs s-expressions?
Can emacs remember how to quit in time?
lel awesome text. so many great lines…
His .bash_history was being overwritten. His sense of indentation… sharpened.
…
His cursor… blinking with authority.
…
Suddenly, the doors of ever bathroom stall flung open in unison, people shit themselves in fear as his inner thoughts wrote themselves onto the walls of his stall.
Flavor.exe caused a kernel panic
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?
