You'd think a damn sticker would be good enough

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.

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! 😂

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.

I guess I'm the kind of person that can spot a systemd screen from across the room now

The thing that gets me is that they seem to have a separate machine for each display

Every one of them is running a crypominer

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.

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.

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.

Have you heard of this fantastic thing called advertising?

Or at least how to run DOOM on it.

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.

me when I finish a cherry slurpee