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Aug 4, 2025 10:47 PM
AgentKGB
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Om nom nom nom.
DidItForScience
That's looks a Linux boot screen that starts up after the BIOS. Looks like it froze on startup due to a bad hard disk.
lrateyourrig
The blue screen is raspberry pi flavor
thebonesofmyancestors
Clever comment is clever.
xaviar3000
Why is each display a whole separate os rather than a single controller with several displays?
cousteau
Well, IC shortages ain't gonna create themselves
thebonesofmyancestors
So, only one flavor experiences the thrill of a system crash at a time? Can you imagine how much excitement there'd be if all of them failed? It would be pandemonium. Absolute flavor chaos. A nuclear explosion of taste confusion. This joke is really bad and I don't know where to go from here. So, this is the end of my comment.
IntelligentLake
So you didn't know where to go and kind of crashed? Well, isn't that convenient.
onlyhalfghost
probably a cheap-ass LCD screen, then a cheap-ass SBC (~20$), instead of the fairly pricy one that can run 6 monitors (100s$)\
Arbitrarynamehere
Label printers are pretty cheap too
onlyhalfghost
yeah, that's the better option.
idiotsonfire
This stupid bullshit is why fast food prices are climbing so goddamn high. Just use a piece of paper under a glass screen, dumbasses.
randomwalrus
The future is stupid. I was promised a Keanu in my head.
HelpTheWretched
Best I can give you is a brain implant carrying a Blu-ray rip of Johnny Mnemonic.
randomwalrus
That movie is decent. That is an acceptable alternative.
sfrinlan
But the only available language is Turkish
terajack2048
Mmmm core dump
solemnwar
They use a screen now? I remember having to switch around the little label cards...
aThingWithTheStufAndTheJunk
Now you change the cards using the big touchscreen above these little sub-displays.
mike13815
BIOS would never show this much text in cli, and the vast majority don't show errors at all. This is an os, likely a Linux flavor.
swishgifs
This reminds me of a store that used a piece of paper with a QR code on it you could use to check the opening hours of the store....
zoeytg
I'd like to think sipping that drink is like the guy who had a drink of liquid warheads thinking it was lemonade. Eyes twitching, lips max pucker and unable to string a sentence together.
NoCapForRealForReal
That's actually the systemd init output for a booting linux system.
danielsan1977
We're living in the dumbest timeline.
WeHaventMet
Spampton-ass beverage
CapitalNick
It bothers me this has to be an actual computer screen and not just a plastic card they can replace.
modus0
Manufacturer can't charge the customer as much if they use paper cards - for both manufacturing and repair.
Mcmaclassie
I love that it's blue as well :P
REOJackwagon
So there's a way to change the images
#changes to dickbutt
GizMoQC
funny bios but this is linux boot/shutdown screen
invadeboiss
lol *nix conf file issues.
PandaStonetree
Not a BIOS crash, its Linux file system corruption going by what i can make out in the text. It's having issues loading the configuration. Its probably on an eMMC or SD.
sfrinlan
Somebody spilled slurpee on the board
LaffertyDanie1
That's what I meant
imgnoon
A good ol' fashioned kernel panic
pixelsnader
Panic! At the Distro
n0gal
Not a kernel panic, by the looks of it just a failing network share configured to automount at boot. Just disable the mount (or fix the share on the remote system) and it'll spring to life.
demizu
Question ismm is each dispenser running a separate SBC? And if so.. why
thelatebillstickers
Perhaps the machine is modular? Each flavour is completely self-contained and it can be built out to serve as many flavours as you want/have space for.
valen00
Because a SBC that can run a single screen with a number of IO pins left to run things costs like $20. A video card that can drive 6 screens costs a few hundred.
smashpro1
A light bulb and piece of paper costs like $5.
valen00
you still need the micro controller to run it, That's another $5, now you've got enough smarts on board that the thing will have wifi and phone home to order refills instead of relying on some kid who doesn't want to be there to do it. There's a lot of stuff you can do if you want to make use of it.
aThingWithTheStufAndTheJunk
They're all networked to the large touchscreen display directly above them which is how you configure it. They could have just had the large display and put the flavors at the bottom of it. So it still feels unnecessary.
valen00
Then you need a different setup for units with different numbers of flavours. It's possible but there's reasons not to. Also larger screens are proportionally more expensive than smaller ones.
aThingWithTheStufAndTheJunk
They've already got a unit-spanning large screen. The expense for the large screen is already sunk. The small screens are the added expense. There are some minor layout considerations between units with different numbers of dispensers but nothing the average small business website hasn't already figured out. I'm not saying there's not a reason but it's not to save money on the larger screen. I'd definitely love to know the reason because I'm fascinated by choices like this, personally.
Jimthebutler
I love that they used a computer screen to do what could and has always been done by a piece of paper.
pixelsnader
Think of all the wasted paper this prevents!
AgentKGB
Vendor selling the Slurpee machine has to make their profit target somehow. 0:) Yeah, when I worked at 7-Eleven in 2000, it was paper.
Sebastopol140
So efficient.
whatpassesforclever
Contract says they must only use one of the machine company’s technicians for repairs at $300/hr. If they fix it themselves, $15000 fine.
AveryLynel
It's to avoid issues with sign changeover when they change flavors. The convenience factor/presentation factor is there and the cost is low.
mike13815
They wiggle and flash to catch your attention. It works.
sfrinlan
A small fan could make a piece of paper wiggle. Just saying.
cocainemonster
Don’t forget the single small lightbulb behind the piece of paper now
PandaStonetree
How else are they going to show you advertisements or ask if you want a car-wash with that...
justfiguredoutimc4azyanddumbb
Fuck my car. Wash my ass frosty beverage bitch.
TheBigBadBonerBiter
Like those short-lived TV doors Walgreens used to have at their wall cooler that literally only one executive wanted and got removed as soon as he was ousted from the company. Fuck those things and the horse they rode in on.
Jimthebutler
Or update the logo every 6 minutes so they can get a slightly higher sales margin.
SuperIncoherentRantingMan
Maybe they put the computers in so they can escalate the price per ounce as you fill your cup.
sfrinlan
If they brought back the old hybrid energy soda, they could call it Surge pricing
myfirstandlastpostever
They would but the current contract for licensing the machine doesn’t cover it. 9 months left on the contract before you can upgrade to surge pricing. Did we tell you the updated contact itself relies on optimised cost options relating to how often and when your contracted machine is used.
WiiShaker
What does it taste like, Bart?
HelpfulCorn
That's good Squishee
Level21Magikarp
Is this equivalent to the blue pill I have heard so much about?
onlyhalfghost
cousteau
The one that get yo pp standing?
Level21Magikarp
I was thinking the matrix, let's you see the code of the simulation
spittleteets
As someone who's currently troubleshooting a BSOD I both thoroughly enjoyed and hated this. +1
PandaStonetree
Get the files from c:\windows\minidump and run it through the free Windbg app in the windows store. poof, tells you what caused it
spittleteets
Question, how do i do this as im stuck in a boot loop?
spittleteets
Thank you appreciate this! Please accept this +1 as a token of my gratitude
mike13815
Bluescreenview is also a good app for it, if you don't want to activate the Microsoft store on your pc.
spittleteets
Thank you!! My issue is getting it to a point inwbich I can do something. Its stuck in a boot loop
spittleteets
I can get to the troubleshooting menu but after 5mins/certain commands it just freezes and I have to wait for the battery to de-energize (lenovo Yoga 2-in-1)