Why not just do a sticker there? What an inefficient approach!

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.

It's probably literally cheaper to have a cheap device that supports one display than a single device capable of supporting multiple displays.

It also simplifies the design. You don't need different hardware requirements or software configs for a slushy system of 3 or 4 or 5 flavors. You just have a single design for each slushy device.

On top of that, when a device is restarting or failed it only has a single failure. All of the other flavors are displayed.

Also, for the other "why not a sticker" comments. Having a digital display does have its advantages. You may not want your chain of stores having tacky hand drawn labels by a lazy employee. This prevents that. You can include the price in the display later if you want to. Ensuring you charge more for that "limited time" flavor and you don't have to send stickers to each store.

Also, the cost of these displays is so little in comparison to the mechanical parts that operate the actual machine it's likely worth the it for the flexibility in display.

Also, digital displays catch the eyes more. You're gonna get more people that notice a flashy machine and think "I'm in the mood for a slurpy". That alone is likely worth any other cost.

Capitalism doesn't have to "make sense" in terms of design or simplicity. It often doesn't. It chooses the things that return the most profit. It's not reason based in "logic" it's reason based in "profit".

Might be a single computer that's just the primary display.

Nothing in that boot sequence is a deal breaker it's just missing an Internet connection I think.

And then they blame ai for the ram shortage

Coca cola runs windows

I imagine they have an embedded raspberry pi type computer in the screen itself.

Best blue slushy

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.

Be able to change the picture remotely. New flavor? No need to print out a new sticker, remove the old one, and add the new one.

Take the damn upvote, and get outta here.

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.

I'm pretty sure its shopped because I've never seen a machine with actual displays in it for each flavor lol. They all use paper cut outs.

because computing is a forgotten magic and no one knows how to correctly operate those black boxes

Maybe only the one on the right is a screen so you can diagnose things, but the rest are paper?

SystemDrink

SystemD drink is for me and you!

Imagine having an old Slurpee machine Kubernetes cluster

I bet the actual logo display is a full screen browser too, multiple computers each running chrome just to display ads.

That was pretty close to my first thought, too

init

All we know is the screen isn't using HDMI 2.1.

That'd be super nice

Maybe I could enable fast boot and a couple other settings I've been meaning to change

They didn't enter the machines date of birth...

Its the underlying filesystem

Lemmy moment

Right? Could just use a microcontroller for each individual screen and then a separate PC to update each microcontroller if needed.

Probably so they can easily swap out flavors or mark OUT or OUT OF SERVICE, etc

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Maybe a button or two to initiate the machine cloaca to piss into the cup?

probably cheaper to use a full OS than hiring a dev to build a small embedded machine just for that i guess

Define full OS