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[-] Dasnap@lemmy.world 185 points 10 months ago

Shit must look dystopian to anyone who doesn't understand what it is.

[-] Samsy@lemmy.ml 94 points 10 months ago

I bet there was a granny, reading it line by line and crumple about where the fucking apples at.

[-] Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 35 points 10 months ago

What u mean granny just grep 'apple' Duh

Lmao

[-] ooterness@lemmy.world 41 points 10 months ago

ALL SHALL BOW BEFORE THE DARK OBELISK OF TECHNOLOGY.

[-] fluxion@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago

Some crusty broken distro install with a broken boot that may or may not be due to a bad disk or fs corruption is pretty much as dystopian as it gets.

[-] ElderWendigo@sh.itjust.works 12 points 10 months ago

And this comment is about as "First World Problems" as it gets.

[-] cygnus@lemmy.ca 154 points 10 months ago

My supermarket uses Arch btw.

[-] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 93 points 10 months ago

I'm sure they announce it on their loudspeakers when you're in the store too.

[-] Asudox@lemmy.world 59 points 10 months ago

"Beware peasants! This store uses arch btw."

[-] Grass@sh.itjust.works 13 points 10 months ago

Oh man I would do this all the time. When I worked a grocery store it had suse and later they switched to windows. Before if anything didn't work it was user error like rebooting with personal items left on the keyboard. After we had self checkouts that would bluescreen and other than myself only two people knew how to reboot them. If it had arch I would make sure everyone knew.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 108 points 10 months ago

Why does this produce need a massive digital signage pylon?

[-] Prunebutt@feddit.de 78 points 10 months ago

They needed to construct additional pylons.

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.de 11 points 10 months ago

Thanks Judicator Aldaris

[-] nitefox@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 months ago

You need more minerals

[-] CmdrKeen@lemmy.today 39 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

No idea where it's from or what it usually looks like since I just nabbed this off of Facebook, but my guess is to display ads, or perhaps some slo-mo videos of fresh fruit being tossed in an appetizing manner in an attempt to trigger your Pavlovian reflex to buy some of those oranges.

Couldn't find any pictures of that particular setup operating under normal conditions, but here are some similar ones to give you an idea:

[-] SigmarStern@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 10 months ago

The question is, why does it run on Linux and not Apple

[-] CmdrKeen@lemmy.today 38 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Perhaps it runs on a Raspberry Pi?

[-] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 10 months ago

Or orange pi. Banana pi.

The best thing I learned when writing this comment (because I know there are other fruity labeled pi computers) is that you can look up “other fruit pi” and actually find results. Semi-relevant ones. (I use ecosia, not google/bing/askjeves, so ymmv)

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[-] otter@lemmy.ca 17 points 10 months ago

Because it would be expensive, just look at the price of the Lime /s

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

Why would it run on a fruit?

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[-] const_void@lemmy.ml 12 points 10 months ago

Because flashy screens work on dumb lizard brains

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[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Big Fruit is going to control our minds and enslave us all. If only they could get the interns to configure their shitty Linus distro.

[-] theotherone@kbin.social 6 points 10 months ago
[-] ElderWendigo@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago

Do you really want an explanation for why a market might want large signage that they can change without much extra labor? Seems self evident to me.

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[-] comador@lemmy.world 57 points 10 months ago

It got too close to the Apples and was corrupted.

[-] CmdrKeen@lemmy.today 26 points 10 months ago

Well, it doesn't look like a core dump

[-] RustyNova@lemmy.world 53 points 10 months ago

Can a linux/systemd nerd explain what the error is? I know it's a shutdown sequence, but I'm curious on the fault

[-] CameronDev@programming.dev 112 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It is actually a boot failure. Normally the kernel reads some config from the initrd (the bootloader loads initrd and passes it to the kernel - thanks dan) and then does a bunch of setup stuff, and then it mounts the actual root filesystem, and then switches to using that. In this case, the root filesystem has failed to mount.

Hardware failure is most likely the cause, but misconfiguration can also make this happen. Probably hardware though.

If its misconfiguration, an admin can reattempt to mount the root drive on /new_root, and then ctrl-d to get the init system to try again

ELI5: couldnt open C:/ drive

Edit: clarified what loads the initrd - as per dans comment.

[-] dan@upvote.au 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Normally the kernel loads an initrd filesystem,

The bootloader (GRUB) loads the initrd, not the kernel. The kernel accesses stuff from the initrd, but it's already loaded by that point.

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[-] earthquake@lemm.ee 50 points 10 months ago

These kinds of public errors are almost always a hard drive failure.

[-] CmdrKeen@lemmy.today 12 points 10 months ago

Using an actual hard drive for an embedded system like this would be a failure in and of itself.

Unless it literally has to store several hours' worth of HD video content, no reason the entire system couldn't fit on an SD card.

[-] constantokra@lemmy.one 31 points 10 months ago

It's been my experience that SD cards are almost always what causes a failure on a SBC. Given the cost of the screens, i'd probably choose something that could boot off nvme storage. Or at least tape a new, configured SD card to the case of the SBC for when this inevitably happens.

[-] VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca 21 points 10 months ago

An SD card is MUCH less reliable than a good hdd unless it's read only.

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[-] aard@kyu.de 23 points 10 months ago

Systemd has a feature to shorten lines too long for the display, which is a pretty stupid idea, as you can see here.

The service failing here would be initrd-switch-root.service.

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[-] TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 10 months ago

Who doesn't love some kernel panic during shopping

[-] Synthead@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago
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[-] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Or at the disco.

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[-] Hiro8811@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago

Do they use a raspberry pi?

[-] CmdrKeen@lemmy.today 14 points 10 months ago
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[-] MNByChoice@midwest.social 20 points 10 months ago

Is this an actual video wall? Looked like bad CGI art. Kinda absurd.

Great post though.

[-] CmdrKeen@lemmy.today 10 points 10 months ago

I haven't seen this thing in action under normal conditions since I just looted the picture off Faceborg, but I imagine it probably shows a slideshow of ads.

[-] yesman@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago

I had a HDD fail on my media server and that screen gives me ptsd. I could clean it up with fsck for a while, but it meant plugging a keyboard and monitor into the box. A huge PIMA, I should have swapped out that drive the first time it happened.

[-] CucumberFetish@lemmy.wtf 9 points 10 months ago

You didn't immediately swap the failing drive? I feel sorry for the media server. It was trying it's best

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[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 16 points 10 months ago

Neat, I saw a price scanner at Walmart with an Android error today

[-] Bloodyhog@lemm.ee 10 points 10 months ago

Oh man, I WANT THIS THING! That is what I call a cool feature in home design. Time to think how to do it relatively cheaply in my study...

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 6 points 10 months ago

This is an old image

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