• @SpaceNoodle
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    10810 months ago

    Why does this produce need a massive digital signage pylon?

    • @[email protected]OP
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      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:

        • Apathy Tree
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          910 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)

        • @[email protected]
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          19 months ago

          I was in a hotel where there was an AV input on a TV which just showed the screen of a Raspberry Pi. If I remember correctly it was running XFCE.

          Not sure why that was because the TV channels worked correctly.

      • Otter
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        1710 months ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        510 months ago

        Well ya. That is why were are here in this thread right now. But also having a sign you can change easily is probably also useful.

    • @jaybone
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      810 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      610 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.