this post was submitted on 13 Dec 2023
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Why does this produce need a massive digital signage pylon?
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.
Because flashy screens work on dumb lizard brains
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.
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.
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:
The question is, why does it run on Linux and not Apple
Perhaps it runs on a Raspberry Pi?
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)
Why would it run on a fruit?
Yes! Potatoes are the way, as our ancestors taught us!
So, an HP laptop?
Because it would be expensive, just look at the price of the Lime /s
They needed to construct additional pylons.
You need more minerals
Thanks Judicator Aldaris