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Software bloat? This elevator needs an 8GB Core i5 (www.theregister.com)

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BORK!BORK!BORK! Paris might sometimes be called "The City of Light" or perhaps "The City of Love" by the romantically inclined. Judging by this hotel's elevators, "The City of Bork" is more appropriate.

Spotted by eagle-eyed Register reader Nathaniel in a Paris hotel, what we assume to be digital signage is instead stalled on the all too familiar American Megatrends BIOS configuration screen. The computer behind the scenes also seems a bit overpowered to serve information for hotel services.

Instead of enticing elevator riders into the undoubtedly delightful bars and restaurants of the establishment (apparently a Novotel not far from the Eiffel Tower) or whatever it should be doing, this screen has temptations of an altogether more technical nature.

A CometLake CPU? An i5 no less? Sort of up-to-date. And that 8 GB of RAM? The way memory prices are going, that might be enough to buy you a nice hotel room in some cities, and at least a decent coffee and a croque monsieur in Paris.

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[–] skulkbane@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (10 children)

There is 2 things to this, its cheaper to buy hardware like a raspberry pi or similar with 8gb of ram and use that to build the elevator. And it might genuinely easier to source the parts and future spare parts.

But as a developer I want to be snarky and say why does a elevator need 8GB, it should have 256MB and use 168 MB max where 100 MB is display graphics and music, 5 is the control system with 3 copies of the variable for redundancy and the rest is telemetry and a memory leak that eats 1MB every 2 weeks because someone is resizing the audio buffer for floor announcements everytime.

But its probably just a mini pc that's using 512Mb all in all running some linux distro. and the 8GB is just not being used.

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago (9 children)

Raspberry pi’s are unreliable POS. We use some at work to just display a static web page that refreshes a few times an hour and somehow they fail at that. They’re good enough for us since we’re just an office showing some stats. But this is proper digital signage.

For something like this where you really need 100% uptime (except for this) there’s a whole army of specialty PCs built for this role. Passive cooking so there’s no fan to fail, beefy over built power supplies, and usually some built in special IO. They’ll usually have hardware watchdogs too, that’ll reboot the system if it’s not responding.

[–] ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I don't know... I'm using a Raspberry Pi 4 for a home server and I have 243 days straight of uptime and I've never had it crash. It's a great little server doing a good running Pihole and unbound.

[–] Routhinator@startrek.website 2 points 3 days ago

I have RPis for DNS. Five years without a hitch on Pi4s

3D printer has been running on a Pi3 for almost 8 years.

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