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• RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  easier to buy 10 rpis than a single embedded system with 10 diplay ports

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  • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Dont need a fill rpi for this. A pico or esp32 might do the trick.

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    • froh42@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      This is being produced in relatively low numbers (thousands) , so software development is a factor. Just plopping a scripted browser in kiosk mode on Debian is cheaper than ESP32 UI development.

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      • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Idk, if they’re plugging in one for each screen it sounds like a lot; there are libraries to do most of this. It wpuld only take me about a month or someone competent a couple days to write this.

        So there’s a computer hardware cost that goes from ~5x(4?) Per machine to ~45x4 per machine. That’s ~ 2 hours of code per machine difference that this would make, assuming you were paying ~80/hr to write it, which is reasonable.

        Even assuming no code was needed for the pi, production takes twice as long as expected, and electricity costs don’t matter (which, next to the condenser; they may not) you break even at ~16 machines. 20 if you want to throw in some other random arbitrary cost.

        Even if you assune pi 0’s, at, what 20/each? You still break even before 100 units.

        So it would take less than a hundred machines for smaller chips to pay off. I’d believe an exec didnt (even ask someone else to) do this math, but how long have pi’s had multiple video out’s?

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• SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I hope the machine is up to the job. I'd pack at least 64 gigs of RAM and a nice GPU.

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  • xylol@leminal.space ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That doesn’t sound like enough, need at least like 128gb for the ai chat bot that you ask to change the picture for you

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    • SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I totally forgot about the necessity to put AI into them, I'm so sorry!

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      • EisFrei@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        What about some blockchain to track the usage?

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  • GreenCrunch@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    At some point you realize that the slushee has melted in the face of your system’s 1000 W TDP…

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    • SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That seems too low. What kind of low spec AI slush master 7000 are you using?

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      • GreenCrunch@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Stuck on a NEMA 5-15 outlet, can’t draw much more continuously. I think like 1200W is the highest continuous load you’re allowed on a 15 A circuit here in the US, but I am not an electrician so I could be wrong

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• hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yeah, modular systems. Buy 2, buy 20, setup time is roughly the same.

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