I used to work at Cooler Screens, if anyone has any questions :D
Why'd you join? What was the vibe in the company?
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#112There's a Walgreens right in front of my apartment. In the ~3 years I've lived here I've been in there ~3 times, mostly because of these screens
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#113Is anyone else repulsed by this stuff? The gas pumps that play advertisements while your car fills are incredibly obnoxious and makes me regret being a customer. I think of "tax what you want less of".
> The gas pumps that play advertisements while your car fills are incredibly obnoxious and makes me regret being a customer. Deface them. This is legitimate defense.
Are the speaker grilles easily accessible? I wonder if a quick jab of a pocket knife to wreck the speaker would fix it in a way that absolutely no one will be upset by.
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#114Some images in this article for those who haven’t seen them: https://www.businessinsider.com/cooler-screens-make-it-harde...
Thanks. I thought the article was some sort of future fiction thing but apparently this is real?
I'm so glad I wasn't the only one that came to the comments to try and figure out if this was dystopian fiction or not. As usual, reality continues to disappoint with the answer.
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#115Is anyone else repulsed by this stuff? The gas pumps that play advertisements while your car fills are incredibly obnoxious and makes me regret being a customer. I think of "tax what you want less of".
Helpful tip, usually the second button from the top right will mute the offense.
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#116What a waste of energy, what a destruction of resources, what a needless cause of toxic materials in landfills. Shame on everyone involved.
Yeah, and it's like they deliberately set themselves up for failure too ?!
The way they engineered it is a bit like strapping a diesel generator on the top of an electric car as a promise to increase range... but a very inefficient one that weighs almost as much as the car itself.
P.S.: Coolers I can understand, but how come freezers use glass doors rather than a real insulator ? (+ printed out list of contents... now here might be an opportunity for minimal functionality, low power, e-paper displays ?)
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#117My wife stopped into a local supermarket (in the UK) a couple of weeks ago to grab some things, she came out slightly puzzled and said to me; something along the lines of "what a pain in the arse; all of the freezers have black glass now and I had to open each one to find out what was in them". I was equally puzzled at why on earth they might have done this; It finally occurs to be, having read this, that they must h…
Are they infecting us in the UK as well? I've yet to see a screen on any of our local shops yet but I've been worried this nonsense will make it to us as well.
I can't think of what else it could have been, but this would make sense based on what she described.
I haven't seen it myself, and I don't fancy a supermarket trip _just_ to check. It's also not one we frequent so it may be a while before I witness it for myself.
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#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
You know what else enables thicker insulation and doesn't require a computer screen and e-waste? Thicker insulation .
It's not feasible to make glass doors on coolers much thicker, or else they'd be too heavy to move for a significant portion of the population without a motor or hydraulics.
if they can move a thicker door with a giant screen on it, they can move a thicker door without a giant screen on it