Wow. I had no idea this is why all the fridges at my Walgreens got turned opaque so you have to open them to see what's in them. I even asked the people working there - they told me "it's black to let in less light so it doesn't warm up".
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Cooler screens
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#183When I read the title of this post, Cooler Screens, I expected it were about screens that somehow were -- literally and/or figuratively -- cooler.
Alas, it appears to be a not-so-cool Walgreens idea that came into practice.
PS Where does the weird name, Walgreens, come from? Maybe the name originated from the same 'great mind' having this 'cool' idea?
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#184Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
When do we get our transparent aluminum? I was promised it with Star Trek IV.
It's called sapphire.
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#185Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
I wouldn't deface them, but I keep a couple mutetheads[0] stickers in my glovebox. Perhaps I can share the "secret mute" button with the next person. [0] MuteTheAds.com
> "secret mute" button
This trick stopped working at all of the gas stations I frequent, sometime within the last year or so.
All at approximately the same time, multiple brands. Or at least multiple signages, not sure I could attest to big oil corporate structure consolidations!
I assume it was a software update from the pump/ad network vendor, possibly in reaction to the secret getting out.
So, thanks. :)
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#186I cannot wait for open source AR headsets with builtin ad blockers. That would be modern tech I could get hyped about.
A can of paint can accomplish the same thing, though, and everyone else gets to benefit from that, too.
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#187At the start of the article my assumption was that the reason to do this was to save power. After all, the big glass front is not very thermally efficient. Regular fridges like you have at home have much more insulated doors. But then we find out that not only is there still glass behind the screen, but also the screen itself is very hot and therefore consumes a lot of power. Madness.
I have to wonder whether the coolers can even maintain their target temperature with this set up -- maybe health inspectors should get involved.
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#188Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
A knife cut to the speaker diaphragm probably would just make the audio harsh and possibly (perceptually) louder. I've repaired speakers in similar conditions before. A complete girdling of the diaphragm is probably tricky to do through the speaker grille.
My suggestion would be to spray expanding polyurethane foam (e.g. Great Stuff) into the grille. Immobilize the diaphragm, and muffle anything that's left.
But, vandalism is bad. Even when it is justified retaliation. :-/
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#189Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is all covered in the post.
Sorry, I didn't notice. I read the beginning but it was a bit long winded for my taste (insert comment about modern attention spans here). I skimmed through it but obviously missed the multiple paragraphs about the Walgreens saga (insert comment about modern reading comprehension skills here).
The formatting and background do absolutely zero favors even if you're actively trying to read the whole thing.
I've worked on interactive signage for retail so I would have liked to read it, but it's just really bad.
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#190Curiously, an edition of the Encyclopedia Galactica which fell through a rift in the time-space continuum from 1000 years in the future describes the Marketing Department of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as: "A bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came."