Airport advertising sign, looks like they forgot to make the looping video full screen.
They had to reset my screen in the airplane once, booted into Linux too 👍🏼
I had an android one
With Microsoft destroying it’s reputation for very long device support, I can only imagine they’ve also destroyed all trust in them from the embedded devices and outdoors hardware industry. These machines don’t get a lot of updates and it would suck to have to throw them away because software support ended.
Who runs a full desktop on these things
This airport
It’s not running an individual desktop for each screen. The screens are just mirrored to one desktop.
You’ll usually have a couple of “ad desktops” and then you just hook up multiple screens all over your facility to those desktops, so you have some redundancy and can easily run different ad cycles so they all don’t sync up.
Yeah, I wonder will mpv run on its own, without any DE? At least we can run Kodi that way, but I guess at least some video players are able to run without any DE or even WM. If not all, but I’m not really sure on this.
Not sure about mpv, but I use a gstreamer pipeline to tender cameras to the raw KMS terminal display. It works much more reliably (I.e. Predictable loading times and no stutter) compared to loading a DE first. Noting that it was on a low power RPI.
I used to run LibreELEC (a standalone Kodi with some very basic locked down Debian) on a Raspberry Pi 2B with 2 GB microSD card. Works very well running 1080P H264 content (version 1.2, version 1.1 does not run 1080P well) over LAN.
I upgraded the setup for Orange Pi PC One, as it allows to be less picky about what I download, and decodes H265. But even RPi2 is quite capable, especially when you need to loop one video, which you can encode as you like.
Saying that, it’s surprising someone would even consider running a full blown Ubuntu on it. To me, that’s a sign of a sheer incompetence. I have no other explanation for this phenomenon.
It’s totally doable from CLI. A script using either mpv - - vo=drm <videofile> should be a good starting point.
I think on X server you could just use startx or xinit as well.
Hey, as long as it works…
I love how it’s always just Linux fucking up.
Hey, it’s not a blue screen of death, is it? Nothing is fucked up there. Except some incompetent fucker using Ubuntu for no real reason.
Cross post from piefed?
cual aeropuerto es eso?
AIQ. Querétaro Intercontinental Airport.
Sí. AIQ
Ubuntu
Ew.
All my airport signs run Arch, BTW.
BTW people spotted in the wild
There’s people outside? This is why I stay home.
Me too, I never leave my home
a kinda old Ubuntu version ngl.
18.04 it looks like
I see
Loooooooooooooooong Boi 🐧
In my city’s history, there’s a TV that has a TV box running Ubuntu. It’s always on the home screen
Imagine running thunderbird and firefox on an info board
Probably snaps too.
Ew don’t even mention that
I think my bus runs openbsd or Linux too!
I ate a clementine yesterday that ran Debian kernel lol. :-D yuks.
I rather kms than install ubuntu.
Linux is pretty common in embedded devices. Information screens in buses in my city (Kraków) which display stuff like next stops, OSM map, time, etc. run some kind of customized Linux distribution I think, and you can often see bunch of Tuxes along with console output when it boots up.
Sadly, Windows is also common in signage. Why ever.
There was that recent “malware security” update that crashed so so many systems in airports. I saw more than one Blue Screen of Death that day.
that’s an old ass version of ubuntu. here’s hoping this screen has very restricted network access.
Knowing Ubuntu it is probably still suported and it will be for the next decade.
