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[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 34 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

For the bottom machine, run the faucet for a few seconds before you put your cup under it. Last thing anyone wants is half-watered down cherry coke or homeopathic fanta.

[–] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 12 points 4 hours ago

Homeopathic Fanta lol, I'm gonna use this in the future

[–] scott@lemmy.org 20 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Those vending machines have facial recognition cameras on them.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 8 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] scott@lemmy.org 16 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)
[–] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 11 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah, says so right there in the brochure. "Video capability" AND it's got bluetooth, which is a famously promiscuous protocol so if you're anywhere near one of these things with BT enabled on your fone it's fucking in your BT, seeing your status

edit: I bet it can even tag me driving by listening to Spotify on my earbuds. I can get a lot further from my phone than I'd be from the drink machine in who knows how many fast food spots before service drops.

That's actually pretty terrifying now that I think about it and I've long been a fan of BT earbuds but damn, these drink machines and any number of unknown nodes could just be watching me drive around

[–] tyler@programming.dev 3 points 4 hours ago

That isn’t the one from the picture and I’ve never seen one of those in the wild. Not that they don’t exist, but the comment I replied to said “those” referring to the one in the image, which clearly doesn’t have a pinhole camera.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 6 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

OK so not the one from the picture then.

Edit: yeah, no camera. So the new one has a camera, but the old one, the one from the meme, does not. I’ve never seen the new one, have seen plenty of the old one.

https://crewconnect.coca-cola.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2020-CCFS-User-Guide-9000.pdf

[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Not sure about that, but I did see numerous new Coca-Cola products in new flavors that I assume they put together by scraping metrics from these; and if I remember correctly they do have cellular interface.

[–] scott@lemmy.org 1 points 6 hours ago

Google it or look at my other comment for source

[–] cm0002@lemmy.cafe 18 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

No flavor customization options ❌

At least 6 flavor shots available to add to the base flavor ✅

[–] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 15 points 5 hours ago

Yo dawg, I heard you like sugar so I put sugar in your sugar.

[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Six flavor shots that mix with all the others and end up just tasting like a combination of them all. 😷

[–] arnitbier@sh.itjust.works 12 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (3 children)

Actually its like crazy precise tube delivery some guy made a fortune engineering it 👍 So that exact doesn't happen

Surgical machines use it now it was revolutionary at the time

Peter Dorneys patents focus on various aspects of beverage dispensing, including the efficiency and accuracy of drink preparation. His innovations have paved the way for automated systems that can mix and dispense beverages with precision, which is crucial in both commercial and medical applications. https://patents.google.com/patent/US8127805B2/en

[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

My bad. But why does it taste like shit then?

[–] xylol@leminal.space 2 points 4 hours ago

Because its just boxes of syrups that come through dirty hoses no one cleans from a closet in the back that's filled with roaches. Also depends if someone swaps the syrup box to a new box when it runs out or it just tastes like soda water

[–] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Yeah but the people at the theatre don't replace the concentrate pouches when they are running low so you still end up with diluted garbage that is mostly just plain soda water

[–] Quadhammer@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Bullshit it always tastes like it has vanilla in it

[–] 13igTyme@lemmy.world 10 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

FYI, those machines are rarely cleaned.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

FR, the lines on the top machine get hooked up to a metering pump whose intakes are

A. Bag of "Soda" syrup which comes in a box

B. Air Tank of Carbonation

C. Water

The outlet hoses themselves are transparent so a lot of serious issues would be noticed and rectified, but in general stores don't implement proper protocol to clean or change them out regularly. There is actually a couple of bacterial strains found almost exclusively in the lines, I've had the priviledge to examine them in person. They're rarely very harmful but it's kind of neat.

The actual machine people see usually only houses the refrigeration unit with the pumps and bags and tank on the other side of a wall or hidden under a counter.

[–] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

i like to think the soda dispenser bacteria enhances my biological profile

[–] Harvey656@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

... is that the reason some places drinks taste different?

[–] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 8 points 5 hours ago
[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 8 points 7 hours ago

Instructions unclear. Sees hole, unzips...

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 5 points 3 hours ago

Just pick your poison and dispense for like 1 second into the tray. Yes it's wasteful, but that's their fault for making you have to flush the tube.

[–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 2 points 16 minutes ago

It's not a "cloaca dispenser", it doesn't dispense cloacas. It is a "soda cloaca", it has all sodas coming out the same hole.

[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

How am I supposed to mix with this one?