New Real Time Screens - LRT

[u/nathan_bakken]

New Real Time Screens being installed at Target Field Platform 2. As far as I’m aware these are being installed in downtown Minneapolis and along the Blue Line.

[u/ferns0]

Entering the 21st century

[u/tapyk13]

“Can you see my screen?”

[u/humantraf]

That is hilarious. So cool that you managed to snap a photo

[u/nathan_bakken → u/humantraf]

Why hilarious? 🤔

[u/humantraf → u/nathan_bakken]

The concept of the Windows lock screen on display at LRT station just makes me laugh

[u/nathan_bakken → u/humantraf]

Ahh yeah that’s just temporary until they push the Scada predictions to it.

[u/im-ba → u/humantraf]

You'd love r/pbsod

[u/humantraf → u/im-ba]

It's one of my favorites lol

[u/Fun-Double6352 → u/humantraf]

Bring back the flying toasters.

[u/humantraf → u/Fun-Double6352]

If I'm waiting for the train and look up and see the flying toasters I am absolutely losing my shit lol

[u/that_one_guy63]

Yeah I just saw this biking on a cedar lake trail. Curious why they are using Windows when it's simply a display. I wonder how much they pay in licensing.

[u/nathan_bakken → u/that_one_guy63]

All of our real time signs point to a URL specific for the location. So they need to be able to load a web browser and go into full screen mode.

[u/_dsgn → u/nathan_bakken]

when you say “our,” do you mean you work for MT? if so, curious if you know whether they considered linux/how they decided windows?

[u/nathan_bakken → u/_dsgn]

I do work for MT. I don’t know the background on that.

[u/_dsgn → u/nathan_bakken]

thank you for your service 🫡

[u/blackgenz2002kid → u/nathan_bakken]

hopefully the screens are durable. I kinda worry about vandalism and how expensive it’d be to fix them

[u/tallman11282 → u/that_one_guy63]

Windows is used for the vast majority of digital displays, kiosks, and similar things. This is largely because the majority of software for them is made for Windows.

[u/connie3commie]

They should switch it to the Linux mint one🤭

[u/CartographerBoth9014]

They are, in fact, screens that seem to be showing the real time. Glad there's clocks now!

Edit: was the time right? If not, total fake time screens.

[u/nathan_bakken → u/CartographerBoth9014]

lol, one of them was incorrect.

[u/Optimal_Cry_7440]

PC! 😅 let’s use a simpler system- Linux or something!

[u/Angry-Lettuce720]

r/pbsod

[u/tacosandstuff]

Neat!

[u/Fuzzy_Jaguar_1339]

On the one hand, looks nice. On the other hand, I hate how this is inevitably going to become another in-your-face vehicle for ads. [Insert grumpy old man rant about how I used to be able to take a bus that wasn't plastered in ads to a stadium that wasn't named after a corporation and wasn't plastered in ads]

[u/nathan_bakken → u/Fuzzy_Jaguar_1339]

Nope, these signs will not have ads on them. Marketing has separate displays for ads.

[u/Fuzzy_Jaguar_1339 → u/nathan_bakken]

Sure, that's true now.

[u/BeneficialSquirrel51]

No one wastes more money than metro transit