I think, after all this time, we have found the platonic ideal of A Boring Dystopia post. It does not get any better/worse than this
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What kind of Narcissus-ass mirror is that.
Literally.
Oh yeah I'm breaking anything like that in a bathroom. And you should too.
Any digital device could come with a camera and microphones.
And best of all, there's no evidence of you breaking it without the owners admitting to filming/recording in a bathroom.
What do you think is in there? A network card, maybe 250mb ram, and the screen of course.
That’s got to be enough for at least 100 simultaneous Dooms.
Who wants to put Doom in the bathroom?
I played around with some info terminals for conventions (scan your ticket here, floor layout) and its just a (in my case horribly outdated) tablet motherboard that has some IO soldered.
I'd just tape trash bags over the screen. Or maybe paint over it
"Paint"
You carry paint to the cinema bathroom?
Never know what's going to need a spontaneous protest/mural
Everything can be used as paint. Depending on your diet it effects your painting style though.
I mean if I knew the ad was there and then I came back
You'd need to be in the restroom with at least one other occupant if the door to the restroom is being filmed.
A wrong break that bugs out the OS will get logged with the exact time.
A mic and camera you say? My audience would finally be bigger than just my unappreciative wife.
I don't live in this country, I'm only here for holidays, so I was a bit afraid of the consequences.
bullets for you!!
I would never do a property damage in a bathroom, but how would they be able to catch the person who did?
Man, I was thinking the same thing. I even dislike when people put their stickers in public places, let alone damage stuff. But that screen sure looks crackable.
If there's a camera pointing at the entrance of the toilets, they could use the recorded footage along with the time that the screen lost its network connection to narrow down the suspects. Especially since, unless you're confident you can do something to this thing silently, you'd want to do it when nobody is around.
...I guess you could also blow raspberries to drown out the sound. You might get some sympathetic looks when you leave the stall, though.
Please list the cinema (chain) so I can never come there again.
The screen could literally be playing the movie based on your ticket so you miss less scenes if you had to go to a toilet and they waste the screen on this.
Kinepolis in the Netherlands
Businesses have enough trouble keeping people from vandalizing their toilets. I can't see this making it less likely or less expensive for them to repair.
They have cameras in the stalls to document any vandalism.
A tempting surface for a toilet graffiti.
Are you referring to a dirty protest?
Last time I saw an ad in a public restroom, it was for a DUI attorney. It seemed reasonable in a bar.
Dystopian?!? Hell the door goes all the way to the floor. That looks awesome.
Unfortunately I have to inform you that that is standard here in Europe and nothing noteworthy.
Seems like a perfect time and place to try hacking the display. Unlikely to be cameras, you're stuck there for a bit anyway, and nothing of value will be lost if you monumentally fuck up.
I genuinely have to ask who this works on.
How many people walk into a restroom to take a big shit, discover they are trapped in a tiny room with a big ad machine, and decide "This is where I will be spending my money once I'm done dropping a fat turd".
More effective than any individual ad, I think a quarter feed that says "Turn off ads: $.50" would be more profitable long term.
Ads work. This has been proven many, many times, and it's the reason why companies spend billions on ads. It's not something that happens right then and there, but they get everyone. You are not safe from ads, even if you think you're better than others. "Who does this work on?" is the wrong question. We should rather ask "How can we make it stop?".
We can make it stop by destroying the device
Ads work.
Some ads work some of the time. A well-researched strategy for rolling out a messaging campaign can convince enough people to turn a profit on certain kinds of products within certain marketplaces.
Just throwing (literal) shit against a (literal) wall can easily cost more than it brings in. Marketing campaigns can - and often do - fail. Ad copy can net a negative ROI. The notion that advertisement is infallible is just as fallacious as the notion that "I'm too smart to be fooled".
“Who does this work on?” is the wrong question. We should rather ask “How can we make it stop?”.
I want it to stop because it's fucking annoying and invasive. But part of my strategy is to ask the hard questions like "Who is actually profiting from this installation?" And my money is on "the ad agency collecting money off the installation". Maybe the bar is getting some kind of nominal kickback, at least until the ad agency goes fly-by-night and the bar owner is left with the cost of removing the nussance.
Yes but also that mirror positioning. The last thing I want to do while shitting is stare at myself shitting.
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Turn off ads: apply the Gerber Shard I keep on my keyring
Last time I visited a cinema the toilet was plastered in AI slop advertisements.
Never mind that I'm already not buying whatever is being shoved in my face as I'm trying to take a leak. But does it have to be AI slop?! Really, you gotta remind me that you're killing the world economy and ecology for producing an authoritarian dystopian hellscape as I'm trying to take a piss?!!!
Moisten some toilet paper and cover the mirror. Or shit with the door open. I close it for yalls benefit anyway
That's some shit right there... I can smell it.