I'm in Australia so it isn't as bad as the image, but 24h pending time for a purchase is fairly normal here. Anything that isn't direct person to person seems to have some kind of wait to it, although if I directly pay a friend 100 it's instant.
Unless it's a weekend, then they might hold it until monday (or even tuesday). I work in a petrol station in the UK and we have a sticker a bit like the one in the post on our pumps, but no-one ever seems to read it (or any of the health and safety signs, for that matter).
It might mostly be the banks, but I know of one gas station near me that hits that max hold, and then seconds after I’m done filling, the charge quickly switches to 30 or so dollars I put in. Whereas the other gas station that hold stayed there for almost a day. My guess is intermediary card processors play a part as well. I also learned place number 2 sells fake BIC lighters, so I don’t go there anymore.
These advertisement-delivery systems at the pumps piss me off. They blare loudly.
Here’s a question for the techie crowd.
I used to be able to press the physical buttons on either side of these screens and get the ads to mute. It was a two-button combo I discovered using a systematic method as a way to control my irritation at the excessive volume. It was either that or stick a pencil in the speaker.
This worked at gas stations in several states for months. The mute feature was surely written in as a sanity saver for the developers and technicians. It stopped working a few weeks ago, so I guess the pushed out a patch.
Not much of a question I guess, except what gives? Does anyone have insight into these systems for realsies?
Ok, now I'm wondering how common this is. I've ran into this a few times at my local gas station the past month and when I asked about it they said it's been doing it a bunch lately. Would be interesting if we find out there's some sort of malware attack on gas station pumps, would be an easy way to shut down an area remotely to cause panic.
Hard to say but generally Linux are more secure, 9 out of 10 times they'd have to be fucking with it from inside the company. More likely some kind of hardware fault causing them to reboot more often.
Of course it's running Linux. They're trying not to get hacked.
Welcome to banks, some of them just suck.
I'm in Australia so it isn't as bad as the image, but 24h pending time for a purchase is fairly normal here. Anything that isn't direct person to person seems to have some kind of wait to it, although if I directly pay a friend 100 it's instant.
Unless it's a weekend, then they might hold it until monday (or even tuesday). I work in a petrol station in the UK and we have a sticker a bit like the one in the post on our pumps, but no-one ever seems to read it (or any of the health and safety signs, for that matter).
It's to curb gas theft. They're making sure you can fill the RV before you fill the RV.
It might mostly be the banks, but I know of one gas station near me that hits that max hold, and then seconds after I’m done filling, the charge quickly switches to 30 or so dollars I put in. Whereas the other gas station that hold stayed there for almost a day. My guess is intermediary card processors play a part as well. I also learned place number 2 sells fake BIC lighters, so I don’t go there anymore.
That's normal. Although here it's usually £100. Which is good because my card caps out at £100 daily
Is that Linux?
It doesn't look like the normal boot log for Linux (or FreeBSD), so I'm not sure what it is either.
Probably some sort of embedded system
Maybe another init system idk?
These advertisement-delivery systems at the pumps piss me off. They blare loudly.
Here’s a question for the techie crowd.
I used to be able to press the physical buttons on either side of these screens and get the ads to mute. It was a two-button combo I discovered using a systematic method as a way to control my irritation at the excessive volume. It was either that or stick a pencil in the speaker.
This worked at gas stations in several states for months. The mute feature was surely written in as a sanity saver for the developers and technicians. It stopped working a few weeks ago, so I guess the pushed out a patch.
Not much of a question I guess, except what gives? Does anyone have insight into these systems for realsies?
What's next? Linux in the fridgerator? Get outta here
I mean, it's not out of question. It's very possible.
You know, every time I see something like this, I wonder how many government endpoints are Windows-based. This sends a shiver down my spine.
APT GET INSTALL FREE GAS
linux community just got banned from fuckcars 😔
Grub is timeless design
How "premium drip" of are we talking?
Very, at least
The year of Linux on the gas stop
Can a gas pump...
run doom?
Ok, now I'm wondering how common this is. I've ran into this a few times at my local gas station the past month and when I asked about it they said it's been doing it a bunch lately. Would be interesting if we find out there's some sort of malware attack on gas station pumps, would be an easy way to shut down an area remotely to cause panic.
Hard to say but generally Linux are more secure, 9 out of 10 times they'd have to be fucking with it from inside the company. More likely some kind of hardware fault causing them to reboot more often.
Gas station Linux killed my parents.
Oh no the X session crashed! D: