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obsidianfoxxy7870@lemmy.blahaj.zone to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 个月前

Linux at the gas station

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Linux at the gas station

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obsidianfoxxy7870@lemmy.blahaj.zone to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 个月前
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  • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pub
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    Of course it’s running Linux. They’re trying not to get hacked.

  • Cevilia (she/they/…)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Holy shit. That’s fucking ridiculous.

    $175 hold for up to 72 hours? Fuck that shit right out of here.

    • RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Welcome to banks, some of them just suck.

      • Cevilia (she/they/…)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        That’s a really fucked up system. Sorry you have to deal with that shit. Over here the banks don’t get a say in how much the hold is for, merchant requests a £40 hold, bank holds £40 until the transaction’s closed. End of.

        • RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          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.

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          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).

          • Cevilia (she/they/…)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            It’s a good job the kind of person who doesn’t read safety signs isn’t handling explosives. /sarcasm

    • foggy@lemmy.world
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      It’s to curb gas theft. They’re making sure you can fill the RV before you fill the RV.

    • kautau@lemmy.world
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      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.

  • bigfondue@lemmy.world
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    sudo give me free gas

  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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    Is that Linux?

    • SteveTech@programming.dev
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      It doesn’t look like the normal boot log for Linux (or FreeBSD), so I’m not sure what it is either.

      • Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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        Probably some sort of embedded system

      • Mwa@thelemmy.club
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        Maybe another init system idk?

  • disco@lemdro.id
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    What’s next? Linux in the fridgerator? Get outta here

    • somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      I mean, it’s not out of question. It’s very possible.

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    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?

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    Grub is timeless design

  • BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world
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    linux community just got banned from fuckcars 😔

  • ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world
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    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.

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    APT GET INSTALL FREE GAS

    • Hupf@feddit.org
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      alias 'go go gadget'='apt-get install'
      
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    The year of Linux on the gas stop

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    deleted by creator

    • obsidianfoxxy7870@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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      How “premium drip” of are we talking?

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        Very, at least

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    Can a gas pump…

    run doom?

  • Stefen Auris@pawb.social
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    Oh no the X session crashed! D:

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    Gas station Linux killed my parents.

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