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[–] 47 points 11 months ago

Of course it's running Linux. They're trying not to get hacked.

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  • [+] 37 points 11 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)
  • [–] 15 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Welcome to banks, some of them just suck.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    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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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    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).

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago

    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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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    What's next? Linux in the fridgerator? Get outta here

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago

    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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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago

    linux community just got banned from fuckcars πŸ˜”

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago

    Grub is timeless design

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    Veeder Root boot splash is premium drip.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    The year of Linux on the gas stop

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    Can a gas pump...

    run doom?

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    Gas station Linux killed my parents.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Oh no the X session crashed! D:

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