Linux at the gas station

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

Holy shit. That's fucking ridiculous.

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

Welcome to banks, some of them just suck.
- 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.
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

sudo give me free gas

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?

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

I mean, it's not out of question. It's very possible.

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?

Grub is timeless design

APT GET INSTALL FREE GAS

        alias 'go go gadget'='apt-get install'

linux community just got banned from fuckcars 😔

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.

The year of Linux on the gas stop

Veeder Root boot splash is premium drip.

How "premium drip" of are we talking?
- Very, at least

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: