• Cevilia (she/they/…)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        10·
        4 days ago

        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
          5·
          4 days 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.

        • intrapt@sh.itjust.works
          4·
          4 days ago

          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).

    • foggy@lemmy.world
      6·
      4 days ago

      It’s to curb gas theft. They’re making sure you can fill the RV before you fill the RV.

    • kautau@lemmy.world
      6·
      4 days 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.

    • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
      3·
      4 days ago

      That’s normal. Although here it’s usually £100. Which is good because my card caps out at £100 daily

  • porksnort@slrpnk.net
    9·
    4 days 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?

  • ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world
    7·
    4 days 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.

  • Cataphract@lemmy.ml
    2·
    3 days ago

    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.

    • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 days ago

      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.