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Craig HockenberryYou know those gas pumps with the annoying video ads that blast away while you refuel?
They often have unlabeled MUTE buttons.
Try pressing buttons around the screen, you’ve got nothing to lose and a bit of peace to gain…
Stephen Spencer@chockenberry It’s often the second button down from the top, on the right side of the screen.
Daniel Barber
Son of a Sailor@stephenspencer Someone in my town decided to share this knowledge:
Timothy Wood@chockenberry Huh. Interesting. If so, and you have a sharpie, labelling it could be nice for the next person.
@tjw I’m going to put a sharpie in the glovebox.
Dave Hayden 🏊@tjw @chockenberry Most of the ones at our neighborhood gas station are helpfully labeled "STFU"
Looks like second from the top on the right is the standard location. They should teach that in school
David Starr@dave @tjw @chockenberry Today a funny thing happened to my US brain living in the Netherlands. I rented a van and needed to refill the gas before return. I don’t drive much here. I got to the station and couldn’t figure out what button to press - tried a bunch of options. Go inside to the convenience store: “just pump the gas and come in afterwards and pay for it”. There’s something practical to that.
Chancerubbage@djstarr @dave @tjw @chockenberry
If you needed a receipt, pay at pump, it seems the pump is often lying saying ‘clerk has receipt’ to get you to go inside and buy some snack you never wanted. In either case the clerk doesn’t have time to leave to reload the receipt paper in the pump.
When you needed a credit card to buy gas, my parents stoped driving. In fact they stopped driving as soon as self serve pumps happened, going only to the few remaining full service indie stations.
Jan Spoenle@dave @tjw @chockenberry We don’t have those in Germany (yet), but from where I stand, it looks like you guys have a lot to gain from switching to EVs (and a solar powered roof) … ☀️🔋🚙
@spoenle The way things are going we'll be lucky if EVs and solar power are even legal in a few years
(kidding, mostly..)
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Shadowbottle@chockenberry often it takes a pair of buttons, too. So if individual buttons don’t net you sanity try pairs.
Tom Harrington@chockenberry another advantage of EVs
@atomicbird Because it takes so fricken' long you're forced to walk away 😉
(I'm looking forward to having that advantage.)
@chockenberry because I charge at home almost all of the time
@atomicbird I rarely use the car anymore because my e-Bike does the same.
Christian Keefer-Moomaw@chockenberry As a bonus, you might occasionally stumble over the button combination that gets you to the maintenance menu. (Thankfully invoking this did not interfere with me pumping gas.)
Jeff@chockenberry I usually invert the contrast and turn on the wether map :-)
David Holland@chockenberry I did not know about this. Thank you for sharing!
Between the ads shouting at you from the gas pump and the people who park their cars at the pump with their stereo blasting, there isn’t much auditory peace to be found while fueling up.
But muting the pump would help. 👍🏻
WarningZ iOS App@chockenberry Yet another reason to go EV 🚙⚡️😜
Justin Miller@chockenberry This reminds me of my favorite seat-back-entertainment-screen-on-airplanes hack: just turn the brightness down all the way. Great way to avoid a screen blasting your face from a foot away. Better still: use an airline that doesn't have them.
Peter van Broekhoven@chockenberry Gonna try this next time. Although with the recent cold snap around here I’ve taken to waiting inside my car. A lot of civilized stations have brought back the hands free latches on pumps.
@chockenberry Learned about this trick a few years back and it truly improved my quality of life.
In my neck of the woods, at Shell and Exxon stations, it's the second button from the top on the right-hand side of the screen.
Rich Bruchal@chockenberry All the ones near me are extra annoying because they have the volume up so high, the distortion makes it completely unintelligible.
counternotions@chockenberry What if you press the wrong button and blow up something nearby?!