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@Polygeekery said in Internet of shit:
The gas station by my house "upgraded" their pumps last year to ones with screens that play GSTV
If there ever was a good reason to buy an electric car, that's the one
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@TimeBandit would you rather be stuck with GSTV on your "supercharger" for 20 minutes?
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@Gąska No, I would charge it at home, or in a restaurant parking while I eat.
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@ixvedeusi said in Internet of shit:
@Polygeekery said in Internet of shit:
GSTV
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You get no argument from me.
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@TimeBandit said in Internet of shit:
@Polygeekery said in Internet of shit:
The gas station by my house "upgraded" their pumps last year to ones with screens that play GSTV
If there ever was a good reason to buy an electric car, that's the one
The only one.
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@Gąska said in Internet of shit:
@Polygeekery said in Internet of shit:
No fucking clue why anyone would watch GSTV.
Ad money.
No. That is why they play it. I was wondering why anyone would watch it.
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@Polygeekery said in Internet of shit:
I was wondering why anyone would watch it.
Very, very strong drugs
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@Polygeekery
Hey, I mean, I appreciate getting half of an ESPN top play before it cuts away to some advertisement or my pumping finishes.
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@izzion said in Internet of shit:
@Polygeekery
Hey, I mean, I appreciate getting half of an ESPN top play before it cuts away to some advertisement or my pumping finishes.No such luck. It doesn't start when you swipe your card or whatever. All the pumps are playing at all times. I think that is 12 screens, 12 different audio streams and the lack of synchronization is really annoying. It sounds very echo chamberish, which is even odder when you are outside in free air.
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@Polygeekery
The Shell stations around me do restart to a different point after you do the swipe your card song & dance, and then wind up resetting back to another point when your transaction finishes.Which at least avoids the clockmaker problem of a dozen pumps all striking midnight slightly out of phase.
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@Polygeekery said in Internet of shit:
No. That is why they play it. I was wondering why anyone would watch it.
I suppose that's why there's no mute button on the new pumps...
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@Polygeekery said in Internet of shit:
No fucking clue why anyone would watch GSTV. It is probably streamed with Flash.
Because it's not quite bad enough to drive them away?
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@ixvedeusi Arco seems to have recently toned theirs down. Before they were so annoying I'd walk to every pump to hit the Mute button. (They unmute again between customers so it wasn't a permanent solution. But hell you need to do something while pumping your gas anyway right?)
So far I haven't seen any without a Mute button. I wager gas stations that installed those saw a sharp decrease in business. Like I know of a station on my way home that hasn't installed them, so I go there now instead of the Arco that has. Especially since most people around here buy Costco or Safeway or Fred Meyer gas so they can save up whatever-points. I'm one of the few freaks left who goes to actual gas stations.
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@Polygeekery said in Internet of shit:
@LaoC said in Internet of shit:
The gas station by my house "upgraded" their pumps last year to ones with screens that play GSTV. The first ones of those I saw had a mute button that would mute the TV until your transaction was done. No such luck on these, you have to hear their programming.
The worst part is all 12 pumps are just slightly out of sync with each other. I would guess a tenth of a second or two. It is super annoying.
No fucking clue why anyone would watch GSTV. It is probably streamed with Flash.
Too bad that "Text to Image" site linked over yonder doesn't work and doesn't do GIFs. I wanted a GIF of a person calmly lighting a gas pump on fire and driving away but I can't find one.
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@blakeyrat said in Internet of shit:
Before they were so annoying I'd walk to every pump to hit the Mute button. (They unmute again between customers so it wasn't a permanent solution. But hell you need to do something while pumping your gas anyway right?)
Ah, where's @RaceProUK when you need her to throw a fit about not holding the handle when pumping gas.
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@boomzilla Well those are UK gas-- excuse me PETROL-- stations, you know the ones where all the pumps have a pilot light to keep them warm at night apparently.
One of the gas stations around here (another one I'll never visit again) put some kind of extender on the rubber part of the pumps so you can't just rest them in the tank, they pop back out. Even though the handle locks open you still have to stand there like an idiot and hold them or gas would go spraying everywhere.
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@blakeyrat said in Internet of shit:
One of the gas stations around here (another one I'll never visit again) put some kind of extender on the rubber part of the pumps so you can't just rest them in the tank, they pop back out. Even though the handle locks open you still have to stand there like an idiot and hold them or gas would go spraying everywhere.
That would serve them right.
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@boomzilla Srsly. It seemed like a MORE dangerous situation to me as it assumes the pumper is actually paying attention when they are almost certainly not. And it was obvious the extenders were after-market additions to the normal pump, so even the company that made the pump in the first place didn't think they were necessary.
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@blakeyrat yeah, a problem creating "solution" to a non-problem.
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@boomzilla And my car like a lot of newer ones has that "automatic sealing gas door" thing which only works if there's a solid 3" or so of pump to enter the door. (It even comes with a little artificial bit of plastic pipe in the trunk because otherwise you can't fill it from most gas cans.) So these pumps I had to basically push up against my car the entire time the pump was running to prevent either my car's filler cap from closing automatically or the pump from popping back out.
Anyway like I said I'll never go to that station again.
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@blakeyrat said in Internet of shit:
But hell you need to do something while pumping your gas anyway right?
I always found it to be a perfect time for a cig. Start pumping, lock down, smoke up, and you're done right when you're done.
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@Gąska said in Internet of shit:
I always found it to be a perfect time for a cig. Start pumping, lock down, smoke up, and you're done right when you're done.
Right and I use the time to practice with my bow fire starter. You just plonk down a 2x4 and a few dried leaves, grab your bow and get grinding.
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@Gąska smoking in gas stations is bad luck.
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@blakeyrat don't you carry around anything that needs welding in the car?
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@Gribnit Just do it right in one go and light a road flare so other motorists can easily see the pump you’re using is occupied.
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@TimeBandit It's not that bad a deal if you want such an expensive washing machine.
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@TimeBandit said in Internet of shit:
I'm reminded of the appliances in Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping. I can't find the clip where they start playing music at people in their homes and cause all sorts of problems. This is the best I could find:
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@boomzilla said in Internet of shit:
Ah, where's @RaceProUK when you need her to throw a fit about not holding the handle when pumping gas.
That's why we don't have GSTV in the UK. We're all too busy preventing explosions to watch it.
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@Polygeekery said in Internet of shit:
The worst part is all 12 pumps are just slightly out of sync with each other. I would guess a tenth of a second or two. It is super annoying.
I wonder why I've never seen a horror game do the thing I experienced when I was in first grade where all the Mac OS 9 computers in the computer lab started reading out a message about how they were going to shut down during different parts of the same second.
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@ben_lubar maybe you haven't played all of them.
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@ben_lubar Man, I feel old. I remember having Macintosh System 6 instead, where if I was too indecisive selecting an option from the menus in Kid Pix, it'd freeze the entire LocalTalk network, and it happened frequently enough (not just me) that they had to divide it into four segments just to control the bleeding.
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@TimeBandit Well, "pay per wash" has been true for the longest time now. Depreciation, detergent, water, electricity.
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@Rhywden Did the washing machine that intended to bring the joy of the laundromat to my home, intend to fold those costs in, though.
Edit from the future: "You've been, permanent-press rolled! n00b!"
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@DCoder Some choice tweets:
Also asking the obvious question:
EDIT: Goddamn twitter user with underscores in their name... Fixed that last one.
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@JBert
Well, that's a rather dim view on the subject, don't you think?
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Internet of shit:
@JBert
Well, that's a rather dim view on the subject, don't you think?The worst part is that you're left in the dark about why it's even necessary.
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Given IoT devices' love affair with web technologies, I wonder what happens if you feed a <blink> tag to those lightbulbs.
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Hmm.. You could market light bulbs with a wireless transmitter as ultra-full-spectrum bulbs or something. Normal full-spectrum bulbs go from like 300nm to 800nm or something? Well, if you add 2.5GHz wifi to that, the range will be from 300nm to like 125000000nm.
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@Onyx Nobody can.
That's why all decent athletics oriented earbuds have ear clips.
The Beats ones are actually quite good until the fucking ear clips break. Which Apple insists is not a warranty issue because they're Apple.
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@Weng: so Beats finally made an audio product with decent sound (ie, that doesn't sound worse than competing products costing one-third of the price)? Impressive.
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In my newspaper this morning was an article about online fraud, talking about the usual things like phishing, social media scams, etc. but also a little about IoT. That last bit concluded with the advice to make sure your IoT devices have up-to-date software and a virus scanner installed on them
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@Weng said in Internet of shit:
Which Apple insists is not a warranty issue because they're Apple.
Sounds like a quick trip to Small Claims Court, as long as the ear clips are not user-replaceable. (If they are, they're just a consumable so meh.)
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@Gurth
I hear John McAfee is inventing the IoT cybersecurity field from an undisclosed tropical island as we speak.
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@Zerosquare I mean, they're inferior to my Sennheiser Real Wireless Headphones. But for earbuds, yeah, sure.
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@dkf Reportedly, just yelling at someone on the phone will do the job.
They aren't really user replaceable. Fiddly as fuck, involves the ubiquitous electronics repair spudgers and easily broken plastic clips, and some glue.
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@Gurth said in Internet of shit:
In my newspaper this morning was an article about online fraud, talking about the usual things like phishing, social media scams, etc. but also a little about IoT. That last bit concluded with the advice to make sure your IoT devices have up-to-date software and a virus scanner installed on them
Running virus scanners on a light bulb is exactly the kind of crap I imagine when I read about IoS devices.