Find the mute button - usually the second button down on the right - then mark it clearly with a sharpie for the next person.
Unfortunately there are some pump models that don’t have a mute button now and the best you can do is retreat to the car and wait it out.
An air can turned upside-down gets cold enough to destroy most speaker cones, leaves no evidence that the machine is malfunctioning and needs repair, and is legal and non-suspicious to carry around in your car.
In Minecraft.
I can think of much better things to do, like keeping a flathead screwdriver handy for stabbing speakers (in Minecraft)
You are performing a public service.
“🔇”
One of my most upvoted comments in lemmy is me saying I should be allowed to smash those screens if they play ads.
Your function is to pump my fucking gas if you do anything more than that fuck off
Nobody is forcing you to use their pumps.
If everybody starts doing it (and trust me they will, it’s free money after all) we’ll be kinda forced to.
only if people don’t care enough to do anything about it.
There are only 2 gas stations in my town that don’t have these obnoxious ass pumps and both of them are on the other side of town where I’m most likely to get stabbed by a used heroin needle for my shoes.
So yeah I’d say I’m being damn near forced.
Don’t see ads at the pumps if you stop using gasoline.
Right, you can just see them at the charging station now.
That’s not how charging stations work? 🤷♂️
Around me all the charging stations have giant 120” verticals screens constantly playing video ads at max brightness even in the middle of the night, and they’re always arranged in a way that you’re forced to see them even if you’re just passing by the chargers and not using them.
And you just know they are taking advantage of some subsidized energy prices because they’re “green”.
My guess is you’re seeing the L2 chargers outside a grocery store or some such. Those charge so slowly you aren’t expected to stick around and look at them, you plug in and do your grocery shopping. If you’re looking to charge a significant amount, these are not it.
I’ve never seen a Level 3 charger with an advertisement. Hell, 90% of the time I have to scour the parking lot to find the charger because they’re usually hidden and unlabeled.
Bonus points, if you’re fortunate enough to have access to a power outlet where you park, you can usually do 99% of your charging from home, ad free.
This is the way.
Well, that’s one point in Tesla’s favor then, their chargers have none of that nonsense.
Yea, good thing that entire team didn’t get fired because one loser was having a wittew bitty tantrum….oh wait.
Who’s to say what crap the toddler king will tack on in the future, but previously and for now, no ads.
It will soon.
Second button up on the right side is generally the mute button.
I just push the bittons around in a circle motion till I find it
I accidentally called the attendant for assistance like that once
Did you ask them to mute that shit?
How often am I correct?
80% of the time
Second buttom from the top right side at least mutes them
This used to work for my local Circle K’s and now does not. Not at a single pump I’ve tried in the last two years. I’m pretty sure it’s illegal.
It’s not always the same button. My Circle K doesn’t have those big screens thankfully.
they upgraded the ones near me, haven’t found out how to mute them yet.
Works for the old Shell ones.
The button that is worn out to the point of no longer working. After it quit working, I took to staring directly at the security camera while using my free hand to repeatedly punch the screen playing the commercial. I would rate the screen as disappointingly durable. I have an electric car now so I no longer have to tolerate it.
If QuikTrip ever starts using these you can find me in the local jail after doing some light property damage
Yours doesn’t? Every one around me does. There is a mute button, and it has always been labeled, so I just wack mute and look at something else.
Different cities, likely. Please tell me you don’t live in Wichita
Wichi-nah.
I thought it was news!
It is, in a idiocracy kind of way.
I just spam all the buttons, one of them usually mutes it
My bicycle doesn’t have any ads.
Yet
Need to print this as a sticker and put it on!
I give those shit places 1 star and never return.
If you drink enough of the gas you’ll eventually stop seeing the ads
