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Gas station 'news' has rapidly become one of my least favorite things. It usually comes with a mute button, but frankly if it's going to exist I want a little r

• flyinghamster 9y ago
  I hate gas station telescreens, and in my experience they never have STFU buttons. I wonder if a high-power electromagnet could damage the speakers from outside the pump housing? :) Most of my local stations have replaced their pumps with these things. Fortunately, one station at least has the sense to TURN THE DAMN SOUND DOWN to where it's easy for me to ignore, and (even better) it's also the last station in town to raise prices when the local price mysteriously jumps 25¢/gallon because Reasons.
  • jerf 9y ago
    "I hate gas station telescreens, and in my experience they never have STFU buttons." Try pushing all the buttons. Whether out of some residual guilt by the developer, a general propensity towards featuritis, or perhaps some obscure regulation I've never heard of, there has always been a button mapped to mute when I tried it. And I think maybe only once was it labeled. (In my local stomping grounds I just avoid these gas stations, but when traveling I sometimes encounter them by accident. They don't exactly put "WE BLAST YOU WITH ADS WHILE YOU PUMP!" on the billboards.)