Unfortunately gas stations don’t actually make much money from selling you fuel. Most of the money is made from the attached convenience stores.

Almost two decades ago, I worked at a network service provider who had as a customer a company that provided the technology for serving those gas pump ads.

At each gas station they had a VSAT, a router and of course the digital signage boxes on each pump.

They fed the ads to thousands of pumps via a single T1 to HughesNet in Atlanta. They’d multicast the ads, and have a local cache at each pump that would receive the stream, cache it and serve it.

It was one of the most elegant setups I’ve ever seen, and should serve as a case study in multicast for efficient bandwidth utilization across an expensive data transmission medium.

If you want to see doctrings in action, take a look at Salt (https://saltproject.io/). They’re used to build all the module documentation (https://docs.saltproject.io/en/latest/py-modindex.html) using sphinx and they won’t accept new modules without them.

I second that. Chamberlain’s/Liftmaster’s MyQ app grows more ad-infested by the day and the RatGDO gives you local control (no cloud required)

Yup, specifically a base64 image encoded inside a Markdown document.

This can probably be accomplished with Tasker. Tasker can definitely disable the screen timeout, and my guess can lock the phone as well.

yes.

It’s a Jem’Hadar from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. They’re bred for war and require a constant supply of a drug called Ketracel-white to survive. Ergo, “War, on drugs!”

Agreed. I use 24 hour time on all my devices, working in IT it just makes things easier.

I put pepperoni, ham, bacon and pineapple on my pizza. So tasty.

Nope, they use a GUI program called ‘Data Extraction Program’:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MovieDetails/comments/n4hond/in_true_lies_1994_a_computer_is_shown_running/

Unless it’s ‘True Lies’, in which case the terrorists are running Windows 3.1.

No love for Mattermost?

My guess is people who use $100 bills for toilet paper.

Looks like it’s fixed after signing out/signing back in.

Looks like web works, but both Jerboa and Liftoff are broken.

Yep same. Something is clearly broken, or lemmy.ca has been owned like some other instances due to some emoji bug.

Respectfully, I hated Frame of Mind, although I can certainly understand why some people would enjoy it. I just felt as frustrated watching it as Riker was in it.

I’d say The Inner Light is almost universally considered the greatest TNG episode, although there are other great ones.

I in particular enjoyed The Measure of a Man, The Drumhead, The Chase, Who Watches The Watchers, Yesterday’s Enterprise, The Offspring, The Best of Both Worlds, Darmok, Chain of Command, The Pegasus, Lower Decks, and All Good Things.

Almost certainly the worst episode is Masks (or maybe Shades of Grey)

Get out of my brain. This is how I solve 90% of my issues, I do most of my serious thinking with a cigarette. Something about the little ritual of stepping away and thinking about the problem more abstractly with a nice nicotine stimulant.