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  • My local supermarket added 8 self checkout machines, and removed almost all the cashier lanes.

    For a year, they pushed everyone towards the self checkout. Every… Body. Old people were clogging up the Customer Service section because they want a human. The machines constantly failed to scan, and people would just shrug and pretend like it did.

    The deviants started to realize it’s super easy to steal, as they can just pay for 1/10 of their groceries and “forget” to scan a lot of things. They started to lock up a lot of merchandise, and you need a human to unlock it.

    So now they have hired security guards to then scan receipts, as well as follow people in the parking lots.

    The whole supermarket is kind of a shit show. I counted 5 security guards to 2 workers when I was last there. I also do my shopping elsewhere.









  • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.nettoGreentext@sh.itjust.worksAnon uses a phone book
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    19 hours ago

    I remember in 2005, pulling over and calling my sister for directions on my flip phone because I got lost.

    I didn’t get mobile internet until like 2010. Not because I couldn’t, but because it was wildly expensive for a bad experience, since “mobile-friendly” was non-existent.

    This was also during the era when Google Maps was a brand new website, not a app. I think I was still MapQuesting.











  • This sounds technically possible

    If you throw something in the trash/recycle bin, it instead encodes the file into base64, then automatically tweets it out before removing it.

    The question is how many tweets can you post in an hour. I can see you hitting the rate limit pretty quickly.