Obinice

I recently had a pretty crappy experience at a restaurant for a few reasons, the last being their tipping system. You won’t believe how they asked me to tip, it was mad.

1. There was no menu, I had to Google their name and find their website (which was some obscure subdomain on some obscure food payment site).
2. Their site didn’t work in Chrome (on any of the phones we had with us), luckily I had a backup browser installed that worked.
3. I had to order and pay on my phone, unable to use the cash I had budgeted and brought with me for the meal.
4. It asked me how much I would like to tip, but this is paying DURING MY ORDER, when I had not yet received any service or food. I chose not to tip.

Tipping, here in the UK, is only something you do when you were very happy with the service (and have the extra cash you don’t mind giving away as charity, basically). Our waiters, as with every worker in the country, are paid a real wage that isn’t designed to be subsidised by begging.

So, being asked to tip for the good service BEFORE receiving the service? That’s INSANE.

Due to the various ridiculous issues we had just trying to order food and pay for it, and the audacity of being asked to tip that way, I will not be going back there again.

What’s wrong with the tried and true system of a waiter taking your order, you eat, they take your payment at the table either with a normal wireless chip-and-pin machine or by cash, and then you leave? It’s simple, easy, smooth and fast 🤦‍♀️

But how do you load the Ultimate Boot CD for Windows 🤓 hehe

I’m in the same boat honestly, I have a lot of stuff on disks still but I just pull out an old optical drive from the box if I need to read them, or an old laptop or tower or whatever that’s got an optical drive.

I do wish booting live USB was a little more universally easy though, it can be a bit of a pain in the arse compared to live CDs, these bloody TPMs and weird bios stuff getting in the way are a real pain. But overall, disks have had their day.

I do still use long term Blu-rays for bulk 10-plus-years cold storage backup though! Wouldn’t trust flash or HDDs for that.

Do people not still do this? Isn’t it the most convenient way to store loads of DVDs and CDs?

Some countries stupidly accept non delivery as the norm, and that’s on them.

If your delivery person leaves your package outside your house, that’s NOT, I repeat NOT delivered.

They got 99.9% of the way to delivering it and then abandoned it on the street at the very last step. It must be handed to an occupant or pushed through the letterbox to be delivered. This is obvious.

What do real delivery companies in normal countries do? If they can’t deliver the parcel, they don’t just drop it on the floor and wander off, because they’re not insane. They either try to leave it with a neighbour, or they try to deliver it again another day (or depending on the service, they may leave a paper slip in the letterbox indicating that it can be collected from the local depot).

Countries that accept delivery people throwing their stuff on the floor undelivered have nobody to blame for that but themselves. That is not the norm, it is not reasonable, and they only do it because the people in those countries allow it, and don’t do anything about it.

It’s madness. Utter insanity. Imagine if the postman did this with important letters!? “The letterbox is stuck, better just leave then on the floor outside!” Can you imagine! MADNESS.

Okay but hear me out, Linux.

What has China done now?

Absolutely, though to be fair I trust the anonymous random people running the thousands of fediverse instances and communities far less than a legitimate, traceable company that gets third party audited and has to, at least, follow national laws.

I don’t love Reddit’s owners obviously, but yeah. When it comes to privacy, I don’t have any misconceptions about Lemmy being private in the least. Unfortunately :-(

Hey now, let’s not forget they killed babies too.

You haven’t said who this is? Is he supposed to be some globally recognisable celebrity?

He’s not famous here in the UK.

Good thing you censored those naughty words, everyone on the internet are children and it’s not appropriate for them to know such no-no words.

I’m glad no child knows the word “kill”. Phew.

Hey, is the building on the cover in Manchester? More specifically up in Salford?

I remember that place…

If you’re spending 30 quid to get a takeaway delivered you’re an idiot.

Most takeaways charge what, £2 at most for delivery? The meal itself is only around £20 if you’re very very hungry.

You are getting utterly and completely ripped off, but if you’re wealthy enough to throw that sort of money away so stupidly, who am I to stop you.

O’Biden, three to beam up!

I thought it was Obama’s fault? I thought everything was Obama’s fault.

You don’t still do all of this now? Does your car no longer have a windscreen? 😅

Phew, I’m glad he’s gonna stop shooting up schools. Time to hang up the ol’ hat and retire.

“Looked at some looked at some” - a lil typo there ol buddy ol pal

Friend is trying to start a conversation and catch up, “Me” is being weirdly antisocial about the whole thing.

Like, if you dislike this person that much, tell them you don’t want to be their friend any more, instead of suffering inside at how much you hate interacting with them, and leading them on.

Freakazkoid, Freakazkoid!

But how do you reach the petrol cap without a step ladder?