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.

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.

😢

The first law of robotics never said the pain couldn’t be emotional.

Girl is doing her best and changing what she can reasonably change within her locus of control.

I was at a tech conference job fair and chatting with a bunch of former game programmers.

I absolutely messed up when I asked one guy who worked on a famous game why they decided to do X feature, and if that was the reason for the game’s failure.

He looked me in the eyes and said something like, “I get orders from the business execs. So even if their ideas are obviously bad, if I don’t do it, I get replaced. After the game is released, good or bad, I get replaced. If the game doesn’t even get enough funding, I get replaced.”

Gaming industry seems so toxic.

¥1590/month.

Rough $11/month in freedom dollars. That’s not bad!

Still pricey for a solo use. What is your use cases? Lurking or a frequent poster?

Good. At a company, you get your ass fired if they catch you using non-approved equipment on company infrastructure. It can lead to leaks and infiltration, and lost of revenue.

In the military, that’s people’s lives!

Every time I see this implemented, it always seems like screwing over the end user who is trying to join for the first time. Platforms like reddit and Tumblr benefit from a friction-free sign up system.

Imagine how challenging it is for someone joining Lemmy for the first time and suddenly having to provide trust elements like answering a few questions, or getting someone to vouch for them.

They’ll run away and call Lemmy a walled garden.

It’s reporting activity, not banning people (or bots)

I switched to Linux a few years ago and you are not wrong.

Windows is a nightmare with directory organization.

Saved games can go:

• My Documents/
• My Documents/Games
• My Documents/My Games
• <app>/saved-games

Harebrained games made the very excellent Shadowrun games.

I’m not familiar with their other offerings. Honestly I just wished they made more Shadowrun games.

They shut off the Crew 2 and even planned on deleting the game from people’s libraries. They’ve added micro transactions to (I think) every single Ubisoft game in the last decade. They were pro NFTs and wanted it rolled out to games. Their Ubisoft launcher. Toxic and sexist environment.

Every few years, they make a better Assassins Creed or Far Cry that moves the open-world genre forward. But that’s the only positive thing I can say.

Y’all remember Pidgin?

That proggie was the bomb for all your AOL, ICQ, MSN, etc so you can keep up with your homies while you update your live journal.

The only solution to get out of this is to pretend to be flamboyant and treat it like you use that phase everywhere.

“This chocolate is so good let’s have sex” and “thank you for these extra napkins we should have sex”. Say it everywhere. To mailmen. To your boss. To dogs.

Make everything about sex.

Whoever makes a simulator that converts incels to healthy well-adjusted men successfully is going to be a millionaire.

So… everyone instead just went to Bluesky and Threads where sign-up links were provided rather than directory links and manifestos.

Wild! This was my exact thought as I was signing up for Mastadon. I spent like 15 minutes figuring out what Mastadon is, what server to join, what each server means. Then I did the thing like I did with Lemmy and created half a dozen accounts waiting to see which server gave me my “Account Created” email first.

Then if this game is compared to Skyrim, be prepared to hate it?

Android ecosystem is not so much better.

I’ve been a supporter of web apps. Unfortunately it cuts into app store profits so it’s often shit on.

Sorry those people sound like morons.

Work pays for everything for me. I work at a major tech company with thousands of employees nationwide.

I’m given a top of the line laptop. Im given a credit to buy anything I need to improve my home office. Their tech and purchases are theirs and when I leave, it gets shipped back.

Using personal equipment at your workplace? Triple yikes. If your company does something illegal, your personal equipment gets confiscated by police. If your company’s network gets infected, your personal info like banking/CC gets stolen too.

Yeah I can see it being pretty aggressive. It’s like being punished for something a neighbor did. It would not make them feel good and even push them to give the double middle fingers akimbo to Brazil.