Hawke @ Hawke @lemmy.world

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Eager but tentative?

Usually tentative means they are not so eager.

Probably just different grocery stores with different patterns and workflows.

My experience is a normal checkout line is usually a reasonable wait so unless someone bought three carts of groceries they’ll get through before too long.

In contrast the self checkout is a clusterfuck of idiots who don’t know how to use it, people not sure where to stand while they wait because there aren’t really lines, and 1 frazzled attendant trying to cover 6-8 people simultaneously screwing up their self-checkout.

I fucking hate going to the grocery store though.

On this we agree!

That sounds like a dream self-service option.

in my experience it is:

1. Go put it all the things in the cart
2. Unpack each thing from the cart.
3. For each thing: scan it, weigh it, maybe you pack it in a bag. You get three bags, so no real option to organize, and hope you like plastic bags. Also zero table space to work with.
4. As you go, put the things you scanned on the cart with the stuff you have yet to scan, don’t mix anything up though!
5. if you scan too fast or encounter an item that is wrong in the system: get fucked wait a few min for an attendant to punch in their PIN so you can try again. If that doesn’t work, get fucked wait for a supervisor to come around and override whatever shit their system is doing wrong.
6. If you scan too slow or look at a prompt too long get fucked an attendant will be on your ass instantly to demand to know what you’re doing wrong. Yes this is contrary to the above wait time, and I don’t know why both of those things are true.

So yeah you can probably see why I hate self checkout.

Not only do I not work here, I wish to spend as little time here as possible.

So I’ll hand the scanning and bagging task to someone who has been doing it every day for years and can get that done quickly, in the lane where they provide enough table space to actually work, two people to do the two jobs of scanning and bagging… and all that without the extra steps of weighing every individual item, stopping for assistance if you look at it funny, and stopping to upsell you on the fucking loyalty program.

Grocery pickup > normal checkout > self checkout.

To be fair, a lot of Linux apps also do similar things and ~/.local is a similar swamp.

Gotta love user-mode installers… let alone portable apps.

What’s with that disaster of colorized text?

I’d say it’s both, yeah.

But also user demand partly drives what the employer provides, and some people really like those k-cups.

They use k-cups so being inconsiderate is a given.

Yes but I would interpret “heavy” to be a function of weight, not mass.

Depends on gravity ;-)

Math does not check out.

40 - 90 = -50. Not 50,000.

Edit: from the source, the correct statement is “We gain 40 000 t from meteors but also lose about 90 000 t of hydrogen.“

This cunt should no longer be able to walk the streets

FTFY

17-20 C

If they sound different they’re not lossless. (Or they’re different masters)

I’m with you on the “FOSS office alternatives are shit”, but unfortunately MS office is also shit. Google is the closest I have found to a good office suite but even that is becoming a bit chaotic and awkward. LyX is a promising word processor but also pretty awkward to use in its own way. I’ve got nothing, there.

As far as gaming, this sound less kind than intended but you deserve any shit you get for saying Linux gaming is bad these days. Apart from a few AAA games with anti-cheat where the devs just don’t want to, basically every game just works without any extra effort. Even obscure indie games. I can’t think of the last game I wanted to play that didn’t run on Linux, and often it is better under proton than Windows or native.

Because it looks awesome, and they can.

Nobody sat down and made a decision to handle country names the way we do.

This is clearly false. There was a definite point at which it was decided to call Burma Myanmar, or at a more local level Peking to Beijing.

Have you tried sfc /scannow?

Weren’t you paying attention?

The idiots are the ones willing to risk their lives and potentially die.