Culver’s has started doing tableside ordering at some stores. Go in, sit down, scan the QR at the table. Takes you to a website where you can order and pay. They bring your food to you. It’s amazing, especially for those “I need a cheeseburger without having to talk to anyone” times.
Yeah, this opinion piece reeks of “buyer’s remorse” for having paid a premium for hardware that has the Apple logo on it, and then being mad that it’s very locked down. That’s been Apple’s thing forever, you kind of can’t blame anyone else for your purchase decision at this point.
For most people, the hardware and operating system are “one thing,” inseparable. Most people are not installing a different OS on their hardware, even if it is possible and relatively simple for people who are technically inclined. Does that mean that most people are “locked in”? Not really, not from their perspective. They bought “the thing,” and “the thing” either works for them or it doesn’t.
So we have this author lamenting that “the thing” he bought doesn’t work for him the way he’d like, without recognizing that if he had specific needs from “the thing” that it doesn’t provide, he failed to sufficiently research “the thing” before purchasing it.
Careful now, spez might see this post and ban you from reddit for it.
Better than those commie pinko two-cock manpits.
The assumptions that people make about age boggle my mind. You know that the people who made the internet are all “old” now, right?
I’d say that a lot of the accounts which do a lot of posting/commenting are run by teenagers — because most adults probably wouldn’t have the time for that much posting.
Challenge accepted.
Lemmy is a server application. Mastodon is a server application. Pixelfed is a server application.
I don’t use Lemmy. Never have. And yet here I am.
Yeah it’s even worse than that.
fedia.io is a specific “provider” in this context. fedia.io runs on mbin. Lemmy is analogous to mbin. Many “providers” run on lemmy: lemmy.world, lemmy.dbzer0.com, lemmy.wtf, etc.
What is being provided is fediverse access. “Fediverse” is not my mostest favorite term, but it’s the one that’s most accurate.
Oh god no. That’s like “I chose Burger King as my McDonald’s provider.”
Since you’re on fedia.io, which runs mbin, I can answer some of that for you.
Under a post (or a comment for that matter) there is a “More” link. “Open original URL” will open a new tab of that post or comment at the instance the user the post or comment was from.
So if I Open original URL on this post, it will open a new tab at fedia.io for this post - because you posted it, and you posted it from your fedia.io account, at that instance.
However, if I Open original URL for the comment by @[email protected] a new tab will open of that comment in this post at lemmy.wtf.
That’s how that function works, but the reasons you’d actually want to do it are limited. Perhaps the instance you’re viewing the post through is defederated from some other instance, and so you wouldn’t see comments from users at that instance. Opening the post “somewhere else” that wasn’t defederated from the instance you wanted to see comments from would then let you see them - but not interact there, unless you also had an account at that instance.
So far as I know, fedia.io is only defederated from a very small number of tankie-heavy instances (lemmy.ml and hexbear/chapo.chat are the ones that come to mind). I don’t think the thing you are asking about doing really has a use case.
alt.binaries
It’s okay, we’ll all be able to go back to Digg soon.
That’s not going to change anything either, not by itself.
Everything, everywhere.
When everthing is a joke, nothing is a joke.
That’s not how Social Security works. It’s not a retirement fund.
The people who pay in today fund the soc sec payments to people who are qualified to receive benefits today.
Are we just going to have an epidemic of elderly people working until they die/collapsing in the street?
Yes.
Puzzled? Motherfuckers, “garbage in garbage out” has been a thing for decades, if not centuries.
I read that as
I can imagine that cars need lots of dildoes …
I pretty much stopped playing games altogether because I am addicted to the yellow. Close matches are awesome, no matter if my side wins or loses.
Oh, I definitely wouldn’t say that “no contact” should be the only option. I think McD’s has taken it a bit too far; you still can order from a person at a register, but it’s pretty much an afterthought now.
But I do think that having those no contact options available for whoever wants to use them, for whatever reason, is a positive thing. If I’m having a particularly bad bout of social anxiety, just sitting at a table and eating my cheeseburger “like a normal person” can be very grounding, but it might not be something I’m able to do if I have to talk to a person to place my order.