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Big Bowie Bonanza posted:I can’t loving stand all the gambling commercials No media is worth experiencing even a single ad for. My pihole no longer blocks the ads on the news app on my Roku. I valued it, it had local news clips and weather, but out it fuckin goes bc I am not watching or hearing any ads.
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Yorkshire Pudding posted:Back to the "getting in queue for places online", I have no clue what the gently caress is going on with some places. My 5 year old needed a haircut and the weather was about to turn lovely so I just found some SportsClips nearby that was open on Sunday. Registered an account through their website and "got in line" through their system. Haircut was at 3:45 so it said to be there at 3:30. I rolled up at 3:30 and sat down with about 10 other people in the waiting area. There was no cashier/clerk person, so after half an hour I went to one of the stylists and said, "Hey, I scheduled an appointment for 3:45. Any idea what time a stylist will be available?" I've never had that happen before. When I sign in online I have my spot saved. I've gone in to places like Great Clips and there's 5 people already waiting there and I walk through the door and the first thing they ask is "did you check in online?" They check, I did, I'm in front of all of those people.
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Cactus Ghost posted:online ordering sucks rear end. it takes fifteen seconds and one button press to order a pizza by phone and i can just pay when i pick it up. it takes bare minimum five minutes to order through some cokehead UX's latest fuckup and i have to type my fuckin cc info into some text field i cant see because zooming out is disabled on the mobile site for no god drat reason I like how people lie to themselves about the superiority of what their present way of doing things so that they don't have to change. I get it you get comfortable doing something a certain way, and so flaws are ignored/underplayed while the new things issues are overplayed. This applies to pretty much everything by the way. Electric cars dealt with a whole lot of "I need to go 5000 miles uphill both ways in the snow every day". Video games suffer from antiquated mechanics being considered crucial. That sounds like a cellphone aps/websites suck poo poo complaint more than an online ordering sucks complaint. Sure. Absolutely. Bad UI is bad. I use our local state service mostly and they aren't perfect but it's not covered in ads (gee why are these chains on top) and I don't think they have any ghost kitchens on it. edit: It doesn't matter anyway because both online ordering and phone calls can exist in the same reality. Duck and Cover fucked around with this message at 20:04 on Jan 22, 2024 |
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Normalization of online ordering just makes it more difficult to get into a space. Just to take a CC in a PCI compliant manner is bucks. Without SEO and reliability experts you won't show up in searches. A place that 100% does not take an online order is likely to be a lot better food than shop that doesn't, for likely less. Bonus points for cash only with their own driver that shows up carrying.
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Jan 22, 2024 20:16
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Back when I used to go to IRL barbers there was a just a chalkboard next to the door where you write your name to get in line lol.
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Jan 22, 2024 20:21
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I just have a Mexican dude I text that lines me up
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Jan 22, 2024 20:25
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On more than one occasion I've gone to Chipotle only to be turned away at the counter because they were only fulfilling online orders at the time. Being spontaneous is tougher than it used to be.
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Car Hater posted:It's simple. We uh kill the shareholders. Congrats you now have to replace them and the replacements will do the same thing because you have not addressed the deeper problem of a mode of production based on assets compounding themselves This is a perennial problem with consumerist critiques of capitalism, they're all "I want to get rid of only those parts of capitalism that burden me, a global north labor aristocrat". Getting rid of capitalism also means all the luxuries this thread is about don't just get enshittified, but go away, forever. Woolie Wool fucked around with this message at 21:25 on Jan 22, 2024 |
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SettingSun posted:On more than one occasion I've gone to Chipotle only to be turned away at the counter because they were only fulfilling online orders at the time. Being spontaneous is tougher than it used to be. went to a popeyes a few months ago and they locked the doors while we were still inside, at like 3 pm on a weekday or an arbys that wasn't doing orders at the counter because they had "just washed the seats/tables" underpaid, understaffed
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TotalLossBrain posted:That's not how that works in my local sports clip. I’m assuming I was supposed to go in and “check in to the store” when I came in, and I did not do that and instead just sat down waiting for half an hour.
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Zamujasa posted:underpaid, understaffed aka "we're making plenty of money as-is, therefore no problem detected" I think this era of capitalism will go down in history as the "just how much can we gently caress around before we actually have to find out" phase. Unfortunately I think it's a lot. I think people in general are willing to put up with a huge amount of bullshit. People want what they want, and if they want popeyes they're not gonna go to kfc for the most part. Covid really opened companies' eyes as to how much they can really screw people at the end of the day.
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Cosmik Debris posted:aka "we're making plenty of money as-is, therefore no problem detected" I think we've handed too much power to capital and short of black death 30% mortality type event we won't have the will to fight back and they'll keep twisting the screws until we have whatever comes after cyberpunk dystopia. The matrix maybe, but with ads.
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Outrail posted:I think we've handed too much power to capital and short of black death 30% mortality type event we won't have the will to fight back and they'll keep twisting the screws until we have whatever comes after cyberpunk dystopia. The matrix maybe, but with ads. so…. potential upside to possible impending ww3? nah who am i kidding, it is accelerationist folly to think global catastrophe will do anything but further entrench the ruling class. it would make me feel better if i knew about any concerted efforts to get humanity back on a less suicidal path instead of slowly coasting into the abyss just tired of everything getting shittier man
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Outrail posted:I think we've handed too much power to capital and short of black death 30% mortality type event we won't have the will to fight back and they'll keep twisting the screws until we have whatever comes after cyberpunk dystopia. The matrix maybe, but with ads. Nah we're just gonna keep going business as usual with this until we physically can't sustain agriculture enough to feed people, then the global population dies back. This keeps going until there isn't a global economy anymore, and people just huddle in the few habitable places still burning every hydrocarbon they possibly can.
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Woolie Wool posted:Congrats you now have to replace them and the replacements will do the same thing because you have not addressed the deeper problem of a mode of production based on assets compounding themselves I mean, did you run out of bullets?
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withak posted:Back when I used to go to IRL barbers there was a just a chalkboard next to the door where you write your name to get in line lol. I bring my kids to a middle eastern guy and basically we just sit down and wait. It's a no appointment place that only cuts men. 15€ per kid is worth it vs. me doing it myself (I've cut their hair plenty of times)
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Lol at going to the barber. https://flowbee.com/
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Atopian posted:I mean, did you run out of bullets? You cannot kill an economy or a way of life with bullets, capitalism is not a matter of Bad People doing the Bad Things, that is a completely idealist approach that, even if "successful" leads to a circular revolution where the revolutionaries do the same thing the original regime did, because their economy demands it.
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Duck and Cover posted:I like how people lie to themselves about the superiority of what their present way of doing things so that they don't have to change. I get it you get comfortable doing something a certain way, and so flaws are ignored/underplayed while the new things issues are overplayed. This applies to pretty much everything by the way. Electric cars dealt with a whole lot of "I need to go 5000 miles uphill both ways in the snow every day". Video games suffer from antiquated mechanics being considered crucial. which part was a lie, nerd
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Duck and Cover posted:Lol at going to the barber. https://flowbee.com/ Yeah I just give myself a #2 buzz at home now.
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Flip top caps for bottles: manufacturers have shrinkflated the plastic density in the caps down so low that the caps self destruct halfway through the bottle if you open even slightly off-axis.
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Duck and Cover posted:Lol at going to the barber. https://flowbee.com/ 
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Woolie Wool posted:You cannot kill an economy or a way of life with bullets, You can with enough bullets, it's one of the more straightforward ways to do a genocide
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Cactus Ghost posted:which part was a lie, nerd It's okay the technology doesn't bite, yet. withak posted:Yeah I just give myself a #2 buzz at home now. I use clippers, a 1-2 depending on my whims (and whatever guide happens to be convenient) . I like my hair short so it dries and I do not like going to the barber because I'm lazy and it's boring. Duck and Cover fucked around with this message at 20:36 on Jan 23, 2024 |
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My hair stylist (that's right, stylist, not "barber", I'm a fancy lad  ) has moved studios like three times since I started going to get and it always take me too long to find where she went so I end up with a haircut NOT from her in the interim and I hate it.  I hope she stays with her current place a longer amount of time. But the new place is even more independent than the last couple she was at. You can't schedule an appointment through the studio, you have to go through the stylist themselves. With her, it's through IG, so now I have to follow her on IG. At least I'll (probably) notice if/when she goes somewhere else? But she's worth it. Like...she's the first person that's given me a haircut I actually LIKE vs barbers/"Supercuts" style "Eh, it's fine, I guess, I probably could have done that myself with clippers and a #3 guard." Plus, she's licensed to do straight razor shaves. It's very soothing getting the ol' hot towel, warm shaving foam, shave.
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The pro move is to go to someone’s house for a hair cut But maybe that’s only a sketchy rural thing
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Duck and Cover posted:That sounds like a cellphone aps/websites suck poo poo complaint more than an online ordering sucks complaint. Sure. Absolutely. Bad UI is bad. I use our local state service mostly and they aren't perfect but it's not covered in ads (gee why are these chains on top) and I don't think they have any ghost kitchens on it. For better or worse, these are one and the same. "The Internet Sucks Now" isn't a complaint directed at the technical capabilities and protocols behind it - it's a complaint directed at the user experience, and how it's being monetized. Yes, theoretically we could have a way better Internet and way better Pizza Ordering App and a way better DMV website... But we don't. And the forces in play have basically made it so we can't. These things don't exist and they won't exist for a complex web of problems and the end results is Online Ordering sucks. A lot of this poo poo you just can't fix and it is what it is. Sometimes you can fix it though - An example of this is something like a phone app to control your stupid smart bulbs in your house. The app sucks. It requires an account. It works kinda. Updates break func. Managing your smart bulbs with the lovely app on your lovely phone is a lovely experience... But to solve this, I built my own app for my desktop to manage my hue bulbs with the features and UX I want - now managing it is awesome. The difference between me having hue bulbs or not in my house came down entirely to, 'does this have an API?' The vast, vast majority of people designing phone apps and webpages loving suck and I can wax philosophical about why this is and how you would fix it but it doesn't really matter because no matter how much I complain about it on twitter, it's not going to stop yet another app putting one menu option behind a lovely oversized hamburger menu.
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Canine Blues Arooo posted:The vast, vast majority of people designing phone apps and webpages loving suck And the developers get the blame 
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all that or light switch and call restaurant using paper menu from restaurant (also, hope you can find the restaurant's real phone number and not doordash's man-in-the-middle attack call center)
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Quote-Unquote posted:And the developers get the blame Yeah - they do. The pile of people doing front end design aren't trying to pitch better designs and argue for a retreat from the nonsense that has been the last 10 years of crap. I get to argue with these people on what seems like a weekly basis about information density and button layout and it drives me absolutely insane.
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Greg12 posted:all that Despite using phone apps I miss the drawer full of paper takeout menus
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All I ask from a local restaurant (besides actually offering food) is to have a very simple website with their menu and CURRENT prices on it. So many places here don't even have a website or they have a FB page where they posted a helpful customer's pic of their menu 5 years ago. I don't trust Door Dash/Grub Hub menus in the least bit. Most of the time poo poo on the menu isn't even spelled correctly or the punctuation or some other minor thing is off that I've been trained to notice as a scam since the internet existed. Triggers the red flag alert in my brain. Incidentally, I was upset that my favorite taqueria's website ceased to exist so when I drove past a while back I stopped to get a paper menu and they didn't even have that. The worker didn't know they ever had a website (place has been around at least 5 years). They changed it to a wall board with everything they've always had on the menu printed professionally but big white spaces to change the prices ad hoc. It's not the end of the world of course but just frustrating. Whenever I go to a restaurant these days I always check the menu at home first to figure out what they have and what I might want. Sometimes even if I've been there 20 times. Pennywise the Frown fucked around with this message at 00:47 on Jan 24, 2024 |
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Quote-Unquote posted:And the developers get the blame Well who else are you going to blame? The business parasites? You can't do that they provide really good value with ideas like "make the product cheaper" and "do we really need this many employees being paid this much?".
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As someone who does ui's for a living (albeit for weapons and not restaurants) I will say that I have no input whatsoever into how the interface looks, I have a lovely design document I work off of which has widgets designed by systems engineers in ms paint that was reviewed and approved a year ago. they look awful and are universally loathed but the inertia is there and they serve their purpose, so the powers that be don't want to pay for a redesign. Restaurant uis are almost always some prepackaged system and the restaurant itself rarely has a ton of control over precisely how they look. And even if they did, they don't care. Cosmik Debris fucked around with this message at 16:20 on Jan 24, 2024 |
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Pennywise the Frown posted:All I ask from a local restaurant (besides actually offering food) is to have a very simple website with their menu and CURRENT prices on it. So many places here don't even have a website or they have a FB page where they posted a helpful customer's pic of their menu 5 years ago. I don't trust Door Dash/Grub Hub menus in the least bit. Most of the time poo poo on the menu isn't even spelled correctly or the punctuation or some other minor thing is off that I've been trained to notice as a scam since the internet existed. Triggers the red flag alert in my brain.
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