I’ll remember that in case I drop it into a boiler.

Well, see, Syria has land they want and people they don’t.

I think it’s funny darkly humorous but read the room, dude.

I’m trying to imagine how that is possible, Pinterest always showed up in google search results with something that looked promising but didn’t actually exist on their site. I can only imagine that it’s even worse now post-AI.

Repercussions aside where does he get the idea that trump’s government is in any way smaller?

Which dystopian cyberpunk medium depicted this level of hell? This is echoes of Nazi Germany here.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Weren’t you paying attention?

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

“Entwine” is one word…

I love filter views, no real complaints there except that other people can’t manage to figure out the difference between filtering the whole sheet and setting up a filter view.

Tables seem kind of pointless but better than a separate database app I guess?

Not sure about “little pills”, do you mean the drop downs? That’s in validation, and it’s a little odd but better both in interface and function than Excel. There’s really only one version and two ways to do it: “data validation” and “insert drop-down” (the latter is just a shortcut to the former, but with relevant options selected). Checkboxes are the same (both live in the insert menu).

I’ve never known the “paste style” menu, I mostly use keyboard shortcuts when pasting. I might be misunderstanding what you’re describing there.

Some of it is just familiarity but I found Google sheets to be a breath of fresh air and still find Excel just painful.

Although Google has really gotten pretty cluttered lately as they add features and slap them in whatever menu they pick at random.