I don’t disagree but I’m just presenting why every other retailer has them. As another commenter said though, I too am not a “small talk” type of person and hate that these stores train staff to try and engage in small talk with customers. I wasn’t checkout but was trained so I could help with overflow. I always only ever greeted people, with maybe one other follow up remark and then just got them out of there. Since I knew as a customer, I just wanted my shit scanned and to go home. For me it was more customers who seemed to want to have a yarn.

It’s purely to save on wages and related expenses. At my local the self checkouts have one person watching to help when the self checkouts call them (weight/item mismatch, receipt paper low, etc). The amount of people these self checkouts process would require 2-3 tills minimum for standard foot traffic + approx at least 2 for peak times. This requires those 2-3 being paid for a full shift plus two other, checkout trained staff nearby to be available to open lanes for overflow. All handled by a total of 2-3 checkout staff instead of 4-6.

So less wages, less money lost on training checkout capable staff, less management having to maintain a roster of sufficient staff, with sufficient hours to keep them around. Checkout staff generally wouldn’t do many other tasks back in the day beyond click and collect either and had a lot of idle time, because obviously you can’t be far from a till.

Gotta respect the empirical approach🙏

I might not know how to turn gay

Not with that attitude you don’t.

Lmao I thought the exact same during a Terminator 2 rewatch recently where they’re shooting inside a closed elevator with a shotgun and pistol at the T-1000 on top. Erryone getting hearing aids.

To be fair, a lot of stuff like this is intentionally wrong for people potentially like in the OP but not being ironic. Like a chip of fulminated mercury blowing up a building but somehow not touching off the rest of the bag; though the rest of the bag may have just been actual meth.

You’re absolutely right, I shouldn’t have driven in the oncoming lane — before cutting a corner, mounting the curb and mowing down an elderly, human shaped obstacle. I’ll keep this in mind for future trips. Your feedback has been both comprehensive and insightful; and is indicative of someone with a strong analytical mind! 🧠

Tech support is somewhat different, for MSPs at least. In so far as billing and resolving the customers problem is usually aligned. Customer/tech support for places like Amazon or adobe is different. Adobe for example will typically only help out (resolving a billing dispute for example) only if you make it apparent you’ll leave/report them to a consumer bureau and they’re instructed in this fashion.

The design choices are also sometimes shit on purpose. I get it though and was bitching about similar on a different post recently regarding Nextdoor making unsubscribing from notifications intentionally infuriating to do. Only offering to unsubscribe from all when you begin the account deactivation process.

How is this deceptive or harmful? From my understanding it’s stop people following others around and harassing them. Since muted people can follow you around and comment on your shit but now you can’t see them.

Why would you just not block them back so you’re essentially invisible to each other? Instead of getting mad you can’t engage some that specifically pressed the “don’t let this user engage with me” button.

Yeah I deactivated my account and only then they offered unsub me to all notifications. Mentioned it in my reason for deactivating.

More concerningly is this going to trial in the US’ current governmental “degraded” (to put it lightly) condition. NFPs get a bunch of concessions and benefits to being such. It’s not unheard of for NFPs to have for profits subsidiaries but I feel like letting them bootstrap into FP, often on the taxpayers/states dime should be, legally speaking, a no no.

Realistically, as long as you’re polite or even just professional you’d get my respect. When I worked for an MSP some of the elitism of my coworkers was annoying. One older dude who I was providing support for asked how I “know all this stuff” about computers. Not only because it was my job but as I said him I’ve been messing around with computers since I was a kid. And a lot of that was breaking shit and having to fix it so my parents didn’t get mad.

Glad I don’t do support directly anymore and if someone is rude or abusive; we can just terminate communication with them.

Nah it’s just your claim of them of addressing none of the OPs concerns and being a blind shill is objectively wrong and you’e in your feelings about that being pointed out to you.

Fuck that is depressing. I had hoped I’d be able to pay for a service and not worry about this shit to avoid the hassle of self hosting. Very informative thank you.

Op.

can create a priority inbox without all the pesky notification clutter

User.

(e.g. you can create aliases for your shipping stuff called [website].shipping@[myalias].com and then make a rule including all the adresses .shipping to a specific folder).

I.e avoiding shipping notification clutter by directing to folders. Don’t really disagree with the placing too much trust in one company for whatever it’s worth.

Thanks for the links, the recovery email aspect was covered in the initial comment old mate was replying to. I was more interested in if the hand your ass over remark had anything to do with the “they cant read your emails”/encryption part. The second link is very interesting though:

After providing the activist’s metadata to Swiss authorities, ProtonMail removed the section that had promised no IP logs, replacing it with one saying, “ProtonMail is an email that respects privacy and puts people (not advertisers) first.”

Also, sealioning is “just asking questions” (JAQ’ing off). Consistently interrogating a position or POV for example, with requests for evidence. Not asking someone to provide some sort of evidence for a single claim they made in reply to another user and refusal to find said evidence for them.

Sealioning (also sea-lioning and sea lioning ) is a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with relentless requests for evidence, often tangential or previously addressed, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity (“I’m just trying to have a debate”), and feigning ignorance of the subject matter

Emphasis mine. From wiki. I appreciate the attempt to deescalate though and accept it’s probably time to pack it in with that particular user.

How about you google burden of proof? Like the other user said burden of proof is on the party making the claim. It’s not on other people to prove the claim wrong by doing research for you.

Sure I saw yours and accept that, but “hand your ass over” doesn’t equate to “complies minimally with legal request they have to in order to remain functioning as a business” in my book.