Yeah, cash has basically disappeared from my life and the rare things that still required that (some boulangeries for instance) have all turned to contactless with covid. I'm not even sure I use cash once a year !
― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 11:02 (three years ago) link
Cash-only?
By Christ just how far backwards did trump *take* ye?
Yeah, that's crazy. I'm struggling to process the very concept of a cash only anything. We're fast going in the opposite direction in the UK, of places that don't accept cash at al - I've experienced that once, in a posh bar.
― Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 11:08 (three years ago) link
there are places in the US that don't take cash too
― shivers me timber (sic), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 11:13 (three years ago) link
there's still a few cash-only pubs in Dublin
but they're doing it out of a sort of performative Luddism
― Number None, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 11:14 (three years ago) link
I need 50p to put air in my tyres and the logistics of actually getting a 50p-piece seem impossibly baroque.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 11:29 (three years ago) link
Just put your lips together and blow.
― American Fear of Scampos (Ed), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 11:41 (three years ago) link
ditto the £4 for the laundrette. get notes from atm, pay for cheap stuff with it in the self-service tills, pray you don't get £2 coins in the change...
― koogs, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 11:44 (three years ago) link
In the workplace, using excel and PowerPoint for all corporate documentation and reporting - even though it’s not actually particularly well suited for word-based documents.Not helped by corporate templates being badly designed by those who don’t have a good knowledge of the software.
― Luna Schlosser, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 11:56 (three years ago) link
yeah a friend of mine was telling me she got some temp work which involved somehow getting product information out of a giant powerpoint and inputting that into a CMS for their website and i was like.... powerpoint??
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 11:58 (three years ago) link
With most food apps not allowing for tips to be included in the order I've found cash to be more important in the pandemic than it was before.
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 11:59 (three years ago) link
xxp I went through the whole process of finding a cashpoint, buying something unrequired to get change, making sure I got 50p in the change etc to use the tyre pump a few weeks back. Turns out Tesco garage ones are now contactless and I now have a pocket full of corona vectors.
― (the one with 3 L's) (Willl), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 12:00 (three years ago) link
i seem to need cash quite a lot? w33d guy hasn't got contactless yet
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 12:01 (three years ago) link
oh yeah and a quid for the shopping trolley
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 12:02 (three years ago) link
and the shop round the corner has a minimum card charge and their machine breaks down every other week
weed from clean shiny shops with 100s of products is cash-based in America too, bcz credit card companies can't process it while it's not legal nationally
― shivers me timber (sic), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 12:05 (three years ago) link
W33d and music kit from Gumtree are pretty much my only cash purchases nowadays tbf
― (the one with 3 L's) (Willl), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 12:08 (three years ago) link
My last use case for cash disappeared when I started paying for w33d with M0n3ro.
― I have no couch and I must stream (NotEnough), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 12:13 (three years ago) link
Here's one though:
Can't play audio directly from a Mac through Microsoft Teams. I have had to do this (and endure this) on a regular basis since lockdowns. Every time it sounds like call-waiting music for the dental surgery because it's being played and received through laptop speakers and mic. Been chatting to our tech team about it, and there are work arounds, but they're fiddly and not that easy to do.
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 12:14 (three years ago) link
I prefer cash and pretty much always used it until the pandemic, haven't used any since last March.
― Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 12:26 (three years ago) link
i have admittedly been walking around with the same tenner in my wallet for several weeks now
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 12:33 (three years ago) link
I've had a fiver in my wallet since last March!
― Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 12:38 (three years ago) link
Three fivers growing fur in mine since same
― Qanondorf (darraghmac), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 12:54 (three years ago) link
The fervour of a furry fiver
― nashwan, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 13:03 (three years ago) link
I'm a huge Kevin Grisham fan...
Been using cash loads since Covid, as have been getting more things second-hand from people in my village. I've even bartered with packets of flour. There's a bit of a 'things Amazon incorrectly delivered'/'things I accidentally ordered too much of from Ocado/ 'dumb things my online grocery substituted' market going on.
― kinder, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 13:04 (three years ago) link
fwiw i still practice cash tipping when i can because when i worked for tips this was very much preferred to credit card tips.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 13:04 (three years ago) link
Something that just happened: My whole screen went blank while typing something and my heart leapt into my mouth thinking the computer had crashed. Turned out it was one of those "hot corner" things which I hadn't turned off. What the blazes and why would I want this to happen when I accidentally nudge my mouse into the far corner of my screen??
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 13:14 (three years ago) link
companies have to pay for credit-card processing so some small local businesses are cash-only to avoid those extra charges
― na (NA), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 14:22 (three years ago) link
> why would I want this to happen when I accidentally nudge my mouse into the far corner of my screen?
was company policy here, back when we worked in an office, to lock screen when away from computer. there were also tales of people comming back from breaks to find 'comedy' emails sent from their accounts / odd things ordered from amazon. oh, my sides.
― koogs, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 14:27 (three years ago) link
Some restaurants, even busy successful ones, chose to be cash only for that reason. Also some do to so it’s easier to cheat on taxes. There was a movement recently of restaurants going cashless but they got pushback from people saying it’s unfair to mostly low income people who don’t have credit cards. A lot of places in NY went cashless and then switched back.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 14:28 (three years ago) link
Specifically, being "cashless" was banned by municipal statute (and rightly so!).
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 14:30 (three years ago) link
The prices on everything from the parking meters outside to the vending machine in the breakroom are higher for card purchases than they are for cash.
― pplains, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 17:23 (three years ago) link
The heck do you need cash for
― Canon in Deez (silby), Tuesday, January 19, 2021 8:39 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
weed still illegal in new york for some reason
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 17:24 (three years ago) link
My friends who own small businesses pay credit card processing fees (1.3-3.5%) that eat into their margins and are always appreciative to get cash.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 17:26 (three years ago) link
i know you made the point about sex workers taking venmo but my weed guys do not
nyc itself has been a haven for cash-only businesses to a degree that other places potentially do not experience xp
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 17:26 (three years ago) link
― shivers me timber (sic), Wednesday, January 20, 2021 5:05 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
damn that'll teach me to read the thread
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 17:27 (three years ago) link
(it won't)
it's been legal in California for years and the banking regulations (based on federal law) are a major headache and there are even webinars
― sarahell, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 17:54 (three years ago) link
Also some do to so it’s easier to cheat on taxes.
yes, the donut shop model. Also, some workers are best paid in cash due to immigration issues / complications involving government benefits etc. If the business receives cash from customers, it is easier to pay the workers in cash.
― sarahell, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 17:59 (three years ago) link
We use PayPal, but that's because of DC weirdness.
The law prohibits selling w33d. It does, however, permit giving it. So you buy something else, like a piece of art or a night in an airbnb, or (in our case) baked goods. The w33d is included as a thank-you gift. It is very convenient.
― zydecovid (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 20 January 2021 18:19 (three years ago) link
heh I had a friend who ran a bar in Tennessee that way after hours -- a $3 coke with a free shot of bourbon
― sarahell, Wednesday, 20 January 2021 18:23 (three years ago) link
two recurring Internet browser gripes:
* used to be every time i wanted to download a file, i got a "save as" dialog box, where i got to choose the path as well as the filename. these days shit just goes wherever it fucking wants, with whatever garbage filename it started with.
or, if i do get the choice of where it goes --- this one is probably Windows-specific --- the system is constantly trying to outsmart me by going to different directories for each thing i download. i think this is windows going "aha, the last file you downloaded with a PNG extension was to THIS directory, six months ago..." aaaaaarrrrrghhhh
* no consistency anymore about whether the 'back' button will actually take me to the previous thing i had on my screen, or like eight steps back, because, surprise! the thing i was looking at was, invisibly, in some kind of nested sub-window and i was supposed to hunt for and click a tiny "X" or "Close" button somewhere. fuck you!!!
― honkin' on bobo, honkin' with my feet ten feet off of beale (Doctor Casino), Monday, 1 March 2021 19:45 (three years ago) link
The "save as" thing can usually be configured in the browser settings, at least that's the case in Firefox and Chrome. You can define a different behavior for each type of file (like, if it's a .avi always ask the user but if it's a PDF open it within the browser or open a specific application etc.)
― Dinsdale, Monday, 1 March 2021 19:52 (three years ago) link
lol my company has some programs that only work in Internet Explorer. it doesn't work on Microsoft Edge.
do you know how more involved it is to launch IE on Windows 10? it requires three steps.
(in this case, the backward step = my dumb company making something IE only in 2021)
― Red Nerussi (Neanderthal), Monday, 1 March 2021 19:54 (three years ago) link
I'm finding this new tabbing system on Chrome for Android especially confusing and infuriating. Now we've got tabs within tabs, but I can't seem to open a link in a new tab, just an incognito tab??
― Party With A Jagger Ban (dog latin), Monday, 1 March 2021 19:58 (three years ago) link
i hate the way the tabs work now. i know how to use them but...it's annoying.
― Red Nerussi (Neanderthal), Monday, 1 March 2021 20:00 (three years ago) link
thanks, dinsdale, i'll take a look!along the same lines: i disabled the chrome android tab groups or tab clusters or whatever they're called, because they were driving me insane. i can't remember how. but it can be done!
― honkin' on bobo, honkin' with my feet ten feet off of beale (Doctor Casino), Monday, 1 March 2021 20:18 (three years ago) link
no consistency anymore about whether the 'back' button will actually take me to the previous thing i had on my screen
if people embed a photo on ILX that's from a facebook-owned site, it won't embed for me. if I right-click to view the photo, and then discover that it was on a facebook site, I am unable to return to the thread bcz facebook trick the browser into thinking you were never on the world wide web, why would you want to go off our platform, you don't need a back button, there was never a back button here. looking at this photo is the only think you have ever wanted to do on the internet.
― grab bag cum trash bag (sic), Monday, 1 March 2021 20:28 (three years ago) link
back button? it doesn’t look like anything to me
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 1 March 2021 20:54 (three years ago) link
I've complained about that before. the trick is to open in new tab. then just close the tab.
― koogs, Monday, 1 March 2021 22:00 (three years ago) link
I read ILX in firefox
― grab bag cum trash bag (sic), Monday, 1 March 2021 22:49 (three years ago) link