Finally hit a restaurant that pulled the ol' "scan this card to see our menu" trick on me.
I tried, but the ol' Galaxy Android just couldn't pull anything out of the white code on red background stuck behind clear acrylic.
― pplains, Monday, 31 May 2021 21:45 (two years ago) link
On the video screen front: counter service restaurants where the menu is on screens, but maybe not all of it is shown at once, or maybe the whole menu just disappears for a while in order to advertise one particular item.
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Tuesday, 1 June 2021 05:22 (two years ago) link
Out of interest, what were you actually looking for?An online sketchpad, I fully admit it wasn't the best search term for that.
― I was born anxious, here's how to do it. (ledge), Tuesday, 1 June 2021 05:45 (two years ago) link
Made me curious if you can even do like a location/search history-neutral Google search now. Any info I could find on that seems outdated. One article recommended using another search engine that uses Google, that won't do the customization stuff (at least not so much). Startpage.com seems worth a shot.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Tuesday, 1 June 2021 13:01 (two years ago) link
I don't think a completely location-neutral Google search is possible. Though you can hack what country you're in by adding &gl=us or whatever other country you want to specify to the url. Doing that in an Incognito window is probably the best you can do, ideally also doing it through a VPN connection for that same country if you want to lose all personalisation.
― Alba, Tuesday, 1 June 2021 13:07 (two years ago) link
Well I had a dream just before I woke up that I was trying to search Andy Griffith’s “what it was, was football” routine and failing to get any relevant results. Fortunately in the waking world I can find it.
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Tuesday, 1 June 2021 14:40 (two years ago) link
i had to get gas and the gas pump had a touch screen instead of analog buttons. but the touch screen was so unresponsive (i'm guessing they have to use some kind of "tough" screen since it's on a gas pump outside) that it took me twice as long to pay for my gas as it would have on a regular pump.
― na (NA), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 19:54 (two years ago) link
oh god, so otm. touch screens have been a disaster for gas pumps.
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 20:00 (two years ago) link
somewhat relatedly, chips on debit cards have just made everything more complicated and flimsy.
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 20:01 (two years ago) link
My experience with unresponsive touch screens is the more frustrated you get, the harder and harder you jab, which makes the jabbing less and less effective. It’s like a zen challenge.
― Alba, Wednesday, 21 July 2021 20:01 (two years ago) link
Lost track of how many times a touch screen was frozen which required me to move to another pump
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 20:03 (two years ago) link
you have to softly paw it and wait 30 seconds between each gesture, after which you will be subjected to some godawful tv channel and the mute button will not work.
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 20:04 (two years ago) link
i would not be surprised if new gas pump software is recording and collecting data about you
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 20:05 (two years ago) link
I like the inconsistency between gas station machines too where some want you to quickly insert and remove your card versus others where you are supposed to leave the card inserted, but nowhere does it state which kind and you only find out when the reader just shuts down and says "see cashier" so you have to move to another pump entirely.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 20:07 (two years ago) link
Video is always "Here's today's feel.good footage from Generic Hugh's state championship football game from 1989 where the cornerback almost intercepted the ball but gave up the winning touchdown yet showed good hustle"
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 20:08 (two years ago) link
*High
I feel like I have to pick up that useless stylus about 50% of the time now, on the touch screens at Trader joe's
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 21 July 2021 20:25 (two years ago) link
today at office max i had to be told to use the stylus rather than my finger 2 times, and then inserted the chip upside-down. then it asked me if I wanted to donate $2 to charity and I went ahead and did it, to atone. i was making the cashier laugh a bit, though, it felt good
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 20:26 (two years ago) link
some future novelist will know how to evoke and exploit a very specific feeling of this era through the hated phrase "see cashier."
― I honk along darkened Bobo-doors (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 20:34 (two years ago) link
I leave the gas station in defiance hwen I get that, with the gas cap off and everything
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 20:36 (two years ago) link
"see cashier", who probably has ten people in line, eight of whom are asking for directions to a place that doesn't exist, two of whom want 7 different packs of cigarettes which 5 are out of stock.
I've mentioned these before:
• Having to press "Cancel" to use the "Credit" option.• Removing card quickly by swiping very slowly?• STILL HAVING TO SCAN MY KROGER REWARDS CARD UNDER THE LASER SCANNER IN THE YEAR 2021.• After somehow successfully scanning card, a big "OK" light flashes ... red.
― pplains, Wednesday, 21 July 2021 20:40 (two years ago) link
hey hurry up with those cigs up there cashier, i'm trying to play the lottery here
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 20:44 (two years ago) link
"Insert with the chip down"OK does that mean down as in furthest from me or down as in face down?
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 20:50 (two years ago) link
I feel like the UK was ahead of the UK in the rollout of unresponsive touchscreen machines with terrible UI. There was some perfectly good rail ticket machines with buttons that got replaced with a load of touchscreen versions that more than once sent me into a jabbing frenzy just as I was about to miss a train.
― Alba, Wednesday, 21 July 2021 20:55 (two years ago) link
ahead of the US, d'oh.
― Alba, Wednesday, 21 July 2021 20:56 (two years ago) link
This action can't be completed because the file is openClose the file and try again
Why say 'can't' when you really mean 'won't'... just the change the fucking file name for fuckssake, I command you
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 21 July 2021 21:03 (two years ago) link
I vastly prefer the Chip system to swiping. Lot less damaging to the card tooAnd Chip is always slide face up from what i understand, it only gets confusing on those rotating counter ipad kiosks or a vertical slot
― Nhex, Wednesday, 21 July 2021 21:15 (two years ago) link
yeah I used to have cards magnetic strips get worn out real fast from all of the swiping and required replacing whereas I only have to replace my cards for 'suspected fraud' now.
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 21:16 (two years ago) link
some of the machines that tell you to leave your card in do so only after you've inserted it, and years of muscle memory causes you to jerk out the card before it's ready
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 21:17 (two years ago) link
Wrong thread but the credit card tap option is a nice step forward
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 21:31 (two years ago) link
i only just figured out how to do that and felt pretty dumb, it's fast
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 21:34 (two years ago) link
Yeah, I vastly prefer the tap option for sure, but even with that I sometimes get "wait, not yet.... okay, now go ahead and tap it... wait the light isn't coming on... oh, there it is, go ahead now".
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 21:35 (two years ago) link
I don't like it when you insert a card into the chip reader and the screen flashes a series of messages that are variations on "do not remove card" like it's trying to fake you out for that eventual "remove card" message.
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 21:37 (two years ago) link
are you enrolled in 7/11 frequent gas program
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 21:44 (two years ago) link
if so pls type phone number
UK touch-screen ticket machines at railway stations: some present you with a QWERTY keyboard, others with A-Z. If you are printing off pre-paid tickets you have to insert a card, but it needn't be the one that the tickets were bought on, so why?I guess most people don't print their tickets now, though - it'sso long since I've been on a train.
― mahb, Wednesday, 21 July 2021 22:04 (two years ago) link
don't need 7/11's help to have frequent gas
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 22:14 (two years ago) link
Although the gas station touchscreen did lead to one of my friends’ best quotes that I still rib him about. Years ago, just as the touchscreen things were becoming more common, we were driving back from a concert at Alpine Valley, late at night and exhausted, and stopped for gas in the middle of nowhere. I was half asleep in the passenger seat when I heard my buddy loudly exclaim from outside the car, “how the FUCK am I supposed to know the goddamn zip code here????”
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 21 July 2021 22:34 (two years ago) link
Hahaha
― pplains, Thursday, 22 July 2021 00:24 (two years ago) link
lol yes re: the fakeouts for the moment when you're actually supposed to remove the card. it's like a high-stakes electronic game of Simon Says with these things.
― I honk along darkened Bobo-doors (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 22 July 2021 00:26 (two years ago) link
yes
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Thursday, 22 July 2021 01:33 (two years ago) link
And Chip is always slide face up from what i understand, it only gets confusing on those rotating counter ipad kiosks or a vertical slotChip told me he gets confused on your mum’s vertical slot too
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Thursday, 22 July 2021 02:02 (two years ago) link
a stretch but payment accepted
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Thursday, 22 July 2021 02:22 (two years ago) link
if i can make the effort to visit your restaurant, i feel like you can make the effort to print a menu out
fuck a QR code; i didn’t even have my phone with me
― mookieproof, Monday, 26 July 2021 16:32 (two years ago) link
Seems like that ship has sailed. When we were in Minneapolis, every single place we stopped to eat at had only a QR code option. Which, you know, in pandemic times I get it, but one spot said this will be their plan moving forward, less money to spend on physical menus.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 26 July 2021 16:35 (two years ago) link
feel like that was a COVID measure but one that's p much been deemed unnecessary by this point.
I hate QR codes. i hate reading a menu on my phone.
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Monday, 26 July 2021 16:36 (two years ago) link
tempted to hack PF Chang's site to change the signature dish to "Roast Fuck"
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Monday, 26 July 2021 16:37 (two years ago) link
It's also fun when you are dining with kids who don't have their own phones!
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 26 July 2021 16:38 (two years ago) link
if you're gonna make me go onto a site, just give me the URL. I realize the QR code is for people who are technology challenged. but a URL would get me there faster. and they should cater to me and me only. because I'm Neanderthal oooog aggggh
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Monday, 26 July 2021 16:39 (two years ago) link