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
Yes yes yes
― kinder, Monday, 26 July 2021 16:56 (two years ago) link
hate hate hate the qr code thing. i can't get them to work on my phone. the way the restaurants direct you to use them is so presumptuous imo, like this smiling "i'll be back with some water, and the qr code for the menu is right there!" great well, i'll just be sitting here trying to google your website and getting bogged down in irrelevant results, thanks.also, have not seen much talk of this, but it seems nakedly discriminatory in the same way as cashless businesses imo.
― I honk along darkened Bobo-doors (Doctor Casino), Monday, 26 July 2021 19:32 (two years ago) link
I just order corn dogs.
If they don't have them and they say so I ask what they do have.
They then give me a menu
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Monday, 26 July 2021 20:14 (two years ago) link
Terrible idea, I will start doing the same!
― Yours in Sorrow, A Schoolboy: (forksclovetofu), Monday, 26 July 2021 20:19 (two years ago) link
lmao
i would like a sno-cone please
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Monday, 26 July 2021 20:36 (two years ago) link
does the sno-cone come with fried plaintains?
was looking for a menu on the pub website. nothing. actually go to pub, there's a qr code for you to order from the current menu, which, obviously, has a url that they could've just linked to in the first place on their website. but I guess that wouldn't involve downloading an out-of-date pdf on my phone
― kinder, Monday, 26 July 2021 20:38 (two years ago) link
Wonder how many of these QR code menus are inside frames with midi's playing over them.
― pplains, Monday, 26 July 2021 20:40 (two years ago) link
Join our webring
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Monday, 26 July 2021 20:44 (two years ago) link
I love it when restaurants post their QR code on Instagram. How do I scan that?
― Notes on Scampo (tokyo rosemary), Monday, 26 July 2021 21:20 (two years ago) link
in Chrome you can apparently just click the box and it'll run something, maybe Google lens
― koogs, Monday, 26 July 2021 21:59 (two years ago) link
i tried it and it worked. spooky.
― koogs, Monday, 26 July 2021 22:04 (two years ago) link
isn't this QR code thing basically a covid thing?
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 27 July 2021 10:54 (two years ago) link
Yeah. Just like Zoom meetings and GrubHub.
― pplains, Tuesday, 27 July 2021 12:19 (two years ago) link
Having physically visited one (1) restaurant in the past 1.5 years, I had no idea about this QR code thing. If that's a thing I encounter post-covid, I can't say that I won't get up and go to a different restaurant.
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 27 July 2021 12:38 (two years ago) link
most places that’s a thing here, they still offer a printed menu on request. it was a sanitary precaution recommended in the list of restaurant changes there’s a large beerhall-type place here that’s never had printed menus, just a beer list on their website and a large screen near the bar that scrolls through the beers available. “beer places that only have their menu on the untappd website/app” is a mild irritation but was definitely a thing over the last couple yearsI don’t really care either way. Minor inconvenience if the food/drinks are good and printing menus regularly is kind of wasteful. Worst case scenario, just order the special
― mh, Tuesday, 27 July 2021 12:51 (two years ago) link
Not exactly a tech thing, but sort of - any article which is broken up by 'See other things!' links that aren't separated from the rest of the text (imo it's bad enough having them at all within the text even if visually separate - it's not like I'm glancing at a paper to see these but am literally scrolling down reading the article - but unforgivable like this.)e.g. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210719-why-light-pollution-is-harming-our-wildlifeAbout 1/3 way in and there's just 3 bulleted links under 'you might also like' in the same font size etc as the main text.
― kinder, Tuesday, 27 July 2021 13:44 (two years ago) link
Yes, that's where I started. But like I mentioned, we asked about them at a restaurant we ate at over the 4th of July and the server said they plan to stick with them permanently because "they are easier" and they'd already saved a bunch of money from not printing updated menus. I suspect it won't be widespread everywhere, but I do anticipate a number of places not going back.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 27 July 2021 15:01 (two years ago) link
Not really a fan of digital program notes at concerts/theater.
― Bo Burzum (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 27 July 2021 15:16 (two years ago) link
I went to an art museum last weekend and they were pushing web-based tours to do on your phone.
Which is fine, I guess. But I wonder if there will be a wave of nostalgia for those rentable tape player thingies
The sound is so much WARMER, y'know?
― trial by wombat (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 27 July 2021 22:14 (two years ago) link
I'm not saying technology ruins absolutely everything, but the Lego Mario sets don't have paper instructions and instead require you to download a fucking *1.5GB* app instead that contains them. fantastic.— Dan Hett (@danhett) July 27, 2021
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Wednesday, 28 July 2021 01:01 (two years ago) link