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Cake day: July 14th, 2023

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  • Agreed. I had more empathy for tipping workers at self-service / carryout settings during the height of the pandemic (which is not over BTW). Now… Given that management has programmed these registers I find myself grudgingly tipping since I have to wonder if management has started paying them even more inadequately in anticipation of tipping.

    I have somewhat magically decided I tip 10% at these things as there is no real guidance anymore. 20% for table service. Delivery… 15-20%?

    Of course someone will come along saying to tip 0% to hold the line and force fair wages. I have some understanding of that argument too.



  • This is definitely an after-COVID thing. Pick hours and stick to them. Case-in-point – local Pho noodle place that advertises closing at 10pm, usually closes by 9pm, but they really want you to come by 8:30pm to pick-up your carryout.

    If you are tired – post new hours. If you found new meaning in life – post new hours. If you are having trouble finding staff – post new hours.

    Instead, I have to play this guessing game of when they close. My wife gets home at 9:30pm, so I’d rather not be picking up at 8:30pm (or being called back to please rush over to grab the food fast).






  • HousePanther – That is very nice of you. I’m game to give this a (slow) go given I’m working 50+ hours per week as a psychotherapist.

    Already on my radar – an rss feed to lemmy community posting robot (name is at home and can’t find it right now – it is on GitHub).

    Anything that takes emails or rss feeds and converts them to Mastodon or Lemmy posts.

    Anything that lets me run my own telehealth 2-way video server. I’ll have to sign a HIPAA BAA (medical privacy) agreement with vendors and server farms. Or run it at home.










  • Extremely infuriating: When the crappy built-in Android screen capture software will only capture gifs as movies, the built-in editing software saves the newly one-frame file in a different directory without comment, then Jerboa throws an error code when you try to upload and edit the original post. Then – after emailing the edited gif to your laptop and attempting to fix the original post from web browser, Lemmy throws an error of “{“data”:{“msg”:“Unsupported image format”,“files”:null},“state”:“success”}”. Yes – the “unsupported” image is a one frame no-longer-a-movie gif.

    The file will be staying a movie. I’m out of time to deal with it. It’s only one second long anyway.







  • I have a long and special history with Comcast. My city has given them the sole monopoly cable contact. So – I believe – they are obligated to provide me service. The distance from pole to house is too long. No less than 3 service people have come out and said they have to put in a thicker cable like those used on the telephone poles. Nope – the work order always disappears. Of course, they have to pretend they will eventually do something, because – city monopoly.

    Used a signal booster for a long time and that helped (I had to buy it) except at holidays when everyone was home. Then more people in the area got service – dropping the signal.

    After some years, T-Mobile 5G moved in and I happily dumped Comcast (monopoly only applies to cable).

    There is more, but you get the idea.

    Never give Comcast a monopoly on service. Even had me considering satellite Internet in the middle of the city at one point!




  • Exactly. There are 3 to 10 solutions to every problem – all of which worked for someone, 0 to 4 of which will work for you. Spend two hours, then role the dice and see if you got lucky.

    If it did NOT work, was it stupid user error, wrong or incomplete directions, malfunctional software, or randomness in your particular unique machine configuration?

    Or – if you use Oracle’s free VPS – was it an undocumented incompatibility between the code and the unusual chipset they sometimes offer?