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CZroe

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Nope, but I did work on a computer with a ball mouse a week or so ago, no joke!

I donated a spare wired LED mouse to them out of pity. And because I didn't want to clean those nasty rollers inside. Felt like 1999 all over again lol.
I still use a ball mouse almost daily... well, before I was furloughed. Systems still have floppy drives too.
At this point, my assumption is simply that we've been able to test more people than most other countries.

Indeed. We have now tested over 2 million people in the USA.
 
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Spacehead

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Thank you, COVID-19, to bringing me back to the days of tech support via telephone. Working from home is one thing, but doing support over the phone for 8 hours a day...whew!
Might need you to post your number... just in case
 

Kaido

Elite Member & Kitchen Overlord
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I still use a ball mouse almost daily... well, before I was furloughed. Systems still have floppy drives too.


Indeed. We have now tested over 2 million people in the USA.

...I have an LED mouse I can donate
 

Svnla

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This is just a d1ck move. Cheapazzes offer large tips for instacart shoppers to ensure quick/prompt deliveries and then remove them? -


Jenifer G. said she recently picked up a 112-item order from Aldi for a person who put a $1 tip in the app and there was no cash tip waiting.
 
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highland145

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Yup... until we have universal testing for everyone, the infection numbers are pretty meaningless. Even the death numbers are questionable, since I'd imagine that a lot of respiratory illness deaths are getting blamed on COVID-19 as well.
Think they will notice the petechiaels?
 
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This is just a d1ck move. Cheapazzes offer large tips for instacart shoppers to ensure quick/prompt deliveries and then remove them? -


YATT (Yet Another Tip Thread)

To be honest I prefer grocery stores how I've seen it in my area... Every item is priced higher (I believe 3%?) this is the essentially the service fee that pays for the salary/work of the person picking the items. Tips are not accepted.

Fuck tips and the stupid concept of it. It's only an American thing because we continue to be stupid.
 

highland145

Lifer
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YATT (Yet Another Tip Thread)

To be honest I prefer grocery stores how I've seen it in my area... Every item is priced higher (I believe 3%?) this is the essentially the service fee that pays for the salary/work of the person picking the items. Tips are not accepted.

Fuck tips and the stupid concept of it. It's only an American thing because we continue to be stupid.
Meh, I tip who I want and don't others. Used to order Ma's groceries online and pick them up. 5 minutes. Giving this minimum wage peep $2 is nothing to me but might be something to them.

Been ordering takeout from local restaurants once or twice a week. I tip a lot. I want them to be there when the Kung Flu is over.

Asked the peep counter at Publix if she was getting hazard pay...Nope.
 

CZroe

Lifer
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Really? What do you do on these machines?
Though it was already weird to see machines with 3.5" floppies and Serial/Parallel ports when these were made, Dell was still including all that for Optiplex systems since engineers often need their workstations to work with legacy hardware.

They are not the primary computers in the office. The primary one is an IBM/Lenovo machine running Windows 10. That's the one with an optical mouse.

The ones with floppy drives and mechanical ball mice are offline BTX form-factor +
(remember that?!) workstations with obsolete Core 2 Duo and and Pentium Dual Core CPUs set up as multi-channel DVRs. When they need footage from an incident I roll it back and burn it. Those systems are used for little else. I'm not spending my money on accessorizing their equipment, so I just clean then when they gum up every few months.
 
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I haven't used "DIAF" in about a decade, but...


These people ARE pieces of shit - there is no doubt in that.

One problem that I do have with these services, however, is the concept of telling the person performing the services of WHAT their tip is... BEFORE they even accept the order and perform the service. That ENTIRELY defeats the original purpose of the tip. Period, end of story.

Thus, the concept of "being able to change the tip" for the customer is the only real "check" on that.

For example: I've ordered UbetEats a handful of times for restaurant delivery. One time out of the 10+ times I've ordered the person who got my order was apparently doing other shit too. I see on the GPS they stopped my restaurant... then subsequenlty went by a different restaurant and delivered it to someone else first. Needless to say, the "guaranteed by" delivery time wasn't met for obvious reasons. I retracted my original 18 or 20% or whatever it was tip and gave them $1 or $2 or something. I was fucking pissed and rightfully so.... So needless to say, it does serve a purpose.
 
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highland145

Lifer
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Though it was already weird to see machines with 3.5" floppies and Serial/Parallel ports when these were made, Dell was still including all that for Optiplex systems since engineers often need their workstations to work with legacy hardware.

They are not the primary computers in the office. The primary one is an IBM/Lenovo machine running Windows 10. That's the one with an optical mouse.

The ones with floppy drives and mechanical ball mice are offline BTX form-factor +
(remember that?!) workstations with obsolete Core 2 Duo and and Pentium Dual Core CPUs set up as multi-channel DVRs. When they need footage from an incident I roll it back and burn it. Those systems are used for little else. I'm not spending my money on accessorizing their equipment, so I just clean then when they gum up every few months.
The short story for today, I used my old xp machine with a printer parellel port to access my HP printer.

Had a 10' cable.😀

Cables/fans/adapters/random odd shit computer people collect, ftw.
 
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Svnla

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YATT (Yet Another Tip Thread)

To be honest I prefer grocery stores how I've seen it in my area... Every item is priced higher (I believe 3%?) this is the essentially the service fee that pays for the salary/work of the person picking the items. Tips are not accepted.

Fuck tips and the stupid concept of it. It's only an American thing because we continue to be stupid.

Personally I think tips are stupid (that's why I do most of my eating out via my own pick up) but the point of the article was some lowlifes promised big tips to ensure their deliveries then rescinded those tips just because. If they just honestly posted $0 tip or low tip then I have no problem with it but don't do "bait and switch". That's just plain wrong.
 
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Personally I think tips are stupid but the point of the article was some lowlifes promised big tips to ensure their deliveries then rescinded those tips just because. If they just honestly posted $0 tip or low tip then I have no problem with it but don't do "bait and switch". That's just plain wrong.



Agree. I have no experience with Instacart or whatever.... Sounds like a grocery delivery app that isn't actually affiliated with the grocery stores.

Ones I've done this far are actually employed by the grocery store.
 

CZroe

Lifer
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Saw this stupid thing flashed on my screen in a Facebook ad/PSA yesterday...

...ugh. Where do I even start?!
 

ponyo

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https://abc7amarillo.com/news/natio...laims-an-unexpected-victim-florida-vegetables

Farmers not being able to sell their produce. I said this happened in South Korea and would likely happen in the US too. Well, it's starting to happen here in the US. Farmers are not able to sell their veggies and letting it rot. Exact same thing as what happened in South Korea. This is bad news. It means US and world economy is fucked. Things still haven't returned to normal in South Korea. People in SK are still not shopping or dining out much. You can pretty much forget about world V recovery.
 

Muse

Lifer
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So the CFR is somewhat lower than the headline number, so long as local hospital systems don't crash.
The treatment systems are being stressed. It's not just PPE and ventilators. The people, nurses, doctors, etc. are wearing out. Hopefully antibody testing will help alleviate the situation. Burnout of staff is going to be a big problem in the coming weeks.
 
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