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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!