The Level1 Show June 19th 2024: Cash Rejected Everywhere Around Me

[@0blivioniox864]

So lemme get this straight... Paying cash will cost you extra. Paying with cards already has a 3% surcharge. What do they really want us to pay with? Checks?

[@chronometer9931]

It sounds like they don't want money so they are helping their competitors...

[@EudesRJ]

Cash have the problem of being easily stolen.

[@diggernash1]

Can they choose not to accept legal tender?

[@acasccseea4434]

Probably the operational costs relating to cash such as employees stealing cash, sorting the cash, fake bills etc. has an over emphasized impact on the psyche of the business. Like how Americans are always worried about crime. Even if it doesn't make sense, they still want to take action against it, even if it costs them

[@adhillA97]

If you stop accepting cash entirely it actually saves you money because you can't have cash stolen, so you don't have to pay cash handling insurance. It can end up being much cheaper than all but the priciest of card fees. It's also much faster on average because you don't have to count change, so you don't need to pay as many staff.

[@StubbyPhillips]

So begins the enshittification of Raspberry Pi. Sooner or later the customers will be crapped upon for the sake of the shareholders. Line go up. Nothing else matters. "To continue using the product you thought you already owned , you must agree to our updated TOS."

[@jackielinde7568]

At least there are other SBC competitors out there, so you're not stuck with Pi's, unlike items within other areas of computers.

[@teaser6089]

I mean if Pi becomes shit another company will take over. Creating these types of microcontrollers has gotten much and I mean much easier compared to when Pi started out.

[@adamgarlow5347]

The printer story makes me so glad I just run an old laser off a USB passed through to a bare-bones Debian VM running CUPS. Printing went from a migraine inducing nightmare to the most reliable tech thing in my house.

[@chronometer9931]

I also solved that problem, I stopped printing on paper. Though I picked up a 3d printer, let's hope they aren't the same...

[@EudesRJ]

My Epson ink tank works great for the last 10 years 😱 Only complaint is Wi-Fi 2.4GHz that suffers interference from everything

[@remyllebeau77]

@@chronometer9931 That's not a solution, it's giving up.

[@rstewart2702]

Yes! This is the way. Been rockin’ a Brother HL 2140 for many years this way.

[@noklarok]

laser printer is a life hack

[@Maxjoker98]

Engagement challenge: AS an IT person in Germany, I can tell you that both many companies have IT-vacancies, but also that most companies offering entry-level IT positions are usually problematic.

[@dolex161]

And they want them to come in to fix their full stack of legacy software while we’re at it

[@AraCarrano]

So happy MicroCenter finally came to NC. After CompUsa folded, we were stuck with BB and one Mom and Pop shot that never stocked anything newer than 2 generations old and CCTV gear for junk installs.

[@AraCarrano]

Some deals on in-flight duty free on pond crossings are decent.

[@AraCarrano]

Cashless at Waterparks makes some sense.

[@AraCarrano]

Logistics in EU ports, cause they are swamped with fleets of unsold New Energy Vehicles waiting to be parted out to make running vehicles.

[@2000jago]

@@AraCarrano You needed 3 comments to get that out? Couldn't string that collection of thoughts into one sentence?

[@The1Elcil]

@@2000jago I give them credit for commenting within their own comment thread. My respect to @AraCarrano . Thanks for keeping the comment section organized.

[@robjbowen]

There was once a time that I wouldn't have bought anything but an HP printer. I've refused to buy another HP printer since Windows Vista first came out as the printer that I had bought only one year earlier HP refused to provide updated drivers for Vista. And they seem intent on digging their own grave even deeper.

[@remyllebeau77]

I've heard good things about Brother printers.

[@krisspkriss]

For some reason, the printer industry is like a test bed of what is to come in consumer electronics. From artificial obsolescence to rent taking on the device you outright bought to product tying. Last I heard they began locking you out of printer ink cartridges after a month or so of usage regardless of ink level. In any case, Vista required 64 drivers and the peripheral device makers en mass decided they were not making 64 bit drivers for their older products and hope Micro Soft gets the blackeye not allowing 32 bit legacy drivers. Out of all the BS that HP has pulled, not remaking all of their legacy drivers was probably the most excusable. Its still their fault and not MS though. Had MS not drawn a hard line and made their stand, then we would still have peripheral device makers spitting out 32 bit drivers. I am not saying that would be a vastly different world with printers still running on dot matrix printheads and thermal paper. I am saying Windows would be less secure, buggier and kludgier if we still had a bunch of 16 and 32 bit drivers.

[@robjbowen]

@@krisspkriss I think had more to do with all of the other junk add ons that installed with the actual driver that they were adding. Recompiling the core driver for 64 bit should have been pretty simple. Even if they were using relative bit addressing, they could still use the 32 bit register names at a small performance cost. Microsofts hardening at that time was sorely needed as many device drivers were an easy attack vector due to some very poorly written drivers. In addition Vista itself came as 32 or 64 bit. I don't remember, but I think Windows 7 was also available for 32 bit as well. At that time, I believe I was still using a 32 bit processor. Microsoft eventually released their own generic drivers that kept a lot of HP printers alive without having to use the WinXP vm whereas HP just seemed to abandoned their customers. I switched to a Canon color laser and other than about a month delay for Windows 8 drivers for it, it has been rock solid. Since I have recently switched to mac, I am debating updating to a new printer as scanning software that Canon provides does not run on the M1 (might on intel - don't know). So the scanning functionality in preview kind of sucks and you don't get very good scans, but at least it still works. I can't even remember what year I bought it and its still going.

[@robjbowen]

@gr-os4gd A couple of years ago, I came across someone that was still using an old LaserJet from the 90's with one of the old external HP Print Servers that allowed you to connect them to ethernet. I had to chuckle when I saw the font cartridge for some of the Adobe fonts that was plugged into the printer. We have come a very long ways.

[@trousersnake1486]

I have an hp printer. It's like signing your soul away to just print a god damn document.

[@antong3987]

Best Buy is on the verge... and their employees are markedly vocal about it.

[@denesk2794]

I tried to pay cash for a doctor's visit and was told they had to charge me extra !!! Usually they would give me a cash discount, but apparently in the medical sector now that's a thing. That happened in Costa Rica just 2 months ago.

[@HerbaMachina]

I don't think they're allowed to charge a fee to accept cash legally, they must accept legal tender. Period. The only exception is for buisnesses that do not have a customer facing store front (like a software company, or a purely online retailer)

[@BGraves]

I bought a gpu at Best Buy. Store full of employees standing around, but very willing to help

[@thefrothingotter8772]

I have a BB near me. I will once in a while go there for a component when I dont want to wait on shipping from someone else, but thats about it.

[@remyllebeau77]

Never really liked those employees. They all seemed to ignore me since I look poor.

[@gasracing5000]

​@remyllebeau77 This is a real thing at most stores. Walk in wearing a suit and tie... people open doors for you, call you sir, bend over backwards to help. Walk in wearing slips and shorts, and you won't even get eye contact. How you present yourself to the world determines how the world will present itself to you. 🤔

[@remyllebeau77]

@@gasracing5000 That is no justification. BB deserves to fail if they don't treat all customers like they are valuable. I've spent far too much money there before, only to be treated like a bum later on.

[@gasracing5000]

@remyllebeau77 I've had good experiences at BB, but honestly it's a question of employees attitude, more than the company policy. Policy is treat all customers well. I had a manager sell me a 3080ti under msrp during the great shortage of 2020 while I was dressed in bum clothes... so imo it's a matter of individual employees attitudes that determine the experience, not so much which mega corporation they work for.

[@jackielinde7568]

I have an HP OfficeJet Pro 8720. Got it in 2018 with money from the VW Dieselgate settlement. Haven't used it in three months because it's now throwing errors after I turn it on and print one document. Would need to print something to get the error. With all the SHIT HP's done in the last few years, I've looked at Epson's printers that have refillable ink wells (not cartridges, wells. And yes, refillable wells), and I'm seriously considering dumping my current printer on Goodwill and getting an Epson. The sad thing is, I love my printer otherwise. Only annoying thing is the sheet feeder for the scanner hasn't worked right shortly after I bought it, but I don't scan tons of documents.

[@remyllebeau77]

I've also heard good things about Brother printers.

[@jackielinde7568]

@@dertythegrower Never said I was sane.

[@Knight_Astolfo]

I've got one of those epson guys, bought it after our 8600 gave up. Print quality is a bit low, but nothing terrible, probably because I bought the cheapest model.

[@jeremyatienza1676]

C.R.E.A.M. got no money, piling up the bills ya'll

[@tobiwonkanogy2975]

Fire , too accurate though so it hurts too.

[@shapesinaframe]

5:04 we have those mag strip cards in mall food courts here in SE Asia, you pay cash to load the card, use the card at the food vendor, then return your card and get whatever money is left on it when you leave

[@InputEmitter]

Level1 is my ONLY news source, thank you for everything

[@hglenn2k]

having one source is advisable!

[@nogravitas7585]

@@hglenn2k"having one source is advisable!" Source?

[@darrenvail8726]

@@nogravitas7585 mainstream propaganda, weren't you listening?

[@polyesterbebe]

thank you for everything

[@TheCloudhopper]

Here is an interesting question: If nobody is earning money anymore, cause everybody is replaced by AI, who will be the consumer? Who will buy the advertised products, watch the movies, pay for the as-a-service stuff?

[@whitefink7090]

Just noticed how expendable you are to the capitalist? This why state power + capitalism= fascism.

[@AcidSugar1414]

They’re just centralizing the money so they can decide how UBI works best for them.

[@chrisbaker8533]

@@whitefink7090 Hate to break this to ya, you're 'expendable' in any system.

[@remyllebeau77]

@@whitefink7090 You are describing corporatocracy, not fascism.

[@Bob_Smith19]

They don’t want as many consumers as there are now. It’s why depopulation plays into their plan.

[@who2u333]

I have had to use Best Buy multiple times recently, and the most helpful employee positions were the cahier and the person at the front that asked what I was looking for. The latter kept me from wandering around looking for the items I wanted. Less time in store works for me (until BB figures that out and pulls the person at the front so that we have to wander).

[@muizzsiddique]

I keep thinking my nose is whistling but it's actually coming from the video

[@great_scott121]

I thought my tea kettle was ready

[@By_Rant_Or_Ruin]

I don't fly, ever. I don't eat hotdogs. I don't buy from adds. I don't click email junk. I use email aliases. I isolate emails. I don't use my phone for banking. I have two cell phones for data isolation. I use add blockers for anything I don't want to pay for to avoid them. I tried to buy most of the things I need from local brick and mortar. They often don't have repair parts in my town so everything has to be shipped which costs so much today that It is cheaper to order new junk. I have a pile of dead switches and routes and audio equipment because there are no repair techs locally. I'm down to going to recycling locations which I have two in one town. And we all know what happens to electronics "recycled" junk.

[@Stef.Cata051]

The German transport companies failing has more to do with the fact that the German government almost doubled the road tax for heavy duty vehicles overnight, they claim it is for the environment by asking for companies to replace old euro 6 trucks with new euro trucks, but we know that they passed this law so mercedes could sell more semis

[@PatJamesRicketts]

I just got scammed trying to sell a PC on a local Classifieds, banks says I am on the hook for the counterfeit cheque. I live on less than $1000 CAD a month, now my account is at -$1500, and gaining interest, non-sufficient fund fees, even though in 30 years of having the bank account I have never once gone in the red or cashed a fake cheque. This account is connected to everything, so now any cent that goes into the account goes to paying off money that doesn't exist...

[@jackielinde7568]

Yeah, paying with a fake check scam is older than most online scams. Please tell me you didn't "give them the difference in cash." and you only lost the PC. Things to remember: 1. Tell whomever you're selling stuff to that if they pay in Checks, you're holding the item until the check clears. Otherwise, stick to payment services you know you get the cash up front. 2. NEVER accept an offer where they "accidentally" give you a check for more than what your asking plus shipping. The scam is they ask you to send them the difference knowing your bank will front you part or all of the money on the check before it fails to clear. 3. Do not touch the money until after the check clears. This way, if it's a bad check, you're only out the processing fees (and yes, they're going to hit you with fees.) and not the fees plus any money you withdrew. 4. You can verify if a check is good in most instances. Your bank should be able to give you a yes/no if the bank and/or account are real. And a lot of banks have numbers you can call and verify checks for accounts they manage. Just make sure you look up the number on the web and not use the number off the check. 5. Avoid accepting checks from banks that are not in your country or a country you trust. A lot of criminals running these scams are based in African countries and will often use their local banks to make their fake checks look real. 6. Unless you have an established business and willing to take the risk on international orders, refuse to sell out of your country. This isn't 100 percent foolproof, but it will cut down your risk for getting scammed. A lot of the international scammers do have local teams who will pick up (steal) the items for sale, and they may start using checks from their local banks to make their fake checks look real.

[@Bob_Smith19]

Never accept checks from people you don’t know. Classified sales are always in cash.

[@remyllebeau77]

What? In what world are you responsible for someone else writing a fake check? This is madness!

[@tolpacourt]

You gotta vote out the Trudeau family. They should be deported to Cuba.

[@eliinthewolverinestate6729]

Legal tender but national parks don't except it. That's a problem when government won't except it's legal tender.

[@orangeoranges11]

it's not surprising that the worst public funded thing is the one to try and get rid of cash

[@mace2055]

I carry bluetack when i travel. One of my flights had ads on the back of the seat, so i tacked the warning sheet over it. Usually its for blinking lights in hotels.

[@xanderlander8989]

The last concert I went to was cashless payment only for the concessions. Also required a digital ticket. No printing your ticket anymore.

[@Bob_Smith19]

The lack of physical tickets is really sad.

[@seanunderscorepry]

Regarding KZbin advertising.. lately I've been getting an on screen prompt to skip the ad reads section of KZbin videos. Like Google is trying to stamp out the ad read economy

[@mace2055]

Reddit used to have a problem with bots astroturfing. They started talking about monetary rewards for heavy users, which just made the bots even worse.

[@personaldronerepair6141]

Cash states directly on the bill "This Note Is Legal Tender For Any And All Debt." If cash is not excepted you do not have to pay and you, by Federal Law, will get to keep the item or service. Until the federal law is changed, this is has and will be standard practice.

[@Druac]

I just wish there was a Micro Center near me...until that happens...it is online all the time. Best Buy almost never has what I want in stock.

[@wwShadow7]

I work in a factory. Our shipping lists are printed. My specialty on an HP printer. Most others on Kyocera. I have to reinstall the driver almost daily, and lose about an hour of productivity doing so. Daily. And if the paper slide thing isn't just perfect,, it forgets it has that tray. Which is tray 2, tray 1 is a manual feed. And if you have to unplug it to get to the tray to remove a paper jam, windows forgets it has a printer. I'll take pencil in the eye for 200 alex.

[@awetisimgaming7473]

You guys are effectively my source of news these days, I wish there were less horrifying things happening out there. I have been watching and reading lots of bushcraft content to also learn for fun, but definitely could be useful one day if this keeps up. Funny enough, in my town in upstate New York, there's still 2 restaurants that only take cash, and don't have any new tech in there besides their phones. p.s. for Wendell, I'm typing this from my new Unicomp model M!

[@osi9567]

That risc'y line was a banger

[@mikes2381]

That's a shame about the Ras Pi going public. Now or at least soon, everything will be for greed and for the shareholders. Thry did so great for so long. Speaking of commercial things with Pis in them, my old workplace had a 50,000 USD 3d printer that had a Ras Pi 3B as the entire brains. The Pi worked well enough.

[@upgrayedd251]

Man do I miss Rax. I live near-ish to one of the last surviving locations but it just isn't the same.

[@vincei4252]

2:58 United Airlines reconfirming every reason why I will never fly with them ever again.

[@Bob_Smith19]

They already advertised heavily. It’s also why you turn the TV in the headrest off. There is zero reason not to use one of your own devices for entertainment. And all the major carriers are bad. Delta’s domestic fleet is falling apart, they’re still running MD-88s. And American has shitty service in all regards.

[@johnjefferies2494]

Their argument is even if you take into consideration the % transaction cost. Cash costs money to transport and protect. Anyway we all know that banks want a digital currency.

[@STONEDay]

You're not allowed to fire Fireworks from a Helicopter in CALIFORNIA. If it was filmed in another State it would have been just fine.

[@bongobrandy6297]

ARM was up $13.84/share. Not too shabby.

[@culturedcritters]

I hate mobile companies! ALL OF THEM!

[@olo398]

41 here and been using "bot" for 20 yrs.....most people understood that insult.

[@doomboots]

well if they throw some microphones in, youll probably see an increase or decrease in ANC headphones based on the number of crying infants or noisy passengers. I'm kinda surprised they havent tortured their captive audiences more, frontier already takes the option to push their CC as soon as you get seated.

[@krandeloy]

Lol. I created a private Discord just for my mom and I to use as a grocery list. Set us both as Admin and we can delete each other's lines as we put the items into the cart.

[@blackboxmedia4953]

Nostr is the solution to content censorship! You guys should cover that on a future spot

[@euduvda]

About the payment depending on credit card processing and fees: look at Brazil's new payment method PIX. It's controlled by the central bank and it's basically an API implementation all banks must have. Consumers can transfer money directly to the business account with or without fees (depending on some niceties they have for business accounts).

[@bluephreakr]

It's funny, right; companies want to distance themselves from Geno, yet some of these companies also have interest in the star-people with these buildings representing their brand in that part of the middle east. I wonder, if Intel _thinking about_ abandoning them is a PR move?

[@HerrAlien]

"Room temperature semiconductors" - probably meant "Room temperature superconductor". Semiconductors are easy (we have a bunch of silicon based chips already). Superconductors are tough.

[@AcidSugar1414]

You leave me alone, Ryan. I comfortably live at the edge of the Apple Eco System. There are no shiny nobs or whistles keeping me here… 🍬 … Oooo a piece of candy

[@Fatspurios]

Engagement on. Be well.

[@Scrub_Ghost]

I'm surprised that content providers arn’t already doing this! They send you to an external link?

[@Norman_Fleming]

I haven't used an HP printer in over 5 years.

[@stamy]

There will be a time when we will all have our own AI assistant running on our device to help us remove ads everywhere to make our lives more enjoyable. It will end with a battle of AI agents between those of the corporations who want to impose their publicity on us and ours to counter them. This is why we need all the opensource LLM to help us running it locally.

[@4brigger]

@3:00 "ooh ads" you say? the superbowl and before movies (kind of); if ads could be exclusive to certain formats, they could represent some amount of entertainment value, but twice a year at most.

[@M3PH11]

28:44 exactly how they are doing it. also if you have a script blocker that blocks double click, good luck. I've had to restart my browser several times this week in order to get a video to play because of this test. Seems worse at peak times too.

[@puddleofbooks]

So i lived near a rax, but knowing how rare they are how did it come across your background XD

[@jackielinde7568]

Why the hell in this day and age of every app spying on you would you use an app for grocery lists? You can use either Microsoft Excel or Word's mobile versions on your phone (since you already have them and they've got your data either way) or even write the list in a plain text file and use Apple's or Android's text reader. HELL, EVEN JUST TEXT THE LIST TO YOURSELF!

[@darrenvail8726]

My pen doesn't spy on me, yet.

[@jackielinde7568]

@@darrenvail8726 Yet! Just give Apple time. And there were digital pens that could turn text and drawings into digital files. They were 10-15 years ago and I don't think the company that made them is still around. (IP grab?)

[@FGC_Jules]

​@@darrenvail8726ever watch x files? E.B.E.? might want to take apart your pen to check that it aint

[@yumri4]

On the ARM story in my mind it seems their respective lawyers read the same contract in 2 different ways. Qualcomm has a general license to use ARM designs then bought another company that had a license to use ARM server designs Qualcomm went on to use ARM in the CPU + GPU + NPU chip. Now ARM is sueing them for breach of contract so most likely Qualcomm used a server ARM chip design part in a consumer ARM chip even though that should be under the general license to use ARM designs. Really unless they release what it says in the license deal no one will know except for ARM holdings and Qualcomm what it says but from reports it sounds like ARM Holdings read it wrong.

[@darrenvail8726]

The screen on my airplane seat just broke.

[@mattnordsell9760]

Great background, rax has great food

[@codetorex]

28:29 - it would be easier to detect and skip in-video ad with audio fingerprinting. you won't even need ai. it would be easier and faster than dealing with youtube js shenanigans. similar tech already used to detect copyrighted music in videos and its computationally very cheap.

[@LucaDigioia83]

feeling engaged today I might comment

[@rogerorchard2317]

The problem I have with all these apps is that I can not read anything on my phone screen.

[@diegox7767]

I do only get my news from you guys

[@StubbyPhillips]

If the airline is going to advertise to me the whole way then the flight is free, right?

[@By_Rant_Or_Ruin]

3 months later T-mobile owes me approximately $21. They keep sending me a bill for -$21.

[@lorddeus369]

wsws often covers dock workers, yeah it'd be good to get video interviews but that may be used against the workers

[@Yavoreks]

Hiya! Love ya! Thenk ye! Actually not the Hump Day but the 1st day of my weekend (: See yas

[@gerarddummett]

19:19 The image caption says that the bubbles are green, but they don't appear to be so. Then I realised that they have green turned on, so their background image is showing through the bubbles.

[@DaxHamel]

Engagement challenge, find good news!

[@michaelfairchild]

Steve finally let Wendell go. After he saw Steve talk with Asus Ive thought its going to be "he saw too much"...

[@J0ermungand]

Maybe ads, or the filtering of them, is what in the end creates a massive demand for AI accelerators on computers, kick starting their adoption like games did for dedicated 3D graphics cards. Which might then feed back into games, which can then profit from ubiquitous AI accelerator hardware to do interesting NPC stuff with them.

[@chriscondict3104]

Streaming textures have been in the last two titles of cod. I highly suggest turning that off for multi-player

[@allenm00]

Helldivers 2 experience: Call downflame thrower, use flamethrower, die, someone takes my flamethrower, shoot person to get flamethrower back, get kicked.......

[@flyofthefirefly]

6:25 - expensive electricity leads to high bills for car manufacturing industry and every other (sanctions)

[@jonathonrosalia9345]

and instead of cash i trade in knives and other wears. the reemergence of bartering

[@blackboxmedia4953]

Stay humble and stack sats 🙏

[@1x4x9]

RAX! I haven't seen that name in over 30 years...

[@paulthebeardedonedowning6820]

"cash rejected everywhere around me cream! get the money digital currency ya'll!!"

[@NatesRandomVideo]

Here for my nutrient paste for engagement.

[@sirmonkey1985]

sports concessions i could see it being useful not accepting cash. the stadium i worked at as a youngin there was constantly money missing and because it's a low paying job there were always people quitting and coming in so it was insanely hard to track. most of the time they just wrote off the losses. counterfeit cash was also a big problem because most people aren't trained enough to tell the difference.

[@dunastrig1889]

Woot!

[@Patrick-pu5di]

17:55 Wendell is spot on! That's all that matters. AI (LLMs) are a hype-based technology, so of course Sam Altman thinks it's a good thing! Very embarassing move on both of their parts tbh lol

[@RISCGames]

Another episode of: DARK 🔥 FUTURE

[@dolex161]

Arm is out of control since it almost got bought by nvidia. They’ve been killing innovation on by going after its licensed partners for being acquired

[@MyTv-]

6:11 Germany have made public transport extremely affordable country wide. So a decline in some privately operated transport ain’t strange. As people don’t need to use them with a cheaper and simpler alternative.

[@tolpacourt]

People don’t need to use them with a cheaper and simpler alternative. Fixed.

[@By_Rant_Or_Ruin]

RAX cream soup again. Nice.

[@TTM1895]

TikTok is the chocolate chip ice cream of misinformation.

[@pixlot]

ok BOTS, lets wait till friday

[@H_Industries317]

Does anyone have more info about the e reader they mentioned?

[@Druac]

I curate my KZbin feed on the daily...use the tools they give you. Not Interested...Don't Recommend...etc.

[@superjuddy]

My issue with switching phone OS is definitely shiny light syndrome, but also more importantly I just don't trust android any more than I trust apple, so my thing is why switch when they're all getting 50% profit, and barely improving YoY

[@Kris_00007]

Soon Nintendo Roms will have to be found on onion sites.

[@sirius4k]

10:15 What a fucking waste. 11:56 wtf, what century your husband lives in, Kristuh? I don't fomo at all. When something is getting absurdly hyped, I'll just walk away, because it's guaranteed to be trash.

[@jazze1]

Is that my nose whistling or yours?

[@JasperWaale]

NYT is already that, so why not use AI and make it cheaper

[@jonnycoutinho]

#3. For the algorithm

[@lorddeus369]

if they forced ads, I might have to stop binging videos guys (too poor for floatplane my bad)

[@frankcastle5737]

To think ppl that buy high tech hardware would ever be efficient and reliable is funny AF! May as well higher an interior designer LMAOOOOOO

[@Starshooter216]

Trying to jump into the future, are you?

[@nogravitas7585]

20:20 Evidently not as proven by every prompt from tech companies/google being (Yes) and (Not now) the word no does not exist in their world.

[@allenellisdewitt]

5:23 It's not needless if a business determines that it will either cost them more than they'd save in lost sales, or if it would increase the amount of labor and insurance it would cost to keep that option. For places like a stadium, I 100% understand them not wanting to take/deal with cash.