MonkeyTown

@MonkeyTown@midwest.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best way to turn off people and get lower tips⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Your experience/statistic there is very different from my experience. It definitely depends where you are and how high-end the place is.

  Place I work now, most tips are cash, by a substantial margin. Even when paying with card about half of our customers tip cash, and most transactions at this place are cash anyway. Places I worked previously were like a 50/50 split if people paid more often with cash or card, and again about a quarter of people paying card still tip cash.

  Maybe because this is a low cost of living area, and everyone knows moving claims cash tips, maybe because it’s all small town stuff, idk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best way to turn off people and get lower tips⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Most people who work the service industry don’t claim cash tips, but credit tips are required to be claimed due to the whole being electronic and traceable thing.

  If, as a service person, most or all tips are in cash, you just claim whatever brings you to minimum wage for that pay period.

  This is obviously heavily dependent upon where you work - some places want you to claim all tips (but you still don’t claim cash usually) others, especially if you make above min wage like most bartenders, don’t care.

  However, if you don’t claim those tips you can’t use that as income when taking out loans and applying for housing and whatever else. So it’s fucks people over pretty regularly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to get/train a carrier pigeon today?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm…

  Can any of this be weaponized to protect a property?

  Can any wireless be…? Ideally without frying anything locally like an EMP… “you mean an emp? No, and EMP!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to get/train a carrier pigeon today?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Carrier pidgins make an excellent bandwidth benchmark though.

  Sneaker networks (flash drives stores in sneakers) are still some of the highest bandwidth out there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to get/train a carrier pigeon today?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know anything about it, so hopefully someone else has more experience, but I found this, so I assume the answer is yes.

  pigeonpedia.com/how-to-train-a-carrier-pigeon/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨my version is better⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  m.youtube.com/watch?v=Kwdweif1YI0

  Honestly there’s a several weird pseudo-deep lyrics so… maybe but probably not on that one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seagate's fraudulent hard drives scandal deepens as clues point at Chinese Chia mining farms⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a similar training selling stuff for a remodeling company.

  I quit on the second day of training. It felt gross, and I told them I was really uncomfortable with their tactics and that’s 100% why I was quitting…

  I also don’t watch tv and go out of my way to avoid ads :) pihole on the network, Plex and physical media for media needs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MIT builds swarms of tiny robotic insect drones that can fly 100 times longer than previous designs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d rather not have robot bees. I’ve seen hated in the nation (black mirror episode).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK, that on most smartphones, if you press the power button 5 (or more) times in quick succession, you can quickly call emergency services.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My local of sends someone out even if you tell them it was an accident.

  This may only be for woman-type people, I don’t know, but the couple times I’ve accidentally called they always sent someone by to talk to me just to make sure I really don’t need them.

  Kinda obnoxious, since I would be very unlikely to call the PD even if they were needed (only call the cops if you are ok with the possibility someone innocent will die), but I guess good on them for… being proactive… I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK, that on most smartphones, if you press the power button 5 (or more) times in quick succession, you can quickly call emergency services.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  On iOS, 5 quick presses doesn’t call emergency services, it reverts your phone to a pre-login state and gives you emergency options.

  This is super helpful to know if you have biometrics enabled. And cops can’t hold your phone in front of your face to unlock it if you do this.

  Try it if you have iOS. 5 presses quick, you’ll feel a vibration to let you know it worked so you can do it from your pocket.