trk
@trk@aussie.zone
- Comment on Australian businesses selling essential goods and services to be forced to accept cash payments 3 days ago:
Cash does have a cost
It’s a pain in the butthole tbh.
From a checkout chump perspective it was probably 40 minutes of my day wasted dealing with the cash. Getting it dispensed, double counting it all, depositing in to the safe when you had too much, watching out for dodgy currency or those dickheads who try the quick “I give you a 5 and you round up the change to 10 and then I’ll swap that for a 20 and then give you 30 so I get a 50” scam, dealing with damaged or defaced currency, recounting at end of day, getting reamed for being too far up or too far down in the count, having to sign forms to swear to god you hadn’t knocked off a pineapple (or put too many pineapples in the drawer)…
Then you need a safe storage space for the cash, security to protect the cash, literally a whole industry built on transporting it around the place, keep enough cash on hand to provide change, keep enough to cover EFT withdrawals.
There’s a lot of cost to handling cash. Also its gross. Did I mention its gross yet? Getting warm notes that were slightly sticky was disgusting.
- Comment on Australian businesses selling essential goods and services to be forced to accept cash payments 3 days ago:
We got a cheque book with our business banking account the better part of a decade ago now, and we’ve used 1.
When I was a checkout chump a million years ago people still occasionally brought in cheques and it meant taking copies of ID and all sorts because the dishonour ratio was too damn high.
- Comment on Australian businesses selling essential goods and services to be forced to accept cash payments 3 days ago:
As proved by various outages, when electricity (or the internet, or the service provider, etc) is down and prevents digital transfers being made… cash doesnt work either, cause it’s all the same POS / accounting software that handles cash which is also down.
Also if a natural disaster takes out internet access for an extended period, wheres the cash a business needs to keep on hand going to suddenly appear from? I haven’t worked in retail in a decade or more, but we always kept as little cash as possible on hand due to the constant threat of robbery. Even back then cash was way less than 50% of transactions, I’d be surprised if it was even in the double digit percentages anymore.
- Comment on Australian businesses selling essential goods and services to be forced to accept cash payments 3 days ago:
Cash is so gross though. All those grubby mitts all over it, plus being stored in super icky places like bras and grunderpants. Big fan of cashless if for no other reason than keeping bits of other people off me.
Actual other reasons:
- More secure to use a locked device for payment than carry cash that becomes anonymous once its removed from your person
- You cant lose digital money down the back of the couch, or drop it when getting your wallet out or whatever
- Easier for businesses to keep a track and balance sales automatically when its all digital
- Safer for staff rather than handling wads of cash, especially in places like service stations
- Harder for dodgy folk to do dodgy deals with
- Comment on Alternate Web UI for aussie.zone 6 days ago:
I just came here to say it wasn’t working, but looks like it got switched off a few days back.
I really like the old.reddit layout, so I’d be a huge fan if it was able to be used here too. No biggie if it cant, standard Lamington is pretty uncluttered anyway. Just not very compact. Whats with web devs and whitespace? I’m here to see content, not empty pixels.
- Comment on Microsoft FrontPage 1 week ago:
Not a jeffk fan? Dammit I’m so old
- Comment on Microsoft FrontPage 1 week ago:
I loved FrontPage. You could whip up a site in no time. The code it created was a disaster, but to be fair it worked fine.
I’d often use a WUSSYWAGON editor like FrontPage to make up a design and see how it looked, then just redo it by hand (or at least MAJORLY edit it) in Notepad so it wasn’t spaghetti.
I made a site for my dad’s business in FrontPage (then edited in Notepad) back in the very early 00s and hosted it on the 5MB of web space provided by the dialup provider at the time. It’s still there and exactly the same, though I had to move it to another provider in the late 00s when the ISP went bust. It’s gonna outlive him, and possibly me.
- Comment on Acting more Australian to foreigners for a laugh only to realise I'm being less Australian than I would be with other Australians. 1 week ago:
I try to talk less Australian to an international audience because I’m self conscious of looking like I’m hamming it up.
- Comment on We should defederate lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago:
Eh, I disagree. I don’t want to defederate from any instance except blatantly illegal ones or immoral ones.
The admins of an instance being dickheads doesn’t make every user of that instance a dickhead. And if you go around defederating every instance you don’t agree with a minority on, we’re gonna end up with no friends at all. It will also drive people away from becoming Lamingtons if they see defederation drama going on - why join any instance if you may end up on a deserted island?
Side note: here’s a nice bit of light reading on tolerating intolerance. And not tolerating tolerance. And vice versa:
- Comment on BYD’s hybrid EV ute that could rival Australia’s bestselling vehicles goes on sale 3 weeks ago:
Everything is sealed, and generally water proof in general. I’m sure you’ve seen sump pumps, aquarium wave makers, fuel pumps…
Electric is so much more reliable than combustion. Literally it’s only downside is the energy density of the batteries.
- Comment on BYD’s hybrid EV ute that could rival Australia’s bestselling vehicles goes on sale 3 weeks ago:
I’ve never seen an electric vehicle drive through water.
I’d be more worried about the ICE a Shark is carrying around then the EV part tbh
- Comment on BYD’s hybrid EV ute that could rival Australia’s bestselling vehicles goes on sale 3 weeks ago:
I use Android Auto so the “infotainment” system is pretty much just a screen for Android Auto to me. I’m sure it works fine under there though.
I have found that being slightly racist and doing a bit of a Chinese accent makes the BYD voice assistant understand me better 😬 I do not do this when other people are in the car because… well, obvious reasons.
- Comment on BYD’s hybrid EV ute that could rival Australia’s bestselling vehicles goes on sale 3 weeks ago:
… You wouldn’t take a Shark through a crossing that an Outlander can handle? :-\
Outlander has 190mm of ground clearance and a wading depth of 400mm, the Shark has 230mm of ground clearance and a wading depth of 600mm (or 700mm, depending on which website you believe).
- Comment on BYD’s hybrid EV ute that could rival Australia’s bestselling vehicles goes on sale 3 weeks ago:
I’ve got no need or interest in a dual cab, but we’ve got a BYD Seal and love it.
Chinese manufacturers are kicking arse, and making the usual brands look antiquated and overpriced.
- Comment on Nerd Update 25/10/24 3 weeks ago:
Front page side bar at the bottom has a link to my Ko-fi donation page
It doesn’t show up anywhere when you use an app, so I was very cleverly and subtly providing an opportunity to link it.
Don’t worry everyone, I’ll do it:
- Comment on Nerd Update 25/10/24 3 weeks ago:
I forget where the donations go… Can you refresh my memory?
- Origin snaps up pioneering Solar Quotes business, exits rooftop PV installationreneweconomy.com.au ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 4 comments
- Comment on Government to put pressure on opposition with legislation to ensure NBN stays in public hands 1 month ago:
Thanks to the Liberals who decided to halt the FTTP roll out, I have spent a literal decade paying for mobile internet, then Starlink, then FTTN internet, before finally getting a FTTP connection just recently.
It’s already overpriced and underperforming by virtue of being a decade behind the curve, I can only imagine how hard it would suck if it was privatised and profit became the driving force.
Its a public utility, spend the bucks to get it back where it should have been and run it as a service not a business ffs. I dont mind being taxed out the arsehole if I actually get something for my money!
- Comment on How crazy house prices and an ageing population are creating ‘tombstone suburbs’ 1 month ago:
Here you go my dude:
- Comment on Why Labor refuses to ban gambling ads - ABC listen 2 months ago:
tl;dr
- Comment on Why Labor refuses to ban gambling ads - ABC listen 2 months ago:
Yeah, I don’t reckon I need to listen to a 4 hour podcast for the answer.
- Comment on Australia’s climate ambitions have a modern slavery problem as materials for renewable energy technology is likely sourced through forced labour in China, researchers say 2 months ago:
I wish the government would be more proactive in encouraging local manufacturing.
You know a great way to ensure a product is free from modern slavery? Produce it locally where nothing is obscured.
- Comment on Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills 2 months ago:
I prefer to argue on the internet via my phone, which I can type pretty fast on thanks to the swipe to type
I’m the opposite… I rarely reply when I’m on my phone because swiping and tapping away at the touchscreen keyboard is so slow and inaccurate. I spend more time correcting swypos than I do writing I think.
Meanwhile on the desktop I can punch out a shining example of wit (or at least a spoonerism of that) at 100+ wpm at 100% accuracy.
Sent from my phone, slowly.
- Comment on Weekly news quiz: Sam Neill's missed role, a supermoon, and Felix's sweet thank you 2 months ago:
5/10, which I mostly blame on not caring about celebrity news stories.
- Comment on Booktopia to begin trading again after sale to online store digiDirect 2 months ago:
I used to buy books from Booktopia a lot, because reading text on LCD / LED screens is horrible.
But then I discovered epaper devices and the convenience of carrying your entire library around in something half the size of a single paperback.
Surprised there’s still a big enough demand for physical books to be honest.
- Comment on Gemini is replacing Google Assistant on Pixel phones, and it’s a train wreck 2 months ago:
I can’t set a reminder.
I said “Hey Google, set a reminder to feed the dog at 9am tomorrow” and it seems to work fine?
- Comment on Google threatened tech influencers unless they ‘preferred’ the Pixel 2 months ago:
The one in my hand with a silicon case feels fine. Camera bump is only obnoxiously noticeable when it’s naked.
- Comment on Queensland’s premier wants publicly owned petrol stations – is that a good idea? 3 months ago:
But more often than not, Australia’s citizens found themselves little better off if at all. This turned out to be a common international experience for other countries privatising their utilities.
Name one thing that’s been privatised that has resulted in any combination of better product, better service, or better price?
- Comment on Spy chief warns friendly nations among the countries interfering in Australian communities 3 months ago:
“three to four” countries… Who’s the fractional country having a crack?
- Comment on Jack Karlson, who shot to fame after ‘succulent Chinese meal’ arrest, dies aged 82 3 months ago:
Going to dine and dash my local Chinese restaurant tonight out of respect 🙏
