I learned to not put my bad on the scale and put in my groceries as I scanned them. Becuase the shifting of the bag as I load it often triggers the scale. Meanwhile there is only 1 person for 11 self-checkouts. So it wouldnt be too hard to just take something from your cart and drop it in your bag without scanning.
It will do it without any bags in there. Weights vary enough, the scale is calibrated properly or whatever, weight not recorded properly in the database that the checkout uses, etc., etc.
What? That sounds like a fun conversation. I love talking to psychotic. Creepy. Weird people. Especially the weird crackhead who works at my local gas station who I've repeatedly see smoking crack. Behind the building.
Yup. We have multiple clients that do the same thing. Mid-tier Dell Latitude, fine for office work and maybe some DevOps... now here, enjoy having an app that literally records the screen 24x7 as well as 3 cybersecurity/virus scanner apps. Oh, and a LLM, because these fuckers will be damned if they are actually gonna do any work themselves when they can set the autopilot and let it coast.
I don't. They are fucking annoying. Especially when you are popping into the shop for some milk, bread and some biscuits and you've been waiting for 10 minutes to be served in a queue of 3 people; half of this wait is because some manlet is dropping off the 20 packages to be delivered by EVRI and the printer fucks up on each one and the other woman on checkout is having a chat with her sister-in-law for 20 odd minutes.
Oh... yes. I've dealt with this one before. Laptops would lose their charge in an hour tops because they'd be constantly running 3 forms of malware scans simultaneously at all times. I had to come up with clever ways to prop up the laptop to keep it from burning itself to death. Check the computer resource monitor and it's 50% constant CPU usage.
I’ve benefited from that though, after enough people complain that the laptops are too slow the company will buy a new fleet and sell the old fleet on eBay, so I’d get a fairly powerful ThinkPad in good condition for dirt cheap.
now imagine you're fighting enemy and your artillery starts a mandatory update where restart is required.
Compliance status: DEAD
I just got a reply to a ticket I've created on the marketplace on June 1st: "This order is currently carried by a courier. You can cancel it during it's delivery."
There's a sci-fi series of books called The Foundation about - well a lot of things - but shortening a projected dark age before it arrives. In it, the competence for building nuclear reactors has been long lost in the empire, and the people who remain can't comprehend the old reactors, so they sort of ritualistically maintain them without understanding why any of the maintenance prolongs the reactors' functions and they occasionally fail catastrophically.
We have to use company provided work laptops. I kinda understand it given our industry though. They also have employees cycle their laptops every few years for whatever compliance reasons... also somewhat understandable. However, what I don't appreciate is the noticeable degradation in performance speed on the new system. It's actually astonishing how much time is wasted on fighting with the Microcock suite garbage which performs even worse on the newer laptops.
That article gave me Cuban super AIDS. The framing is off the charts not a hint of India and indians are dysfunctional and retarded but instead :Indians are much better than normal people who have and use functioning address systems.
A lot of corpos do this. They install a bunch of spyware and other shite, and then it runs like shite, or you can't run anything useful.
As a consultant I see this stuff all the time. They'll give me a remote desktop or ship me a laptop, and it goes something like this.