If you find value in it, that's fine. I not only find value with interaction with the lovely checkout people, I dislike the cost of scanning and managing the items during checkout being my problem so a huge company can save money. If they were to implement a discount as a way to say "we'll pay you for your work to give us your money" I would consider it.
That's not to say the value of the convenience is never worth it. I exclusively use Sam's Club scan-and-go because the time I save is much larger than the publix/walmart/ect.
Agreed whole heartedly. Apollo makes it easy and concise. I tried old.reddit recently and the ads were less then the new side of things but no thank you.
Reddit takes me back to when everything was forums and message boards. Good times.
I kept thinking of this scene from the movie Fight Club:
Narrator:
A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
Business woman on plane:
Are there a lot of these kinds of accidents?
Narrator:
You wouldn't believe.
Business woman on plane:
Which car company do you work for?
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It seems like this this has got my back. I'm off to Starbucks!
When pre-modern battlefields are brought up, I often think of the Battle of the Bastards scene from Game of Thrones. One of the few battle scenes that gives me the cold sweats. Watching the absolutely suffocating clash of flesh and metal is horrific.
The first sentence was great! but the paywall stopped me short of finishing the second sentence. From what I could read though, it looks like Skunk Works has some great things in the works.
I like weblock (I believe were talking about the same by Futuremind) but I prefer their other app Adblock (I posted a small quib about it ~15 replies up from this reply). You can also, if you want; copy the PAC weblock sets up for you, host it yourself on github and then set it up as your own proxy for whatever wifi you connect to.
Use Adblock from futuremind. It cost less than a beer. It set’s up a local dns vpn so you can still use a VPN like nordvpn. You can then block any type IP or set up complex rules. I’ve been able to block youtube ads and all the other stuff on their page. I only see the video I go to. The only limiting thing is a 5000 url/ip limit and that I have to open up and restart the App once a day usually.
Also under experimental settings for safari, only enable
disable web SQL
block top level redirects from third party sites
That's not to say the value of the convenience is never worth it. I exclusively use Sam's Club scan-and-go because the time I save is much larger than the publix/walmart/ect.