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#3261890 20-Jul-2024 18:09

Media hysteria annoys me. One of the keys on Mum's ~15 year old keyboard has stopped working, and she's convinced that it's due to Crowdstrike.

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#3261896 20-Jul-2024 18:31

Behodar:

Tinkerisk:

Don't you have a deposit coin or chip in your shopping cart that you can only get back when you connect the trolley to the station?

No. I know the things you're talking about (I've seen them in Europe) but I've never seen them over here. They might exist in "high trolley crime" areas though.

It‘s a simple, mechanical keychained mechanism.

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#3261912 20-Jul-2024 20:09

Behodar:

Tinkerisk:

Don't you have a deposit coin or chip in your shopping cart that you can only get back when you connect the trolley to the station?

No. I know the things you're talking about (I've seen them in Europe) but I've never seen them over here. They might exist in "high trolley crime" areas though.

Countdown (Now Woolworths) trialed it at their Riccarton Store (Moved to Church Corner) decades ago and the backlash from the public was so bad etc that they dumped the idea.

They even had a person who gave you the coin to release the lock, so it "cost" you nothing and you got to keep the coin on returning it.

.....and still enough people refused to shop there and the drop in sales forced their hand.

(It was my local supermarket at the time)

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#3261914 20-Jul-2024 20:14

msukiwi:
Behodar:

No. I know the things you're talking about (I've seen them in Europe) but I've never seen them over here. They might exist in "high trolley crime" areas though.

Countdown (Now Woolworths) trialed it at their Riccarton Store (Moved to Church Corner) decades ago and the backlash from the public was so bad etc that they dumped the idea.

They even had a person who gave you the coin to release the lock, so it "cost" you nothing and you got to keep the coin on returning it.

.....and still enough people refused to shop there and the drop in sales forced their hand.

(It was my local supermarket at the time)

Carrefour had the same thing happen in Dubai. Now all the trolleys have the stupid things but they aren’t used.

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#3262224 21-Jul-2024 15:28

Behodar:

Media hysteria annoys me. One of the keys on Mum's ~15 year old keyboard has stopped working, and she's convinced that it's due to Crowdstrike.

When my dad turned off his PC for the night he would disconnect the modem cable from the back. So that nobody could hack into his PC. I don't know if he kept doing that all the way up until he got wifi.

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#3262456 21-Jul-2024 21:53

Maybe Auckland's public transport would work better if it wasn't run by idiots:

For non-Aucklanders, that's a bus stop served by the city's Inner and Outer Link buses.

The reference map on the Link bus stop is for Auckland's trains (and Northern Busway pretend train).

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#3262773 22-Jul-2024 12:48

Everything having an "edit" button these days has indirectly annoyed me: I used to type things and then verify them before submitting, but these days I tend to just submit, then proofread, then go back and edit. It's a hard habit to break!

(Let's see whether I've managed to leave an error in this post...)

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#3262776 22-Jul-2024 12:53

We're decades into computers being commonplace, and people still save (non-photo) graphics as JPEG files.

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#3262931 22-Jul-2024 15:36

I'm annoyed at the moment because I am possibly/probably going to be in the market for a new bike (mountain bike) in late August/early September, but all the sales are on now and the discounts are deep (and I do not currently have the available funds)

It's likely that more sales won't happen with similar discounts until at least late October (to coincide with Labour Weekend), which will not suit me at all.

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#3262947 22-Jul-2024 16:06

Handsomedan:

I'm annoyed at the moment because I am possibly/probably gong to be in the market for a new bike (mountain bike) in late August/early September, but all the sales are on now and the discounts are deep (and I do not currently have the available funds)

It's likely that more sales won't happen with similar discounts until at least late October (to coincide with Labour Weekend), which will not suit me at all.

If the discount is worth it then a month or 2 on the credit card might cover it. Or see if they will do a traditional layby on it (not the part payment company that confusingly used that as their name and then went broke)

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