maroudava

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[–] maroudava 5 points 1 year ago

I never buy phones new anymore unless there's a huge price drop or good deal involved. I'll most likely pick up an refurbished or preowned 8 when the 9 and 9a come out, to save on costs. Assuming there's nothing horribly wrong with the hardware, that is.

[–] maroudava 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The government monitors those types of forums because of the far right extremism that tends to be espoused there, which in turn encourages and leads to instances of politically-motivated domestic terrorism in the US. Putting your incel-related issues aside, if you're going to visit and post on obscure and extremist forums, you should have had the basic common sense to protect your privacy and security before doing so.

[–] maroudava 14 points 1 year ago

I don't think it's browser specific or a direct targeting of Firefox; that's likely confirmation bias. I see rolling captchas and the annoying ones that have a delayed fading in and out even on Chromium forks. I think the biggest reason for seeing them is VPN usage. When I turn off my VPN, I either don't see any captchas or it just automatically shows the green check when I start them.

[–] maroudava 1 points 1 year ago

Small businesses can't really afford to do daily trips to the bank. We fill our tills once, maybe twice, a week. Plus, since we're a secondhand store, most of our cash has to go to customers selling things to us. It's just not as simple as just going to the bank each day.

[–] maroudava 2 points 1 year ago

The worst (coin-related) I had to deal with was $5.00 in all dimes. It was first thing in the morning too 😒 I sat there and counted them one-by-one while the customer protested and insisted "I just counted it this morning" as if that mattered lol

[–] maroudava 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I totally understand the desire to not want to be tracked by digital purchases. Is there a reason you can't carry smaller bills on you for when you walk in to shop at gas stations, convenience stores, small businesses, etc? There are plenty of solutions to this dilemma. Expecting small businesses to be able to clear their registers of change for you because you can't go to an ATM or another store capable of breaking your large bills is quite entitled.

I ran a chain of stores that handled some of the largest cash transactions possible.

That's great, but not really relevant to small businesses which tend to have smaller transactions, and therefore less money in the tills for the week.

[–] maroudava 2 points 1 year ago (7 children)

As I have previously mentioned, I totally understand that it can be frustrating to be unable to use large bills if you have them on you. Unfortunately, the world doesn't revolve around you specifically. Smaller stores and businesses aren't always able to take on the risk of counterfeits, nor are they able to constantly make bank runs every other day to refill the tills. Are you saying, in 2023, you'd rather walk out of a store than use the plethora of other payment options at your fingertips? Contactless, smartphones, debit/credit cards, smaller bills, gift cards?

[–] maroudava 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

Gas stations, convenience stores, and small businesses are common targets of scams and counterfeit currency. It's important to take that into account too as it relates to possible losses. Also, the fact that we just generally have less change available in our registers compared to larger businesses. It's not that uncommon to see locations like this refuse larger bills as a result. I fully understand being annoyed at this at big box / larger chain stores and businesses, of course.

 

 

This is one thing I never understood, especially when people try to use them for small purchases. At my workplace, the store owner has disallowed us from accepting $50 and $100 bills in order to avoid having to check for counterfeits. People get very upset at this policy.

One time, a customer came up to the counter with the items they had picked out. I scanned them all up and then provided her with the total. She then tossed a $50 bill on the counter. I politely explained that due to store policy, I would be unable to accept it, so she'd have to either break the bill elsewhere, or she'd have to provide a different payment method.

In response, she snatched the bill off the counter and angrily said, "Well, I'm never shopping here again." She said this loudly enough that it took aback multiple nearby customers, who began to look on.

After digging in her purse, she tossed two smaller bills onto the counter, which turned out to not be enough to pay for the total (after the cash she still owed $7-8). I explained this to her, and then she snatched the cash off the counter and left. The next customer I interacted with, who had witnessed everything, told me that she'd "go easy on me". Haha.

I understand it can be frustrating to not be able to pay with the money you have on you in the moment, but I wish customers would understand that the store owner sets the policies, not the people working for the owner. Retail workers don't really have any power in that regard, we just work here. Also, I wish they'd understand we are not a bank; even if we did take larger bills, we don't have a million dollars in the register to give you. Usually, we have just enough to get through the week. It's just a nuisance.

[–] maroudava 2 points 1 year ago
[–] maroudava 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There's a FOSS fork of Signal which removes Google dependencies from the software.

Signal-FOSS

A fork of Signal for Android with proprietary Google binary blobs removed. Uses OpenStreetMap for maps and a websocket server connection, instead of Google Maps and Firebase Cloud Messaging.

https://github.com/tw-hx/Signal-Android

[–] maroudava 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

From a post on the GrapheneOS forum:

If you try to "update" it from aurora store, the update will fail because the signature does not match between the open source version you have installed as part of the system image, and the google version on store.

Its nothing to worry about, just ignore it.

Just add it to Aurora Store blacklist.

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Plastic Bags (self.retailhell)
submitted 1 year ago by maroudava to c/retailhell
 

This happens to me almost daily.

A customer brings up a 1x1 inches, easy-to-hold item to purchase. Surely they don't need a bag, right? After all, the smallest bag size we have would still be way too large for this single item.

With this in mind, once the transaction is complete, I attempt to hand the receipt and item to the customer, only to be responded to with, "uh, can I have a bag??" as if I'm the idiot.

It's like people desire to contribute to landfills.

What's funnier is when it's someone who has a purse on them. You can't put it in your purse?!

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by maroudava to c/retailhell
 

The card terminals that my workplace uses requires that the customer presses 'confirm' to make sure that their total is correct prior to charging their card. Pretty simple, right? The card terminal clearly indicates that the customer needs to confirm. Unfortunately, this isn't how it plays out in practice.

In practice, it goes something like this:

*terminal says to confirm the total is $10.53*

Customer: It says I need to confirm the total

Me: Uh huh.

Customer: So what do I press?

Me: Umm, is there a problem with your total?

Customer: No

Me: Then push confirm 🤡

Why can't people follow simple directions? It's written in plain English on the screen.

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