Mark Holtom (aka Kingbeard)Aug 24, 2024
Show threadJurarigo
@MarkHoltom Even if you're young and tech savvy is a huge problem if you don't have, let's say, a smartphone. Which I don't have, so it's always "very funny" how a big part of the world is just strangely forbidden for me.
Can't even begin to imagine the hell on earth it must be for an elder person.
Aug 24, 2024 at 9:23amWeb
Show threadOuti 🦊🌱🌍🌈Aug 24, 2024
@Jurarigo_ @MarkHoltom I know someone who doesn't have a smartphone, and who bought concert tickets before the pandemic restrictions. When the concert eventually happened, paper tickets were no longer accepted, so they had to borrow a smartphone to get an electronic version of the ticket they had already bought several years ago.
Show threadJurarigoAug 24, 2024
@OiskaE @MarkHoltom I still have to borrow one in certain restaurants because the menu is now just a QR code plastered on the table. Fun times.
Show threadOuti 🦊🌱🌍🌈Aug 24, 2024
@Jurarigo_ @MarkHoltom 😩 I have a smartphone but I still wouldn't want a QR code menu. Luckily haven't come across one so far, but it's probably just a matter of time.
Show threadCluster FckuAug 24, 2024
@Jurarigo_ @OiskaE @MarkHoltom we need a meme with restaurant plate and the food arranged & sized like a QR code, because the patron ordered from QR menu
Show threadJan CigerAug 26, 2024

@Jurarigo_ @OiskaE @MarkHoltom

That would be pretty much the last time I would visit such place. Restaurants that value more customers staring into their phones than the actual food being served and social interaction - sorry, I can also go to McDonalds if I want that. There they have the touch screen ordering terminals at least and it likely costs 10x less.

Show threadJMcDAug 24, 2024

@Jurarigo_ @MarkHoltom I held off on getting a smartphone for years until companies started making it inconvenient to not have one by not having physical menus at restaurants, not doing box office tickets, etc.

Smartphones, and the internet in general, are simultaneously the best thing ever invented and the worst thing ever invented.

Show threadJurarigoAug 24, 2024
@McD1979 @MarkHoltom These things are the best, by itself. Capitalism is what made them shit.
Show threadRobotAug 24, 2024

@Jurarigo_ @MarkHoltom or your phone is dead/broken/lost and you have no way to charge it.

Why the fuck did you stop putting paper route schedules out.? Why so many qr codes for bus arrivals? please add a display, peoples phones aren't everlasting.