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I just take my phone out and look at it. Most establishments won’t give a shit as long as you are still able to be productive. Being said, if its to the point where you are being called out for it, high chance it is impacting work performance. That or you have a really shit manager. I’ve gone through like 6 managers and none of them have ever cared if we occasionally looked at our phone as long as it wasn’t impacting the work environment. The only time they ever address it is when some idiot abuses it or lets it impact work performance. Then they do a workwide broadcast saying “hey remember headphones and phones during work are not allowed” but they then only punish the ones actually failing to get the job done/are actually a problem.

You could probably start taking more bathroom breaks but, that defo won’t gain you any brownie points if anyone else on the team is reliant on you and if noticed you’ll end up higher on the chopping block next time they are looking to hire someone else on, technically this is illegal in the US but, they just find another reason to terminate. If its a manager issue, then I guess just ride it out, those types of managers generally don’t last too long anyway. That or look elsewhere for employment because it sounds like you are in micromanagement hell

For me, it depends on the context, and how the person responded to the comment.

If the reply had little to no contribution to my comment, that’s whatever I can ignore and move on, but if the reply is a clear “I’m trying to siderail this/ignoring what was actually said” or “I’m attacking you directly instead of the topic at hand” then I’m pretty firm in blocking. I don’t block for disagreement period, it’s when it moves into the unproductive field that I start to ignore or I block.

This is what makes me block usually, a personal attack. Fallacies are hit or miss, I usually use them as an indicator to just disengage cause its not worth the effort, but personal attacks are an immediate yea this isn’t worth it and block

I don’t tend to block unless there was clear malice or it is being done in bad faith. Prime examples of this would be accounts that when I look at their history is almost exclusively argumentative posts(this is generally prompted by another reason), people who do personal attacks instead of standard discussion, and people whom it’s clear that they aren’t trying to add to the conversation, and are trying to derail or push an agenda.

I use that coupon every once and awhile(when my family decides they want McD), but that still makes it 3$ more than what it used to be, and requires me to use a coupon when I could redeem for points or use something else. And thats also forcing me to use their app. Which the app itself is actual trash now. They removed the search bar for items, they added point expiration(ok this was awhile ago) they now charge you immediately upon placing the order, despite not actually starting the order until your GPS detects you are at the establishment. Theres no ability to cancel and order once placed, regardless if its started being made. Their FAQ page intentionally lies to you telling you that every purchase is final, despite the fact that if they haven’t started making the order, it will eventually refund the purchase. They added a waiver for class actions to the apps TOS meaning if you want to sue you must use third party attribution. It massively harvests data. All for the benefit of paying more for something that I used to be able to spend 12$ not even 10 years ago on.

For context on why the no ability to cancel and lying annoys me: I worked closing shift for years, but it was a 50/50 chance that if I went to mcdonalds (which was the only food joint open when I got out cause everywhere else closed at like 10/1030) it would be packed. What I would do is place the order when I got out, and then look at the establishment on the way through and if it was packed I would cancel the order in the app and just not go there. Due to this change in mechanics, I’m now charged immediately when i place, and not given the ability to cancel. Which would be fine if they actually made the food when they took my money, but they still don’t start making the food until you are there, so the only thing it did was force me to go to a slammed fast food joint, wait 40 minutes instead of my normal 15 for my food(mcdonalds takes forever to cook late at night cause nothing is prepped), and overall make the entire experience less enjoyable from a consumer POV. The screwed up part is, they didn’t tell anyone they were switching to that system. I placed my order like I always did, skipped the restaurant because it was slammed like I sometimes did, and then found I no longer had a cancel button when I got home. So I had to find the FAQ section that moreorless said “all purchases final no refunds”. To which I called the restaurant and they said “oh just wait like 3 or 4 days it’ll refund” and it did.

The end result was the same though regardless. since then they opened a dominos that is open until like 2 AM, and as long as your order is placed by like 8 or 9 PM you can schedule in advance for when i got out. Which made my nightly cost 10$ for a large pizza, or 20 for 2 pizzas and a thing of sticks, which was significantly less than I was paying mcdonalds for a meal that only lasted me that one meal. It’s not worth the money regardless of their deal program anymore.

Agreed, I almost exclusively go to dominos for that carryout deal. I can get 3 meals worth for < 10 or one meals worth for twice the price. It’s a no brainer.

Sorry I havent been on lemmy as often so delayed reply.

My standard order is 2 bacon mcdoubles(currently $4.89 a piece), a large fry($4.99) and a lemonade($2.49) or a Mcafe($4.99), so it ends up being $17.29 for my food or 18.64 after tax, or if I wanted a cafe it would be 19.76 or 21.34 after tax.

Just 5 years ago I could get 2 bacon mcdoubles, 2 large fries, a 20 piece nugget and a lemonade for about 18$ (granted that was with a deal).

Back in 2016 I could get that same bacon burger meal above for a little over 12. I can’t warrent the price anymore.

I haven’t gone to a mcdonald’s by choice in almost 4 years now. When my meal rose from 12-13$ to 17-18$ I stopped going. Just for the chuckle I put that same meal into the app, it’s now 22$ after tax. yea no I’ll just go to apple bees or dominos and get more food for less.

I felt this way a few months ago. So many emails.

I do the same thing at mcdonalds. “Will you be using myrewards today?”. It doesn’t matter what you say it won’t help you get your order done any faster

Wouldn’t surprise me if the money pushers decided they didn’t want to have the position anymore when they learned the cost of it. Happens all to frequently. Was the /biggest/ blocker in my old retail job. Store level would open a position, go through the hassle of interviewing or sometimes even having them come in for orientation. Just to have corporate level call in and be like “actually that position/req doesn’t exist anymore figure it out” Which almost always led to the job offer being withdrawn or employee being terminated with no repercussion because they had been there very little.

something like a google voice virtual number, which you can essentially deactivate as soon as you secure a job.

I believe I tried that as well, but I’ll try it again when I have the chance just in case.

You just answered my question. I was going to ask you earlier and then forgot to hit send. Because I thought plasma actually looked really slick, so I was going to recommend it. Especially with how customizable it is.

The biggest annoyance that was to get used to was the change in overall size of the menu bars, but once you’ve been using Linux for a week or two, it actually hurts your eyes going back onto Windows again.

Of course, your metrics may vary because every person’s situation is different, but I went through my associates and my bachelor’s CIS degree with very minor issues issues., Many colleges will state that it requires windows for the course, but then you’re able to use something like LibreOffice just fine. Like technically, the only course that I ever had to actually use windows for was my Microsoft Office course and that’s self-explanatory of why I needed Windows for that lol

I did try GameScope as well. It launched with it, however, I wasn’t able to actually interact with it(nor was any of the text easily decipherable), but it was my first time trying to use GameScope as well, so I don’t know if I just screwed something up with it, or if it wasn’t compatible. Other games were able to run with the same setup using it, so I figured it just wasn’t compatible.

If it is a system file issue, I’m not sure what it would be because I’ve already tried nuking out the wine and proton versions and reinstalling them and that had zero luck. And I have similar issues between lutris and steam in terms of it as well, and those should use completely separate paths

Thank you for your assistance regardless. And yes, I have noticed indie games ironically do tend to function a lot better than AAA titles, I do play quite a few indie games as well.

I prefer simulation style games but it defo isn’t a hard lock to the genre… I fell into the money trap that is humble bundle choice and every month I end up getting another 7 or 8 games which is why they add up fast, and I accumulate faster than I can play lol. I’ve never been very good at sticking to one game and playing it for an extended period of time.

Also, if you do end up playing Star Citizen again, definitely use the custom wine runner their LUG forum has, it’s one of the few that let’s it through EAC, But where it says to have 32 gigs of native ram, and 8 gigs of swap, definitely bump that up to like 15 gigs minimum of swap because it’s rough and was bottlenecking still at 32 native with 10 gb of SWAP. it’s still laggy as heck, but at least it will be somewhat playable.

anyway thanks again lol happy gaming!

I’m sorry, but you’re misreading what they mean by support in that article because I did read it. They’re still gonna give support regarding the ESU program as a whole(otherwise they would be sued for fraud), which includes installation, activation, and regressions of the program. What they’re not going to be providing is general technical support which is a different beast, If you would like more information, you can read about it here as well.

It’s a different system if I understand the article correctly. It looks like its just a Microsoft account not a one drive sub. I’m expecting they are just going to only allow 10 computers per account and then when it hits max it stops getting support on new systems (since updates are involved I doubt they will let you remove devices like with the current activation system). Now I do expect that the payment is the same system, and considering their dark tactics at trying to get you to subscribe and update, I do assume this is going to make it easier to accidentally spend money or subscribe to other services though.