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  • s_s@lemmy.onetoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldRestaurant Bill
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    10 months ago

    So, restaurants might do this to avoid the cost of printing new menus with new prices.

    Much easier and cheaper to just put signs at the table or print inserts, especially if you think prices will go up again soon.

    But this honestly just looks like they’re trying to screw you.

















  • You can put a myriad of setup and administration options into the GUI and most people still have no interest in them. These people just have no interest in using a computer like that. They “just want it to work”. It’s not a CLI v. GUI problem, it’s one of assumed responsibility.

    This is an inherent limitation of “free as in freedom” software.

    “Free as in freedom” really only refers to developers. The non-developers are beholden to whoever packages and distributes their software for them. We Linux users who aren’t system developers let the “distro maintainers” do the developer work for us. That’s why a distro’s website is full of mission statements and declarations of philosophy–it’s how we decide who to trust.

    And it’s the same for the “non-nerds” with system administration. Businesses hire admins to handle their internal software and networks, and at home people let Apple, Microsoft or Google take increasingly more control over their devices so that they aren’t responsible for getting it all working.