I think you’re underestimating how many people want to work for the government for the perceived benefits. I’m saying they have the stuff already set up, in fantasyland it would be a fairly smooth transition.

If we’re talking total fantasyland, I suppose put those employees to work building a government backed alternative or an open platform to allow smaller companies?

Suppose you had a centralized federated system where states or municipalities or even companies could have their own drivers but it’s a common app?

Edit to add you could also have both driver and passenger rate each other and allow both to filter by rating, lower ratings would naturally pay more or less to compensate for the service. I bet in cities you’d have luxury versions of the same services all from the same app, but also cheap shitty services too.

Looks like a dope little device but at that price I think I might be more interested in a Steam Deck.

This would be a welcome development, I feel like social media is something you use tech to do, but it’s very rarely an interesting conversation about the tech itself.

Like how a grocery store has food but you wouldn’t call it a restaurant.

I just lost a raid 0 array for what seems like no reason, all I even had to do was reformat and both drives are working again. It’s fortunate I only use them for my steam library.

That being said I have an Ubuntu machine that’s been running 4 drives in RAID 5 for like 5 years so… Your mileage may vary?

Btrfs would beg to differ.

As someone who has worked a lot of retail, they’re saving 8-16 man hours a day MAX. The national average hourly wage for a cashier is $13.81, so that’s $110.48-220.96. You still need to maintain manned registers so you have bodies for closing duties and a pod of self checkout registers still requires at least 1 body to run them. During non-peak hours it’s perfectly reasonable to only have 1 register open with a pod of SCO’s, and that register is mostly so you can sell alcohol and cigarettes. For closing you still need 3 or 4 bodies to deal with the after work rush and closing duties like trash, counting tills and other miscellaneous duties.

Self checkout only is a tool to improve the productivity of 1 person, some people are just upset at how effective they are, as shown by their prevalence. The real reason to be pissed off is that they don’t care, you’re still going to buy the same amount of stuff, you probably won’t even make any changes to your purchasing habits. This is underscored by the trend of retailers locking more and more inventory behind cages and lockboxes, and sales don’t go down, some retailers even think they result in more sales because more product is available to be purchased.

P.S. As someone speaking from the employees point of view, the biggest issue comes from the fact that consumers want to shop on the weekend to comply with their mon-fri lifestyle. Which in turn means someone else has to give up their “weekend”. This alone accounts for most of the issues I’ve seen post covid with staffing shortages, nobody wants to work when their friends or family aren’t, and they’re not getting any incentive pay for working the crappy hours. As a society at some point we have to recognize that this absurd obsession with weekends leads to most of the frustrations we’re talking about. If people could more evenly distribute their alotted time to do chores we wouldn’t have these gigantic lines to services that nobody wants to work at.

As much fun as setting up a torrent box is, being an argumentative asshole is even better.