I do this a lot for cases of beverages and usually let them know verbally since most people are just on autopilot. Most thank me for making things easy for them.

What you suggest: 1/30 tasks compete. What I see: 29/29 tasks remaining.

Stores near me first put in self checkouts around a decade ago and still have the original, problematic machines. It’s the newer stores or ones recently renovated that have upgraded, but that is rare.

“Unexpected item in the bagging area.” “Please place the item in the bagging area.” “Unexpected item in the bagging area.” “Please wait for assistance.”

Because I played too much World of Warcraft, I get the parody Hard Like Heroic instead.

Joel Calls the Pizza Place

Hang on, you’re speaking the wrong language here and need to use wasted time words instead.

“Through our mutually agreed arrangement we can accomplish the organizational goals within satisfactory requirements while being cognizant of profits and budgetary availabilities.”

Jobs don’t bring happiness. You might find laboring towards a goal satisfying, but don’t confuse that feeling with job satisfaction.

I need a dramatic close up on a bystander who gasps in surprise before announcing “She’s not even blowing into it!” followed by the close up of the shooter saying “That’s right, I have gone BEYOND the need to blow into my instrument of destruction!”

Them being adversarial doesn’t really matter. The allies of today are the enemies of tomorrow and the converse, so the who shouldn’t matter. The problem is with anyone collecting data on your citizens because it can be sold, traded, stolen, or abused.

If it was about protecting people, a wide-spread countermeasure would be used instead of a pinpointed assault targeting a single app.

Or at least not well.

The windows, mirrors, and turn signals are all exposed. They at least made an effort.

I agree, Linux Mint has been well done.