Re: repairs and obsolescence ish

On 5/7/2025 1:52 PM, AMuzi wrote:

 

Girlfriend's new car came with one of those square tetris-ish symbols on the glovebox door instead of an owner's manual. One is supposed to use a portable telephone with that to access the cloud-based manual.
 Words fail.

A few months ago some friends and I went in to a certain pub as we do at least once a month. That time we asked for a beer list. The waitress said "Just use your phone. There's the QR code."
We did, but politely voiced our objection to the idea. Why should a customer have to download their file onto a smartphone? Why should a smartphone even be required?
Others must have complained as well. Next time we visited we got a beer list printed on actual paper.
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- Frank Krygowski