Subj : Re: taco bell marathon
To   : esc
From : Adept
Date : Sun Oct 26 2025 11:33:56

 es> What kills me is all the different parking apps I have had to download,
 es> what a total pain in the ass those things are!

I love being able to order with a well-designed, well-functioning screen, as I can see and think about the various options on the menu, with fewer pressures to respond _right now_, depend on being heard, and so on.

And I tend to hate app ordering, because the apps are there to try and figure out what kind of customer you are, have differential pricing, gather data, and so on.

And to top that off, I oftentimes _can't_ use an app, because I've never bothered to change my Google location from the US to Germany, so a variety of apps wind up being region locked.

Even worse than that, though, was when I went to Norway, we rented an electric car for part of it, and struggled with trying to charge it, as there was a set of stations where charging was available _only_ to Norwegian residents with a certain payment thing (and app) set up, and nowhere did it _say_ this; just that you'd figure it out after spending half an hour trying to get it to work.

But, yeah, in general I like using things that remove a problem or two for me, and detest using things that are designed a certain way because it's better for the company.

I may have to take that sort of behavior with various things on the internet, but I certainly don't have to take it with restaurants.

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