• blunder [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    3 days ago

    There is a local restaurant whose online menu only works in Chrome. It’s like, this is takeout, what fucking computation is happening here that requires a specific web package? This should be a PDF with a phone number on it and it should load instantaneously

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      I remember visiting Italy just as things were opening after Covid and one very small restaurant had a QR code on the table which took you to a website where you had the choice of downloading the android or iOS app for the menu. My friends did it and it crashed immediately.

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        When I go on the internet I want to read the information on the screen and then sometimes take real-life actions off the internet based on that information. And the modern web often feels totally hostile to that usage