It's a dick move because the expected social arrangement at an American restaurant with table service is that the customer tips the waiter. American labor laws encode this expectation and people who work as waiters expect part of their compensation to come from that arrangement.
If you eat a table service restaurant and refuse to tip because you think the arrangement is stupid (which it is), you're directly harming the person who serves you by reducing their wages for the amount of time they spent on you. You're taking a philosophical stand (at best, at worst you're just being cheap) at the cost of a real person's income. This person who has no control over the standard tipping arrangement. Your protest does not cause any change and accomplishes nothing expect worsening the day of someone who provided you a service expecting you to hold up your end of the customarily agreed upon bargain. The waiter is not offered a chance to agree to this bum deal (and if you walked into a restaurant and said "who's willing to serve me with no tip to protest the stupidity of American tipping culture?" you'd be rightfully laughed out of the room).
That's why it's a dick move.
There are plenty of options for getting fed which do not involve table service, and if you want to protest tipping culture by not participating in it, you should patronize restaurants which either don't have table service or have a no tipping policy, rather than taking it out on low level wait staff.
The law does not require customers to tip, it requires employers to pay employees at least minimum wage if employees do not receive enough tips to meet the minimum wage requirements.
I try to determine where the main sources of noise are and I ask about the insulation of the apartment (double glazing, thickness of the walls, the front door ...) with some experiences you will be able to determine your level of acceptance
More of a Beeper question. I couldn't find the information on Beepers website or FAQ page.
- For iMessage, does using Beeper allow you to use your own phone number to send/receive messages or do you have to use your Apple ID email to send/receive iMessages?
Although I see somebody else suggesting otherwise, I promise you that you can send/receive iMessages (and SMS messages) via your phone number if you have an iPhone. You do have to select your phone number as your "Default Alias" from the iMessage chat network configuration page, though.
I don't think it's that simple, and it's kinda up to Apple. If you have an iPhone, then yes. But if you have an Android phone, from what I can tell, there's nothing you can do to stop Apple from eventually disregarding the phone number attached to your account and sending everything from your email address. Part of the reason I use an iPhone at the moment is because my entire network uses iMessage and I run an iMessage -> Matrix bridge.
I exported all my spotify data by going to Account > Privacy Settings on their website and requesting all the data that I could get.
This included:
-Playlists
-Streaming history for the past year (you can request history for the lifetime of your account too)
-A list of items saved in your library
-Search queries
-No. of followers, accounts you follow, and blocked accounts
-Payment and subscription data
-User data
-Family Plan data
-Inferences
-Voice input
-Podcast interactivity
-Spotify for Artists data
I used this data to buy the music I wanted to keep and make my own collection.
As a small side project I made a CLI tool in Python [1] to retrieve music collages from tapmusic.net [2] (uses your Last.fm scrobbles to create collages of your most listened to music).
I think that might be the case. I might even get used to using iOS after a long time but I don't think that would equate to the UI being good or accessible.
But why is it always on the top left or right? Phones continue to get larger and since iOS doesn't have a universal back button, wouldn't it make sense it put navigation buttons on the bottom left and right?
Swiping is I think how most people use nav on an iPhone at this point. The back button at the top did make a lot more sense on the original models where the screen was small enough that you could do everything with a single hand.
it's not an Android phone. Please go back to Android if what you want is Android. I don't mean that in jest, but in all seriousness. You've gotten used to a certain way of doing things for over a decade, keep at it.
It makes no sense for you to change if you don't like the other way of doing things and it makes even less sense to discuss "why why why isn't the new system working like my old one".
