The amount of times I saw posts on reddit saying “upvote this so the top Google result is this political meme” despite that being disproved years ago tells me that the average tech literacy of users is abysmal.
Generally speaking most things that people interact with are black boxes to them. They only know that X output occurs with Y input, they no idea or care about what happens in-between.
Even before this touch tunes shit, the bar tenders would have some basic control over the machine. Or just simply unplug it if you pulled this kind of shit. And if you kept doing it, they would kick you out of the bar. And/or security or a group of regulars would make sure you had a very unpleasant time, and would not want to come back. What fantasy world do people live in, where they are so out of touch with real world consequences.
There’s a bar close enough to my place that I can sit on the patio and listen to the music. I regularly use touch tunes to change the music because some people over there just have bad taste.
They’ve always had the ability to skip… I’m guessing the bartenders just didn’t know because the button on the remote isn’t explicitly labelled “skip”. What they did catch on to is playing longer songs; those cost extra now.
I thought at the beginning they didn’t. That was the biggest complaint I heard at the time from my bartender friends. But it’s been that way for years at the least. But there’s a good possibility it wasn’t intuitive at the time and they didn’t know they could skip.
Touchtunes figured out people were doing this kind of thing and gave bars the ability to skip songs.
I hate these threads. Do people not get that bar tenders can skip whatever, or shut it down, or play whatever they want?
The amount of times I saw posts on reddit saying “upvote this so the top Google result is this political meme” despite that being disproved years ago tells me that the average tech literacy of users is abysmal.
Generally speaking most things that people interact with are black boxes to them. They only know that X output occurs with Y input, they no idea or care about what happens in-between.
Even before this touch tunes shit, the bar tenders would have some basic control over the machine. Or just simply unplug it if you pulled this kind of shit. And if you kept doing it, they would kick you out of the bar. And/or security or a group of regulars would make sure you had a very unpleasant time, and would not want to come back. What fantasy world do people live in, where they are so out of touch with real world consequences.
The internet has made people entirely too comfortable with being absolute twats with no repercussions
shiit, people OFF the internet are way too comfortable with being twats with no repercussions!
There’s a bar close enough to my place that I can sit on the patio and listen to the music. I regularly use touch tunes to change the music because some people over there just have bad taste.
They’ve always had the ability to skip… I’m guessing the bartenders just didn’t know because the button on the remote isn’t explicitly labelled “skip”. What they did catch on to is playing longer songs; those cost extra now.
I thought at the beginning they didn’t. That was the biggest complaint I heard at the time from my bartender friends. But it’s been that way for years at the least. But there’s a good possibility it wasn’t intuitive at the time and they didn’t know they could skip.