Of course they are. Never let a good crisis go to waste.

As an autistic person, I certainly prefer self-checkout. I would much rather have to deal with an annoying error than have to interact with a cashier, or worse, having that cashier ask about my day or something. Besides, most of the error messages have to do with self-checkout being implemented badly, and are not inherently an issue with self-checkout.

Ideally, self-checkout would work well, and in the ideally rare case where it doesn’t work, a person would be called automatically to deal with the issue and provided with a descriptive error which they know how to deal with. In this case, I believe the cashier job could be replaced with self-checkout.

It’s in unicode (U+262d)

It’s also integrated into Xorg if you use Linux. Enable the compose key, then you can press whatever you set as compose and then type in “CCCP”, and you get: ☭.

In KDE and probably GNOME, the compose key can be enabled from settings. If using a WM like me, you’ll need to add something like setxkbmap -option compose:ralt to your startup commands in your config. That command sets it to right alt. You can change ralt to whatever key you want to be your compose key.

Since it is in unicode, you can also do Ctrl+Shift+U followed by 262d to make “☭” in most apps.

Well, I use a PinePhone, so I wish them good luck with that.

I feel like “In the USA, a <insert amount> gap in <insert statistic> exists between the richest 1% and poorest 1% of the population” holds true regardless of what you insert.

Only if the company no longer runs the server, you can’t exactly reverse-engineer it because you don’t know what the server responds with to the client’s requests.

These corporations are a plague upon this earth. I’ve spent a couple years setting up my own servers running my own services, some of which I wrote myself (search engine), and buying open-source hardware to distance myself from them.

Yes, Capitalism does in fact create innovation, in precisely the wrong direction.

I would not be surprised if the company forced the patients to sign a contract with a Limitation of Liability and Arbitration clause in there somewhere to prevent lawsuits.

Of course. Clearly, they should’ve bought the company’s stock if they liked it so much.