No rush. Thanks for taking the time.

That global security update last year put out a whole bunch of services. It could just as easily been the paper versions that wouldn’t scan and the digital were the only ones accepted. Just luck.

However, I can see the benefit for international flights with connections as your phone or device could easily lose power with long haul flying. Still pretty easy fix as most airports have power outlets everywhere for charging. But, if there was a flight delay landing, that would be a rush and extra stress.

How many flights worldwide are there? It seems like an awful waste of paper, for what is effectively a barcode.

No, plaque is the soft stuff. Tartar is the colloquial English for it, calculus is the medical term.

International travel is very difficult to do. You might be better off flying and looking to pay a certified company to offset your emissions.

It’s really easy for me to save my boarding pass. One button. No paper James, no ink, no networking issues. Each method works fine, almost all the time. One just is more wasteful and easier to lose or damage.

I’ve never been to an airport without wifi in the day of digital passes.

Lol, because printers is basically hunter gatherer territory. I just think printing digital information is wasteful. I don’t even see elderly people doing it any more. That’s why I’m curious. It seems harder, not easier these days.

How and why?

Lol, this post breaches the rules. It is not thought provoking. There are no rules about meta posts being exempt.

If you don’t like posts as you think they are not good for the community, downvore and move on. Or direct people to a more correct community to post.

Helpful and constructive discussion is more important than rote following rules with such a small community.

Hyper moderation can work well for something like r/ask historians but is overkill for general discussion. Better discussion should drown out the chaff.

While I agree that people are resistant to change, all the studies ive seen show negative or minimal benefit.

So either people are being poorly trained by the change management or the product is poor and doesn’t love up to its marketing.

Yea, but it’s still different to templates. My parents said playing video games was a waste of computing power. The confidentiality breach will be no worse than Gmail or Hotmail. So, not good, but also not new.

It’s not bad just because it’s AI. AI is much worse than it’s purported to be and hasn’t really progressed in a few years, but it has its uses.

Summarising and composing emails and other communications see a to be a strength.

On my work, of I’m provided free software that makes my work easier, I’ll use it. If the users arent seeing the value, then the value is not there.

It sounds like it’s creating the template and also modifying it as needed. That is a step up.

Of course. But vaccination isn’t magic either. Even if it seems so.

I’ve just gone back for a listen, which is why these posts are great. I’d say it’s the opposite of the title. It’s a downbeat song with a very happy lyric, used to cover for a dark subject.

I’m now listening to Mellon Collie album. It’s surprisingly similar to Ash, an Irish band. I liked them both at the time but never saw the similarity when I was young. I suppose with time, many similar styles sound similar.

It can be powerful or emotional without being upbeat. It can also be used inappropriately. Do you think it’s upbeat?

Wow, what a trustworthy source, not attention seeking at all.

Do any of them like it enough to pay for it? The figures say no.

I use it daily but I won’t subscribe. It’s like news. Why pay when you can get it for free. (I do subscribe to news outlets, though, but like ai subscriptions, I know I’m in the minority).

There is a specialised ai tool that is useful at my work. It’s got a free tier which does most of the functions and the next tier up is crazy expensive on a per user basis for the amount of time it saves. If there was a reasonable subscription, perhaps I’d subscribe but I assume that a reasonable subscription doesn’t cover costs, so they’d rather a free user to pump their numbers than lose a subscriber. That yells me it will enshottify over time or they hope that the cost will drop. The problem is that if the cost to host drops a lot, people will self host instead. It’s a rock and a hard place, without a sustainable business model.

That’s the usual business plan. However, people don’t really like ai. The results aren’t great, so, if they jack up the price, people will likely cancel. The lock in is poor as the product and convenience is poor. It doesn’t really save money as promised.