I just simply can’t and won’t ask friends and family to try it again after they experienced that.

The person you’re responding to seems to be a repeated race baiter on here.

True story: one weekend I convinced my friends and family to try Matrix instead, and within the first day of using it someone spammed them with CSAM. That was the last of trying Matrix.

The lights are barely kept on for our Lemmy instance, I don’t expect a Stoat server anytime soon…

I’d recommend Stoat because they won’t rape you for all the personal data they can.

I suppose that’s a solution, but you’re also doubling your responsibilities, and the price of the groceries still stays too damn high.

That’s sometimes part of the awkwardness. My additional gripes are completely pedantic, but hear me out:

None of the grocery chains in my area offer bagging services, so I have to wait for the attendant to scan my items, bag them myself, and then shuffle back to the register to pay. None of this is a problem, except that the human attendant rarely ever scans the items in the order that makes sense to bag them. So there’s the weird dance of waiting, pushing items aside, etc.

If I’m doing self-check, I can scan and bag using my own patented autistic process ™ that is quick, makes sense, and doesn’t crush things, and I can do it in one shot.

As someone who finds interacting with register attendants painful, and doesn’t steal, this is unfortunate news.