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  • Agent641@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldA conundrum
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    11 days ago

    Well you made a choice. Either you knew you could make the payments for the price range you bought into, or you didn’t read the repayments figures on any of the documents the bank sent you and made a massive decision uninformed.

    I pay 20% more for my mortgage than I did on my rent, but the house is also better, I can easily afford it, and I made that choice willingly and I’m happy with that arrangement.




  • No they were ancient ROM based tills, I unchecked a box that was blocking firmware updates from being pushed to the tills. For some reason I still don’t completely understand, these tills received their settings by Ethernet, but received their data by dialup fucking modems. When I unchecked the box, it told the tills to cease processing commands until the firmware update was completed. But the firmware update wouldn’t happen until I dialled into every single store, one at a time, and sent the firmware down through a 56k modem with horrendous stability, to each till, also one at a time. If one till lost one packet, I had to send it’s firmware again.

    I say for 8 hrs watchimg bytes trickle down to the tills while answering calls from frantic wait staff and angry managers.