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The Point of Sale System Experience (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/memes@lemmy.world
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The Point of Sale System Experience: A Watchguard router. IPv4 Only in 2025, requires sub to work. "open these 20,000 ports and IPs so we can take credit cards". A Star receipt printer. Proprietary drivers, never prints right, Hates DHCP. The Interface: A boxy point of sale screen. New in 1993. Requires exactly 800x600 display resolution. Hardware older than you. 24/7 internet required. $10,000 yearly license. A man buying a coffee, a woman tapping the screen repeatedly. Pay with card: A long series of button presses. Sonic ring sound. A credit card terminal displaying " CHIP READ ERROR TRY AGAIN". A debit card. The Network: A triple redundant internet, lots of expensive unifi hardware, 30+ security cameras and a random cheap netgear switch. The Server Rack: Image of a server rack completely covered over by ethernet cable spaghetti. The rat in the building roof: A rat with a trollface, next to a broken eithernet cable labelled "Server Link". " I need to see everything my employees do in a 20 mile radius" 'Why you no' guy yelling "How can all THREE redundant internets be down AT THE SAME TIME??!!" A Windows error message: "Error Connecting to Quickbooks, Can't load Point of Sale (Error -67)". A bell curve meme, with the low and high IQ person saying "Just walk the orders to the kitchen", the average intelligence person complaining "We need network kitchen printers because waiters need to stay at the front of house and walking it takes too long!"

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[–] 43 points 5 months ago (2 children)

You know what's better than walking an order to the back? pneumatic tubes that's what

Never goes out of style

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    • [–] 31 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    PoS really does have a double meaning

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    • [–] 9 points 5 months ago

    I see it has the Helldivers firmware to pay with card

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    [–] 7 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Did you put the icing on the cake by using images of 3COM swiches??

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    • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    This might not even be the worst of it

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    [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    I work in a Costco. The computer system we use is the AS 400 system that was originally developed in 1985 and it runs on thin client machines with Win11 on them.

    That it doesn't explode into a million pieces amazes me every day.

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    [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    man I really hate those receipt printers.

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