Not a boomer.    Just out of touch with the World outside.  

I don’t like them either, but I’m able to explain it to you because my job forces me to travel outside my preferred bubble:

As everybody knows, we are in a near-hyperinflation environment.   Electronic menus can be changed easily.

Electronic menus allow for any language.  

There you go.    I travel to S.America a lot, and we are turning into Argentina/Brazil.   A lot of the menus down there had stickers for the prices, which had to be updated weekly or even daily.    You can imagine how much work that would be.  Lolz.
Now, it’s mostly QR codes.  

Brings up an important question:   Could a hacker devise a QR code which gave access to my stored passwords or content?  (pictures, Notes, texts, etc).  (On an Iphone)

Can a QR code grant access to control the phone?

it's funny when you're at a security conference and the presenter presents a QR code in the slide deck for you to scan to get more info, download the deck, etc.

but then has to swear that the QR code is not malicious.

I prefer the QR code so I limit my exposure to COVID when I go out.

I already looked up the menu before going and know what I want.

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I'm not tipping 15% for "someone" to ferry food 30 feet once and maybe serve one refill.

QR codes lol

I refuse to even order off of a digital menu board

Jayne: All of you, you think there's someone just gonna drop money on you? Money they could use? Well there ain't people like that.

Jayne: [He pauses] There's just people like me.

Don't sound like somewhere I would go. Not taking cash is also an indication they don't want my business, and thats fine by me.

they've already been in your phone and have all your shit.

all those shameful things you've googled.

all those websites you've visited.

you're fucked, bud.

I expect a high quality printed menu when I eat out.  For security/privacy, I disable automatic QR code lookup.  If I have to go through a few screens to re-enable it, I could just as easily walk out and eat at the place next door.

Also: QR codes are racist.  Some races can't just take the QR code to Kinkos and have it scanned. (a Kamala quote I made up -- sort of)

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I occasionally tip 1400% for my fancy coffee in the morning cause most days thats the only pleasant thing I experience.

It’s also cheaper

What the gay midget porn?
I film and leave QR links to it in public places for others to watch.

Goatse or Tub Girl QR codes for everyone!   These places need to learn the hard way.

The used plates, silverware cups/glasses, napkins and not to mention the complete strangers making, preparing and handling your food?

Menus though,  yeah, so gross.

To be fair, there are legal obligations to wash the table settings.

I've only seen a menu get wiped if it was visibly dirty.

I still prefer a physical menu though.

Go ahead…click on the link. It’s not like people that do this shit for a living telling you not to.
“Hey Arfcom!  Click on this link. You can’t read the URL”

%youget%fucked%imnot%%badguy%/get1766544376

Credit cards are how the government controls you. Cash is king.

And neither do I in this instance. Now it costs less too.

I just want a pint of ale and a pretty girl!

Yup, that government issued, backed, and manipulated piece of paper is how you keep the government from controlling you.

I intentionally don’t bring my phone into restaurants so that I can avoid being one of the people who spends the whole dinner buried in their phone and ignoring the rest of the group, so QR menus are gonna be a hard pass for me.

I refuse and go somewhere else. This only happened once over in Virginia Beach at one of the swanky breweries on the beach. They were offended I asked for a paper menu.

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Probably half of my posts were made from the toilet

For any reason. I see tons of stuff that involves scanning a QR code, I'm just like "nah". Must not be important. Oh yeah, millennial checking in.

Be me.

Hardest working Millenial.

Wake up at 930.

Take Adderall, Xanax and 12 other medications prescribed by my therapist.

Pull up imgur and latest Steven Trollbert Quote.  Mild smile.  Scroll through 200 more images and get out of bed at 10:15.

Take SpongeBob pajamas off and put on skinny jeans and Avengers T-Shirt. My favorite is Black Panther.

Look in the mirror and my right arm which is covered in my favorite quotes and characters from my childhood.  My Star Wars quotes are starting to fade and I'll need to get them redone before too long.

Check credit cards and I have $25 left to spend which is just enough for a Starbucks and Avocado bagel.

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Get into early 2000's Ford Fiesta with rear window covered in Superhero, Palestine and BIPOCLGTBTQIA+++ stickers and instantly back into my elderly neighbor.

She proceeds to berate me for not looking at where I'm going but SHE saw that I was in the car so it's her fault.

Roll down my window and yell OK BOOMER at the top of my lungs and drive off.

Get to Starbucks and have hots for the cashier.  She is also a millenial but she never shows up on Tinder so I have no way of getting to know her. It's my turn to order and remember what my therapist said to be confident and yell "EXTRA GRANDE AND AVOCADO BAGEL"

While store looks up at me and she takes my order and tells me my total is 24.95.

Tells me to enjoy my latte and toast and I go "You too"

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Definitely had a connection and will look extra hard for her on tinder tonight.

12:30 and Im ready to start the day and get to my marketing job at Big Tech Marketing Co.

Have huge writers block because I can't think of 10 things that make linkedin a great social networking tool.

Take a break to smoke some pot to get my creative juices flowing and feel a lot better.

2:45 and I'm back in my seat ready to knock this list out but just 15 minutes later I've only added 2 items to my original 3.  get frustrated and decide to take a lunch break.

Crap my credit cards maxed out.

Steal Michelle's lunch and write an IOU.  

What the hell even is this.  It's bread with some kind of meat in the middle.

Take a bite and toss it out.

Call my mom and ask for some money for lunch but my dad catches her and says ABSOLUTELY NOT.

He's such an asshole. Tell him that I guess he wants me to starve to death and angrily hang up.

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Make it back to my desk and it's 4:00 and the days almost over.

Some boomer fuck walks in and days he has a big announcement.

Says that we haven't been able to push out enough articles and a new tool can write our articles for us.

Our office will be closed down and we will receive 6 months pay as severance.

Wow what an asshole.  Blame him for creating a toxic work environment and state that he will hear from my lawyer.

Get home crying see that my 6 months severance has been paid out already.

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Book 6 month backing trip in Europe which eats up all my severance.

#I deserve this

Dad calls me and says he was sorry to hear I got fired.

Tell him it's okay and that they paid me 6 months severance which I will be using on a backpacking trip.

Hits the fuckin roof and tells me that I've maxed out my cards and that I still owe them 14,000.

Cannot (but can) believe his toxicity and tell him I don't need that in my life.

Hang up phone and start looking for Starbucks gal on Tinder.  Only a matter of time.

Another great day of the greatest Generation.

I like the menu better but QR codes work

It’s literally just a link.

What do you think it will do, give you a false menu that gives you nothing but disgusting choices?

It will download aggressive gay pornography that will upload your retirement accounts to the cloud.

Years ago...well before Covid (think 2015 or maybe a year or 2 after)...Olive Garden had a thing where you'd place your order on this little electronic thing that sat on your table. Nobody came by with menus or to take your order. You'd look through their "menu", select your items, then it'd get sent back to the kitchen. A little while later, your food is brought out to you.

I don't know if they still do that, or not. I haven't eaten there since then.

It is a simple URL that opens in a browser.

Please describe how a hacker could use a QR code, and ONLY a QR code, to gain access to all those items on your phone without you doing something really really stupid, like entering login credentials to the linked site or intentionally granting access to these things when asked by the OS?

Remember we are talking about viewing a menu here.

Same with every mother fucker on earth expecting a tip for doing nothing.

Restaurants used to spend a lot of money on menus. It's a cardinal indicator of if your steak is actually going to be USDA Prime... or just "Restaurant Choice."


If you make me scan a QR code, I'm going to order an appetizer and a drink. Then eat somewhere that isn't owned by cheep motherfuckers.

Step 1 - make you click a link, aka QR code.  This could insert code on the device. Not required, but makes it super easy.
Step 2 - pop up to make you accept cert, this is my man in the middle to do ssl proxy
Step 3 - proxy all your shit to me no matter where you are capturing all your passwords.

That’s not theory. That’s how you do it.

I don’t care, either way is fine with me.

"Demand pricing" like Uber and airline ticketing.

This.  

I like it

But why would anyone accept anything on a popup for a read-only menu that requires no login?

People still placing fake ones with malware over them?

Patrick Henry: "Give me convenience or give me death."......Oh wait, that was the Dead Kennedys.

"Menu available, click here to read"

Because people will click “ok” without knowing what they’re clicking. I had same shit in Houston airport “click here to order”. I said fuck no”. Wanted email address, phone, etc.  just to order food.

South Park covered this.

It is.

Do you not trust yourself to enter your Vanguard Investments credentials on a link that's supposed to send you a menu, or to stop yourself from clicking "Allow access to all contacts" popup for the same?