You should make comments to the server about how the owner must not pay their staff enough if they need tips (bonus points if the server is also the owner). Could make comments about how companies are trying to turn Australia into the US because the companies must hate Australia. Lots of opportunity to make them feel bad for asking instead of you feeling bad for saying no.

Especially if it’s not even table service!

A while back I remember a trend starting of having EFTPOS terminals ask for tips. It was kind of stated it was to try to capitalise on tourists, but the trend seems to have died.

I haven’t seen any in a while.

For a while we had many hospitality places with POS units that would ask for tips. The trend seems to have died off so hopefully that shows customers won’t accept it.

Also pretty sure no one here is pushing for tipping, OP even said they were against it in the body of the post. Just that Lemmy users don’t get to decide much 😆

I have no idea why this is getting downvoted - seems like a nice relevant post for the community and a good conversation starter…

Edit: Looking better now. Possibly people thought OP actually wanted to introduce tipping.

“Minimum wage is $24 or I think it’s roughly around that at the moment, and a waitress or waiter could easily make $10 in an hour, that’s about $44 in an hour, that’s pretty good - I reckon that’s pretty good money.”

I don’t trust this guy running a business… $24+$10 isn’t $44. Plus, they only make good tips during the time lots of people are there. Outside of rush hour it will be slow.

Plus his idea of cheaper prices = more people in the door is undone if he thinks they will tip high and his staff will make more than they do now. If you are attracting people with low prices rather than quality, then you will not get high tippers.

All in all, I’m gonna say that encouraging tipping in NZ is a step in the wrong direction.

Oooh, I was just looking at ordering more coffee. And the strength of the coffee (as in flavour not caffeine) is something I struggle to get right. Cafe coffee is always a lot stronger than what I make at home, even when I caefully measure proportions.

I might order a bag of this and give it a go!

I have a loose definition of “week”. This is the first thread in almost a month…

Anyway, a while back I asked about gateway routers, and @thevoyagekayaking@lemmy.nz recommended the Ubiquiti Dream Machine SE. I eventually built up the courage to spent that much money on it, and it arrived this week.

After a few challenges I managed to get it set up. It has now replaced my ISP router, and I’ve also replaced the Pi-hole with the UDM’s options for local DNS entries and ad blocking. I also have set it up as a VPN client with Wireguard and ProtonVPN, and I can choose which devices are routed over the VPN and even customise it per domain so streaming services that don’t like the VPN can be excluded.

I have a 300Mbps connection that normally averages about 280Mbps, and ProtonVPN lets me keep this speed (I’m on a paid plan).

The internet in general feels more snappy too, lower latency. I’m pretty happy with this purchase, and keen to get some cameras plugged into the PoE as soon as my wallet has recovered.

Yeah I’ve never seen it either. However, I was curious if it was because instances were blocking it (as in fedipact).

Checking out Lemmy.world, I noticed threads is actually listed as a linked server. So at some point, lemmy.world has traded content with threads.net.

Though I can’t actually find the content. And there don’t seem to be any threads.net users (except a couple who wrote it in their display name as some sort of joke), so perhaps there are some threads users who are following lemmy communities but haven’t commented (or aren’t able to)?

How does Threads federation work compared to Mastodon? Do they have an allow list?

Mastodon users can subscribe to Lemmy communities so I’m curious if Threads can already federate with Lemmy.

Thanks for the update! You’re right, it doesn’t sound too serious.

Ooh something happened on engine ignition? I’d be keen to hear more once there are updates.

19th here, I think I got left behind.

Well, maybe in theory. NZ has many unique birds not found anywhere else, but they are generally threatened or endangered. If you want to see them in the wild, generally you have to go to a very specific location.

If I look outside, almost certainly all I’ll see are European dinosaurs.

So maybe I should correct my statement to say they almost all died out.

It’s also worth noting that the previous government had a Road to Zero policy similar to the Vision Zero policies mentioned in the article. Part of this involved reducing speed limits on high risk roads.

The new government committed to ending that policy, and increasing speed limits on some roads over that were not reduced under the previous policy.

Also relevant is they are building roads that no one wants, and creating huge debt doing it…

I didn’t! But I’ll be sure to check the other ones next time I visit.

I live in New Zealand and haven’t found any dinosaurs. I think they all died.

The OP states it was part of Gondwana, maybe that’s what makes it different.

If you click through to the microcontinent link that seems to support the idea of microcontinents being pieces broken off a bigger one. But with everything coming from Gondwana then that means all the existing ones are fragments, and the only reason other fragments aren’t considered continents is size (e.g. Madigascar).

Zealandia seems to be the Pluto of continents. Too small to be a continent but much larger than the largest microcontinent.

Oh wow, that’s quite… something.

Given how targeted the attacks were at certain people, does this imply a bunch of people walking around with explosives in their pagers, where they weren’t set off because they weren’t one of the targets?

I’m too old to tell if this is satire or serious.