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This sounds like a terrible user experience. Is this a case of "we have implemented a terrible self checkout system and now no one likes to use it"?

Exactly, a membership id to checkout the wireless scanner that you have with you in the store.

I don't recognize these pain points. I always use the self checkout and it's usually quick and painless. My experience is.

Edit: seems I made the assumption that everyone uses wireless scanner handles.

0. When we enter the store we scan the ID to get a wireless scanner handle.
1. Collect your wares, scan with the handle, placing them directly into the bags along the way.
2. Put the handle back and blip your membership id (card or qr code on phone) again to start the checkout.
3. Blip your payment card.
4. Walk out

Every once in a while I get caught in a random check, which is kind of a pain, but it's so infrequent that it is acceptable.

Is this not how it usually works?

You pay to get your car serviced but with your phone you don't even have that option. When the manufacturer drops support, you don't even have the option to pay for prolonged software support.

Yes it could and that is what Lexus is doing.

https://youtu.be/agMrewRJTow?si=_M55DbNd3I4uUvMu

But Tesla is not doing that, so there you still have to turn hand over hand even though you don't have a round wheel.

Those are way more sensitive so there is no need to turn hand over hand. The downside is that that sensitivity can be really hard to handle at high speeds.

Don't give them any ideas!

Chicken, banana and curry is my favorite topping.

Also - hard drives, floppy disks, etc have always referred to their size in base 1000 numbers

That is not true. For a long time everything (computer related) was in the base 2 variants. Then the HD manufacturers changed so their drives would appear larger than they actually were (according to everyone's notions of what kn/mb/gb meant). It was a marketing shrinkflation stunt.

This comment was a better read than the linked article.

How does switching the codec help with downloading subtitles from the web?

Is using the Android TV app considered "using it wrong"? Because that doesn't support downloading subtitles.