December 30, 2025Dec 30 1 hour ago, HornOnTheBayou said:THANK YOU! The entire Alamo experience revolves around staying off of your phone and now they want us to use it to order.I wouldn’t mind if I could just use the damn app! It already has my cc, it already knows my seats, and it already knows which theater. So everything is already in place for me to order from the menu and get food to my seats without having to go through the QR code bullshit. Thank you for coming to my ted talk
December 30, 2025Dec 30 Or just let me order using the paper slip and a physical card like before without the hassle
December 31, 2025Dec 31 22 hours ago, MissingInAction said:Motherfucking qr codes for every god damn thing. No I will not install your cocksucker app to pay for my drinks,food,parking, etc. That qr code for parking bullshit makes me miss the good old days of being approached by some guy who offers to watch my car for $5 while I'm parked downtown.
December 31, 2025Dec 31 16 hours ago, randomhorn said:Or just let me order using the paper slip and a physical card like before without the hassleMine still lets you. Had no problem Christmas Day ordering breakfast and then candy mid movie.Alamo is always just a better experience in general.
December 31, 2025Dec 31 On 12/30/2025 at 7:18 AM, Dbeasy said:Caution, long answer in case it helps others looking for a fridge:Thanks for all of the input. I am now much more knowledgeable on fridges than I was a week ago. Did a ton of research, and a few things I learned along the way:Consumer Rports shows heavy customer disatisfaction and weak reliability for every brand, with Bosch being the least offensive. They didn’t test the luxury brands like sub zero. I ruled those out because I don’t want to spend $10k and the selection was too limited. Bosch required ordering and they didn’t have the style we need. Otherwise we would have bought Bosch 800 series.We bought a Whirlpool that we thought would be good enough, but the ice dispenser wouldn’t work due to a poor design and manufacturability. But more concerning was that the temperature struggled to work well. We took it back and bought a GE fridge that had what we wanted and was the competitor to the Whirlpool.The GE fridges have the highest consumer reports ratings, but also the lowest customer satisfaction ratings. Given our experience with other GE appliances, we are expecting problems. But if it goes south, I’ll have a plan C ready for ordering a better fridge.The top, bottom fridges are more reliable because of their simplicity. We use a top freezer model for our garage fridge. Next most reliable are the side by sides because they don’t have multiple compressors and evaporators. We’ve had, and still wanted, a side by side because of space limits on open doors (damn kitchen island), and not liking freezer and ice on the bottom. French door types are the least reliable but most bought. And the most choices, by far.As said earlier ice dispensers are a source of problems. However we use that function every day, multiple times per day, so we bought one with it anyway.The Korean brands are controversial. Samsung and LG had serious quality issues as recently as a year ago, compressors and ice makers. However, theoretically they are improved. Repairmen still hate them. There are debates about why.The fridge ratings are all gamed by social media marketing companies putting in fake ratings. So you need to adjust the ratings. A 4.0 rating implies a lot of problems. A 4.5+ rating might indicate a reasonably good fridge.We looked at Costco but they didn’t have a type and model that would work for us. Ended up going with Lowe’s because we were able to buy it and have it delivered a day later. And every fridge was on sale. Saved quite a bit on the one we bought.Summary of brands IMOBosch - pretty good quality, limited design options, longer deliver intervals. Not a bad choice if looking for a French door type. More expensive.Whirlpool - heavy volume sales, basic fridges, some ok some not. We liked the one we bought if not for the quality issues.GE - tested well but that bad customer sat has to come from somewhere. Probably will break prematurely.Samsung - ice maker problems behind them supposedly. Felt a little more solid than GE, Whirlpool or Frigidaire. Some interesting features. More features for the price. If quality issues are improved and repairmen are biased, maybe not too bad. I know a few owners who are unhappy with theirs.LG - same as Samsung except it was compressor issues. Almost bought an LG, if not for annoying ice door buttons.Fridgidaire - didn’t look too closely primarily because their consumer reports ratings were generally lower across the board.KitchenAid- overpriced for cosmetic features. It’s not the higher quality brand it used to beGE Profile - a little nicer than GE, better ratings. Potentially decent choice but harder to find and order. If Lowe’s would have had the model we wanted we would have gone with itCafe - a GE upscale brand. Looked interesting but wasn’t able to touch one .Other brands - there were others but they were too hard to find or there were too few choices, indicating low market share. We wanted a brand where parts and repair were straightforward.One other the biggest surprises is that there aren’t really any great appliance stores in Austin anymore. We were interested in that to see a wider variety of lesser known models. But, since we couldn’t find a store we liked, we prioritized getting a fridge fast that we could touch over ordering one from one of the appliance stores where we weren’t able to touch the fridge.The whole process sucked.I think I would avoid the big box stores and try the types that supply builders, like Capital Distributing. They can do a little work on pricing for you. And I think the big box stores have "special models" like Walmart gets special, slightly extra shitty, versions of TVs and such.ETA: FBS seems to be the Centex version of Capital. Edited December 31, 2025Dec 31 by TwiceHorn
December 31, 2025Dec 31 1 hour ago, Js1 said:Mine still lets you. Had no problem Christmas Day ordering breakfast and then candy mid movie.Alamo is always just a better experience in general.Overall agree. Mine lets you use the old skool paper mid movie as well. But I want it all taken care of before hand and the QR code and ordering page experience sucks donkey balls
December 31, 2025Dec 31 1 minute ago, randomhorn said:Overall agree. Mine lets you use the old skool paper mid movie as well. But I want it all taken care of before hand and the QR code and ordering page experience sucks donkey ballsOh mine still has paper menus so you can order with paper pre-movie. They don’t even push the QR code
December 31, 2025Dec 31 1 minute ago, Js1 said:Oh mine still has paper menus so you can order with paper pre-movie. They don’t even push the QR code
1 hour ago1 hr A big FU to Texas for taking a relatively simple process to renew car tags online and making it a whole ordeal by having to sign up for a new account at TxT.
49 minutes ago49 min 38 minutes ago, Iceman said:Paying taxes is harder than voting.Interestingly stupid.Funny story, both actually got harder this year with the changes to the mailing system. Postmark date is no longer when picked up, and it'll be stamped on the date it hit the sort center instead, an indeterminate number of days into the future from pickup Edited 22 minutes ago22 min by Captainant
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