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See if you can borrow a charging cord from someone else to make sure it's the cord and not the power supply in your laptop.  I spent six hours tearing my laptop apart to replace the power supply and it turned out that my charging cord was dead.

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Lucythe Tooth answered Rachel Reader's question

I've been to two cons, planning on going to another one in September.  If you can afford it, get a VIP package.  That will get you onto the con floor earlier and give you priority seating in panels.  You'll also have priority for photo ops and autographs. 

They are crowded, but everybody is generally fairly … Read more

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Lucythe Tooth thanked Xelius Lame's answer

Credit card = hacked, broke. Cash (if you don't wave it around and ask to be murdered) = safe    


And android/apple pay are SO SO SO easy to hack. I did it on my own experiment as I would never take someone else's money (i know how it feels when you almost broke and … Read more

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Lucythe Tooth thanked Anonymous' answer

I have always preferred a pocket watch to a wrist watch, partly because the Baby Ben pocket watch sold for $1.50 and a Timex wrist watch cost $9.99. They stopped making both about 40 years ago. Adjusting for inflation, the Baby Ben would cost about $30 now and the Timex about $100.

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Lucythe Tooth thanked Anonymous' answer

Tipping is a ridiculous custom anyway.  It's just a way for businesses to cheap out and pass the costs of business on to the customer rather than actually paying their people a living wage.  You don't see tipping in most of Europe and the developed Asian nations, because they simply pay waitstaff and similar personnel … Read more

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Lucythe Tooth thanked Anonymous' answer

This whole tip thing is a farce. Employers reduce wages because they expect customers to tip, waiters get rude if the tip is inadequate, and customers feel like it is a violation of a contract to be coerced into paying more than the advertised price.

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Lucythe Tooth thanked Cookie Roma's answer

As a customer who always goes to a restaurant wanting to leave a huge tip.  I base my tip on the service I receive from my server.  If by chance the chef makes a mistake or just does a bad job, that doesn't effect the amount of tip I will leave.  By the sameRead more

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Lucythe Tooth thanked Anonymous' answer

As a former server, they absolutely should be able to keep their own tips.  All of them. That's certainly what the customer expects.  As a customer I leave the tip specifically for my wait person for good service, NOT for the entire staff who never waited on me. And its waitstaff that get ripped off … Read more

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Lucythe Tooth thanked PJ Stein's answer

In a sit down restaurant, keep your own. That way those that work hard to get them keep them and those that slack don't get money from other's hard work. Some place like a coffee shop they should be split. The person at the register is receiving the tips but the barista is doing all … Read more

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Lucythe Tooth thanked Anonymous' answer

Personally I think tipping needs to be abolished all together, make the owners pay their workers a fair wage.... I go to a restaurant and drop $50+  then have to pay the wait staff on top of that so that the owner can rake in more money? Many owners will also take *their* cut of … Read more

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Lucythe Tooth voted up Anonymous' answer

Personally I think tipping needs to be abolished all together, make the owners pay their workers a fair wage.... I go to a restaurant and drop $50+  then have to pay the wait staff on top of that so that the owner can rake in more money? Many owners will also take *their* cut of … Read more