Comment on Time to chop wood

BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• TheFlopster@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Ooh, I’ll play! I’m 40 years old. I write checks every month to pay my rent, which has to be delivered to their office either by snail mail or in person (no online payment option). The last time I saw a dedicated fax machine was my retail job in 2008. The last time I used a deposit slip was three years ago when I deposited a gallon bag of change in person with a bank teller.

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  • BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    So you’re definitely old enough to know what ✏️📼 means!

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    • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Well yeah. It’s when you shove your ✏️ into the magnetic tape so you can destroy it because it contained evidence of the time you pooped the bed and then tried to toss it out the window.

      Now ✏️ and cassette are a different thing.

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  • then_three_more@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m 38, I’ve not used a cheque since I was 19.

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    • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’m 40 and I just used to a check to pay for a car.

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      • then_three_more@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I’m gonna guess this is an American thing

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  • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The whole medical empire in the US still uses fax machines for “security reasons”. I had to sign up for some shadey ass online fax service to send docs to my moms doctor after she got sick. And the idiots at the doctors office had their fax machine broken half the time, so they never got half the docs I sent to them.

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    • thesystemisdown@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Sadly, many can’t be trusted or bothered to use a secure means of communication. You might be surprised to know that a lot of people think whatever they use for email or sms is ‘secure.’ Many of these people hold high positions in these organizations. Often healthcare, finance, and higher ed try to sidestep the liability as a result.

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• Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m over fifty, and the last check I had to deal with was about 30 years ago. And the only reason to have this check back then was because I had to pay an American company for some software updates, and as I did not have checks anymore back then (about nobody had then anymore back then). I needed my bank to issue one check acceptable in the US.

  It was the most expensive free update I ever had: The update was free, but shipping and handling was $10, outside US&Canada another $20, and express delivery another $10. Plus about $35 in fees to the bank for issuing an American bank compatible check and swapping local currency into US$.

  Fun fact: Despite paying for “express delivery” and sending the check and the order per air mail, it took six weeks. One Sunday, the doorbell rang, and a courier right from the next airport delivered a beefy box (software was media and printed manuals back then!). In the box was a copy of the order - it was stamped as “received” on Friday morning, so they really did express delivery. Why the air mail to the US took six weeks though is still a mystery.

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• dingus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  How have you never seen a check at 30? I’m also 30 and I receive checks now and then, and I used to occasionally have to write them. At least here in the US, most jobs give you a paper check for your first check when you just started for some reason instead of that one going to your direct deposit. I also on occasion get a refund check of some sort in the mail.

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  • BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I‘m across the pond in Europe. I’ve literally never seen a check outside American movies and business books.

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• Denvil@lemmy.one ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m 18 and I’ve seen both a check and a fax machine! My father has check books lying around, and I’m an electrician so I saw the owners bring a fax machine into a rehab center we were working at.

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  • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Was it one of those new fangled “all-in-one” printer/fax/copier machines, oa a proper fax machine, with its own handset and proprietary roll of paper?

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