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Tech outage

TheCatWoman
2 months ago

Was anyone effected by yesterdays tech outages?

I wasn't, but it did make me think, what would happen, or rather will happen, when another occurs? How will particularly younger people cope, with having to write things down with pen and paper, will they know how to do simple maths in their heads? How many people can read a map? How will people cope not being able to use things like ubereats?

It could get worse too, what if we can't get petrol because the pumps all run the same software, the banks, health services, shops who no longer have manual ordering. How would peple cope with being bounced back to the 1970's?

Parents
  • 2 months ago

    I had several problems and experiences. 

    1. I travelled by train yesterday and the ticket scanning machines at stations could not scan my online tickets, they were checked manually by staff, causing long delays.
    2. The online NHS app failed in my attempt  to reorder my prescriptions,  there was no online record of my existing repeat prescriptions. 
    3. Today I had problems at Sainsburys at an automated till, I bought orange juice for £1.19 I put in a £20 note and the machine froze.  I waited..  a popup appeared saying there was no connection, would I like to wait or reboot the terminal.   I almost panicked.   After a minute the terminal came to life and gave me my £18.81 in change.
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  • 2 months ago

    I had several problems and experiences. 

    1. I travelled by train yesterday and the ticket scanning machines at stations could not scan my online tickets, they were checked manually by staff, causing long delays.
    2. The online NHS app failed in my attempt  to reorder my prescriptions,  there was no online record of my existing repeat prescriptions. 
    3. Today I had problems at Sainsburys at an automated till, I bought orange juice for £1.19 I put in a £20 note and the machine froze.  I waited..  a popup appeared saying there was no connection, would I like to wait or reboot the terminal.   I almost panicked.   After a minute the terminal came to life and gave me my £18.81 in change.
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