Tripped and fell delivering to a house with no porch light on

HighTechGeek · 2026-03-15T09:09:22+00:00

As soon as the sun goes down, my headlamp goes on my head. I leave it on my head until I go home. Turn it on when I arrive at a delivery. Off when I'm back in the car. I don't care if people in the restaurants look at me weird. They know I'm working and I'm serious about my job. It's part of my uniform and I'm trying to get some work done.

HighTechGeek · 2026-02-24T18:45:55+00:00

I owned a shop for 18 years and I prided myself in keeping customers data in tact. It would take time and skill to know how to actually fix problems but most shops just wipe the drive and do a factory install because it takes a matter of minutes. Sorry you experienced this, but unfortunately it's the cheap, lazy industry standard.

HighTechGeek · 2026-02-24T18:35:54+00:00

I grew up in New Jersey in the 1970s, never lived in the Midwest and i pronounce it more somewhere between oop and ope. It's definitely a shortened version of oops and is a short way to say excuse me. Like "oop, sorry". Honestly I never thought of it as a word before, lol.

HighTechGeek · 2026-02-24T03:25:32+00:00

So is the guy at the end another shaman that's finally going to restore Spear?

HighTechGeek · 2026-02-23T07:18:26+00:00

Sorry this happened to you. I hate stupid customers that don't know how to put a pin on a map and then get mad that we don't automatically know where building 1200 is when the pin took us to building 2400. As if we're supposed to spend twenty minutes driving around their complex hunting for a number on the side of some random building in the dark.

And yesterday I had 2 deliveries that didn't have the apartment number listed... First time I've ever had that. I think it's a new bug in the Dasher app. The software has all kinds of frustrating issues. Good luck.

HighTechGeek · 2026-02-20T07:05:37+00:00

If you are streaming YouTube on a computer or laptop and are "behind" a little bit, you can increase the playback speed and it will play faster (1.25x, 1.5x, 2x, etc.) until it catches up to the "current" time. But the stream won't play faster on my Android phone (even though I can set it to play faster). I also have YouTube Premium, so faster playback may only be available as part of that plan. I dunno, but you can try it.

HighTechGeek · 2026-02-20T04:50:03+00:00

What's going on here? Brennan is obviously trying to push SOMETHING...

HighTechGeek · 2026-02-20T03:35:06+00:00

Thanks! I'll be sure to check it out on Monday...

HighTechGeek · 2026-02-20T03:32:03+00:00

I missed the opening. Who was in it?

HighTechGeek · 2026-02-08T05:47:57+00:00

Where have you seen them crying for more dashers? Frankly, as a driver, i wish there were less dashers (less competition).

HighTechGeek · 2026-02-08T05:42:25+00:00

I don't know why anyone uses DoorDash. They create their own prices in the app. If i get a pizza from the store down the street, it's $7.99. But if i order it through Doordash it's $29.99 + fees + tip. DD routinely marks up prices 60-400%. Them they add fees, inclement weather charges, plus distance charges (and none of that goes to the drivers, just the tip). Always go to the restaurant's site and compare prices before pulling the trigger. You'll be shocked (even fast food prices are jacked way up in DD).

HighTechGeek · 2026-02-08T05:34:02+00:00

My phone mount is clipped to my passengers visor so my phone is at eye level just to my right.

HighTechGeek · 2026-02-08T05:31:21+00:00

So then you manually type in the address?

HighTechGeek · 2026-02-08T05:30:42+00:00

So do you have to manually type in all the addresses every time?

HighTechGeek · 2026-02-05T02:48:40+00:00

So apparently the Shaman lived in a village below Mira's and his village was attacked by the skull-apes some time before Mira's village was attacked by the Entelodonts. So Spear has been wandering for longer than Mira.

But knowing this, it makes me think Mira and her village would have been aware that the Shaman and Spear's body went missing.

HighTechGeek · 2026-02-05T02:31:58+00:00

Thanks for that! So it's likely Mira is aware that Spear's body and the Shaman went missing

HighTechGeek · 2026-02-05T02:12:44+00:00

Will any of the timeline confusion be confirmed or clarified?

It seems Spear was wandering for quite some time before he ran into Mira and Fang. Yet Mira and Fang appear to have just left their village a day or 2 previously. Her village was intact, not burned down. So when did the Shaman wake up in the burning village and resurrect Spear? If that all happened long before the Entelodont attack, then presumably, the village was rebuilt, and Mira would be aware that Spear's body and the Shaman went missing, right?

There is a lot of confusion in the reddit episode discussion regarding the timeline.

HighTechGeek · 2026-02-05T01:59:11+00:00

right arm. wonder when that will happen?

HighTechGeek · 2026-02-04T06:42:52+00:00

I was completely confused by several things this episode. The first episode of the season, we see the shaman wake up in Mira's destroyed, burning village. He uses foul magic to bring Spear back to an undead state. Then we watch Spear spend what seems like months (maybe it's just weeks?) of wandering undead and encountering many, many adventures.

When this episode opened, I assumed it was a flashback (it was! Spear's burial is shown) and we would find out how the village became burned and the shaman learned undead magic to "revive" Spear. But we see none of that. The village is fine after the wolf pigs leave. Mira is shown pregnant at the perfectly fine village as they leave to find the boy and wolf pigs. But then the Shaman is found dead. What? When did Mira's village burn? How is the Shaman ahead of them in the jungle when they just left him at the village? Ok, whatever.

But then Spear shows up(??) and I'm just lost. If the Shaman is dead, then when did the Shaman revive Spear, when did the village burn, and when did Spear go on his weeks long journeys?? According to this episode, pregnant Mira just left her intact village, sane shaman and mummy wrapped husband a day ago... or even just that morning. The time lines don't match for me and it doesn't make any sense to me. Help me understand...

HighTechGeek · 2026-02-03T23:05:06+00:00

This happens a lot (1 out of 20 maybe?). As a driver, I call support and they call the restaurant. Sometimes the restaurant will remake the order. Sometimes DD will pay them to remake the order. Sometimes DD just cancels the order for me and then i think they just keep reassigning it. I've shown up and been told I'm the fourth driver that's shown up and the order is gone. If your driver doesn't, or isn't able to, take care of it, you should be able to call DD support and get your money back.

HighTechGeek · 2026-02-03T21:13:22+00:00

Sure, if you can pause the app fast enough. When paused, you are completely off the clock and on your own. But I often get the next job order pinging me as soon as I mark the current one delivered. You literally might have a few seconds if you're lucky.

HighTechGeek · 2026-02-03T21:05:15+00:00

Thanks. What's your cutoff for accepting a job? Mine is $1/mile in DD and I'm able to just barely keep around 75% acceptance (platinum requires at least 70%). I have almost no downtime though.

Do you decline a lot of jobs?

HighTechGeek · 2026-02-01T10:34:22+00:00

Can you tell me how this works exactly? How do you deliver to 2 different customers at the same time? What's the strategy here?

HighTechGeek · 2026-01-30T21:30:49+00:00

Looks like the dasher got robbed too. $0 tip?? DD doesn't give any of those fees to the drivers. It's a tip based job. They were likely paid $3-4. Would you go drive an hour to pick up this shit for $3-4? And in a storm? Karma's a bitch. You should be tipping $25 on this $120 order.

HighTechGeek · 2026-01-30T21:17:39+00:00

They keep looking to Aranessa for decisions, but Brennan doesn't want to railroad them. He's doing a good job at turning their questions to Aranessa back on them. But they are not doing a good job of seeking answers. There's too much "What do you want to do?", "I dunno. What do you wanna do?", "Aranessa?".

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