Edward
Bartender
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Vinyl, maybe?
I’d have to see it up close and run my hands over it before delivering a verdict. Is it textured, maybe?
That it’s fake glass or ceramic or whatever wouldn’t necessarily put me off to it. The vinyl plank flooring in my kitchen has a faux wood grain, as does the ceramic tile on the bathroom floor and the sheet steel garage door.
We have wood-effect vinyl flooring in the kitchen and the bathroom. I was wary initially, but in truth it's so much nicer getting out of the bath than stepping on cold tiles. Whoever tiled my kitchen floor (long before I moved in) also didn't level it well, which was always a pain when sweeping. The vinyl top layer now is so much easier in that regard. Mind you, much as the woodgrain works for our kitchen, I'm still hoping the wife will let me have one of the old-shop-floor sparkly type ones if we ever move house...
I prophesy, that Youtube is dead. It's far beyond it's zenith. All next-generation Youtubers doing the same now, old pioneer youtubers are submerged. There's not more any innovative stuff.
I bet, it will change to pay TV, next years.
IT's already possible to pay for youtube "Premium" in order to avoid the ads. I'd love to know the take-up on that. It was always a truism of the web that the audience expected everything for free, but with the rise of Netflix and Amazon especially, I think there is a higher number of people now who are prepared to pay for content that is ad-free and less reliant on data profiling (though the latter far from disappears with a subscription fee).
Another thing:
Yesterday, in the next bigger city, an Edeka supermarket, I have never been in before, had new shopping carts with smartphone holders! I only thought "WTF"?? But these carts curiously had no deposit slots, too.
Do they think, people use their smarthones as grocery list mounted on the shopping cart?
Sainsburys in the UK now offer an app for phones which allows the user to scan purchases as they go round the aisles, allowing for an expediated check-out experience at the end - which has to be by a human for security purposes, obviously. Not used it yet, but it does seem like a nice compromise between tech and not seeing human jobs replaced entirely by automated check-outs. I expect this sort of thing will start to be a standard feature of the design of trolleys as it becomes more common, even if some places don't use it - in the same way as I remember barcodes being on all products for literal decades before they were actually used in any shops I ever was in as a way of facilitating sales and payments.