[Annoy] What's something small that really annoys you?

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#2849383 12-Jan-2022 16:31

Behodar:

Overt lies from companies. The back of my Blu-ray case says that the movie is region A/B/C (ie. all). I put it in my region B player and got a region mismatch error.

Take it back, demand a refund and say it doesn't work in your player even though it should.

Watch it first of course.

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#2849384 12-Jan-2022 16:36

Windows screen handling.

It seems that in a dozen or more years of development, it has never occurred to Windows developers to allow for the fact that monitors may have different pixel densities. So my laptop's 27" external screen appears smaller on the display settings than the 15" built-in screen, simply because it has less pixels per row. To avoid having wonky mouse movements between the two screens, I have to turn the resolution of the small screen down to 38% of what it's capable of.

One can only assume that MS's developers are still working on 80x25 green-screen terminals.

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#2849386 12-Jan-2022 16:38

Windows has never been good at window management. To this day it still 'randomly' moves windows around when you e.g. connect another display, or even sometimes when you lock and unlock the machine. Plus look at the number of apps that blindly assume that everyone wants to run them maximised at all times even when on a huge display.

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#2849394 12-Jan-2022 16:47

Windows has always been riddled with ridiculous bugs that make you think it must be programmed by monkeys. The latest I have encountered (Win 10) is that the DVD drive always ejects when a USB drive is unplugged. This is supposed to have something to do with autoplay settings, except I have autoplay disabled and have tried every other possible setting there is and it still does it. How can you take a product seriously when it does something this dumb?

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#2849395 12-Jan-2022 16:49

elpenguino:

Behodar:

Overt lies from companies. The back of my Blu-ray case says that the movie is region A/B/C (ie. all). I put it in my region B player and got a region mismatch error.

Take it back, demand a refund and say it doesn't work in your player even though it should.

Watch it first of course.

It's probably a bit late for that; I bought it almost a year ago and only just got around to watching it. I've subsequently defeated the protection so it's not a major issue, but still annoying.

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#2849407 12-Jan-2022 17:08

Back in the days when I still cared about this sort of thing I used to routinely rip every DVD that passed through my hands to eliminate region settings and jump past all the crap at the beginning.

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#2849470 12-Jan-2022 17:16

That's what I typically do. My NAS is full of them. I just hadn't got around to this particular one!

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#2849473 12-Jan-2022 17:24

alasta:
If it were me then I would get the main board replaced again. If it subsequently fails then you have a really strong case to argue that it's faulty by design and you want a refund to buy something else from a different manufacturer.

He doesn’t need a stronger case.

An oven which does not cook is a defect of substantial character. That gives Mike the option of repair, replacement or refund.

I’d be taking the money and running.

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#2849487 12-Jan-2022 17:51

Behodar:

elpenguino:

Take it back, demand a refund and say it doesn't work in your player even though it should.

Watch it first of course.

It's probably a bit late for that; I bought it almost a year ago and only just got around to watching it. I've subsequently defeated the protection so it's not a major issue, but still annoying.

Yes, probably a bit much to march in with your receipt now but you never know.....

Region codes and the idea behind it stink.

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#2849488 12-Jan-2022 17:55

Food Bag strikes again!

"Cook lentils for 25 minutes. After 20 minutes, add beans and cook for another 3 minutes."

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#2849490 12-Jan-2022 18:07

Behodar:

Food Bag strikes again!

"Cook lentils for 25 minutes. After 20 minutes, add beans and cook for another 3 minutes."

So that's a total of 48 minutes?

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#2849533 12-Jan-2022 21:06

Rikkitic:
Windows has always been riddled with ridiculous bugs that make you think it must be programmed by monkeys.

Some of what we'd think of as bugs are actually features according to Microsoft's monkeys. For example, open up an editor/text box/whatever and look at the cursor in it.

Keep watching it for a few seconds.

That's by design, they went out of their way to do that.

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#2849537 12-Jan-2022 21:21

Sitting down to solder up a bunch of through-hole components to fill out a pre-populated-with-SMDs board and realising that I can barely see what I'm soldering any more. Must be... climate change, or... Covid... or the Democrats or something.

Anyone got any reccos for decent illuminated work magnifiers? There's a ton of suspiciously cheap ones on TM and similar, I'd like one with an anglepoise level of flexibility so I don't have the thing in the way of soldering, flicker-free illumination, a warmish light rather than cold blue-white, and mains-powered, not some USB gimmick.

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#2849543 12-Jan-2022 21:37

neb: Sitting down to solder up a bunch of through-hole components to fill out a pre-populated-with-SMDs board and realising that I can barely see what I'm soldering any more. Must be... climate change, or... Covid... or the Democrats or something. Anyone got any reccos for decent illuminated work magnifiers? There's a ton of suspiciously cheap ones on TM and similar, I'd like one with an anglepoise level of flexibility so I don't have the thing in the way of soldering, flicker-free illumination, a warmish light rather than cold blue-white, and mains-powered, not some USB gimmick.

I bought a microscope for small SMD stuff but now need to use it for everything.

Thats both an answer to your question and something that annoys me.

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#2849546 12-Jan-2022 21:46

Yep, gone are the days when I could pick up a chip and read the markings.
Partly everything is so tiny these days but mostly it's my eyes.
I use head mounted magnification for most jobs but you're right richms, a microscope is needed for extra detailed inspection.

Most of the posters in this thread are just like chimpanzees on MDMA, full of feelings of bonhomie, joy, and optimism. Fred99 8/4/21

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