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

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#2849549 12-Jan-2022 22:05

I find the head-mounted ones annoying because they're affected by head position and movement, the nice thing about the fixed ones is that you set them once and then they stay set. I also won't be doing any SMD work if I can help it so won't need the power of a microscope. So far something like this is meeting most of the requirements except for USB power, but I can live with that. Just want to see if somewhere like Amazon has them so I can check the reviews to verify that the joints won't collapse after two weeks.

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#2849567 12-Jan-2022 22:22

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.

I blame Novak Djokovic. Before he started his covid tennis tour I could read everything perfectly.

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#2849612 13-Jan-2022 00:04

neb: Just want to see if somewhere like Amazon has them so I can check the reviews to verify that the joints won't collapse after two weeks.

Amazon has a number of these under various names, from the reviews it looks like they're OK for the price, nothing special but OK. The base is too light and tips over with the arm extended but that's easily fixed.

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#2850059 13-Jan-2022 14:03

Must of been a power outage with a combination of my Cloudkey Gen2+ battery being dead (wasn't a couple of months ago) to wake up to my network just derping out. Will have to fix it all when I get home and hope an RMA will work otherwise the Cloudkey is getting surgery to remove it's battery which probably bloated.

Tried powering it off as a test this morning and there was no graceful shutdown. Been wondering when this would happen since discovering the flaw online.

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#2850228 13-Jan-2022 15:34

Rikkitic (in the 'What Affects Me' thread):

Some judges in some parts of America are known for 'creative' sentencing and apparently the law there lets them get away with it. Wouldn't it be great if some of those do'h-do'hs could be made, under police supervision, to live in a wheelchair for a day?

Speaking of American judges:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/us-canada/300495033/us-judge-shames-72yearold-cancer-patient-too-weak-to-tend-to-his-lawn

Auto-correct is why I have crust issues.

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#2850235 13-Jan-2022 15:54

floydbloke:

Speaking of American judges:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/us-canada/300495033/us-judge-shames-72yearold-cancer-patient-too-weak-to-tend-to-his-lawn

One would not be blamed for thinking that the encounter would have been different if Mr Chowdhury was of a different ethnicity. The judge is clearly not suitable to judging a pie eating competition let a court of law. what an absolute disgrace but not surprising.

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#2850310 13-Jan-2022 21:53

The fact that it's not as easy as it should be to use the big TV to do video calls.

Yes I can use Airplay to stream the video. However the camera remains on the device. So if I look at the camera... I'm not looking at the TV.

Why don't the TV's have cameras and software in to do this? Given the world we find ourselves in you'd have thought they'd have jumped on it.

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#2850311 13-Jan-2022 21:54

Geektastic: The fact that it's not as easy as it should be to use the big TV to do video calls.

Yes I can use Airplay to stream the video. However the camera remains on the device. So if I look at the camera... I'm not looking at the TV.

Why don't the TV's have cameras and software in to do this? Given the world we find ourselves in you'd have thought they'd have jumped on it.

This was a thing a few years ago. It proved to be unpopular and not work very well.

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#2850314 13-Jan-2022 22:01

depending on your tv buy a webcam for it.

Its just so much easier being portable on a device in your hands. software's always being updated, and supported.

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#2850372 14-Jan-2022 07:52

Handle9:

Geektastic: The fact that it's not as easy as it should be to use the big TV to do video calls.

Yes I can use Airplay to stream the video. However the camera remains on the device. So if I look at the camera... I'm not looking at the TV.

Why don't the TV's have cameras and software in to do this? Given the world we find ourselves in you'd have thought they'd have jumped on it.

This was a thing a few years ago. It proved to be unpopular and not work very well.

Yep, I have a camera built in to my TV. However, the reasonably large TV is mounted high on a wall so in order to be seen by the camera we needed to be standing on the couch. The camera is fixed angle and not able to be adjusted at all, so that was a clear failure of design. And the weight of the TV meant an adjustable arm mount was not feasible.

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#2850377 14-Jan-2022 08:16

geoffwnz: The camera is fixed angle and not able to be adjusted at all, so that was a clear failure of design.

That sort of thing is fairly common, it seems. I have a computer display with built-in camera, and I need to tilt the screen up towards the ceiling if I want to use it for a video call. Who designs these things?!

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#2850383 14-Jan-2022 08:31

floydbloke:
Speaking of American judges:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/us-canada/300495033/us-judge-shames-72yearold-cancer-patient-too-weak-to-tend-to-his-lawn

There's a surprising number of YT channels run by lawnmowing contractors. From them it seems that it is quite common to have the local authority send a contractor out at your expense to mow even slightly overgrown lawns visible from the street with a fine tacked on equal to the cost of the lawnmowing. It may be the land of the free but god help you if you don't conform. In 1998 I visited a cousin living near Chicago. Where he lived all houses looked the same with about 4 choices of garage door colour. He admitted that he used the door opener to remind him which house was his.

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#2850396 14-Jan-2022 08:39

And they're all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just the same

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#2850399 14-Jan-2022 08:47

Rikkitic:

And they're all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just the same

You could make some good song lyrics out of that sentence.

Sometimes I just sit and think. Other times I just sit.

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#2850400 14-Jan-2022 08:47

"The sweetest, greenest place where everybody has the same little lawn out front and the same little flagstone patio out back. All the houses are so neat and pretty 'cause they all look just alike!" - Little Shop of Horrors

eracode:

Rikkitic:

And they're all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just the same

You could make some good song lyrics out of that sentence.

You sneaked in while I was replying :)

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