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#2855911 25-Jan-2022 00:10

neb: Applications whose UI is so appallingly unintuitive or just plain broken that you have to resort to Google searches just to perform basic operations. Gmail and Signal spring immediately to mind. Problem is that a lot of the time all you find is endless messages from other people trying to find out how to do the same thing. And a Gmail specialty when you're looking for help is to carefully describe steps that haven't applied to any version of Gmail in the last five years, because UI Refresh.

This applies to 'free' image editing software that camera makers supply. It's all awful but contains the best algorithms for decoding the RAW files from that makers camera.

Licence the algorithms to Adobe and stop mucking about!!

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#2855916 25-Jan-2022 06:31

Geektastic:

This applies to 'free' image editing software that camera makers supply. It's all awful but contains the best algorithms for decoding the RAW files from that makers camera.

Licence the algorithms to Adobe and stop mucking about!!

Based on the last few posts around Adobe's behaviour, perhaps they aren't the company of choice...

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#2855948 25-Jan-2022 09:25

This is a huge thread which indicates there are many things which annoy people and it's possible this particular annoyance has already been documented.

With that caveat (and this is a real first world problem), going to cafes (and sometimes restaurants) where the tables have wobbly legs and you are always stuffing paper napkins or something similar under one leg to stabilise them. For me there is nothing more annoying than being in a cafe and sitting in a table like that. And it's even worse when the proprietor has done the stuffing of the paper under the leg and not bothered to provide a permanent fix.

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#2855949 25-Jan-2022 09:27

Ge0rge:
Geektastic:

This applies to 'free' image editing software that camera makers supply. It's all awful but contains the best algorithms for decoding the RAW files from that makers camera.

Licence the algorithms to Adobe and stop mucking about!!

Based on the last few posts around Adobe's behaviour, perhaps they aren't the company of choice...

They are makers of first class creative software. They just require that you pay (quite a lot) to use it!

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#2855951 25-Jan-2022 09:29

lchiu7:
This is a huge thread which indicates there are many things which annoy people and it's possible this particular annoyance has already been documented.

With that caveat (and this is a real first world problem), going to cafes (and sometimes restaurants) where the tables have wobbly legs and you are always stuffing paper napkins or something similar under one leg to stabilise them. For me there is nothing more annoying than being in a cafe and sitting in a table like that. And it's even worse when the proprietor has done the stuffing of the paper under the leg and not bothered to provide a permanent fix.

Yes. Restaurant tables ought to have self-leveling legs!

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#2855952 25-Jan-2022 09:29

lchiu7:

This is a huge thread which indicates there are many things which annoy people and it's possible this particular annoyance has already been documented.

With that caveat (and this is a real first world problem), going to cafes (and sometimes restaurants) where the tables have wobbly legs and you are always stuffing paper napkins or something similar under one leg to stabilise them. For me there is nothing more annoying than being in a cafe and sitting in a table like that. And it's even worse when the proprietor has done the stuffing of the paper under the leg and not bothered to provide a permanent fix.

Easily solved with round, three-legged tables. People just need to get over the idea of doing things the same way they have always been done because that is how they have always been done.

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#2855953 25-Jan-2022 09:33

lchiu7:

This is a huge thread which indicates there are many things which annoy people and it's possible this particular annoyance has already been documented.

With that caveat (and this is a real first world problem), going to cafes (and sometimes restaurants) where the tables have wobbly legs and you are always stuffing paper napkins or something similar under one leg to stabilise them. For me there is nothing more annoying than being in a cafe and sitting in a table like that. And it's even worse when the proprietor has done the stuffing of the paper under the leg and not bothered to provide a permanent fix.

That has indeed been mentioned in this thread (years ago) as I remember someone who works in a restaurant complaining about the 'opposite' problem: Where they've gone to the trouble of making the tables level and then customers have moved them around, joined them together etc. and made them all wonky again.

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#2855954 25-Jan-2022 09:34

Geektastic: ...

They are makers of first class creative software. They just require that you pay (quite a lot) to use it!

😡They also bundled a McAfee AV trial, that would want to install itself unless you explicitly opted out, with every Flash update, which was often.🤬

Sometimes I use big words I don't always fully understand in an effort to make myself sound more photosynthesis.

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#2855958 25-Jan-2022 09:39

Behodar:

lchiu7:

This is a huge thread which indicates there are many things which annoy people and it's possible this particular annoyance has already been documented.

With that caveat (and this is a real first world problem), going to cafes (and sometimes restaurants) where the tables have wobbly legs and you are always stuffing paper napkins or something similar under one leg to stabilise them. For me there is nothing more annoying than being in a cafe and sitting in a table like that. And it's even worse when the proprietor has done the stuffing of the paper under the leg and not bothered to provide a permanent fix.

That has indeed been mentioned in this thread (years ago) as I remember someone who works in a restaurant complaining about the 'opposite' problem: Where they've gone to the trouble of making the tables level and then customers have moved them around, joined them together etc. and made them all wonky again.

What about doing things that can't be undone? Level the floor. Get tables with adjustable length size.

Instead, yeah let's complain about the person actually bringing money into the business.

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#2856044 25-Jan-2022 11:34

Wobbly luggage carts at airports... I'm looking at you Dunedin airport.

The have just bought dome new ones which just reinforce how crap the old wobbly ones are.... Fix the old ones too!!!

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#2856054 25-Jan-2022 12:07

i know this wont be the first time but the Media and the reporting around omicron is getting way over the top, the latest is supermarket supply and how there will be nothing on shelves soon but hey dont panic buy. The supply expert (who knew that was a thing]who said we could be out of toilet paper in a week, is the latest in stories that are not news and we dont need it. Report it when it happens , then it's news.

Common sense is not as common as you think.

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#2856055 25-Jan-2022 12:10

Google for KB5009543 and you'll get results for people still using PPTP

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#2856056 25-Jan-2022 12:24

lchiu7:

This is a huge thread which indicates there are many things which annoy people and it's possible this particular annoyance has already been documented.

With that caveat (and this is a real first world problem), going to cafes (and sometimes restaurants) where the tables have wobbly legs and you are always stuffing paper napkins or something similar under one leg to stabilise them. For me there is nothing more annoying than being in a cafe and sitting in a table like that. And it's even worse when the proprietor has done the stuffing of the paper under the leg and not bothered to provide a permanent fix.

My wife hates it when we enter a cafe.

Waiter: Please take a seat and I'll bring a menu over

Me: Walks around every table, rocking them to see which ones rock and which ones don't. Select a table after I've eliminated the tables that aren't stable.

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#2856067 25-Jan-2022 12:41

Senecio:
lchiu7:

This is a huge thread which indicates there are many things which annoy people and it's possible this particular annoyance has already been documented.

With that caveat (and this is a real first world problem), going to cafes (and sometimes restaurants) where the tables have wobbly legs and you are always stuffing paper napkins or something similar under one leg to stabilise them. For me there is nothing more annoying than being in a cafe and sitting in a table like that. And it's even worse when the proprietor has done the stuffing of the paper under the leg and not bothered to provide a permanent fix.

My wife hates it when we enter a cafe.

Waiter: Please take a seat and I'll bring a menu over

Me: Walks around every table, rocking them to see which ones rock and which ones don't. Select a table after I've eliminated the tables that aren't stable.

Exactly. I do something similar. There is no excuse for tables like that. How long would you put up with your dining room table being unstable like that?

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#2856094 25-Jan-2022 14:15

Having a busy day of meetings and one that is a standing invite every week at the same time being rescheduled just 5 min before it's due, but being rescheduled to suite the rest of the team, who are all in Australia.

i.e. 6pm meeting that was until 10 min ago 2.15pm.

Annoying.

Thank God I am leaving. This is not an irregular occurrence.

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