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

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#2965644 10-Sep-2022 21:29

PB Tech.

Goes to look into pre-order on Apple Watch.

"Click and collect on 23rd September"

Goes through process.

"Click and collect is disabled. Please choose a delivery option."

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#2965804 10-Sep-2022 23:25

Does PBTech just slap arbitrary due dates of two months on product that’s going to take much longer or has no eta? I’ve found it seems like that that a few times. Order something that’s not due in for ages but have no urgency for so happy to wait it out

Nek minit I’m waiting another two months.

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#2965822 11-Sep-2022 08:24

It annoys me when pirated products are better than licensed. I just tried to watch a foreign-language TV programme using a legitimate service, and it has the subtitles for the previous episode instead of the current one. I'm sure a pirated copy won't have this issue!

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#2965825 11-Sep-2022 08:41

Kyanar:
Eva888: ASB Ugly new Debit Card compared to the old ones.

It’s a plain flat yellow with name and details printed on the back. No silver embossed name and number like in most. It looks like a badly made fake. A 5 year old could have designed a better one.

That's deliberate, it prevents the card details from being stolen by copying the imprint - it also makes the card only usable electronically. The majority of cards these days are coming out with no embossing (though in some of my cards case, it's because they're made of titanium).

Thanks, as always one learns so much here. Never thought of copying of the imprint. That could be very limiting in some countries that still use the zip zap machine though and I now wonder if one may need to get a different card for international travel? My other bank cards are all embossed.

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#2965877 11-Sep-2022 15:07

neb: [Imagine living in an area like that where every house is the same as the next. It'd be like being inside a pre-ERB (Ethical Review Board) era psychology experiment.

I grew up in an area something like that... dairy factory housing, all identical, except for the colour. Families were known as "in the green house". I say "something like" because actually there were only about half a dozen identical, then 3 or 4 of another design, then 6 or 7 of another design, reflecting the times when the houses were built. There was a better class of house (brick) for managers.

This wasn't uncommon in 1950s-60s NZ, when Railways owned houses they rented to workers, Ministry of Works did too (e.g. Turangi and Twizel, or were they NZED?), as did large employers like NZ Coop Dairy Co. Also hostels for single men. There was a row of Railways houses along SH1 on the northern end of Taihape, all identical except for a different trellis pattern on the veranda. However, I think most of these have been demolished or moved.

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#2965900 11-Sep-2022 16:02

neb:
Eva888: ASB Ugly new Debit Card compared to the old ones.

It’s a plain flat yellow with name and details printed on the back. No silver embossed name and number like in most.
Making it impossible to use in the zip-zap machine that every shop relies on. I'm surprised they didn't get rid of those annoying things years ago, being pressed against other cards or a wallet raises bumps on anything they come into contact with, and the stamped alu foil that's on the raised parts wears off very quickly exposing the underlying white plastic. None of my non-NZ cards still have this antiquated artefact on them.

My new wise card also has no digits on the front. It doenst have the stupid bumps like the ASB one does. My older visa light from ASB has no bumps and is dead flat which is better for taking less space up.

I have covered the number on all my cards up with a sticker so noone can shoulder surf it. Not possible with the raised ones since that would stop the insulation tape from sticking properly and give it edges to lift up from.

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#2965901 11-Sep-2022 16:02

Behodar:
It annoys me when pirated products are better than licensed. I just tried to watch a foreign-language TV programme using a legitimate service, and it has the subtitles for the previous episode instead of the current one. I'm sure a pirated copy won't have this issue!

Back when Brimaur Microsoft could abuse their monopoly and charge whatever rort prices they felt like or simply decide they weren't going to sell you something no matter how much you begged them, it was not uncommon to buy things like Microsoft dev tools from grey-market sources overseas. At some point we got non-grey-market Microsoft dev tools and were surprised at the poor production quality of the manuals. The pirated manuals were much better quality than the real thing.

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#2965902 11-Sep-2022 16:11

neb: Imagine living in an area like that where every house is the same as the next. It'd be like being inside a pre-ERB (Ethical Review Board) era psychology experiment.

Never watched Coronation Street? Rows of identical houses are not a new concept, and are common in many cities world wide. Maybe if every NZ house wasn't pseudo-unique, they would be more affordable.

Perhaps if someone came up with a way of identifying each house by using a number or something, it would stop people getting confused

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#2965904 11-Sep-2022 16:15

Eva888: Never thought of copying of the imprint.

That's because that type of fraud hasn't really existed for at least two decades [0], which is why I referred to it as an artefact in my post - you skim the mag stripe, not the imprint, and with newer NFC-enabled cards, you just read them remotely. Cards have a lot of protection mechanisms on them for fraud from the previous century, for example they used to print the IIN (Issuer Identification Number) below the embossed version because fraudsters would iron flat the card number and re-emboss their own one. Merchants were supposed to check the embossed IIN against the printed IIN to detect this, but none of them ever did, and in any cast it became moot when zip-zap machines went the way of the dodo.

[0] In fact I'm not sure if copying-the-imprint fraud ever existed, to be able to do that you'd need physical access to the card, which means you're the person operating the zip-zap machine, which in turn means that you already have a carbon copy of the receipt, there's no need to make a separate copy of the imprint for fraud purposes.

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#2965910 11-Sep-2022 17:14

The fact that on any kind of double-sided adhesive anything, the bond between the backing tape is always far stronger than the thing you want to adhese to, so you end up peeling the adhesive away from the thing when you try and peel off the backing tape.

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#2965915 11-Sep-2022 17:44

neb: The fact that on any kind of double-sided adhesive anything, the bond between the backing tape is always far stronger than the thing you want to adhese to, so you end up peeling the adhesive away from the thing when you try and peel off the backing tape.

You clearly have bought the same LED strips that I did, with the genuine counterfeit M3 adhesive on them.

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#2965919 11-Sep-2022 18:03

That these damned sandwiches always have to fall butter-side down on the floor.

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#2965939 11-Sep-2022 22:18

Tinkerisk:
That these damned sandwiches always have to fall butter-side down on the floor.

Because it's heavier on the butter side.

Anyways, pick up within 3 seconds, should be safe enough.. any longer than 3 seconds, you take yer chances..

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#2965952 12-Sep-2022 07:47

SepticSceptic:
Tinkerisk:

That these damned sandwiches always have to fall butter-side down on the floor.

Because it's heavier on the butter side.

Anyways, pick up within 3 seconds, should be safe enough.. any longer than 3 seconds, you take yer chances..

Bread always lands butter-side down. Cats always land on their feet. Which force would win if you strap bread, buttered side up, to the back of a cat - and drop?

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#2966020 12-Sep-2022 09:25

richms:

It doenst have the stupid bumps like the ASB one does. My older visa light from ASB has no bumps and is dead flat which is better for taking less space up.

"Stupid Bumps" = braille

Basically it's two letters in Braille describing the card - corporate card, debit card etc.

All Visa cards will eventually go down this route.

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