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

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#2980817 12-Oct-2022 07:03

I hadn’t appreciated how new the Kindle Scribe is. US customers can preordained for delivery starting November. One who ordered 1 Oct got a delivery date 6 Dec so it looks like it is being sent off production line.

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#2980833 12-Oct-2022 09:01

Bung: I hadn’t appreciated how new the Kindle Scribe is. US customers can preordained for delivery starting November. One who ordered 1 Oct got a delivery date 6 Dec so it looks like it is being sent off production line.

I didn't even know it had been launched!

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#2980835 12-Oct-2022 09:04

Bung: I hadn’t appreciated how new the Kindle Scribe is. US customers can preordained for delivery starting November. One who ordered 1 Oct got a delivery date 6 Dec so it looks like it is being sent off production line.

But not to us.

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#2981869 12-Oct-2022 10:41

When you've owned the house for 15 years and only just now find that some cowboy swapped the neutral and earth on one of the power points.

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#2981873 12-Oct-2022 10:43

Geektastic:

Ordered two heat pumps about 10 weeks ago. The installer advised that they would be in stock early September.

Early September arrives. Oh, now it is late October.

Early October arrives. Sorry - they just told us it will be late January before there is stock....

What brand?

You're not on Atlantis anymore, Duncan Idaho.

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#2981877 12-Oct-2022 10:49

MadEngineer:
Geektastic:

Ordered two heat pumps about 10 weeks ago. The installer advised that they would be in stock early September.

Early September arrives. Oh, now it is late October.

Early October arrives. Sorry - they just told us it will be late January before there is stock....

What brand?

The red Mitsubishi Hypercore.

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#2981889 12-Oct-2022 11:07

Behodar:

When you've owned the house for 15 years and only just now find that some cowboy swapped the neutral and earth on one of the power points.

Good argument for RCD. I can do better, though. I live in a weatherboard house that was built in the 1920s and wired in the 1950s. It has an old style wooden power board with wire fuses. Our water comes from a spring and is super hard though superlative quality.

The hard water frequently burns out the hot water cylinder heating elements. Once I started hearing funny noises but couldn't figure out the source. At first I didn't think too much of it but as it continued and grew more noticeable over days I decided to track it down. What I discovered was a melted switch next to the hot water heater and another melted switch on the power board. Things were actually sizzling.

Of course I immediately cut the power and then started tracing things back, replacing them as I went. The hot water cylinder heating elements were shorting and causing a major overload, as they had done in the past due to calcification. But why did the switches burn out without blowing a fuse, I wondered?

What I discovered was that some genius had replaced the fuse wire with steel wire. I am guessing he got tired of the hot water cylinder eating fuses and thought 'I'm smart. I can fix this!'

It was probably a matter of hours at best before the entire house went up like a torch in the middle of the night while we were all sleeping. Of course I also have smoke alarms in every room, but still.

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#2981894 12-Oct-2022 11:16

Rikkitic: Good argument for RCD.

Yep, caught by replacing all the old fuses with breakers and RCDs.

What I discovered was a melted switch next to the hot water heater and another melted switch on the power board. Things were actually sizzling. [...] What I discovered was that some genius had replaced the fuse wire with steel wire.

Yikes!

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#2981919 12-Oct-2022 12:13

The rubbish tip that masquerades as our main highways.

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#2981925 12-Oct-2022 12:21

Technofreak:The rubbish tip that masquerades as our main highways.

And Residential Streets!

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#2981927 12-Oct-2022 12:23

msukiwi:
Technofreak:The rubbish tip that masquerades as our main highways.

And Residential Streets!

And some people’s houses/gardens.

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#2981950 12-Oct-2022 13:32

Websites that offer messages like this:

"This image is too big. Please upload an image smaller than 6,012 × 6,012 px."

OK. How much smaller? 1 pixel? 3000? 1000?

Looking at you, LinkedIn.

EDIT: What they actually mean is that 6012x6012 is the maximum size (well, 6011x6011 technically if they are being accurate) not that my image is 6012 x 6012 and needs to be smaller than that.

Ambiguous.

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#2981953 12-Oct-2022 13:37

msukiwi:

Technofreak:The rubbish tip that masquerades as our main highways.

And Residential Streets!

Case in point of one of the kids from the house across the road disposing of an empty cardboard box at the end of our driveway

You're not on Atlantis anymore, Duncan Idaho.

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#2981957 12-Oct-2022 13:47

I found a shoe on my driveway a fortnight ago. It almost certainly belongs to one of the kids up the back as they're always running around the place so I put it on the connecting fence and it's still there a fortnight later.

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#2981969 12-Oct-2022 14:26

MadEngineer: Case in point of one of the kids from the house across the road disposing of an empty cardboard box at the end of our driveway

What did their parents have to say?

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