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

Forums › Off topic › [Annoy] What's something small that really annoys you?

1 | ... | 1211 | 1212 | 1213 | 1214 | 1215 | 1216 | 1217 | 1218 | 1219 | 1220 | 1221 | ... | 1828

6530 posts

Uber Geek

Trusted

#2985240 20-Oct-2022 11:29

neb:
Technofreak:

Cafes that spoil some food by only reheating it in a microwave. For example slices of bacon and egg pie. The pastry is supposed to be flakey and crunchy not a soggy cardboard layer like comes out of a microwave.

Is it by any chance a place that advertises "food just like you get at home"? In which case it's probably an accurate emulation for most customers.

No, didn't see that reference anywhere. You're right, sadly, it is probably like what a lot of people have at home. Re heating pizza in a microwave is another example.

When I'm paying good money for food I expect it to be correctly prepared, just like I have at home.

I don't mind waiting for it to be done properly. If I wanted fast food I'd have gone to the Golden Arches or similar.

Sony Xperia XA2 running Sailfish OS. https://sailfishos.org The true independent open source mobile OS
Samsung Galaxy Tab S6
Dell Inspiron 14z i5

Handsomedan

7294 posts

Uber Geek

ID Verified

Trusted

Subscriber

#2985273 20-Oct-2022 13:15

Technofreak:

I don't mind waiting for it to be done properly. If I wanted fast food I'd have gone to the Golden Arches or similar.

Actually on that note...how long does it take a fast food joint to make fast food these days!? Some of the waits are interminable.

Handsome Dan Has Spoken.
Handsome Dan needs to stop adding three dots to every sentence...

Handsome Dan does not currently have a side hustle as the mascot for Yale

*Gladly accepting donations...

neb

11294 posts

Uber Geek

Trusted

Lifetime subscriber

#2985511 20-Oct-2022 21:46

The staggering level of unusability of way too many programs under Linux. The list is pretty much endless and has been covered in numerous blog posts and web sites, but I ran into yet another one yesterday: I needed to hook up a UPS to a Linux box so it could do a clean shutdown when it was about to lose power. There's pretty much only one solution to this, NUT, the Network UPS Tools. I plugged in the UPS USB cable and lsusb instantly identified it as a FooCorp Model XYZ UPS so I figured it'd be fairly straightforward, NUT identifies the UPS via the USB info and, well, just works.

Six hours later, which included hand-editing half a dozen config files sprayed across various directories, copying obscure hex strings from one place to another, fiddling with udev permissions, kludging around known but never fixed bugs in NUT that go back years, and tracking down problem after problem via mailing-list posts from others who had run into the same issue, things like the default settings NUT is shipped with not working with many of the most common UPS brands so you have to apply hacks spread across several config files to bypass the problem... I could have probably written my own simple UPS-monitoring program via libusb in less time than it took to get NUT working.

The crazy thing about all of this is that it's entirely unnecessary, all NUT has to do is look up the UPS ID in its built-in database, apply the settings for that, and work. For the most straighforward case, a UPS feeding a Linux box, the only thing the user should need to do is confirm that this is the UPS that you're looking for, everything else requires no user intervention. Like way too many Linux tools, you're not getting an application but just some binaries, a pile of toothpicks and some PVA glue, and an implied "go google it" to get it all working.

Geektastic

17943 posts

Uber Geek

Trusted

Lifetime subscriber

#2985517 20-Oct-2022 21:52

Technofreak:
Cafes that spoil some food by only reheating it in a microwave. For example slices of bacon and egg pie. The pastry is supposed to be flakey and crunchy not a soggy cardboard layer like comes out of a microwave.

Don't theses places even try their own food?

I can understand a quick burst in the microwave but finishing these items in an conventional oven of some sort would provide a much better outcome.

Likewise, cafés that fail to accurately describe what they intend to serve.

For example, scrambled eggs on toast.

This should not miraculously become

“Scrambled eggs mixed with chopped chives on toast” unless you ask me if I like chives in my eggs. I don’t, and you’ll get it sent back!

geoffwnz

1594 posts

Uber Geek

ID Verified

#2985702 21-Oct-2022 08:02

neb: The staggering level of unusability of way too many programs under Linux. The list is pretty much endless and has been covered in numerous blog posts and web sites, but I ran into yet another one yesterday: I needed to hook up a UPS to a Linux box so it could do a clean shutdown when it was about to lose power. There's pretty much only one solution to this, NUT, the Network UPS Tools. I plugged in the UPS USB cable and lsusb instantly identified it as a FooCorp Model XYZ UPS so I figured it'd be fairly straightforward, NUT identifies the UPS via the USB info and, well, just works. Six hours later, which included hand-editing half a dozen config files sprayed across various directories, copying obscure hex strings from one place to another, fiddling with udev permissions, kludging around known but never fixed bugs in NUT that go back years, and tracking down problem after problem via mailing-list posts from others who had run into the same issue, things like the default settings NUT is shipped with not working with many of the most common UPS brands so you have to apply hacks spread across several config files to bypass the problem... I could have probably written my own simple UPS-monitoring program via libusb in less time than it took to get NUT working. The crazy thing about all of this is that it's entirely unnecessary, all NUT has to do is look up the UPS ID in its built-in database, apply the settings for that, and work. For the most straighforward case, a UPS feeding a Linux box, the only thing the user should need to do is confirm that this is the UPS that you're looking for, everything else requires no user intervention. Like way too many Linux tools, you're not getting an application but just some binaries, a pile of toothpicks and some PVA glue, and an implied "go google it" to get it all working.

It's this about Linux that has kept me away from it. Everything just seems to be so much effort to make things work.

Yes, there is a GUI or two but "everyone" uses the commandline. I moved away from the commandline when Windows came out and enjoy not having to remember and type out massive strings of often complex commands, switches, paths etc only to get one character wrong and have to do it again (yes I know up arrow gives you the previous commands).

Installing software or hardware often requires "fixing" settings as described by Neb above.

The only thing I have that runs any sort of *nix is the Raspberry Pi running my 3D printer, which was as above with having to edit settings files to make it work. At least I knew that with the 3D printer space it was for people who like tinkering and expected that for that hobby.

MotorDrive Rallying

shk292

2857 posts

Uber Geek

Lifetime subscriber

#2985767 21-Oct-2022 10:27

geoffwnz:

It's this about Linux that has kept me away from it. Everything just seems to be so much effort to make things work.

Yes, there is a GUI or two but "everyone" uses the commandline. I moved away from the commandline when Windows came out and enjoy not having to remember and type out massive strings of often complex commands, switches, paths etc only to get one character wrong and have to do it again (yes I know up arrow gives you the previous commands).

Installing software or hardware often requires "fixing" settings as described by Neb above.

The only thing I have that runs any sort of *nix is the Raspberry Pi running my 3D printer, which was as above with having to edit settings files to make it work. At least I knew that with the 3D printer space it was for people who like tinkering and expected that for that hobby.

Totally this. I have a Rasp Pi running as a Plex server and when I decided to set up NoIP recently, I thought I'd use the Pi because it's always on. Had a look at the Linux instructions for NoIP and then decided, nah, I'll put it on my Windows machine instead

I almost gave up trying to get the Pi to auto-mount a folder on my NAS in order to work as a Plex server but fortunately, someone had cracked that problem and documented it

MikeB4

18435 posts

Uber Geek

ID Verified

Trusted

#2985844 21-Oct-2022 13:18

My lovely wife getting hassled by a couple of Neanderthals on an AirNZ flight to Auckland because she was wearing a mask.

rb99

3423 posts

Uber Geek

Lifetime subscriber

#2985884 21-Oct-2022 15:39

Parcel waiting for courier all of 2km from our house (as the crow doesn't fly) at 5.02 am. And its still there...

“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” -John Kenneth Galbraith

rb99

surfisup1000

5288 posts

Uber Geek

#2985886 21-Oct-2022 15:46

Conflicting product specs on manufacturer webpage... eg,

HDCP Y (HDCP2.3)*

Then, as asterisked in foot notes...

"the HDMI input on this TV support only HDCP1.4"

So, is it 2.3 or 1.4? Can't be both.

neb

11294 posts

Uber Geek

Trusted

Lifetime subscriber

#2985965 21-Oct-2022 21:02

geoffwnz:
Yes, there is a GUI or two but "everyone" uses the commandline. I moved away from the commandline when Windows came out and enjoy not having to remember and type out massive strings of often complex commands, switches, paths etc only to get one character wrong and have to do it again (yes I know up arrow gives you the previous commands).

Actually the command line as an interface, while horribly unfriendly, isn't nearly as bad as the 1960s mainframe batch-processing that so much of Linux seems to depend on. If you've ever set up something like FreeRADIUS you know what I'm talking about, if not what it involves is modifying dozens of poorly-documented settings in various config files sprayed across a range of directories, many of which bear no relation to what the documentation says, shouting "go!", and then trying to sort out what went wrong from various cryptic error messages in different logs. This is pretty much exactly what batch processing on IBM mainframes in the 1960s was like, and the very thing that Unix was created in response/reaction to.

Geektastic

17943 posts

Uber Geek

Trusted

Lifetime subscriber

#2986314 22-Oct-2022 17:01

Timewasters on Trade Me.

The sort of irritating individual who pesters you via Q&A to reduce the price "so I can buy it today" and then having browbeaten you into doing so, does nothing at all about buying it.

I wish you could report such people to TM.

Behodar

10508 posts

Uber Geek

Trusted

Lifetime subscriber

#2986316 22-Oct-2022 17:12

My stove failed yesterday and I need a new part. An appliance parts website has the part for $30. Someone on TM has the same part for $21. I figured that it'd be better to pay the extra $9 as the specialist site has it in stock and buying from TM will likely result in far too much faffing around. The long weekend doesn't help, but it turns out - via an automated email sent after ordering - that the parts vendor has decided to take an extra-long weekend and won't actually process the order until Wednesday at the earliest.

Fortunately I have a little portable stove I can use in the interim.

Geektastic

17943 posts

Uber Geek

Trusted

Lifetime subscriber

#2986333 22-Oct-2022 19:10

Behodar:
My stove failed yesterday and I need a new part. An appliance parts website has the part for $30. Someone on TM has the same part for $21. I figured that it'd be better to pay the extra $9 as the specialist site has it in stock and buying from TM will likely result in far too much faffing around. The long weekend doesn't help, but it turns out - via an automated email sent after ordering - that the parts vendor has decided to take an extra-long weekend and won't actually process the order until Wednesday at the earliest.

Fortunately I have a little portable stove I can use in the interim.

People who run businesses for their own benefit rather than that of their customers…

kingdragonfly

11206 posts

Uber Geek

Subscriber

#2986356 22-Oct-2022 21:29

I'm posting this because I'm getting world-weary in my old age. Mark Twain in his later years wrote "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.”

I live in suburban New Plymouth, about 4 KM from the town center. At 6am this morning, I was awoken by a knocking at my door. I got up and there was a young woman in shorts, and jandles carrying a back pack.

She told me she was the victim of domestic abuse, and no longer had her phone. She asked if she could borrow mine so she could call her hoa tane. I asked if she wanted me to call the police, but she said no. She said he had thrown her out because he was going to work, and needed to call him.

So I give her my phone, and she calls him twice, and also texts him twice. No answer.

I asked if she wants me to call the police, and she says no. I tell her I'll pay for an taxi and meal, and give her $30. Rethinking it (no phone) I said I'll pay for an Uber to a nearby hospital, mentioning they have a nice cafe. I tell her she can keep the $30 for a future taxi and meal.

Unfortunately the Uber is 20 minutes away. I invite her in, and give her a couple of protean bars, but she not hungry.

She immediately asks me lots of probing question if anyone lives with me. She cases the house quickly, and says she wants to move in. I lie and tell her my girlfriend would kill me; she's away working at the hospital.

I put her in front of a TV, and do a Google map search for "crisis."

I find "Taranaki Womens Refuge" comes up, and give them a call. I hand the phone to her as it rings. I write down their contact information.

She explains to the advisor that she 17 year old. She says she knows they are trying to trap her into saying her boyfriend beats her, but says that only happened a little bit in the past.

I hear the Uber beeping the car horn, but the car leaves before she ready. She asks for the blanket I used, I say yes.

Not having an Uber, I say I can give her a ride. She tells me she's lost $20 of the $30 I gave her. We search the chair, and miracles of miracle, it's with the $10 still in her pocket. Funny how she lost the $20, but not the $10 that was with it :(

So it's now about 6:30. We get in my car, and without missing a beat she asks me to take her to a bottle store. I tell her no; I'll take you to the hospital. I add we'll be passing some businesses. Anytime she wants out, just say so.

She then tell me her favorite canned alcoholic drink that she wants. I tell her I'm a tea-totaler, and I'm definitely not buying her any booze. She gets upset and says "Is the reason you won't go to a bottle store is because I'm black?"

Being shocked, I said "What!" I truthfully explain in my American youth I was I was addicted to hard drugs, all my close childhood friends were also addicts. I told her, again truthfully, they are all either dead, destitute or serving long jail sentences. I was still taken aback by her accusation of racism, I say "aren't you underaged anyhow? I can't legally buy you booze."

She's upset and tells me she's 18. Stupidly on my part, I argue she gave her age to the Women's refuge. We pass an open bakery, and she tells me, somewhat angrily, that she wants out.

I pull over. I explain the hospital is nearby, and give her directions, if she changes her mind. I tell her she also has the note with the "Taranaki Womens Refuge" contact information.

It's annoying because I'm so jaded in my old age and I know I haven't changed anything.

Geektastic

17943 posts

Uber Geek

Trusted

Lifetime subscriber

#2986368 22-Oct-2022 22:49

You're one up on me. I wouldn't answer the door to anyone at that time in the morning. I would probably just call the Police and say someone was attempting a home invasion.

1 | ... | 1211 | 1212 | 1213 | 1214 | 1215 | 1216 | 1217 | 1218 | 1219 | 1220 | 1221 | ... | 1828