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

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#3020326 11-Jan-2023 22:59

sir1963:
Palmerston North KFC on Rangatikei St was out of chicken.

HOW ?

"About 10,200 people attended the touring Juicy Fest at Central Energy Trust Arena on Saturday night, a celebration of 1990s hip hop"

If you wanted to know who could eat PN out of fried chicken junk food, the Juicy audience would probably be prime suspects.

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#3020371 12-Jan-2023 09:44

@networkn:

My brand new laptop has been bsod'ing. Have Lenovo premium support and Vantage which is supposed to keep it up to date. Vantage says I am up to date. Support tells me to update manually. Go there. All the updates show release date of March through May 2022. Isn't until you expand it shows, there are updates as late as Mid December for my device!!!!

I see this with all brands. Run HP or Dell support assistant and it's all ok. Visit the website and there's a long list of updates...

Almost like three teams (development, website, API) not talking to each other.

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#3020376 12-Jan-2023 09:50

freitasm:

Almost like three teams (development, website, API) not talking to each other.

Surely that never happens.......
He says from experience of a team that barely talks within itself let alone expecting other teams talking to us. *facepalm*

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#3020377 12-Jan-2023 09:54

freitasm:

I see this with all brands. Run HP or Dell support assistant and it's all ok. Visit the website and there's a long list of updates...

Almost like three teams (development, website, API) not talking to each other.

As frustrating as it has been to spend my holiday troubleshooting all of this, as a result of the update, magically my laptop feels a bit snappier, my wireless signal strangely went from 2 bars to 5 bars, and my keyboard isn't lagging occasionally any more. I intend to raise this with Lenovo Premium Support. On the plus side, when they heard I was travelling later this month they extended my support onsite to cover the US for a year at no charge. Given I didn't pay for premium support (it was something I negotiated when I bought it), I feel like the value has been worth while.

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#3020388 12-Jan-2023 11:05

You'd think that a company like Google would know how HTML works.

Google's instructions: "Put this code snippet after the <head> element".

Me: Are you even allowed to have stuff there? Huh. Well, I'm sure Google knows what it's doing...

I proceed to put the code snippet after the <head> element, and then the HTML validator yells at me because that's not a valid location.

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#3020504 12-Jan-2023 16:08

I was listening to a technical presenter, an Australian male in his 30's.

He alternated between "vocal fry" and "upspeak"

To my ears, he was also inflecting a California accent. (There's a small possibility he lived in California long enough to pick up the accent, but I doubt it)

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#3020560 12-Jan-2023 17:11

Bung:
sir1963:

Palmerston North KFC on Rangatikei St was out of chicken.

HOW ?

"About 10,200 people attended the touring Juicy Fest at Central Energy Trust Arena on Saturday night, a celebration of 1990s hip hop"

If you wanted to know who could eat PN out of fried chicken junk food, the Juicy audience would probably be prime suspects.

It was a couple of days afterwards, and the other KFC in town still had chicken.

We just chose Pizza instead.

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#3020582 12-Jan-2023 19:11

Current rant.. batteries for power tools.

For example the Ryobi 36v 4AH batter sells for $269, a 36V 12AH batter costs $569

These will just contain 18650 cells

Samsung 3.6v 5000mA cells go for $14 in GST, so 10 of them would come to $140

The profit margin on batteries will be why so much tooling is going battery, and this is on top of having to buy a more expensive tool in the first place.

Our current petrol lawn mower is over 25 years old, probably would have gone though 10 batteries in that time, heck a 12AH batter costs more than an entire petrol lawnmower

Total cost of ownership for the petrol mower is probably 10% of a battery powered one.

There needs to be standardisation in tooling batteries so that there is competition in both tool and batteries as you are not locked into one brand or another.

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#3020647 12-Jan-2023 20:45

sir1963:

Current rant.. batteries for power tools.

For example the Ryobi 36v 4AH batter sells for $269, a 36V 12AH batter costs $569

These will just contain 18650 cells

Samsung 3.6v 5000mA cells go for $14 in GST, so 10 of them would come to $140

The profit margin on batteries will be why so much tooling is going battery, and this is on top of having to buy a more expensive tool in the first place.

Our current petrol lawn mower is over 25 years old, probably would have gone though 10 batteries in that time, heck a 12AH batter costs more than an entire petrol lawnmower

Total cost of ownership for the petrol mower is probably 10% of a battery powered one.

There needs to be standardisation in tooling batteries so that there is competition in both tool and batteries as you are not locked into one brand or another.

Not going to happen I'd suggest though I do see your point.

Just cut open packs and replace the batteries when they need it.

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#3020662 12-Jan-2023 21:39

Here's an annoyance.

Farmer's announced their whiteware sale

"At least 20% off whiteware, by Bosch, Fisher & Paykel, Samsung, HAIER."

So I look at this oven: HAIER 7 FUNCTION OVEN, HWO60S7EX2

The Farmer's website crossed out the price of $979.00, close to the RRP price. They gave a price of $779, which is indeed 20% less than the mythical $979 price.

However when I used PriceSpy to check on the price history has

actually grown from $655.20 on 25 October, an increase of %15
$779 is the same price as a number of companies, and a company called "Folders" actually sells it cheaper

I found a number of companies, who were not listed by Pricespy, normally selling for pretty much the same as Farmer's "sale" price.

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#3020663 12-Jan-2023 21:45

kingdragonfly: a company called "Folders" actually sells it cheaper

Folders are dropshippers, they order on your behalf from wholesalers who don't deal directly with the public so you get it at close to wholesale pricing.

Not a criticism of them, just pointing out why their prices are so good. Not sure what happens if something dies after six months though since you can't just take it back to the Harvey Norman branch where you go it.

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#3020664 12-Jan-2023 21:47

kingdragonfly: The Farmer's website crossed out the price of $979.00, close to the RRP price. They gave a price of $779, which is indeed 20% less than the mythical $979 price.

However when I used PriceSpy to check on the price history has
actually grown from $655.20 on 25 October, an increase of %15

$779 is the same price as a number of companies, and a company called "Folders" actually sells it cheaper

I found a number of companies, who were not listed by Pricespy, normally selling for pretty much the same as Farmer's "sale" price.

Send Consumer a note about this, they track this sort of stuff and publish reports on it every now and then.

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#3020901 13-Jan-2023 16:49

Couriers. Again.

3 days from Australia to customs clearance in Auckland on 6 January.

Seven days later, still no sign of it.

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#3020906 13-Jan-2023 17:13

neb:
kingdragonfly: The Farmer's website crossed out the price of $979.00, close to the RRP price. They gave a price of $779, which is indeed 20% less than the mythical $979 price. <

Send Consumer a note about this, they track this sort of stuff and publish reports on it every now and then.

I just filled out a Commerce Commission complaint, with a snapshot of their website ad.

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#3021152 13-Jan-2023 21:27

The fact that the whole RISC-V ecosystem is such a fixer-upper mess of duct tape and baling twine. Every time I work with one of these things I end up spending hours and hours patching and kludging things via USB-serial debug consoles and semi-documented contradictory hacks in support forums, and even then things only sort-of half work.

And every time they abandon the current hardware and release something new you're back to square one with kludges and duct tape again.

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