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

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#3060155 7-Apr-2023 16:41

neb: That none of the usual suspects (Bunnings, M10, etc) seem to sell bog-standard 10mm x 200mm hot glue sticks any more, just a bunch of wierdo sizes like 7.2mm and 11.2mm and others.

Do they still sell glue guns that use 10mm sticks..? far me it fir me to suggest the "new and improved" glue guns use a new stick size... But you know..

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#3060160 7-Apr-2023 17:21

Tinkerisk:
I don't know how much the exporting Brexiteers dislike the metric system, but I wouldn't put it past them to make everything imperial again. That's a problem that you can't solve with a rolling fork spanner.

Ah, but you can probably solve it with a Birmingham screwdriver. Which may also make an 11.2mm glue stick go into a 10mm gun.

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#3060255 7-Apr-2023 23:35

neb:
Tinkerisk:

I don't know how much the exporting Brexiteers dislike the metric system, but I wouldn't put it past them to make everything imperial again. That's a problem that you can't solve with a rolling fork spanner.

Ah, but you can probably solve it with a Birmingham screwdriver. Which may also make an 11.2mm glue stick go into a 10mm gun.

I can see we get on exceptionally well! :-)

We use 7+11mm as standard.

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#3060256 8-Apr-2023 00:20

The fact that Midea's home automation app doesn't handle DST changes, so all scheduled events are an hour out of sync after a DST switchover. Just realised this today when some Midea gear was running when it shouldn't have been.

It must take quite a feat of programming to track schedules independently of the time on the host (Android) device and thereby get it wrong six months of the year. And the contact address for the app is something like zhouwenfeng@gmail.com, which doesn't seem like a valid means of getting a bug report to Midea.

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#3060257 8-Apr-2023 01:14

neb: The fact that Midea's home automation app doesn't handle DST changes, so all scheduled events are an hour out of sync after a DST switchover. Just realised this today when some Midea gear was running when it shouldn't have been.

It must take quite a feat of programming to track schedules independently of the time on the host (Android) device and thereby get it wrong six months of the year. And the contact address for the app is something like zhouwenfeng@gmail.com, which doesn't seem like a valid means of getting a bug report to Midea.

You complain about Casa de Cowboy and then install Midea?

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#3060258 8-Apr-2023 01:20

Handle9: You complain about Casa de Cowboy and then install Midea?

They have a really nice Internet-enabled dehumdifier with a 12L tank that beats most other ones out there.

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#3060261 8-Apr-2023 06:07

neb:
Handle9: You complain about Casa de Cowboy and then install Midea?

They have a really nice Internet-enabled dehumdifier with a 12L tank that beats most other ones out there.

That can’t do daylight saving time. I’m shocked, shocked, I tell you (not shocked.)

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#3060265 8-Apr-2023 08:06

Banks can't do transfers on a public holiday (thank god that's changing), so no DD for our mortgage...but your bloody willing to still add an interest addition however to the total sum.

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#3060346 8-Apr-2023 14:01

PsychoSmiley: Banks can't do transfers on a public holiday (thank god that's changing), so no DD for our mortgage...but your bloody willing to still add an interest addition however to the total sum.

If it's anything like the Australian implementation of real time payments, Direct Debits still won't be supported for several years. We got realtime payments (called the "New Payments Platform") over four years ago, and only now has debit functionality been added. The plus side though, is that the debit functionality has been implemented as a consent based system where you provide authorisation and can revoke it directly from within your online banking. Given it's mostly the same banks involved, hopefully they've taken those lessons across to the NZ implementation.

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#3060791 10-Apr-2023 01:55

If you buy a game from the Apple App Store and it turns out to be buggy, crashes four times in an hour then the map freezes and can’t be undone no matter what so that the game is literally unplayable: you put up a one-star review and apply for refund. The game listing on the Store confirmed that the game is compatible with my iPad Pro.

When the refund comes through, you lose ownership of the game (which is perfectly fair) - and your review is taken down. Only owners of the app can post reviews. This means there could be heaps of dissatisfied purchasers who got a refund and no-one else is any the wiser about problems with the game because their reviews have gone.

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#3061201 10-Apr-2023 20:01

I just switched power company. On the signup form they asked for my legal name, and also had a field for preferred name... which was ignored the very first time they contacted me.

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#3061215 10-Apr-2023 21:22

Trying to get AppleTV Subscription and Apple's form refusing to accept ANY suburb in the payment method. Can't get around it. Got the content from an alternative source.

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#3061219 10-Apr-2023 21:37

Behodar:
I just switched power company. On the signup form they asked for my legal name, and also had a field for preferred name... which was ignored the very first time they contacted me.

I recently had to register for a supplier agreement which seems to have been derived from the process in A Day at the Races where, to register for A you first need to register for B, for which you need to register for C, for which you need to register for D, for which... . Since several of the steps involve government agencies that take 5-10 working days to approve each one, I'm not hopeful about getting through this sisyphean labour in any reasonable time frame.

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#3061337 11-Apr-2023 09:50

Behodar:

I just switched power company. On the signup form they asked for my legal name, and also had a field for preferred name... which was ignored the very first time they contacted me.

Maybe if you hadn't set the preferred name to "Stud Muffin"...

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#3061356 11-Apr-2023 11:02

Loaded the NZHerald website on a work PC I haven't logged into before, so it didn't have AdBlock installed. I was greeted with this mess:

Holy hell, Herald. Got enough advertising? I can't see one damn single news story there and everything I can see is begging me for money 🙄

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