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

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#3094101 23-Jun-2023 14:03

I’ve upgraded a whole bunch of new Windows 10 machines to Windows 11. Process has been to install all the windows 10 and device specific updates then check windows updates again in case the upgrade appears there. It doesn’t so I google for windows 11, simply grab the installer and it quickly begins the in-situ install

Today, all I can find is the media creation tool which offers to download an iso or create a usb installer.

Grr.

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#3094102 23-Jun-2023 14:07

MadEngineer: Today, all I can find is the media creation tool which offers to download an iso or create a usb installer.

It's Microsoft trying to protect you from themselves.

And why would you sidegrade to 11? Microsoft have said they'll finally stop f---ing up 10, so you've got several years of relief from arbitrary breakage for the sake of it if you stay on 10 until it's EOL'd.

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#3094109 23-Jun-2023 14:20

Found the reason - you actually have to run the pc check first

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#3094146 23-Jun-2023 16:45

I ran the PC Check and it says my CPU i7-7567U isn't supported.

Boo hoo! I did want to get the Windows Phone Link app for iPhone - only available on Windows 11. Apart from that don't care.

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#3094270 24-Jun-2023 02:36

Indirectly watching someone destroying their career through gross stupidity.

The person did something dumb but then made it immeasurably worse through dishonesty and gross stupidity.

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#3094276 24-Jun-2023 07:32

Handle9: Indirectly watching someone destroying their career through gross stupidity.

The person did something dumb but then made it immeasurably worse through dishonesty and gross stupidity.

You can watch this directly on Parliament TV, Freeview channel 31.

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#3094277 24-Jun-2023 07:37

Handle9: The person did something dumb but then made it immeasurably worse through dishonesty and gross stupidity.

A lot of employers are pretty tolerant of dumbness and take an educational approach, but not so many are tolerant of dishonesty.

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#3094291 24-Jun-2023 09:48

SirHumphreyAppleby:
Handle9: Indirectly watching someone destroying their career through gross stupidity.

The person did something dumb but then made it immeasurably worse through dishonesty and gross stupidity.

You can watch this directly on Parliament TV, Freeview channel 31.

Sadly, they only fail upwards. The rest of us, not so much.

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#3094319 24-Jun-2023 11:49

Googling if something is available in NZ. Somewhere in that list there's an entry from Mighty Ape. Every time I go to that link the result says not in stock.

“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

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#3094332 24-Jun-2023 11:51

That dinner tonight is something I am supposed to sort, we don't have anything suitable in the house, which means going shopping, and I feel like crap and can't be bothered. We already eat too many takeaways, so I need to cook, but meh.

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#3094384 24-Jun-2023 15:29

My brother and s-i-l are currently on a hire boat with three other NZ couples friends, for a week’s boating on Canal du Midi in S France. The canal is 240 km long, was built in the late 1600’s and is regarded as an engineering marvel - holding UNESCO World Heritage Site status.

Thousands of hire boats, private boats and live-aboards use the canal. It’s very crowded in summer - it’s a huge tourist attraction.

I was disgusted to learn recently that, although many of the boats will have been built with sewage holding tanks, the French government has never seen it necessary to instal sewage pump-out stations along the canal. As a result, all boats just discharge their sewage into the canal. Beyond disgusting.

There’s many implications that come out of this. Just one at random is, when you’re using ropes to get through the countless locks, you’re handling lines that have been in water contaminated by human faeces. OK, wear rubber gloves and/or wash carefully afterwards - but jeesh.

I told my brother: if you fall in, you might think you’re swimming - but you’re really just going through the motions.

Sometimes I just sit and think. Other times I just sit.

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#3094429 24-Jun-2023 15:36

eracode:

My brother and s-i-l are currently on a hire boat with three other NZ couples friends, for a week’s boating on Canal du Midi in S France. The canal is 240 km long, was built in the late 1600’s and is regarded as an engineering marvel - holding UNESCO World Heritage Site status.

Hundreds, probably thousands, of hire boats, private boats and live-aboards use the canal. It’s very crowded in summer - it’s a huge tourist attraction.

I was disgusted to learn recently that, although many of the boats will have been built with sewage holding tanks, the French government has never seen it necessary to instal sewage pump-out stations along the canal. As a result, all boats just discharge their sewage into the canal. Beyond disgusting.

There’s many implications that come out of this. Just one at random is, when you’re using ropes to get through the countless locks, you’re handling lines that have been in water contaminated by human faeces. OK, wear rubber gloves and/wash carefully afterwards - but jeesh.

I told my brother: if you fall in, you might think you’re swimming - but you’re really just going through the motions.

Too much information!

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#3094432 24-Jun-2023 15:41

Rikkitic:

eracode:

My brother and s-i-l are currently on a hire boat with three other NZ couples friends, for a week’s boating on Canal du Midi in S France. The canal is 240 km long, was built in the late 1600’s and is regarded as an engineering marvel - holding UNESCO World Heritage Site status.

Hundreds, probably thousands, of hire boats, private boats and live-aboards use the canal. It’s very crowded in summer - it’s a huge tourist attraction.

I was disgusted to learn recently that, although many of the boats will have been built with sewage holding tanks, the French government has never seen it necessary to instal sewage pump-out stations along the canal. As a result, all boats just discharge their sewage into the canal. Beyond disgusting.

There’s many implications that come out of this. Just one at random is, when you’re using ropes to get through the countless locks, you’re handling lines that have been in water contaminated by human faeces. OK, wear rubber gloves and/wash carefully afterwards - but jeesh.

I told my brother: if you fall in, you might think you’re swimming - but you’re really just going through the motions.

Too much information!

I wouldn’t pooh-pooh your view. 😀

TL:DR? Canal du Midi is crap.

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#3094436 24-Jun-2023 15:49

eracode:
I wouldn’t pooh-pooh your view. 😀

The site doesn't seem to add the timecode to the link but it starts 48s in.

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#3094595 25-Jun-2023 08:28

eracode:

.. the French government has never seen it necessary to instal sewage pump-out stations along the canal. As a result, all boats just discharge their sewage into the canal. Beyond disgusting.

Well, whether you first shit in the tank in the boat in France and then the whole thing goes overboard, or you channel the whole thing directly without waste water treatment plant into the rivers and lakes at home in New Zealand without the diversions via a boat, is only an insignificant detail with the same result for the environment, isn't it? Haven't we already rehashed all this in the past? 😄

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