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#3112398 6-Aug-2023 14:48

Kodi.

Could be so good but its just so unintuitive. I mean repositories ? can't just add something, it has to take 13 steps. Can't just change the main menu items, takes 13 steps.

I'll stick to Emby.

Till I decide to try Kodi, again, and rapidly realise, again, how unintuitive it is...

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#3112408 6-Aug-2023 15:08

Streaming apps that ask "Are you sure you really want to leave?".

Yes I'm sure, that's why I hit the exit/back button 6 times in quick succession but no, you're special and you need me to move my thumb to press the OK button.

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#3112658 7-Aug-2023 10:20

Software, especially software aimed at business users, that makes silly assumptions. I just tried to set up an account with a service and the first thing it asks for is a phone number. The second step was to verify that number, and do I want to receive an SMS or a robocall with a verification code?

It's a voice line, so SMS is out. And if I picked the robocall option then the poor receptionist would have no idea what to do with it, and would probably hang up without noting the number down.

Yes, direct-dial numbers exist, but it's a bit stupid to apparently assume that every single user will have one.

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#3112662 7-Aug-2023 10:26

Behodar:

Software, especially software aimed at business users, that makes silly assumptions. I just tried to set up an account with a service and the first thing it asks for is a phone number. The second thing step was to verify that number, and do I want to receive an SMS or a robocall with a verification code?

It's a voice line, so SMS is out. And if I picked the robocall option then the poor receptionist would have no idea what to do with it, and would probably hang up without noting the number down.

Yes, direct-dial numbers exist, but it's a bit stupid to apparently assume that every single user will have one.

Worse is when its only SMS only and they assume that everyone in a job has a work mobile they can use to SMS verify things.

Most places have a policy of not using personal devices for anything work related, so anyone who doesn't have a work phone is either supposed to mess about getting someone who has one to do the 2 factor dance each time they want to use it, or else to just use another product instead.

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#3112667 7-Aug-2023 10:42

Trying to converse with Orcon either email or voice since the Vocus/2d merger.

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#3112676 7-Aug-2023 10:54

Typing some comment, somewhere, anywhere, and finding that half way through YOU'VE ACCIDENTALLY PRESSED THE CAPS LOCK.

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#3112920 7-Aug-2023 17:46

Graphics drivers that are 644MB! How ridiculous!!

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#3113104 8-Aug-2023 09:49

People who park over your driveway and then look aggrieved when you honk at them to move.

I get that you are just parking there for 10 minutes or whatever, which doesn't bother me, but if I need to use my driveway you have to move, don't get pissed off at me!

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#3113207 8-Aug-2023 12:09

Forgetting my BitLocker password.

Computer security nowadays is at the point where the total cost of securing a company's computers is just as much (in time and hassle) as it would cost if someone hacked into it.

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#3113453 8-Aug-2023 15:53

A recent YouTube video is available in both censored and uncensored versions. I'm annoyed at the people who put comments on the uncensored version complaining about the objectionable material.

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#3113455 8-Aug-2023 15:54

"Restructuring". Doesn't affect me personally and I shouldn't talk about details, but I'll just make the observation that it always seems that redundancies start from the bottom up when it should be the other way around. Very displeased 🤬🤬

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#3113458 8-Aug-2023 15:58

Journeyman:

"Restructuring". Doesn't affect me personally and I shouldn't talk about details, but I'll just make the observation that it always seems that redundancies start from the bottom up when it should be the other way around. Very displeased 🤬🤬

Being a banker, I am well-versed in seeing restructures happen.

They are rarely effective (from a practical sense) and almost always done the wrong way up.

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#3113459 8-Aug-2023 16:11

Journeyman:
"Restructuring". Doesn't affect me personally and I shouldn't talk about details, but I'll just make the observation that it always seems that redundancies start from the bottom up when it should be the other way around. Very displeased 🤬🤬

That's why it's called restructuring and not downsizing, the number of Indians decreases while the number of Chiefs stays the same or increases. Once every worker has three managers apiece everything can be managed into perfect efficiency.

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#3113461 8-Aug-2023 16:15

Handsomedan:
Being a banker, I am well-versed in seeing restructures happen.

They are rarely effective (from a practical sense) and almost always done the wrong way up.

It seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. Presumably the plans for our employment were being changed. I was to learn later in life that, perhaps because we are so good at organizing, we tend as a nation to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization. During our reorganizations, several commanding officers were tried out on us, which added to the discontinuity.

-- Charlton Ogburn, although it usually gets attributed to Gaius Petronius Arbiter, a trend apparently started by a Republican politician, showing that their habit of making s**t up as required isn't a recent thing.

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#3113462 8-Aug-2023 16:17

Yep. It always seems to be a short-sighted measure to quickly make the books look good but will probably cause more problems in the long-run - albeit problems that can't be measured on a ledger. I'd love to be able to tell the company that their business strategy is crap and that's what is causing (some of) the pain. But plebs like me don't know anything. Ho-hum.

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