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

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#3202848 3-Mar-2024 18:54

Rikkitic:
MadEngineer:

GPs are all the same: useless for anything other than asking for a repeat of what a specialist has prescribed you. So to answer your question, the same.

The difference is that they're taking patients.

I have to take exception to that gross generalisation. Although I don't need to see the doctor often, my GP of many years has always provided excellent and very knowledgeable care. I find him extremely competent and helpful.

I’ve above average health needs.

I absolutely cannot fault any of the three GPs who have looked after me since my heart surgery. All of them were old school country doctor types with extensive skills.

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#3202900 3-Mar-2024 21:04

Products that make a big thing about telling me what’s not in them without making it at all clear why I should think that’s a good idea.

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#3202901 3-Mar-2024 21:24

Geektastic: Products that make a big thing about telling me what’s not in them without making it at all clear why I should think that’s a good idea.

Oh, that stuff is easy to decode:

"99% fat free" means "loaded with sugar".

"99% sugar free" means "full of fat".

"All natural ingredients" means "full of chemicals at one point found in fruit, plants, and veges". Also, arsenic is a 100% natural ingredient.

"Green" or "Eco-", in cleaning products and the like, means "It doesn't work".

Others feel free to extend this list.

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#3202912 3-Mar-2024 21:58

It was actually a bottle of shampoo that was telling me it had 0% of several things, none of which I had any idea why that would be good (or bad). I was apparently just meant to know.

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#3202920 3-Mar-2024 22:53

Geektastic: It was actually a bottle of shampoo that was telling me it had 0% of several things, none of which I had any idea why that would be good (or bad). I was apparently just meant to know.

Oh, that'll be stuff like "0% parabens", which (again using the translation table above) means "we took something that's most likely safe but that's seen a pile of media scaremongering and replaced it with something quite possibly unsafe but that's flown under the radar until now".

At some point if I ever make shampoo I'll list it as "contains no acrolein, unsymmetrical dimethyl hydrazine, diborane, acetyl peroxide, or octanitrocubane. May contain traces of Julius Caesar", all of which will be completely accurate.

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#3202922 3-Mar-2024 23:34

That On-Demand videos that play perfectly well under Windows produce stupid Brightcove errors in Android. Physical copyright protection doesn't work and has no point anymore so why keep annoying people with dumb bullshit that is easily circumvented? All this so-called 'protection' is doing is forcing me to use a device other than the one I prefer.

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#3202923 4-Mar-2024 00:12

Several of my apps love flashing no Internet connection, despite being obviously connected.
Ie live streaming with Spotify, NYT reading the comments

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#3202991 4-Mar-2024 08:58

Rikkitic:

That On-Demand videos that play perfectly well under Windows produce stupid Brightcove errors in Android. Physical copyright protection doesn't work and has no point anymore so why keep annoying people with dumb bullshit that is easily circumvented? All this so-called 'protection' is doing is forcing me to use a device other than the one I prefer.

I really do question the point of copy protection these days. Everything's going to be pirated anyway!

I have a Blu-ray in my collection that says "THIS DISC IS COPY PROTECTED" in capital letters... despite the movie being so old that the copyright has expired. But there's apparently at least one model of player that will refuse to play any discs that lack protection, on the assumption that if the protection is "missing" then the disc must be pirated. Sigh.

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#3202992 4-Mar-2024 09:04

afe66: Several of my apps love flashing no Internet connection, despite being obviously connected.
Ie live streaming with Spotify, NYT reading the comments

For me, that's teams on my android device. Annoys me a lot.

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#3202999 4-Mar-2024 09:21

floydbloke:

On the right-side pane, double-click on the policy ‘Turn off Windows Copilot’ and select ‘Enabled’.

This alone is annoying! Enabling a turn-off function. Double negatives like this are IMHO designed to confuse.

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#3203001 4-Mar-2024 09:26

sir1963:

Behodar:

How would you screw them in if the head's flat?

Well there is also no cheese with cheese head screws...

And countersunk screws aren't countersunk.

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#3203002 4-Mar-2024 09:29

neb: Others feel free to extend this list.

"No added sugar" means "a lot of water and non-sugar stuff removed"

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#3203025 4-Mar-2024 10:28

that chorus add that tells you what can go wrong, if you dont have fibre , when you watch live sports. it is annoying when you have fibre and watching live streaming sport and walk in on your TV breaking up and you think the worse .

Common sense is not as common as you think.

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#3203058 4-Mar-2024 12:51

Email.

I am trying to find some emails I know that I would not have deleted (they contain quotes for work I have yet to deal with) and they are simply not there. No sign of them. Anywhere.

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#3203071 4-Mar-2024 13:22

Aggravating, isn't it? I have about a week worth of photos from a holiday that completely vanished. If I look at the dates, I have some on either side but there's a block of them that just aren't there. My PC is backed up regularly and they're not in the backups either, so it seems that iPhoto simply "decided" not to sync that bunch to the computer in the first place.

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