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

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#3212671 31-Mar-2024 21:27

neb: Having at one point so many IEC C13 cables I couldn't give them away, to now having zero. Not from giving them away, they've just slowly attritted to the point where I have none left, but need several.

How many do you want, we have hundreds with most due to be scrapped

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#3212677 31-Mar-2024 22:00

MikeB4:

freitasm:

Be prepared for risotto to get more expensive, then. Over the last two years, drought in Italy has caused arborio rice numbers to drop.

Also, the Canadian Maple Syrup reserves are being depleted. Canada has a national maple syrup reserve. It's almost empty (thestar.com)

I use Jasmin rice for risotto but Maple Syrup, no that is too far, this is an international catastrophe.

It used to be said that nobody cares if a sack of rice falls over in China. Farmer's shrewdness is out of place when it comes to a globally traded commodity like rice these days, whereby it doesn't matter where in the world it is in short supply. If I report early about price increases in Europe, you can definitely put some money aside in New Zealand. 😉

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#3212679 31-Mar-2024 22:11

Tinkerisk:
It used to be said that nobody cares if a sack of rice falls over in China.

You know a thread about small things has almost reached its infinitesimal limit when the discussion gets to the price of rice in China.

(Alternatives: tea, fish).

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#3212680 31-Mar-2024 22:15

neb:
Tinkerisk:

It used to be said that nobody cares if a sack of rice falls over in China.

You know a thread about small things has almost reached its infinitesimal limit when the discussion gets to the price of rice in China. (Alternatives: tea, fish).

Ok, let's talk about the price of the (empty) rice sacks instead.😆

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#3212681 31-Mar-2024 22:15

sir1963:
neb: Having at one point so many IEC C13 cables I couldn't give them away, to now having zero. Not from giving them away, they've just slowly attritted to the point where I have none left, but need several.

How many do you want, we have hundreds with most due to be scrapped

Maybe ten or so just to have some spare. Where are you located? Incidentally, the reason for the attrition is buying gear off eBay/Aliexpress that comes with CEE 7 or occasionally US 3-pin to C13 cables, eventually you run down your stockpile.

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#3212712 1-Apr-2024 08:02

freitasm:

@sir1963 please take this discussion here now - it no longer belongs to this thread Public Holiday Trading Rules - Discussion (geekzone.co.nz)

oops, catching up, i'll transfer my recent post

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#3212837 1-Apr-2024 13:56

neb: Having at one point so many IEC C13 cables I couldn't give them away, to now having zero. Not from giving them away, they've just slowly attritted to the point where I have none left, but need several.

I have chopped so many up to put plugs on lamps or whatever that I am very low on them. We had a huge pile of them at work that got sent off to recycling which was annoying as there were a lot of C14 to C13s in it which would have been useful for my server rack clean up.

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#3212875 1-Apr-2024 14:48

richms:
I have chopped so many up to put plugs on lamps or whatever that I am very low on them. We had a huge pile of them at work that got sent off to recycling which was annoying as there were a lot of C14 to C13s in it which would have been useful for my server rack clean up.

I'll swap you some of those for 3 pin to C13 if you like, that's one of the exotics I've got an abundance of.

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#3213052 1-Apr-2024 21:13

Not me but reported by a friend: The fact that Spark ship their routers with all the WiFi settings on it wound up to 11, so all the neighbours quickly find out when someone's just put in a new Spark router.

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#3213099 2-Apr-2024 07:44

I'm not sure whether the neighbours 120 metres down the street are using Spark or not, but they've put their address for their SSID...

...Hmm. My computer's near a window, but there's still a wall between it and the house in question. I wonder whether it'd "see" a more distant place if I did a scan from outside.

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#3213136 2-Apr-2024 09:40

Behodar:

I'm not sure whether the neighbours 120 metres down the street are using Spark or not, but they've put their address for their SSID...

I've seen that too! Although it's really just saying that a house has a wifi network... like almost all houses so can't put my finger on exactly why I think it's a bad idea.

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#3213137 2-Apr-2024 09:49

If the wifi on stock routers is so powerful why is there so much emphasis on additional mesh units? There doesn't seem like a signal strength problem if the neighbours 7 houses down the road can pick you up.

I find the reverse is more likely. I'd be happy to share wifi with our occasional neighbours when they're at their Bach but they don’t like sitting in our drive in the dark.

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#3213200 2-Apr-2024 11:43

Road toll reporting is based on fatalities rather than fatal accidents.

It's hard to see the figures, but from a road safety perspective, fewer fatal accidents, regardless of the number of people involved in the accident, is surely an indicator of safer roads. Perhaps switching it to serious accidents rather than fatal accidents is a better indicator of safety.

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#3213209 2-Apr-2024 12:11

Shadowfoot:

Road toll reporting is based on fatalities rather than fatal accidents.

It's hard to see the figures, but from a road safety perspective, fewer fatal accidents, regardless of the number of people involved in the accident, is surely an indicator of safer roads. Perhaps switching it to serious accidents rather than fatal accidents is a better indicator of safety.

It doesn't mitigate your annoyance, sorry, but the numbers are publically available:

Safety — Road deaths | Ministry of Transport

Safety — Annual statistics | Ministry of Transport

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#3213222 2-Apr-2024 13:39

Bung:

If the wifi on stock routers is so powerful why is there so much emphasis on additional mesh units?.....

Usually because the ONT and therefore the main wifi router is poorly placed in one corner of the house and the son's gaming computer is 20m away in a bedroom through 4 internal walls.

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