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

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#3252512 24-Jun-2024 13:55

sir1963:

For those of us of a certain age, glass soft drink bottles had the deposit (and in Australia in some states they still do).

In the 90s there was a "Lucky Can" machine at the BP station that gave you a chance to win a prize for every can you recycled.

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#3252529 24-Jun-2024 14:14

Coming from Europe I have never understood how the supermarkets got away with removing glass bottle deposits here. A lot of store managers must have enjoyed a lot of free holidays for that one.

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#3252542 24-Jun-2024 14:33

Behodar:

sir1963:

For those of us of a certain age, glass soft drink bottles had the deposit (and in Australia in some states they still do).

In the 90s there was a "Lucky Can" machine at the BP station that gave you a chance to win a prize for every can you recycled.

It only worked with whole cans and as most people would crush them before bagging them it was not that much use.

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#3252544 24-Jun-2024 14:35

Well, we knew we were going to use it so we didn't crush them :)

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#3252547 24-Jun-2024 14:38

Glass is also an issue.

Glasses you drink from are not recyclable , neither is window glass and other forms of glass.

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#3252563 24-Jun-2024 15:00

Oh, good grief. I was just looking at the local council's site and it says you can recycle plastic 1/2/5, but not plastic bags "even if graded 1, 2 or 5". These rules are doing my head in.

Edit: The "no bags" rule is relatively recent: it was not there when the Wayback Machine fetched the site on the 6th of May.

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#3252573 24-Jun-2024 15:25

[Annoy] Going to a multi-day work event I was told "if you submitted a dietary requirement when you registered, the caterers have been notified", then arriving and speaking to the caterers they say "oh sorry we can't cater for that".

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#3252592 24-Jun-2024 16:11

The fact that every time you power off some IT gear to move it, connect new stuff, whatever, something breaks. In this case it was an NVR, power off, move it down a few racks, power it on again and it starts beeping an alarm. After some digging it turns out there's some problem with the SSD, probably that the Reported Uncorrect count is 2, or at least that's the only slightly abnormal thing I could see. Not a big deal, it must have been like that for awhile and since it represents a few milliseconds of throwaway video recording lost it really doesn't matter much.

And this is where Annoy #2 comes in: The only way to deal with it is to disable all warnings for storage media. Including serious ones that you do need to worry about.

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#3252594 24-Jun-2024 16:21

Reinstalling Apps on my new Mac.

I had used a Time Machine backup of my old X86 based laptop to shift everything to my new M3 based laptop

Some of the Apps had to be reinstalled as the App installers had only put in x86 copies (and I could still use them with Rosetta...but!)

But nice, shiny, new, fast .

And of course my virtualisation software is DOA, if I need to run Windows I need the ARM64 variant (and hope some of the Apps I used for my Logic Analyser, EPROM programmer, etc still work)

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#3252700 24-Jun-2024 17:15

richms:

Behodar:

sir1963:

For those of us of a certain age, glass soft drink bottles had the deposit (and in Australia in some states they still do).

In the 90s there was a "Lucky Can" machine at the BP station that gave you a chance to win a prize for every can you recycled.

It only worked with whole cans and as most people would crush them before bagging them it was not that much use.

It eventually got removed after too many accidents & malfunctions.

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#3252947 25-Jun-2024 11:29

Another grizzle about price hikes. This time, dental checkups.

Jan 2022: $80
Mar 2023: $125
Nov 2023: $130
Jun 2024: $140

That's a 75% increase in 29 months.

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#3252958 25-Jun-2024 11:51

They seem frequent, are they check-ups or cleaning?

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#3252966 25-Jun-2024 12:01

Checkups. I had some issues in 2022 so was on 6-monthly checkups, but given that I've just had two good ones in a row I'm going to switch back to a year since it's so expensive!

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#3253092 25-Jun-2024 15:29

Behodar:

Oh, good grief. I was just looking at the local council's site and it says you can recycle plastic 1/2/5, but not plastic bags "even if graded 1, 2 or 5". These rules are doing my head in.

Edit: The "no bags" rule is relatively recent: it was not there when the Wayback Machine fetched the site on the 6th of May.

And for a while in Wellington we had the "no meat trays even if they are a 1" rule. Once they'd been rinsed and left on the bench, how did you remember whether they held meat or donuts?

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#3253096 25-Jun-2024 15:55

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