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

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#3268349 5-Aug-2024 14:43

Behodar:

Yeah, Microsoft lied as usual. They said Windows 10 would only get security updates, and then when everyone started rejoicing they did a 180!

"Now that you have all the features you hate, there is no longer any reason not to upgrade"

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#3268356 5-Aug-2024 15:05

@neb:

"Thaaaaanks, Satya!".

I read that as "Thanks, Satan"

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#3268389 5-Aug-2024 17:51

neb:

Firing up my laptop this morning to find that Microsoft had helpfully replaced my bland, unobtrusive background with some image of an island in Indonesia and was offering to take me to a web site telling me more about it.

"Thank Microsoft, kids" / "Thaaaaanks, Satya!".

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#3268451 5-Aug-2024 22:08

Spending forever rewiring and checking connections on some gear until, after lots of testing and finding nothing wrong anywhere, realising I must have reset the baud rate to the de facto standard of 9600 at some point rather than the 38400 it should have been. This wasn't as obvious as it sounds because there were so many possible places for incompatibilities or glitches to turn up that the problem could have been anywhere.

Does anyone know of any cheapie protocol analyser that auto-detects baud rate and displays some basic things about what's going on? I'm thinking some Aliexpress handheld thing that you can use for go/no go checks which is easier than looking at the waveform on a scope to try and figure out what's going on.

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#3268492 6-Aug-2024 07:07

neb:

Spending forever rewiring and checking connections on some gear until, after lots of testing and finding nothing wrong anywhere, realising I must have reset the baud rate to the de facto standard of 9600 at some point rather than the 38400 it should have been. This wasn't as obvious as it sounds because there were so many possible places for incompatibilities or glitches to turn up that the problem could have been anywhere.

Does anyone know of any cheapie protocol analyser that auto-detects baud rate and displays some basic things about what's going on? I'm thinking some Aliexpress handheld thing that you can use for go/no go checks which is easier than looking at the waveform on a scope to try and figure out what's going on.

A lot of terminal software back in the bad old days would do automatic baud rate detection and tell you what rate it was running at.

No idea if that sort of thing still exists. But I feel your pain, I had a hand terminal that for what ever reason set its self to hav parity turned off and then had to get the "secret sauce" from the manufacturer to get into config mode to reset it, it was a known issue with that handset.

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#3268501 6-Aug-2024 08:14

It's beautiful bread and maybe this is to be expected in artisanal bread - but I was somewhat annoyed at this in a large loaf of Daily Bread's 'pioneer sourdough' I bought yesterday. Very often see this in their bread but it seems to be getting worse. At $12 it's not exactly cheap.

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#3268505 6-Aug-2024 08:47

eracode:

It's beautiful bread and maybe this is to be expected in artisanal bread - but I was somewhat annoyed at this in a large loaf of Daily Bread's 'pioneer sourdough' I bought yesterday. Very often see this in their bread but it seems to be getting worse. At $12 it's not exactly cheap.

I usually take that as a sign that I need to eat many times more than the recommeded daily dose, to make up for the missing piece.

But yes - I share your annoyance.

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#3268522 6-Aug-2024 09:18

eracode:

It's beautiful bread and maybe this is to be expected in artisanal bread - but I was somewhat annoyed at this in a large loaf of Daily Bread's 'pioneer sourdough' I bought yesterday. Very often see this in their bread but it seems to be getting worse. At $12 it's not exactly cheap.

I bought one recently that basically the whole inside was one big bubble! I took it back and got a fresh one! I think that is because they over punch it down to many times trapping air inside?

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#3268538 6-Aug-2024 10:13

eracode:

It's beautiful bread and maybe this is to be expected in artisanal bread - but I was somewhat annoyed at this in a large loaf of Daily Bread's 'pioneer sourdough' I bought yesterday. Very often see this in their bread but it seems to be getting worse. At $12 it's not exactly cheap.

hehe, thought of posting the same thing when enjoying a lovely ciabata from the local bakery. Tasty but big gaps where the marge and peanut butter can't stick to anything.

On a similar note, I enjoy a beer from time to time but I don't enjoy being served an expensive beer with a lot of froth on top. I wish we had better consumer protection laws that required measured glasses. I wouldn't care how much froth was above the line. Am I right @Tinkerisk ?

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#3268541 6-Aug-2024 10:21

eracode:

It's beautiful bread and maybe this is to be expected in artisanal bread - but I was somewhat annoyed at this in a large loaf of Daily Bread's 'pioneer sourdough' I bought yesterday. Very often see this in their bread but it seems to be getting worse. At $12 it's not exactly cheap.

The first thing that I thought of when I saw this was "undocumented feature".

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#3268561 6-Aug-2024 11:18

It's the loaf made for "egg in a hole".

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#3268597 6-Aug-2024 12:33

It's not an undocumented feature, it's "Bread Lite, now with 70% less carbs, and only 20% more expensive!".

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#3268609 6-Aug-2024 12:58

neb:

Spending forever rewiring and checking connections on some gear until, after lots of testing and finding nothing wrong anywhere, realising I must have reset the baud rate to the de facto standard of 9600 at some point rather than the 38400 it should have been. This wasn't as obvious as it sounds because there were so many possible places for incompatibilities or glitches to turn up that the problem could have been anywhere.

Does anyone know of any cheapie protocol analyser that auto-detects baud rate and displays some basic things about what's going on? I'm thinking some Aliexpress handheld thing that you can use for go/no go checks which is easier than looking at the waveform on a scope to try and figure out what's going on.

When connecting to a device with unknown baud I'll start at 9600 and go through the common speeds until I either strike it lucky or the comms start coming back with gibberish and fine-tune from there.

Difficult however if you're not sure the device is even working.

You could pick up a cheap logic probe with audio and check if the TX from the device is even sending a signal. You can get cheap ones from ebay/ali wherever that will provide indication even on a rapidly changing signal line.

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#3268611 6-Aug-2024 13:03

It was a lot more than that, multiple devices on the run, several of which were way out of spec, and lots of scope for errors to creep in. I could see the Tx flashing but no Rx in response and wondered if one of the out-of-spec devices was loading the run to an extent where other devices couldn't reply, lots of other options for issues. And then it turned out to be basic operator error.

Having said that, the gateway spontaneously reset itself to factory settings at some point which means 9600bps again, I'm waiting to see if it happens again so I can RMA it.

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#3268628 6-Aug-2024 14:19

Ordered 2 lightning cables from PB Tech. A large 30cm square box arrived, stuffed with more paper to protect the already cardboard packaged cables that could have been shoved in small padded envelope. Taped up with the words Fragile all over it.

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