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

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#3311927 22-Nov-2024 17:33

Spending ages search for the fourth hex nut on a sensor array that either fell down somewhere or rolled away or I was holding it and put it down while getting other stuff, then remembering that this particular config has a tripod arrangement and there was never a fourth hex nut in the first place.

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#3311941 22-Nov-2024 18:14

What really really annoys me is that no single brand of smoke detector is compatible with the mounting bracket of any other brand!

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#3311942 22-Nov-2024 18:18

Argh, yes. Exactly the sort of thing that "should" be standardised, but isn't.

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#3311945 22-Nov-2024 19:14

Rikkitic:
What really really annoys me is that no single brand of smoke detector is compatible with the mounting bracket of any other brand!

Rather than screwing the base to the ceiling you can get magnetic quick mounts. New detector, just transfer the stick on disc.

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#3312023 22-Nov-2024 22:33

Rikkitic: What really really annoys me is that no single brand of smoke detector is compatible with the mounting bracket of any other brand!

And their techs went to a great deal of trouble to make sure that was the case.

Edited to add: Before you click on it, the link isn't to smoke detector tech but a discussion of the lock-in effect, which is what the smoke detector vendors would have been aiming for.

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#3312093 23-Nov-2024 00:17

neb:Edited to add: Before you click on it, the link isn't to smoke detector tech but a discussion of the lock-in effect, which is what the smoke detector vendors would have been aiming for.

Well, they blew it. I never remember what brand I had. All it does is piss me off.

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#3312116 23-Nov-2024 08:19

I tried to do a like-for-like replacement, only to find that I couldn't get that model any more.

Also annoyingly, the one I ended up with chews through batteries around three times as quickly as the rest of the ones in the house.

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#3312417 24-Nov-2024 12:34

Outlook not letting me have a choice.

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#3312423 24-Nov-2024 13:05

Scum that burn their household rubbish.

You're not on Atlantis anymore, Duncan Idaho.

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#3312424 24-Nov-2024 13:06

Rikkitic:

What really really annoys me is that no single brand of smoke detector is compatible with the mounting bracket of any other brand!

some smoke detectors have adapter plates available for this.

Edit - actually I might have that wrong. The adapter plates I had seen were for old vs new withing the same brand.

You're not on Atlantis anymore, Duncan Idaho.

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#3312646 25-Nov-2024 11:12

MadEngineer: Scum that burn their household rubbish.

That points to a growing problem of people not giving a sh*t about anyone else!

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#3312648 25-Nov-2024 11:42

When it rains it pours.
Discovered that the issue with the washing machine we had been having was easily solved by fitting new hoses.
$50 later, we're back up and running and everyone is happy.

Two days later the motherboard is fried.

New washing machine purchase required!

Thankfully it's "black friday sale" season and we got $500 off a new front loader (LG thing with "Ai" and load sensing etc) and we've been able to continue doing laundry like proper humans.

It was money we didn't have and didn't want to spend, but it is what it is and next up it's Christmas.

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#3312651 25-Nov-2024 11:53

I used a spare one nz travel SIM as a backup data bearer while in a region of NZ that Spark doesn't serve. Now my samsung Internet browser default home page is vodafone.co.nz.
So that's two annoyances in one, they've messed with my browser settings without notification or permission, and they're too useless to even do it properly so that it points to their correct homepage.

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#3312652 25-Nov-2024 11:53

Handsomedan:

Two days later the motherboard is fried.

New washing machine purchase required!

Thankfully it's "black friday sale" season and we got $500 off a new front loader (LG thing with "Ai" and load sensing etc) and we've been able to continue doing laundry like proper humans.

It was money we didn't have and didn't want to spend, but it is what it is and next up it's Christmas.

Similar story: The tech visits to replace the timer in our clothes dryer and leaves around 12 PM. At 2 PM, we need to start some washing, and the washing machine stops halfway through the cycle.

Call tech again. He initially thought it was the dryer.

He comes a few days later (the earliest available time) and checks the washing machine. The motherboard is gone.

The machine did well for 25 years.

After a week of checking prices and talking to friends, we bought a front-loading Miele.

Again, money we were not thinking of spending just before Christmas.

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#3312656 25-Nov-2024 12:43

outdoorsnz:

MadEngineer: Scum that burn their household rubbish.

That points to a growing problem of people not giving a sh*t about anyone else!

...or the cost-of-living crisis. Rubbish disposal is expensive and going up like most other things. Could be these folks decided they can no longer afford it.

Sometimes I use big words I don't always fully understand in an effort to make myself sound more photosynthesis.

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