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#3393737 14-Jul-2025 10:44

Scaffolding being installed right outside my office last week, sounding like a scaffolding truck falling down a flight of stairs. By Friday, couldn't take it any more and worked from home.

Another scaffolding truck pulled up outside the neighbour's house at 10.00... ☠️

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#3393755 14-Jul-2025 12:12

Scaffolding for painting. What would it be - 5000 for the metal poles and 500 for the paint ?

Being a lazy 'cook', finding a nice ready made something in NW or whatever Woolies is called this week, then fancying getting another and its never to be seen again. Or of course with different packaging that entirely by coincidence is also smaller.

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#3393953 14-Jul-2025 19:06

If you wonder why it costs so much for our roads to get built, could have some along to the area outside our office today, and watched 5 road workers watch one road worker carry stones from one side of a small work area to another. Plenty of room for 2 others to have helped him.

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#3393956 14-Jul-2025 19:26

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If you wonder why it costs so much for our roads to get built, could have some along to the area outside our office today, and watched 5 road workers watch one road worker carry stones from one side of a small work area to another. Plenty of room for 2 others to have helped him.

Just as well that's done by private enterprise now. If a council had done it, it would have been done less efficiently.

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#3393971 14-Jul-2025 21:16

That's 1 road worker and 4 traffic management?

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#3393978 14-Jul-2025 22:06

Having to sift through 250+ messages in my spam folder for any legit ones that got mistakenly spam-trapped.

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#3394293 15-Jul-2025 14:10

Two annoyances today. These are two unrelated websites.

I've bought from website A in the past, and when I did I got an email from them offering 20% off my next order. There is no mention of any expiration date or "terms apply" legalese. There's a big red "Activate Now" link. This link simply goes to their home page. If I proceed with ordering, there is no sign of a 20% discount. There also seems to be no way of contacting them short of a legacy phone number (which is a toll call to a foreign country).

I tried to order something different from website B. The website is a bit strange and I elected to pay via PayPal. Unusually it asks for payment before asking for your address. I figured that they knew what they were doing, so I paid, then entered my address, only to get "we don't ship to your country". Now I've had to contact them (at least this site has a way to do it) to figure out how to get the money back! It might happen automatically through the PayPal process if the transaction doesn't get finalised, but it might not. [Edit: PayPal refunded it automatically]

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#3394295 15-Jul-2025 14:27

elpenguino:

Just as well that's done by private enterprise now. If a council had done it, it would have been done less efficiently.

It's paid for by the council. JFC are on to a good thing given I am betting they are oncharging for 5 people.

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#3394297 15-Jul-2025 14:42

My annoyance is I have just learned about sensor pins in AC adapter connectors that force people to only use overpriced approved devices and introduce a whole boatload of new points of failure along the way. I expect this kind of customer-hostile behaviour from Apple, but I didn't realise HP also had gone over to the dark side. Shame on every manufacturer that does this. Shame on planned obsolecence. Right of repair needs to be rammed down the throats of these greedy anti-social jerks! Now that I know what to look out for, I will never buy another HP product again! Nor any other that practices this disgusting anti-consumer behaviour.

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#3394350 15-Jul-2025 15:13

The DoorDash ad.

Amalgamating The Flash and Flash Gordon together just grates with me.

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#3394354 15-Jul-2025 15:24

Rikkitic:

My annoyance is I have just learned about sensor pins in AC adapter connectors that force people to only use overpriced approved devices and introduce a whole boatload of new points of failure along the way. I expect this kind of customer-hostile behaviour from Apple, but I didn't realise HP also had gone over to the dark side. Shame on every manufacturer that does this. Shame on planned obsolecence. Right of repair needs to be rammed down the throats of these greedy anti-social jerks! Now that I know what to look out for, I will never buy another HP product again! Nor any other that practices this disgusting anti-consumer behaviour.

It's one of the reasons the EU has decreed that all charging should be moved to USB-C. It made me so happy when Apple got forced to comply with the global standard. We have a rule in our house that anything electronic must have USB-C charging.

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#3394355 15-Jul-2025 15:26

When is that going to arrive here? Do we always have to be last in the world with everything?

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#3394358 15-Jul-2025 15:28

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It's one of the reasons the EU has decreed that all charging should be moved to USB-C.

Which is all well and good at the moment, but what happens when a better connector comes along? I remember when European phone companies struggled to roll out 3G because the EU had dictated that the spectrum must be used for 2G GSM.

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#3394362 15-Jul-2025 15:39

"Forum people" (not Geekzone). Someone posted a reference thread for a particular application, with a simple table: for obsolete operating system X, you want version Y, which you can get from URL Z. Looks useful for people with older computers.

Someone immediately comes along and pooh-poohs the list, because "you can just use [different software] instead".

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#3394365 15-Jul-2025 15:57

Rikkitic:

My annoyance is I have just learned about sensor pins in AC adapter connectors that force people to only use overpriced approved devices and introduce a whole boatload of new points of failure along the way. I expect this kind of customer-hostile behaviour from Apple, but I didn't realise HP also had gone over to the dark side. Shame on every manufacturer that does this. Shame on planned obsolecence. Right of repair needs to be rammed down the throats of these greedy anti-social jerks! Now that I know what to look out for, I will never buy another HP product again! Nor any other that practices this disgusting anti-consumer behaviour.

How else do you expect that the device can know what current it can take from the adapter without a sense pin? Its only recently that USB-C got better power available on it, previously it was limited to 100 watts which is below what a decent laptop needs. there is no way that I would trust a USB-C connector at those power levels anyway, the barrel jack is a much more robust connector.

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