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

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#3433616 12-Nov-2025 02:12

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Tinkerisk: Proton is from Switzerland and a non profit organisation is behind it. Their eMail service....

If you'd like to discuss Proton, please start a new thread.

I just replied to your remark on the videos. As said, I have a test account since a long time and it is for sure not intended as a normal communication eMail address to the public. So there is no risk to be on a blacklist since the recipients know me personally and vice versa. Any secure technology is used by criminals as well, like a fork, a knive and a spoon. What do you think about the channels through which global, sometimes life-threatening investigative journalism communicates? 🙂

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#3433648 12-Nov-2025 09:26

Odd numbered volume settings that aren't a multiple of 5. Honestly who listens to the radio at 17? Just set it to either 16 or 18 and put up with the volume not being quite perfect like a normal person.

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#3433719 12-Nov-2025 12:52

eracode: They call it 'The Chase NZ' but it was filmed in Oz and only NZ'ers living in Oz were eligible to be on it.

Must be a hell of a commute for the doctor that was on in the first week. She’s a GP at our local medical centre in West Auckland!

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#3433720 12-Nov-2025 12:56

That self checkout machines do not figure out that they should just start a new sale if the last person hasn't requested a receipt or hasn't requested no receipt and left the checkout.

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#3433723 12-Nov-2025 13:04

epr:

self checkout machines

FTFY

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#3433724 12-Nov-2025 13:20

I UNDERSTAND THAT ACCESSIBILITY IS IMPORTANT, BUT I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY IT'S THE DEFAULT SETTING FOR THEM TO SCREAM AT A HUNDRED DECIBELS.

I would imagine that most customers can read, yet the default setting apparently assumes that everyone is both illiterate and near-deaf.

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#3433725 12-Nov-2025 13:20

People on large Teams calls that don't mute themselves, then take a call, yell at the kids, make a cuppa, go to the loo, or any number of noisy things.

Just have a little bit of awareness, people!

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#3433726 12-Nov-2025 13:21

Behodar:

I UNDERSTAND THAT ACCESSIBILITY IS IMPORTANT, BUT I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY IT'S THE DEFAULT SETTING FOR THEM TO SCREAM AT A HUNDRED DECIBELS.

PARDON?

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#3433784 12-Nov-2025 14:47

Dingbatt:

eracode: They call it 'The Chase NZ' but it was filmed in Oz and only NZ'ers living in Oz were eligible to be on it.

Must be a hell of a commute for the doctor that was on in the first week. She’s a GP at our local medical centre in West Auckland!

Ah - well maybe they changed the originally-stated criteria for contestant participation.

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#3433787 12-Nov-2025 14:54

Handsomedan:

Behodar:

I UNDERSTAND THAT ACCESSIBILITY IS IMPORTANT, BUT I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY IT'S THE DEFAULT SETTING FOR THEM TO SCREAM AT A HUNDRED DECIBELS.

PARDON?

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#3433810 12-Nov-2025 17:13

epr:

That self checkout machines do not figure out that they should just start a new sale if the last person hasn't requested a receipt or hasn't requested no receipt and left the checkout.

Even better: when that stupid thing with a camera and AI wants to charge you extra for the plastic packaging that the supermarket used to wrap the salad itself.

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#3433959 13-Nov-2025 07:29

Needy companies. I started getting in-OS notifications from Apple about how my version of Apple Home is going to be unsupported soon. I don't use it, so I don't care. I blocked notifications. That worked for a while, but now they've sent me an email telling me to upgrade the thing.

I. Don't. Care. I suspect a lot of users are in the same boat. I remember when one of Apple's selling points is that it wasn't full of "me! me! look at me!" messages like Windows was, but those days are long past.

If Home is going to stop working, then pop up the notification when you try to use it. Don't pester your customers just in case they might use this thing. It seems that because I opened it once, and tried it once, maybe three years ago, I'm apparently a user for life.

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#3434061 13-Nov-2025 11:42

Navigating the corporate nonsense just to put a post on LinkedIn.

I just want to say something. That's it. I have to get it passed through a thousand hands before I can.

I don't really want to say anything anymore. It's too hard.

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#3434065 13-Nov-2025 11:59

Behodar:

Needy companies. I started getting in-OS notifications from Apple about how my version of Apple Home is going to be unsupported soon. I don't use it, so I don't care. I blocked notifications. That worked for a while, but now they've sent me an email telling me to upgrade the thing.

I. Don't. Care. I suspect a lot of users are in the same boat. I remember when one of Apple's selling points is that it wasn't full of "me! me! look at me!" messages like Windows was, but those days are long past.

If Home is going to stop working, then pop up the notification when you try to use it. Don't pester your customers just in case they might use this thing. It seems that because I opened it once, and tried it once, maybe three years ago, I'm apparently a user for life.

Home was a nice idea, and I would have had a variety of uses for it, but either they did not have the sensors etc that would work with Home, or they were simply too expensive.

I did buy an Eve security light/camera system which is so buggy I have had to turn off 90% of its functionality because just randomly it would turn the light on

Other items have failed to join properly, so I gave up on those.

So now I am playing with Zigbee, I can get commercial sensors and switches (PDL/Schneider Electric) which will have a much longer support life, and I would be happy to have their stuff (sitting behind cover plates) inside the wall.

The Zigbee market if full of options, it creates a mesh network making it more reliable, etc.

I had hoped that Matter etc as a collaboration between Apple/Google/etc would have been a robust solution, but there are even more holes in that than there were with home, even many years after it was touted.
I suspect its was a "look at us" type hype to try and keep people/systems linked to them rather than the market they have no presence in and no data grabbing capabilities in.

You can see how this has devolved with all the makers for Home/Matter require you to install their app. I want to buy the products, not be the product.

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#3434069 13-Nov-2025 12:15

Ram prices. I was going to upgrade a machine to 64GB to see if that helped with something. It was $23+gst for a 16 gig stick of ddr4 on my last order in April, Best I can find now is around $75+gst - not sure I want to risk it on "cheap" aliexpress ram when its that expensive! might just retire one of the seldom used PCs and pinch its ram for the media storage PC.

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