Travel declarations. Everyone has their own app and/or website. Such a PITA and it's only getting worse

MikeB4:

 

I also read today that Netflix has increased its subs in the US for the second time this year so I guess our subs will go up.

 

Via Reddit:

Using Windows 11 for the first time (despite having a Win11 laptop at home) for work and realising how close in colour the Outlook, Edge and Word icons are. I stare at them wondering which one I need to click on.

I've had to split them up on the taskbar so there's something inbetween (like excel). 

People who passed me the other day whilst I was travelling down a big hill, towing a 1400KG Tailer, and then pulled in immediately, barely clearing my bumper. An emergency stop, even in a braked trailer, takes a lot more room than I was given. Thankfully, it was not neccessary, but man people are inconsiderate aholes.  Happened twice on the way back and once on the way up to the bay of islands. 

mudguard:

 

Using Windows 11 for the first time (despite having a Win11 laptop at home) for work and realising how close in colour the Outlook, Edge and Word icons are. I stare at them wondering which one I need to click on.

 

Microsoft has also recently changed the SQL Server Management Studio icon from yellow to blue. Meanwhile Visual Studio, Teams, and Insomnia (not an MS product but often used by the same people as VS) are all purple. Give it a few more years and every icon on the system will probably be the same.

The latest Firefox update has added a "cute" cartoon of a fox playing with cables when a website has an error, and all technical details have been scrubbed. As the site administrator I want to know what's going wrong (I then tried Edge, which reported the HTTP status code). Does anyone know how to restore the previous Firefox behaviour?

networkn:

 

People who passed me the other day whilst I was travelling down a big hill, towing a 1400KG Tailer, and then pulled in immediately, barely clearing my bumper. An emergency stop, even in a braked trailer, takes a lot more room than I was given. Thankfully, it was not neccessary, but man people are inconsiderate aholes.  Happened twice on the way back and once on the way up to the bay of islands. 

 

Behodar:

The latest Firefox update has added a "cute" cartoon of a fox playing with cables when a website has an error, and all technical details have been scrubbed. As the site administrator I want to know what's going wrong (I then tried Edge, which reported the HTTP status code). Does anyone know how to restore the previous Firefox behaviour?

Handsomedan:

 

Similarly on Thursday last week when commuting to work on AKL's motorway in some of the worst weather I've driven in - people pulling in front of trucks and slamming their brakes on as the traffic in front stops. Trucks take a really long time to stop...in the wet it's so much worse! 
There really are a lot of idiots that we share the roads with. 

 

The other day I was stopped at a red light (and had been for 10-15 sec) when a truck came up behind me and slammed the brakes on at the last moment. I legitimately thought it was going to hit me, but thankfully it didn't (and I didn't have time to react). Then at the next lights, with it now in the other lane, it barrelled right through the red.

Behodar:

 

Handsomedan:

 

Similarly on Thursday last week when commuting to work on AKL's motorway in some of the worst weather I've driven in - people pulling in front of trucks and slamming their brakes on as the traffic in front stops. Trucks take a really long time to stop...in the wet it's so much worse! 
There really are a lot of idiots that we share the roads with. 

 

 

The other day I was stopped at a red light (and had been for 10-15 sec) when a truck came up behind me and slammed the brakes on at the last moment. I legitimately thought it was going to hit me, but thankfully it didn't (and I didn't have time to react). Then at the next lights, with it now in the other lane, it barrelled right through the red.

 

Handsomedan:

 

Yes - not all idiots on the road are in cars or on Motorcycles. 
Some of them are "professional drivers". 

 

VTNZ Highbrook graduates possibly.

Today there were 3 people trundling along a key urban road (rangatira rd) between the mid 30's and low 40s. Limited passing options on it. If you're gonna drive like a slow dickhead to save a few cents of fuel, at least move over.

gzt:

Behodar:

 

The latest Firefox update has added a "cute" cartoon of a fox playing with cables when a website has an error, and all technical details have been scrubbed. As the site administrator I want to know what's going wrong (I then tried Edge, which reported the HTTP status code). Does anyone know how to restore the previous Firefox behaviour?

 

Click the icon in the address bar to display the site status data then click on the error in top right eg; connection failure. You may see more info there.

Nothing useful in there. I can press F12 and go to Network then reload the page to see the actual error, but that's a lot of clicks. It's actually receiving, in this instance, a 500 error from the server but Firefox is claiming in the dumbed-down message that it "can't connect", which is demonstrably false if it's getting an error code back.