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

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#2713609 27-May-2021 08:58

floydbloke:

People's attempted blood-moon photos taken with a cell-phone posted to Facebook... pathetic.

My attempts to photograph the blood-moon using a long tele lens on a full-frame camera, also pretty pathetic.

What also annoys me is that I knew they'd be relatively pathetic compared to what's achievable by setting up properly in advance or with a proper telescope etc - as thousands of others were doing - but I sat in the cold trying to get shots of something that would be freely available and much better. I knew the exercise was pointless even if I put full effort in, so made a half-hearted attempt, knew the results wouldn't be very good, then punished myself by wasted effort anyway.

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#2713615 27-May-2021 09:20

Further to my UPS beeping.

Orion (Christchurch Lines) came and replaced the pole fuse and carrier. The live side cable "fell out" as he was checking it!

Well done Orion. Prompt etc.

My UPS's were right in telling me something was not right!

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#2713652 27-May-2021 10:29

networkn:

That an item, created in bulk, that probably costs around .70c to make, is being charged at $35 + GST. That the part was so flimsy it broke in the first place.

Many years ago, IBM offered to "give away" a floppy disk containing anti-virus software. "Give away" in IBM-speak, meant that they sold it for $50+GST because, although they were giving away the disk and the time to copy software onto it, it cost that much to do any transaction on their sales system.

I guess your part is in the same boat -- .70c to make, then shipping to NZ and markups and admin fees adds up to $34.30.

Be glad you're not buying it from IBM.

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#2713716 27-May-2021 12:46

People who ask for advice, particularly re DIY, here on GZ - and put up photos etc. Then many other people spend time giving them meaningful and serious suggestions - but you never hear anything further from the OP, even when prompted.

Sometimes I just sit and think. Other times I just sit.

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#2713723 27-May-2021 12:51

Yes, that annoys me also.

People often mistake me for an adult because of my age.

Keep calm, and carry on posting.

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#2713762 27-May-2021 12:58

floydbloke:

People's attempted blood-moon photos taken with a cell-phone posted to Facebook... pathetic.

I knew the picture would be rubbish on my phone and certainly wont share but I was surprised how much easier it was to see the different colours of the stars.

ie with naked eye they were all white but with longer exposure I could see the hints of blue and red.

Worth the effort of staying up. Reminded me of try to see Haleys comet as a kid in 80's

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#2713777 27-May-2021 13:08

afe66:

ie with naked eye they were all white but with longer exposure I could see the hints of blue and red.

One has to be a little bit cautious. Cameras use an RGBG colour filter array on the sensor, then average the colours - which may cause anomalies with pinpoints of light light stars - so your eyes may be seeing closer to the true colour than the camera.

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#2713787 27-May-2021 13:24

msukiwi:
Orion (Christchurch Lines) came and replaced the pole fuse and carrier. The live side cable "fell out" as he was checking it!

This is why I have a PZEM-016 power analysis device feeding into Adafruit monitoring, some of the houses in the street lost their neutral connection about a year ago leading to unpleasant things happening to the mains voltages there. This way I get alerted before there are ongoing problems.

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#2713795 27-May-2021 13:34

Handsomedan:
I went on the internet and worked out what settings to use, got my tripod and long lens ready, charged my battery...oh wait. No I didn't That was the one thing I forgot to do.

That was one thing I had to take into account, normally I go overseas frequently enough that I've always got charged batteries but since the camera bag has now been sitting in a cupboard for over a year the battery pack in the camera was completely flat. Luckily I checked and recharged it well beforehand, and I have two still-charged spares in the same bag (the camera draws a small amount of power to run the RTC and similar, so eventually you need to swap out batteries even if the camera isn't being used).

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#2713798 27-May-2021 13:45

Fred99:

afe66:

ie with naked eye they were all white but with longer exposure I could see the hints of blue and red.

One has to be a little bit cautious. Cameras use an RGBG colour filter array on the sensor, then average the colours - which may cause anomalies with pinpoints of light light stars - so your eyes may be seeing closer to the true colour than the camera.

Can also be noise artifacts with higher ISO settings.

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#2713999 27-May-2021 16:51

Was pretty in any case. Milky way much more prominent to my eyes too.

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#2715053 29-May-2021 11:07

I took these out of my ears in the moming and put them on my desk. When I picked them up at lunchtime they were like this:

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#2715203 29-May-2021 12:50

Today I received a letter from a membership-based organisation, asking me to consider renewing my membership. Renewals can be done online. However, when trying to do this, it asks for the email address that my current membership is under... but the original membership was done in person at the local office and they don't have my email address. There is no way to proceed through the site without it.

Once again, a case of a developer building something without thinking of all possibilities.

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#2715212 29-May-2021 13:03

@Behodar:

Once again, a case of a developer building something without thinking of all possibilities.

Nah... This never happened before or will ever happen in the future.

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#2715262 29-May-2021 16:32

Printers! 😡

I start printing a document. The first few pages print fine, then one of the pages jams. I can't really blame the printer too much for that, since it's such a wet and muggy day. But when I clear the jam and hit the resume button, it starts at page 1 again.

Then it runs out of ink. I change the cartridge and it prints an alignment sheet that it wants me to scan. I think this is to make the black and colour ink line up properly, but the colour cartridge is empty so I don't care about that. Apparently it won't proceed until you scan it, as an attempt to print is ignored. I power it off and back on and it prints another alignment sheet. I scan it this time and it finally lets me print. Of course it starts at page 1 again, so I now have three of them.

Then it jams again. At this point I just powered it off and came here to rant!

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