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

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#2737268 1-Jul-2021 11:39

Handsomedan:

Rikkitic:

You would get bored and probably would end up starting a dot com business.

You clearly overestimate my cleverness...

That matches most of the dot com starters.....

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#2737278 1-Jul-2021 12:12

Bung:
kiwiharry:

Looking for an aluminium pedestrian gate to fit in gap along a wooden fence. Look around Bunnings, Mitre10 and Placemakers and see a style I like. Premanufactured stock sized gate is marginally too wide by 15mm. Look up manufacturer online and they state they can make custom sized gates and looks like they are made here in NZ.

Cost of stock sized gate is approx $140.

Get a quote done from store for a gate 15mm narrower and it came back at just over $600. Was expecting maybe close to double price of a stock sized gate but almost 5x the price floored me.

Does the gate have to fit inside the gap? With kitchen cabinets it's common to have inset or overlay doors. If it is between a house and a fence you'd lose the extra 15mm by having the gate at a slight angle past square.

Ideally wanted it to fit in the gap, but looks like I will just have have on the outside of the 2 fence posts.

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#2737284 1-Jul-2021 12:26

The lack of response to ads on petfinders, local FB lost pets page, and printed posters that I've plastered around the neighbourhood in order to try to find the home of small size lop-eared white rabbit that my SO rescued from being eaten by the neighbourhood cats. Was in shock, covered in cat spit, and almost dead from the cold, but with a bit of TLC is now okay. Okay means sleeping in the sun on a mat using most of the time available between main meals, with occasional brief episodes of between-meal snacking if food is close enough to reach without having to use its legs.

I know people dump surplus cats and other pets when the novelty wears off. Do they do that with rabbits? This handbag sized ball of fluff has zero chance of lasting more than hours in the big bad world, it can't have travelled far - but nobody local seems to know anybody who owns a rabbit around here.

It didn't arrive this morning (first of July), so it's presumably not an omen of good fortune. And nope - recipe suggestions not welcome.

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#2737288 1-Jul-2021 12:38

kiwiharry:

Ideally wanted it to fit in the gap, but looks like I will just have have on the outside of the 2 fence posts.

I assume the posts are concreted in and can't be moved. Can you trim 15mm off one or other fence post? Or 7mm of both of them?

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#2737289 1-Jul-2021 12:39

Everything on this page: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/account-billing/why-is-my-microsoft-account-security-info-change-still-pending-cbd0f64f-02d9-45d2-90c3-2375e5a72e52

Work mate has had that happen to a login used for personal laptop somehow and can no longer sign in to it.

Yes, I’m helping out someone at work with a personal device :p

FWIW I sorted the laptop:

Used the rename of utilman to cmd trick to get cmd to open
Nuked the folder that removes the windows PIN codes
Put cmd back
Signed back into the account that now has no PIN
A Microsoft account sign in window appeared but I was able to oddly progress ok despite the same warnings and messages as before
Re entered their same old PIN
Confirmed Ok with restarts.
Ensured OneDrive etc is ok
The Microsoft account seems ok aside from the page to set security options

So previously the login was stuck on the account change process which is quite silly. As if, to sign in you must change your PIN because your account is locked but you can’t change your pin because the account is locked to changes.

Damn, hit edit instead of quote. Oh well.

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#2737355 1-Jul-2021 15:30

Locking caps on medication primarily used for disabled folk.

Here is a crazy notion, lets give peace a chance.

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#2737357 1-Jul-2021 15:37

MadEngineer:
Everything on this page: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/account-billing/why-is-my-microsoft-account-security-info-change-still-pending-cbd0f64f-02d9-45d2-90c3-2375e5a72e52

Work mate has had that happen to a login used for personal laptop somehow and can no longer sign in to it.

Yes, I’m helping out someone at work with a personal device :p

It's not just that one issue, it's all of Microsoft's online account handling which (a) is totally unnecessary half the time it's applied, for example when running Visual Studio, and (b) break randomly and then always involve endless password resets and alternative auth and SMS that never arrive and backup passwords that aren't recognised and so on.

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#2737358 1-Jul-2021 15:42

Fred99:

The lack of response to ads on petfinders, local FB lost pets page, and printed posters that I've plastered around the neighbourhood in order to try to find the home of small size lop-eared white rabbit that my SO rescued from being eaten by the neighbourhood cats. Was in shock, covered in cat spit, and almost dead from the cold, but with a bit of TLC is now okay. Okay means sleeping in the sun on a mat using most of the time available between main meals, with occasional brief episodes of between-meal snacking if food is close enough to reach without having to use its legs.

I know people dump surplus cats and other pets when the novelty wears off. Do they do that with rabbits? This handbag sized ball of fluff has zero chance of lasting more than hours in the big bad world, it can't have travelled far - but nobody local seems to know anybody who owns a rabbit around here.

It didn't arrive this morning (first of July), so it's presumably not an omen of good fortune. And nope - recipe suggestions not welcome.

Rabbits get dumped a lot, it's even worse here. They just dump them in parks so they can be "free." It sucks.

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#2737371 1-Jul-2021 16:05

The fact that it takes the NZTA 6 whole weeks to issue a Passenger Endorsement.

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#2737431 1-Jul-2021 16:27

Handle9:

Rabbits get dumped a lot, it's even worse here. They just dump them in parks so they can be "free." It sucks.

I'm starting to think that's what happened with this one, plenty of kids walk past the signs I put up, and I haven't had a response.

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#2737510 1-Jul-2021 17:37

MikeB4:

Locking caps on medication primarily used for disabled folk.

It's a double edge sword, some of those meds would be seriously dangerous to kids, so they make them really tough to get into, which also affects the people they are trying to help.

Sorry for your trouble.

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#2737512 1-Jul-2021 17:42

@networkn Yep you are right and there is no way I want any young ones hurt. I wish the drug companies changed the design of the lids so a disabled person could open them easier, maybe some sort of unlock key system.

Here is a crazy notion, lets give peace a chance.

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#2737514 1-Jul-2021 17:54

The trouble with "child-proof" anything is that children can easily bypass it. Adults struggle.

A simpler solution would be to make all pills appear and taste like vegetables. They won't touch them ever.

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#2737525 1-Jul-2021 19:01

MikeB4:
@networkn Yep you are right and there is no way I want any young ones hurt. I wish the drug companies changed the design of the lids so a disabled person could open them easier, maybe some sort of unlock key system.

When I had a broken arm in the US I signed a document to not have a childproof top on the prescribed drugs. This was because I couldn’t open it. I know I painfully signed it with my broken arm but in hindsight I could have just scribbled with my other hand.
By signing the document it meant the drug company absolved responsibility for any kids opening the bottle.

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#2737552 1-Jul-2021 19:33

Shadowfoot:
MikeB4:
@networkn Yep you are right and there is no way I want any young ones hurt. I wish the drug companies changed the design of the lids so a disabled person could open them easier, maybe some sort of unlock key system.

When I had a broken arm in the US I signed a document to not have a childproof top on the prescribed drugs. This was because I couldn’t open it. I know I painfully signed it with my broken arm but in hindsight I could have just scribbled with my other hand.
By signing the document it meant the drug company absolved responsibility for any kids opening the bottle.

Clearly there's room for higher tech child safe med lids in the market.
Perhaps some kind of voice activated lid that responds only to the things an adult would say.

We'd need to train the AI with some rants about rates, house prices or how modern music these days is shut.

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