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

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#2832204 14-Dec-2021 14:26

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Todays annoy: Google tells me that this here iPad Pro model A1652 is a 12.9 inch iPad. So, I brought an iPad Pro 12.9 inch keyboard/case. If you Google that, you’ll not see the problem - I certainly didn’t. Challenge: see if you can find what I did wrong with that purchase.

So much for Apple stuff being foolproof.

it looks like Apple doesn’t offer a keyboard for a first generation (2015) iPad Pro 12.9.
note that if you buy a iPad through Apple you will be shown compatible accessories.

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#2832410 14-Dec-2021 20:05

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MadEngineer:

Todays annoy: Google tells me that this here iPad Pro model A1652 is a 12.9 inch iPad. So, I brought an iPad Pro 12.9 inch keyboard/case. If you Google that, you’ll not see the problem - I certainly didn’t. Challenge: see if you can find what I did wrong with that purchase.

So much for Apple stuff being foolproof.

it looks like Apple doesn’t offer a keyboard for a first generation (2015) iPad Pro 12.9.
note that if you buy a iPad through Apple you will be shown compatible accessories.

That's exactly what went wrong, what we did and the purchase was placed on said iPad. Hopefully their returns process for opened items is just as easy as the purchase process!

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#2832862 15-Dec-2021 14:13

We use a tool called Jenkins to automate various things. A recent update popped up an alert that some things have been renamed, and asks whether we want to apply these new names to our environment. It warns that doing so may break anything that has the old names hardcoded.

What it does not do is bother explaining what benefit there is for using the new names. So one option is to rename and potentially break things, and the other option is to not rename and... not break things? Really hard decision there...

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#2835134 17-Dec-2021 23:02

That the electronic dummy load I need to sort out which USB cable can pass enough current to power a Pi because of some cretin's decision to continue using a phone charger interface for a high-current embedded PC has spit the dummy, leaving me with no easy way to measure how much power will actually get to the Pi through a given cable.

(Cable resistance measurements don't work, the cable resistance is overwhelmed by that of the various contacts and probes it has to go through).

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#2835279 18-Dec-2021 15:03

People talking really loudly on their cellphone in a restaurant

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

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#2835286 18-Dec-2021 15:18

MikeB4: People talking really loudly on their cellphone in a restaurant

Reminds me of the early Nokia days

https://www.google.com/search?q=trigger+happy+tv+phone+guy&oq=trigger+happy+TV+phone

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#2835676 19-Dec-2021 23:53

afe66:

MikeB4: People talking really loudly on their cellphone in a restaurant

Reminds me of the early Nokia days

https://www.google.com/search?q=trigger+happy+tv+phone+guy&oq=trigger+happy+TV+phone

Ha! I still quote that to my wife when some dingus won't shut up on their phone in an inappropriate place.

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#2835677 19-Dec-2021 23:55

Geektastic:
Ha! I still quote that to my wife when some dingus won't shut up on their phone in an inappropriate place.

Friend of mine used to work in a hospital unit with a high percentage of UK ex-pats. At some point someone's phone range with the Nokia ringtone and half her unit all shouted out "HELLO! SHOUT!" before bursting out laughing.

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#2835678 19-Dec-2021 23:57

Animal food manufacturers who pack dried food in sacks stitched closed as if it was 1940 - in particular the ones who can't be bothered to use one of several methods for making the sacks easily openable.

Tux. Yes. Tux. I am looking straight at you. Every time I have to open one of your bags, I end up getting scissors out and butchering the bag. Meanwhile, the Danish food I mainly feed the dogs comes in equal size bags sealed with an easy tear membrane and re-closeable ziplock. Even the livestock feed I bought when we still had cows etc came stitched closed in bags with pull tapes that ripped the stitching neatly off the bag.

Get into 2021!!

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#2835679 19-Dec-2021 23:59

neb:
Geektastic:

Ha! I still quote that to my wife when some dingus won't shut up on their phone in an inappropriate place.

Friend of mine used to work in a hospital unit with a high percentage of UK ex-pats. At some point someone's phone range with the Nokia ringtone and half her unit all shouted out "HELLO! SHOUT!" before bursting out laughing.

So true - that gag really entered the national consciousness.

I CAN'T TALK NOW - I AM ON THE TRAIN!

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#2835680 20-Dec-2021 00:03

Geektastic:
Animal food manufacturers who pack dried food in sacks stitched closed as if it was 1940 - in particular the ones who can't be bothered to use one of several methods for making the sacks easily openable.

Or who hot-glue them shut so you either have to cut the top of the bag off making it difficult to re-seal, or risk slashing your fingers as you carefully cut away the gooey plastic from the paper so it's re-sealable.

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#2835745 20-Dec-2021 06:33

Monday morning here on the North Shore and it’s about 13°C.

Metservice ‘Local Weather Stations’ page for our area is showing temperatures in the 20’s - so I dig deeper and find all the data is from last Thursday afternoon.

What is the point of this page if it is so out of date.?

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

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#2835951 20-Dec-2021 13:19

Lady outside KFC in a people mover van thing absolutely screaming her tits off at the kids in the back

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#2835961 20-Dec-2021 13:39

MadEngineer: Lady outside KFC in a people mover van thing absolutely screaming her tits off at the kids in the back

She could have been just screaming her head off. Ease up on the misogynist hyperbole.

Plesse igmore amd axxept applogies in adbance fir anu typos

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#2835992 20-Dec-2021 14:17

The fact that Countdown's online shopping site is so poorly designed and specced that it feels like shopping on dialup in 1995.

And that it has a "Allow substitutes for all button but no "Do not allow substitutes for anything" button, requiring you to crawl through reloading the page (I counted) 23 times because it hangs, individually removing the tick from the 'allow substitutes' box on each item.

I am trying to spend over $500 - I would get better web experience from almost anywhere spending $5!

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