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

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#2986963 23-Oct-2022 19:12

And always remember, a balaclava pulled over your head or a blinding LED pointed at the sensors will checkmate any security camera.

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#2986995 23-Oct-2022 21:03

That I bought a new longer lightning cable with usb a month ago and it started to malfunction then wouldn’t charge. Mutter, mutter mental note not to buy cheap cables. Three meters long so I cut off the ends to use cable as a tie to appease my no waste mentality. Tried another long cable I had. Same result so snipped that too since it was a nice quality blue fabric one.

Tonight brought in a new cable and plugged it in to the wall charger plug. Dead. Realisation hit, it was the plug that was faulty not the now snipped cables.

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#2986998 23-Oct-2022 21:07

"Forum-goer murders innocent cables in rage incident"

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#2986999 23-Oct-2022 21:11

Eva888: Realisation hit, it was the plug that was faulty not the now snipped cables.

You didn't work as a DEC field circus engineer in the past did you?

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#2987065 23-Oct-2022 22:47

neb: For people considering Ring, just be aware that you're enrolling yourself in the Amazon surveillance ecosystem when you install one of those. If you're concerned about privacy you may want to get something else.

I would have thought it would be possible to run them in stand-alone mode. Looks like they can be integrated with Home Assistant and the video stored locally.

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#2987081 24-Oct-2022 05:57

Technofreak:
neb: For people considering Ring, just be aware that you're enrolling yourself in the Amazon surveillance ecosystem when you install one of those. If you're concerned about privacy you may want to get something else.

I would have thought it would be possible to run them in stand-alone mode. Looks like they can be integrated with Home Assistant and the video stored locally.

Your thought is not correct. If there’s no cloud connection it doesn’t work.

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#2987326 24-Oct-2022 14:35

Ring Devices Without A Subscription: What Still Works (Hint: Not Much)

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#2987342 24-Oct-2022 16:18

The fact that something like fatsort needs to exist. This sorts FAT directories in the order you want to play songs because there are way too many music players out there that, while doing Internet-based song lookup, subtitle insertion, and a million other things, are incapable of playing songs in any order other than whatever random sequence they were written to the media in.

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#2987551 25-Oct-2022 08:12

Micro SD cards.

Honestly, is there a piece of modern technology more unreliable than a micro SD card? Had another fail on me yesterday after a whole day of filming while travelling. It’s not like I’m buying cheap knockoff cards, these are Sandisk Extreme Pro cards from a reliable retailer and yet they keep failing.

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#2987553 25-Oct-2022 08:24

What were the SD cards in? A GoPro? I must be lucky with mine and I don't think I do anything special other than format before use.

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#2987568 25-Oct-2022 09:38

Geektastic: People who run businesses for their own benefit rather than that of their customers…

Oh, you mean all businesses?

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#2987578 25-Oct-2022 10:18

I would have thought it would be possible to run them in stand-alone mode. Looks like they can be integrated with Home Assistant and the video stored locally.

Your thought is not correct. If there’s no cloud connection it doesn’t work.

This is particularly annoying for me.

Ring products appear to be among the best from a functionality perspective, but because of the forced subscription model, they are excluded from my use, because I don't want to pay for cloud storage - I want local storage and I don't want to subscribe to anything.

This is why I went with Eufy in the end - local storage with an option for cloud storage if I desire. Seems a better model for the end user.

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#2987593 25-Oct-2022 10:22

Senecio: Micro SD cards.

Honestly, is there a piece of modern technology more unreliable than a micro SD card? Had another fail on me yesterday after a whole day of filming while travelling. It’s not like I’m buying cheap knockoff cards, these are Sandisk Extreme Pro cards from a reliable retailer and yet they keep failing.

They need to have something like smart on SSDs for when they're about to fail. Sometimes you can tell because they start to get really really slow but most of the time you just come back to a camera that isnt recording and shows that there is no card in it.

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#2987654 25-Oct-2022 11:12

MikeB4:

My lovely wife getting hassled by a couple of Neanderthals on an AirNZ flight to Auckland because she was wearing a mask.

Dheads! I still wear a mask and will for quite sometime in any public indoors setting. I find it interesting that people look at me and smirk!

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#2987663 25-Oct-2022 12:12

Behodar:

My stove failed yesterday and I need a new part. An appliance parts website has the part for $30. Someone on TM has the same part for $21. I figured that it'd be better to pay the extra $9 as the specialist site has it in stock and buying from TM will likely result in far too much faffing around. The long weekend doesn't help, but it turns out - via an automated email sent after ordering - that the parts vendor has decided to take an extra-long weekend and won't actually process the order until Wednesday at the earliest.

Well, the good news is that it was actually dispatched today. The bad news is that it was sent via PBT. There should be a legal requirement to warn someone if you're going to do that.

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