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

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#3021163 13-Jan-2023 23:03

neb: The fact that the whole RISC-V ecosystem is such a fixer-upper mess of duct tape and baling twine. Every time I work with one of these things I end up spending hours and hours patching and kludging things via USB-serial debug consoles and semi-documented contradictory hacks in support forums, and even then things only sort-of half work. And every time they abandon the current hardware and release something new you're back to square one with kludges and duct tape again.

This is the reason that has so far always put me off the, actually usable RISC-V.

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#3021179 14-Jan-2023 09:52

sir1963:

Our current petrol lawn mower is over 25 years old, probably would have gone though 10 batteries in that time, heck a 12AH batter costs more than an entire petrol lawnmower

Total cost of ownership for the petrol mower is probably 10% of a battery powered one.

We are on to our second battery lawnmower after 5 years, only because we damaged the battery. So you can immediately at least halve the battery cost in your TCOO.

For me, the big problem with petrol mowers is getting the damn things started. At which point you're loading it into the car, carting it off to the repair place, and waiting a week until you get it back, and then dealing with lawns with an extra week's growth. It seems that beyond 5 years, the maintenance costs start to go up. But maybe that's just for cheap mowers?

There needs to be standardisation in tooling batteries so that there is competition in both tool and batteries as you are not locked into one brand or another.

Agreed. And chargers. Awesome to see that Europe has now standardised on USB-C connectors.

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#3021181 14-Jan-2023 10:49

frankv:

We are on to our second battery lawnmower after 5 years, only because we damaged the battery. So you can immediately at least halve the battery cost in your TCOO.

For me, the big problem with petrol mowers is getting the damn things started. At which point you're loading it into the car, carting it off to the repair place, and waiting a week until you get it back, and then dealing with lawns with an extra week's growth. It seems that beyond 5 years, the maintenance costs start to go up. But maybe that's just for cheap mowers?

Agreed. And chargers. Awesome to see that Europe has now standardised on USB-C connectors.

Last lawnmower "repair" was done 15+ years ago

Ok, I am about to rebuild the flap that holds the catcher in place, but that I can do myself, as well as sharpen the blade.

Have not had any issue with it starting.

However the chasis is starting to rust through, so I will probably take it to work and get it welded up there

And yes, we need to have more universal standards away from "propriety" junk as well as the right to repair.

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#3021380 14-Jan-2023 20:29

Spending a good chunk of today doing something I never imagined I would do. Ironing Net Curtains. Yup, you read that right.

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#3021381 14-Jan-2023 20:31

Being completely and utterly exhausted, sleep deprived, physically spent and medication making you race around unable to stop. It's like being forced at gunpoint to complete a marathon, right after you finished one. Repeatedly.

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#3021392 14-Jan-2023 22:26

networkn:

Being completely and utterly exhausted, sleep deprived, physically spent and medication making you race around unable to stop. It's like being forced at gunpoint to complete a marathon, right after you finished one. Repeatedly.

Take care, too little sleep can be dangerous.

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#3021476 15-Jan-2023 10:14

The way football results are reported in NZ. They put the winning team first.

Being from the UK, scores were always reported with home team first e.g. Home team 0, Away team 2.

You immediately know where the game was played.

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#3021492 15-Jan-2023 11:04

During Covid level 4, someone hand-painted a sign saying "have a great day" with pictures of butterflies and put it on the side of a walking trail. Hopefully it made people smile. Alas, it was fairly cheaply made and time has moved on, and as of today it's broken in half.

Not an annoyance per se, things decaying over time is just the way of the world, but it still made me a bit sad to see it.

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#3021501 15-Jan-2023 11:48

Adult women with brightly coloured unicorns.

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#3021560 15-Jan-2023 12:20

Tinkerisk:
Adult women with brightly coloured unicorns.

Are you on the same meds as @networkn?

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#3021574 15-Jan-2023 12:43

networkn:

Spending a good chunk of today doing something I never imagined I would do. Ironing Net Curtains. Yup, you read that right.

Even more annoying. After hours and hours working out what the steam button on my steam iron actually does. Would literally have halved the time it took!

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#3021580 15-Jan-2023 12:55

neb:

Are you on the sane meds as @networkn?

You leave my unicorns out of this!

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#3021585 15-Jan-2023 13:29

That the media get so excited about the discovery of earth-size exoplanets. We have one right here in our own solar system. It is called Venus. Who would want to live there?

Plesse igmore amd axxept applogies in adbance fir anu typos

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#3021586 15-Jan-2023 13:34

Rikkitic:

That the media get so excited about the discovery of earth-size exoplanets. We have one right here in our own solar system. It is called Venus. Who would want to live there?

Its what we do, explore. They wont offer us a place to live, just to explore from afar

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#3021637 15-Jan-2023 14:42

Rikkitic:
That the media get so excited about the discovery of earth-size exoplanets.

We need all the spares we can find for when we've finished wrecking this one.

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