The mild annoyances thread!
- Thread starter Tom the Melaniephile
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Yikes...
We have a Code: Brown Starfish. Repeat, Brown Starfish. Responders should be in Class 4 Biohazard gear.
Used to have an offer letter template saved somewhere and now I can't find the fucking thing. I think I've rewritten this thing at least 3 times and I still come off stilted and ridiculous.
YOU HAS JOB.
UNLESS YOU NO SIGN.
SIGN == JOB.
NO SIGN == NO JOB.
RESPOND BY COB*** IN THREE (3) DAYS.
K. THX. BAI.
[Conditions apply, benefits as listed on back in tiny print, will be fed to sharks in tank if you fuck up more than 3 times, yada yada state laws blah blah blah hours you want the job or not, foo?]
Bullet points of benefits package and hour requirements and such and such on back***Note: ”COB” is not close of business. “COB” is by a specific certified falcon.
My APS, which has been disconnected since November and is awaiting replacement, has started beeping again. More concerning is that it is making an electronic noise not dissimilar to that of a CRT television with the speakers muted. I am also somewhat concerned that I can hear this over the ringing in my ears. It did this for about five days when I initially disconnected it for turning itself on and off repeatedly, but was quiet until yesterday.
The frequency of the beeps is getting lower, so either it’s getting over whatever it’s problem is or I am about to have a battery fire in the laundry area.
The frequency of the beeps is getting lower, so either it’s getting over whatever it’s problem is or I am about to have a battery fire in the laundry area.
Fire! Fire! Fire! Class charlie fire in the laundry spaces, away the Flying Squad! Provide from <wherever the hell @swiftdraw keeps their extinguishers>
The last two nights, my phone flashed like it was charging on the wireless charger, but it had not charged as of the morning. Though when I put it on last night, and came back an hour later, it had charged, so I'm wondering if maybe I touched it in my sleep and knocked it away or something.
I've had that happen a few times.
It's why I keep the charger on the other side of the room from my bed now. (Well, that and the temptation to start doomscrolling when I wake up at 2 AM)
Building security that requires me to fumble for my badge whenever I go from my office to the breakroom for coffee, and when I get filtered water from the fountain for the coffee maker.
One of my two remaining aunts died last weekend, and this was my favorite one.
Cousin said funeral was going to be on Friday. Got worried about timing so I could get tickets (have to fly from DC to Louisville), figured it'd be early morning or mid day, so flying in Thursday afternoon, back Friday night.
Brother calls the funeral home, gets told it's at 11. Great, that works and makes sense. Whew!
Then the cousin announced on Facebook that visitation starts at 11, the actual funeral is about 5 pm. And my flight leaves at 6:30, an hour south of the funeral home.
Welp, I might be able to adjust the flight, but if not, guess I get to do the visitation only.
Cousin said funeral was going to be on Friday. Got worried about timing so I could get tickets (have to fly from DC to Louisville), figured it'd be early morning or mid day, so flying in Thursday afternoon, back Friday night.
Brother calls the funeral home, gets told it's at 11. Great, that works and makes sense. Whew!
Then the cousin announced on Facebook that visitation starts at 11, the actual funeral is about 5 pm. And my flight leaves at 6:30, an hour south of the funeral home.
Welp, I might be able to adjust the flight, but if not, guess I get to do the visitation only.
Ugh, COVID. I dodged many of the worst/annoying issues, but it appears the extremely painful nasal blockage from the start has turned into a possible sinus infection. The weird thing is it doesn't 'leak', but when I first blow my nose in the morning it is a horror show. And then mini-horrors the rest of the day.
Looking to subscribe to a music streaming site, it's $2.99/month or $35.88/year, 25% OFF!! I understand I went to public school and shouldn't be able to notice this, but if it was $3/month that would work out to $36/yr, subtract $0.12 and you'll get pretty close to $35.88. So where's the 25% off? Maybe they have 16 months per year in their neck of the woods.
I tried making sense of it. There's an asterisk saying it's $2.99/month when paying annually. So I assume this is the 25% off price and you could have another option to pay monthly which would be on the lines of $4/month. Looking at the play store it does have an in-app purchase in that range. Displayed as €4.29 for me, which sounds about right. (Would convert to $4.60, but the € price includes taxes)
That's pretty standard. They'll give you the annual price divided by 12 to provide the lowest number. Then you'll have an option to switch to monthly billing, where you'll see the higher price.
That site makes no mention of monthly billing for the "Plus" tier, only annual subscriptions. Given the low per-month price I'm guessing they don't want to take the hit of credit card fees for monthly billing. They do offer monthly billing for the "Premium" tier which likely offers much better margins for them.
For a very good, commercial free music streaming service try https://www.radiofrance.fr/fip for rock/pop/hiphop/world etc, no math involved.
I attempted a BIOS update a couple days ago. Anyway I just looked over and the R part of RGB was pulsating. I had turned all that stuff off when I initially set up the machine and now I'm super annoyed that the update turned it back on.
Then I noticed it's just a very narrow sunbeam hitting a bright red SATA cable through some mesh. And the sunbeam is filtering through a tree so the leaves moving around makes the cable seem to pulsate.
I will take this a sign from FSM, like "Stop Being So Paranoid, Sometimes It's Just A Damn BIOS Update And They Aren't Trying To Cram RGB Down Your Throat."
Then I noticed it's just a very narrow sunbeam hitting a bright red SATA cable through some mesh. And the sunbeam is filtering through a tree so the leaves moving around makes the cable seem to pulsate.
I will take this a sign from FSM, like "Stop Being So Paranoid, Sometimes It's Just A Damn BIOS Update And They Aren't Trying To Cram RGB Down Your Throat."
Sometimes Steam lets you logon with username or email address. Other times only one or the other, depending on where you go
Ugh
Ugh
It's only just now that I've realised that I've been bitten by this.
Now I'm mildly annoyed as well
I literally just had to use my email when logging into the app because it had actually logged me out!It's only just now that I've realised that I've been bitten by this.
Now I'm mildly annoyed as well
"Warning flashing lights" disclaimers at the beginning of programs.
I get it, there are people out there with conditions who need to be mindful of this.
But in the context of modern televisions with HDR, dimming zones, etc .... we've gone from needing those warnings on a small subset of programming to the majority.
It's gotten into CA Proposition Warning territory.
I get it, there are people out there with conditions who need to be mindful of this.
But in the context of modern televisions with HDR, dimming zones, etc .... we've gone from needing those warnings on a small subset of programming to the majority.
It's gotten into CA Proposition Warning territory.
Friggin Apple. My wife's several years old Apple watch had severe end of life battery degradation (failure to hold a charge more than a handful of hours). So she goes on line to look at the new watches, I help her pick one that seems right for her. So she starts the process only for reasons that can't be explained but probably are because she's not running Safari on the PC, it doesn't seem to recognize her watchband choice. Restarts the process several times, gets frustrated.
So I say, "You know what? Let's go to the Apple Store. They'll take care of you and make sure you get what you want."
So we head to the next but one town over where the nearest Apple Store is. (Boulder). We go in, and they walk us through the buying process, where all the choices show up perfectly either because the guy helping her is doing it on an Apple device, or because they have some back door into the way things are supposed to work, or he's using an iPad and the site really only works right on an iPad or whatever the reason for the nonsense she experienced at home was.
Anyway, they walk her through unpairing her old watch and get the process started of synching her new watch, there in the store. Only it takes forever because the watches out of the box have like 5% battery and they need an update because of course they do nothing ever comes with up to date SW out of the box. And it won't start the update until the watch is charged to 50% and Apple watches charge sloooooooooowly. They told us after she'd been waiting for like half an hour that it would take another 45 minutes to an hour to charge and then download the update and send it to the watch.
For love of the flying spaghetti monster, why didn't you lead with that, because we'd have done right away what we ended up doing anyway ... take the watch home and pair it and update it there.
The good: her new watch is updated and working
The bad: why did they make it harder than it needs to be?
So I say, "You know what? Let's go to the Apple Store. They'll take care of you and make sure you get what you want."
So we head to the next but one town over where the nearest Apple Store is. (Boulder). We go in, and they walk us through the buying process, where all the choices show up perfectly either because the guy helping her is doing it on an Apple device, or because they have some back door into the way things are supposed to work, or he's using an iPad and the site really only works right on an iPad or whatever the reason for the nonsense she experienced at home was.
Anyway, they walk her through unpairing her old watch and get the process started of synching her new watch, there in the store. Only it takes forever because the watches out of the box have like 5% battery and they need an update because of course they do nothing ever comes with up to date SW out of the box. And it won't start the update until the watch is charged to 50% and Apple watches charge sloooooooooowly. They told us after she'd been waiting for like half an hour that it would take another 45 minutes to an hour to charge and then download the update and send it to the watch.
For love of the flying spaghetti monster, why didn't you lead with that, because we'd have done right away what we ended up doing anyway ... take the watch home and pair it and update it there.
The good: her new watch is updated and working
The bad: why did they make it harder than it needs to be?
There has been a fly in my kitchen for a week now. It moves really fast, it makes no sound and it is impervious to the fly spray.
With the best will in the world, there's food and drink available for a fly to live forever.
Fucker bites too.
It is taunting me.
Honestly, it's like a cartoon now in our kitchen.
With the best will in the world, there's food and drink available for a fly to live forever.
Fucker bites too.
It is taunting me.
Honestly, it's like a cartoon now in our kitchen.
Updates are getting more substantive. It used to be they couldn't change the time of day or make the wind blow.
I'm torn between "my email is not your username!!!" and "but my email is easy to remember".
That's true. It's why I use your email for all my online logins!
