Mildly Infuriating

(And I use "Free" loosely because I do pay for Prime Video, so it went from paid to much more expensive)

Yaaarrh

Adding to the rant

Like many countries, France has an near infinite number of charging stations, all of which require a different card and paid membership.

All of those companies used state funds to build their infrastructure.

I had been talking with my wife about long term organizational plans... The bookshelves in the library are 30 year old, bending, crappy plywood that need to be replaced, and my plan was:

1. Clean out the back bedroom.

2. Get new bookshelves for the library that are taller, wider, and will add over 200 linear inches of shelf space.

Current library:

3. Figure out how many of the old bookshelves can be moved into the back bedroom (four! four bookshelves! Ah ha ha! Maybe 5 if I get super lucky.)

4. Put the empties in the back bedroom for more DVD storage, then fix the wall they sit in front of because I hate that wall treatment (long story).

Ugly ass-wall:

(It was like that when we bought the house, loved the house, HATED that wall. I need to pull down the plywood slats and re-paint to get rid their janky ass-wainscoting.)

https://xkcd.com/37/

5. Put together the new racks and re-assemble the library.

All told, a lot of work. My plan was to do all this a little at a time over a period of months.

WELL... Our kid asked my wife what he should get for Christmas.

Turns out... 5 new bookshelves show up TOMORROW.

I can't be mad... it's a gift. But holy hell... I wasn't ready to start the project TOMORROW.

Every waking day of every waking use of the devices I have, I find myself constantly fighting a lot with the shitty input and recognition of said input. Things I swore I clicked once but having to click twice or sometimes three times. Such lag input between the last time I clicked and to the time the function of whatever I had to click fucking functioned.

With phones it is obviously worse, with finger input being either too sensitive or too dulled to register, inquiring more touches just to get somewhere or to type something, along with the separated frustrations aside trying to type on awful keyboard interfaces.

Edit:

For clarification's sakes, people are bringing up old computers and how you've had to go extra steps to make it work. That's not what I'm talking about and I thought I had made it clear as possible.

I'm talking about with the way things have been with technology over the past 15 years. You would think with all of the millions and billions that get invested into making things snazzy, crisp and shiny, that they would function similarly. Except, no, things got lots of wrenches thrown into their design phases to make them laggy, drag and otherwise shitty.

Phones, Tablets, Site Interfaces .etc

Looks like I'm spoiled for choice. Temu has exactly the same for 11.29. Not that I'd be purchasing from either place; it's just another example of Amazon's enshittification.

What in the orphan crushing machine is this shit?!

https://maritime-executive.com/article/bananas-ahoy-as-overboard-containers-wash-ashore

I read a news story about a guy who died from rabies after receiving a kidney transplant. Although nobody was aware when he died, the donor of the kidney had contracted rabies after being scratched by a skunk several weeks before he died and his organs were harvested.

I got curious about how the donor got scratched by the skunk, but instead only found this article from August, which informed me that the U.S. has a rabies outbreak, and has more deaths from rabies in the last year than several previous years...

Not sure if people were already talking about this outbreak, and I just missed it? It's been a bit of a weird year, and there's been a lot of crazy shit to keep up with.

Anyway, this is also how I ended up reading the sentence informing me some people are worried dogs are getting autism from vaccines.

Outbreaks of rabies seem to be rising across the U.S., CDC surveillance shows

Don't judge my dinner lol. It was a long day and I wanted something quick and easy. Defrosted the chops, got them ready to coat, and, what's this? No bags? Surely this must be a manufacturing anomaly.

Nope. I go back into the pantry and grab the newer box, open it, and....also no bags.

Had to waste one of the good, gallon-size Ziplocs for this.

How many fractions of a penny did they save (and not pass on to me) by not including the shake bags? Ugh!

Can't wait for ads to be grotesquely injected into any video on big streaming sites. If you don't want reruns of Cheers to have distracting ads for Rings of Power you better spring for Prime Platinum. Even the heroes at uBlock Origin are going to have a hard time filtering out injected ads on some YouTuber's bedroom wall.

I was browsing for a game and came across this site, which immediately prompted me to select an option. If all you did was read the top part, you’d think “Platinum” would be the best choice. But no. It seems they’re deliberately trying to trick people into giving away the most information by making it seem “superior.”

I'm sure anyone reading that has used Android in the last year has some gripes about the media control "tool" too. You cannot get that thing to operate in any sensible way. Screw me for using a music player, an audiobook player, playing videos on Firefox, and a podcast app. I don't want every one of those to live there forever!!!!! The only way to get the various apps to disappear is a long press and clicking hide, only until you use the app again. The buttons fail to work all the time. Then it glitches out, gets stuck ⅔ of the way through a swipe and is completely unusable. Maybe I'm missing it but it's not able to be turned off - I don't even want it off but it shouldn't break every single day. I hope someone else is as sick of this part of the UI as I am.

Yes, I know that I should move to Graphene before someone tells me.

Sorry for the Imgur link, catbox wasn't loading as image, just as a link again: https://files.catbox.moe/j3a7cl.PNG

Context: the red pavement line means "no parking".

E: context:

1. There are a stretch of no parking zone behind the frame that looks pretty much the same
2. This is also the bike/motorcycle lane
3. There are enough room in the parking slot, so extra room for maneuver is not necessary
4. The parking slots are not free
5. The parking slots are next to a intersection

E: imo, the parking slot shouldn't be there.

I hear his long-term plan includes racing Usain Bolt when he's 75 and Paul is 64.

I'm sure HP deliberately designed the printer to fuck up the working printhead during a "cleaning" routine

Went to enterprise and rented a car that had literally 4 leaking tires and they filled them all up to 55 psi before handing the car over. This photo was taken after the 30 minute drive home.

Called and took the car back in for service only to get the same car, same 55 psi on all wheels, and same major leak in the rears. Went to another enterprise location to get a normal car instead 2 days later. Really took me back to my first car, but it's a lot less fun when it's not even yours and the "fix" is just dangerous overpressure.

See box that looks like it's 3/4 ripped in half from stacking damage:

"Looks good to me, send it off."

Ended up ordering it from Phillips for cheaper on sale, turns out it's not too hard to avoid Amazon altogether and a bonus for the company's reputation being important to the ones picking/packaging the product. Hard to blame the Amazon worker though, they don't get paid enough to care.

The ad and the linked terms don't say anything about the deal being available only for new customers and accounts. It's the lack of transparency that really gets me.

Christiano Ronaldo elbowed an Irish player during Irelands win over Portugal, earning himself a red card and an automatic ban.

In an unprecedented move, FIFA lifted the ban allowing him to play.

Screenshot is from Fox News

So I recently got a Blue Brixx set and needed to download the manual as it is not included in the box... Now that requires an account, which is just stupid... At least I can supply absolut garbage information, which is a plus. However I wanted to delete the account directly after downloading what I needed... Now that requires you to fill out a contact form (like that is legal in the EU...) and now it tells me that the throw away email I could use before is not a valid email (likely because it has numbers in them)... WTF IS THIS GARBAGE