[Rules p.1] Things that annoy you guys. 100 percent. Not gonna lie

Zerudaaaaa! wrote:I am loving the weather we're having at the moment. Grey and rainy, not too cold. Nice!

You absolute lunatic.

Somebody Else's Presents wrote:

Zerudaaaaa! wrote:I am loving the weather we're having at the moment. Grey and rainy, not too cold. Nice!

You absolute lunatic.

As crazy as he might be, he must be like a pig in gooseberry fool, living in the UK with our weather

Zerudaaaaa! wrote:I am loving the weather we're having at the moment. Grey and rainy, not too cold. Nice!

I'm 100% with you. This is the best weather!

eBay auctions for things you can just go buy elsewhere and the starting price is barely below what you can pay elsewhere too - why would I bid more, and just getting it somewhere else would mean it would be delivered before the auction had ended in the first place.

And yet people often bid more than it costs elsewhere. People are weird.

Some people must just love the thrill of 'winning'.

I rarely put items up for bidding auction though because I had enough of people not paying.

I have buyers who never seem to buy fixed price and only bid on auctions, so I list items on both formats at full price. If people want to bid them up even higher it's up to them. I won't decline the extra profit.

Although these days, more and more items are going for the asking price with 1 bid, so perhaps the days of auctions are coming to an end on ebay.

Stood in the queue at Wilko, big sign says 'cash only at this till', and occasionally a member of staff asks people in the queue if they're paying with cash as people using cards should go to the next till over.

Then, in front of me in the queue, are half a dozen people and each one asks if they can pay with card when they're served which causes everything to clog up.

Utter bellends.

They're too desperate wanting to get out to bother paying attention to any signs that might be around, no matter how large they are. Could have a sign the size of the store itself all lit up in neon and flashing lights, and plenty would still ignore it.

I genuinely don't understand how some people get through life, they're so oblivious.

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It's really been pissing me off lately how badly designed everything is. It's like the people who design stuff never actually use it or test it, because if they did, they'd immediately see that things are either really awkward and frustrating to use, or just plain don't work.

Whether it's road layouts where it's not remotely clear which lane you need to be in (and the arrows to 'help' you are painted on the road, which, y'know, is covered by other cars ), the software on self-service checkouts (it would take one person using it once before rolling it out to see that it doesn't work properly), the input/source selection on a TV (too shitty to even try and explain here), websites that look like utter gooseberry fool and don't work (especially on mobile), the end-to-end process of buying tickets for something online being utter wank and far too drawn out and illogical...I've had issues with all of these in the last week alone - strawberry floating useless

Blows my mind how crap things are and this stuff just gets the go-ahead and put into everyday use

Technology and software definitely annoys me more and more as the years go by. And it’s because it just doesn’t strawberry floating work like it does in NCIS! I wanted to play a DailyMotion video last night on my TV. First the video wouldn’t play casting from my iPhone to the TV, then when I loaded up the app on my TV the adverts wouldn’t play (just a pulsating black screen) and then on the 3rd attempt on the PS4 the video played properly but every time it went to run the adverts it would restart the video from the beginning. The search facility on the DailyMotion TV app is also appalling.

And don’t get me started on the ITV Hub. That piece of gooseberry fool is so awful it’s now prone to playing the same adverts back-to-back-to-back. 4 times in a row I sat through the same ASDA commercial.

Then there’s the fact the cumbersome, laggy playback/rewind/fast-forward of many apps are two decades behind where Sky+ was in 2002.

That I feel like my tech is being brought to its knees attempting to run this stuff only annoys me even more!

More 'tech being a bit gooseberry fool' here. The Amazon Fire TV cube always winds me up when I tell it to switch the TV on as it always automatically switches to its own HDMI input rather than staying on whatever channel I was previously watching.

More annoyingly it can't do basic things like change channels unless you're using an external freeview/satellite box.

Tech related, got a cheap audio interface, cannot get the thing recognized by my DAW. Spent about 2 hours this morning strawberry floating around with it.

KK wrote:And don’t get me started on the ITV Hub. That piece of gooseberry fool is so awful it’s now prone to playing the same adverts back-to-back-to-back. 4 times in a row I sat through the same ASDA commercial.

Sounds better than watching The Masked Dancer though.

Lotus wrote:It's really been pissing me off lately how badly designed everything is. It's like the people who design stuff never actually use it or test it, because if they did, they'd immediately see that things are either really awkward and frustrating to use, or just plain don't work.

Whether it's road layouts where it's not remotely clear which lane you need to be in (and the arrows to 'help' you are painted on the road, which, y'know, is covered by other cars ), the software on self-service checkouts (it would take one person using it once before rolling it out to see that it doesn't work properly), the input/source selection on a TV (too shitty to even try and explain here), websites that look like utter gooseberry fool and don't work (especially on mobile), the end-to-end process of buying tickets for something online being utter wank and far too drawn out and illogical...I've had issues with all of these in the last week alone - strawberry floating useless

Blows my mind how crap things are and this stuff just gets the go-ahead and put into everyday use

Basingstoke and Reading I swear have a few lanes that still have the wrong arrows on them as they just don't look like they naturally feed into the next lanes they're meant to.

And it seems like there's such a race to get tech out these days that it's like they don't have time to test it before the deadline. Tbf tho with new tech stuff trying to be more advanced it can make things a bit more complicated to implement stuff. I feel it's the case with a lot of games these days too, there seems to be a lot of games that are just riddled with bugs and issues at least until a day one patch resolves some of the worst ones.

Curious what trouble you're having with input/source tho

Lotus wrote:It's really been pissing me off lately how badly designed everything is. It's like the people who design stuff never actually use it or test it, because if they did, they'd immediately see that things are either really awkward and frustrating to use, or just plain don't work.

Whether it's road layouts where it's not remotely clear which lane you need to be in (and the arrows to 'help' you are painted on the road, which, y'know, is covered by other cars ), the software on self-service checkouts (it would take one person using it once before rolling it out to see that it doesn't work properly), the input/source selection on a TV (too shitty to even try and explain here), websites that look like utter gooseberry fool and don't work (especially on mobile), the end-to-end process of buying tickets for something online being utter wank and far too drawn out and illogical...I've had issues with all of these in the last week alone - strawberry floating useless

Blows my mind how crap things are and this stuff just gets the go-ahead and put into everyday use

I can tell you designers often don't get to design stuff, are forced to implement methodologies that are stupid by whoever is paying them (often not allowing you to actually do your job of, y'know, designing stuff), clients refuse to do any kind of user testing, don't actually follow through with that or cheap out from following the design process completely and focus only on implementation and engineering to get the product to market as quickly and cheaply as possible. They don't understand design is an iterative process that requires improvement upon improvement on already good ideas (there often isn't the budget to redo bad ideas). And then nobody wants to use it and the client can't see the end of the story because all they want is the magical solution right now. They can't see what a colossal failure that is.

Squinty wrote:Tech related, got a cheap audio interface, cannot get the thing recognized by my DAW. Spent about 2 hours this morning strawberry floating around with it.

I spent what I would consider an eye watering amount of money yesterday on essentially a midi controller but the implementation was flawless (and bloody rightly so). Still, I feel your pain as I have used a lot of devices and only 15 years later am I actually throwing money at the problem. (As an aside, this is a positive blip, I am rather poor for the UK and make about £5000 a year). I've done my fair share of messing around with drivers. The trouble often is cheap audio interfaces come with strawberry floating dreadful software. Low latency audio (especially on Windows) is hard. It should be better these days but still.

If you want to take it back, I've not had trouble with focusrite hardware and now I'm on SSL for the control side of things which is strawberry floating insane (still using the focusrite interface for io as 10 years later its still working fine over numerous operating systems). They've taken manufacture over to China from Oxford for some things so they have cheap 1 or 2 chanel I interfaces. I say cheap around £150 but I suspect they work given yesterday's experience.

If you bought online you have essentially more rights, return it in as new condition for any reason within 28 days for cash refund. If its faulty you shouldn't have to pay return postage.

Lotus wrote:It's really been pissing me off lately how badly designed everything is. It's like the people who design stuff never actually use it or test it, because if they did, they'd immediately see that things are either really awkward and frustrating to use, or just plain don't work.

Whether it's road layouts where it's not remotely clear which lane you need to be in (and the arrows to 'help' you are painted on the road, which, y'know, is covered by other cars ), the software on self-service checkouts (it would take one person using it once before rolling it out to see that it doesn't work properly), the input/source selection on a TV (too shitty to even try and explain here), websites that look like utter gooseberry fool and don't work (especially on mobile), the end-to-end process of buying tickets for something online being utter wank and far too drawn out and illogical...I've had issues with all of these in the last week alone - strawberry floating useless

Blows my mind how crap things are and this stuff just gets the go-ahead and put into everyday use

Wilkos have to have a printed instruction card wrapped around the monitor because their self service machines are so poorly designed.