Little things that annoy the hell out of you

[Ed Oscuro]

America's Internet situation is pretty shitty. Very poor coverage and quality.

can't wait for the comcastification to commence :S

[trap15]

The shitnet can get shittier, true enough

[Blinge]

Is it me or is BritainGentlemanTea&Crumpets Internet still worse than murica?

[Specineff]

People who don't grasp the difference between "Capitol" and "Capital". One's a building, the other's a city. FFS, PPL. SRSLY.

[JBC]

Windows. My laptop went kaput last night. Luckily I had just transferred over 200gb of games to a spare IDE I had lying around. I've learned not to keep anything important on a Windows machine. Maybe with a recovery disk I can retrieve the rest but it's not looking likely. The internal HDD powers on & passes all tests but still says 'no bootable device'. Can't wait to get a Mac when I've got the $$$

[Lord Satori]

Getting banned from the irc over some stupid bullshit. Seriously guys?

(inb4 trap15)

[Xyga]

Isn't that your second time ?
(why do you go there ?)

[Lord Satori]

I admit the first time I was genuinely acting like an idiot. (still don't think it warranted a ban though)

I'm not even going to bother trying to even this time. I've got more important things to deal with than trigger happy mods.

As for why I go there? I guess it could be compared to an abusive relationship of some kind?

[Blinge]

Har harr someone PM me with details please

No offense, satori san..

[emphatic]

Windows. My laptop went kaput last night. Luckily I had just transferred over 200gb of games to a spare IDE I had lying around. I've learned not to keep anything important on a Windows machine. Maybe with a recovery disk I can retrieve the rest but it's not looking likely. The internal HDD powers on & passes all tests but still says 'no bootable device'. Can't wait to get a Mac when I've got the $$$

How you gonna play your Windows games on the Mac?

[Lord Satori]

Actually all I did was correct someone when they spelled a word wrong. Trap15 (note that the person who actually spelled said word wrong didn't say a thing) makes a bullshit comment about "being this way in real life", I pointed out that nobody acts the same way in real life, I went idle for a bit, and when I come back I'm banned. I don't understand it at all, and at this point I just don't care anymore.

emphatic: There's a program called "Bootcamp" that lets you run a Windows OS (or anything else I guess?) on a partition along with the MAC OS it comes with. I have the same setup and I find it works.

[mastermx]

If that's what actually happened. Then I support the satori cause. Where would we be without some mindless banter everyone now and again.

[JBC]

Windows. My laptop went kaput last night. Luckily I had just transferred over 200gb of games to a spare IDE I had lying around. I've learned not to keep anything important on a Windows machine. Maybe with a recovery disk I can retrieve the rest but it's not looking likely. The internal HDD powers on & passes all tests but still says 'no bootable device'. Can't wait to get a Mac when I've got the $$$

How you gonna play your Windows games on the Mac?

Oh, they weren't Windows games

[emphatic]

emphatic: There's a program called "Bootcamp" that lets you run a Windows OS (or anything else I guess?) on a partition along with the MAC OS it comes with. I have the same setup and I find it works.

I know about Boot camp. Also, generally, it's safe to assume that when someone complains about Windows sucking, they don't buy a Mac just so they can run that sucky Windows on it.

Oh, they weren't Windows games

[Vurpa]

Ebays global shipping programme (trying to force me to pay x4 the amount of shipping for extra "safety" when it's worked perfectly fine for over 15 years), the disappearance of the .se site (forcing me to have to message any and every seller not specifying shipping), the support system when a seller tries to scam you on shipping + new autoforcing of quick payment when that issue arises (wait it out>get payment strike>have Ebay warn YOU>have them take it away in a display of infinite kindness after you copy/paste entire mail conversations where the seller incriminates himself>get lectured because you didn't came to an agreement about shipping first [even though you did and the message history shows it], see seller relist as if nothing happened), Their policy of letting fraudulent and previously suspended sellers back, Tradera's support (only took them 10 years to fix perma log in after repeatedly asking them since 03) and finally Tradera's raised fees VS scrapped functions (especially the groups).

Why does seemingly everything Ebay touch turn to shit?

[Strikers1945guy]

^^^ eBay has gotten so bad and expensive for all parties involved in just avoid it at all costs now :/

[rancor]

Agreed - scamming and fees has ruined a once great idea. I don't even bother with eBay anymore for anything.

[Rob]

Ebay was pretty cool in the 90s. Where else were you going to buy gooed up Thundercats tapes?

Luckily I realized collecting stuff was a mind disease and it's no longer an issue.

The last time I sold some shit someone whined at me about global shipping. Dude, it's your fault for living in a weird country.

[Immryr]

youtube channels which automatically play a video when you click on em.

[emphatic]

youtube channels which automatically play a video when you click on em.

Yeah. This is a dick move. I also tend to hate Youtube videos where there's some extremely loud theme music and then the spoken parts are almost whispered by some nerd.

[JBC]

youtube channels which automatically play a video when you click on em.

Yeah. This is a dick move. I also tend to hate Youtube videos where there's some extremely loud theme music and then the spoken parts are almost whispered by some nerd.

I hate when you sit through the intro & then some jackanape starts yelling in their best radio voice & fails to be cool or funny while not getting straight to the point in order to gain followers to fill the void in their lonely, lonely lives.

Wanna review video games? Talk about the game from second 1 & stop wasting my time. Same problem with podcasts except it's even worse due to the minimal effort involved. You'll get 30 minutes of horseshit before they ever talk about what the very episode is titled after.

[Damocles]

youtube channels which automatically play a video when you click on em.

Any webpage with autoplay videos. I'm looking at you, CNN.

[SuperGrafx]

Lately it's been cashiers who operate cash registers

It's as if the electronic age with its e-payments and digital everything has made people stupid when it comes to basic math. Each time I buy some small item with cash, I swear I have to correct the person manning the cash register to ensure they give me back the right amount of change.

[Lord Satori]

Lately it's been cashiers who operate cash registers

It's as if the electronic age with its e-payments and digital everything has made people stupid when it comes to basic math. Each time I buy some small item with cash, I swear I have to correct the person manning the cash register to ensure they give me back the right amount of change.

I always end up getting an extra quarter or something, so I'm not complaining?

[null1024]

youtube channels which automatically play a video when you click on em.

nearly every YouTube problem can be solved with YouTube Center [install Tampermonkey first if using Chrome [IIRC, Chrome's built-in userscript system has issues with YTC], then install the userscript version]

https://github.com/YePpHa/YouTubeCenter/wiki

Seriously, it makes YouTube enjoyable to use again. YouTube autoplay will never darken your doorstep again.
IIRC, it has a few silly default options [I like the normal YT player size, so I disable YTC's resize option], but it's overall vastly improved.

[Despatche]

May as well use ViewTube at that point.

[Ed Oscuro]

FlashBlock *or* NoScript (I'm actually running both at the same time, it can cause problems) will also stop Flash dead in its tracks. I prefer FlashBlock's individual click-to-play model over the universal "click to activate" model in Firefox, but it's not bulletproof.

[Vurpa]

^^^ eBay has gotten so bad and expensive for all parties involved in just avoid it at all costs now :/

Agreed - scamming and fees has ruined a once great idea. I don't even bother with eBay anymore for anything.

Oh I try my best not to but wanted to find mp3s for training (may have to look at YJ for those as well despite japanese menus). Opens at £10 with shipping on the cheap at 17£...

Royal Mail used to be like a tenner below that tops. This is within the EU no customs applied.

Ebay was pretty cool in the 90s. Where else were you going to buy gooed up Thundercats tapes?

Luckily I realized collecting stuff was a mind disease and it's no longer an issue.

The last time I sold some shit someone whined at me about global shipping. Dude, it's your fault for living in a weird country.

Mean.

Nah can't argue with living in a weird country. Stately employed TV channel employee recently smuggled random Syrian from Greece (or "helped him escape" because Greece is such a hellhole...) to Sweden AND films it in contradiction with EU laws to broadcast on that same channel. Customs: "aight np we'll look through the fingers on this one it's just a human after all...".

Try to import stuff when not through Jeff/marked correctly = "Hi I work with customs and besides being blind I'm also illiterate and legally retarded. How can I be of service in relieving you from your money and lose your stuff today? I'm rubbing myself as we speak!". If you've seen the SP episode with the cable company that's pretty much how I see our customs.

On the above subject of Youtube those ads that first buffer...and then suddenly come on at 190% the volume of the videos.

[SuperGrafx]

Is it just me, or do people seem to sneeze excessively these days?
Not a day goes by at the office without some hypochondriac bursting out into an obnoxiously loud sneezing fit.

[Lord Satori]

^
Sneezing is the SHIT, man. There's nothing more satisfying than a good sneeze. After awhile it get a bit annoying, but it's worth it!