Little things that annoy the hell out of you

[emphatic]

Chrome browser no longer accept backspace as 'Back' because some schmucks accidentally "lost data" by backing out of forms and complained about it. Instead, you now have to use alt + arrows.

Yeah, I found that out too some time ago. Luckily, a kind soul made this and all was well again.

Godsend. Thank you.


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[neorichieb1971]

Went to work yesterday for a meeting 2.5 hours before I was supposed to start my normal shift. So essentially my own time.

When I got there I found the person I had a meeting with got a family request to babysit a baby and took the day off.

So then instead I went into my own area to find the shift on had 3 issues unresolved and were doing nothing about it. I fixed all 3 in 30 minutes. At least my time was well spent.


I am finding work forces have a mixture of people that work hard, people that care, people that count down the minutes until the end of the day, and those who just don't give a shit.

Meanwhile the managers don't care how the work gets done, just as long as it gets done. So muggins here ends up doing his own shift, cleaning after the other shifts and on top of that I do projects as well that the others don't.

I was supposed to get a payrise last year but at the last minute the directors decided a 1% payrise across the company.

Just wanted to rant somewhere. Life is a bit unfair sometimes.

[nissling]

Dead pixels in the middle of your screen. Man I hate that crap.

[Astraea FGA Mk. I]

I don't like it when people call me CIS or tell me to check my priviledge.

[atheistgod1999]

I don't like it when people call me CIS or tell me to check my priviledge [sic].

Me neither. You should troll them.

[Specineff]

I don't like it when people call me CIS or tell me to check my priviledge.

I found a good response to that somewhere: "I did. You're still wrong; deal with it."

[atheistgod1999]

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[MOSQUITO FIGHTER]

Bullets in shmup games..?

[Lord Satori]

Companies that come down on people for making fangames.

Fuck the fact you've been working on this for ten years. Instead of taking it like the compliment and tribute that it is, we're going to blow it out of the water like a vindictive ex-wife.

Why is it that only indie companies seem to be happy when people enjoy their shit?

[trap15]

As said many times before, they are obligated to send desist letters otherwise they lose enforcement of the trademark (and copyright? forget).

[atheistgod1999]

The people making the fangame don't have the right to the IP, though.

[Xyga]

Xyga's new place animal encounter series ep 224;
Minutes ago there was a badger in my garden, eating the fruits fallen from a prunus tree.
Cute, but at the same time I don't want it to think it's okay to crash at my place for a meal and chill just like that, so I've tried to shoo it away...
...the bastard shoo'd me away.

[Lord Satori]

As said many times before, they are obligated to send desist letters otherwise they lose enforcement of the trademark (and copyright? forget).

The people making the fangame don't have the right to the IP, though.

Fuck that. There are plenty of alternative forms of ownership that don't require you to be a complete assbag to your fans. Considering how imperfect and inconsistent it is, it hardly sounds worth it.

Imagine how shit a franchise that relies on fandom like Touhou (or anything else, really) would be if they were subjected to this kind of enforcement.

[Mischief Maker]

Imagine how shit a franchise that relies on fandom like Touhou (or anything else, really) would be if they were subjected to this kind of enforcement.

I think in the case of Touhou, a blanket cease and desist would be a massive improvement.

[mamboFoxtrot]

Aren't Touhou's characters/music/etc considered public domain, though?


In other news, Steam has entirely too many games on it. I really hope the meme-games and deliberately low-effort indie games fad dies out eventually.

[atheistgod1999]

Aren't Touhou's characters/music/etc considered public domain, though?


In other news, Steam has entirely too many games on it. I really hope the meme-games and deliberately low-effort indie games fad dies out eventually.

Probably won't die out until people like PewDiePie lose popularity (or vice-versa).

[null1024]

As said many times before, they are obligated to send desist letters otherwise they lose enforcement of the trademark (and copyright? forget).

Trademark needs pretty much constant protection, since trademark length is indefinite, and everything I'm reading up about it makes me feel like any famous trademark owner should be in a constant state of panic since there are a lot of things that could dilute the mark and cause it to no longer be valid. On the other hand, since Xerox, Hoover, and iPod are still trademarks [somehow], I'm pretty sure it'd take a bit more than I'm thinking for a trademark to be lost.
There's a gray area regarding parody and particularly around fan-works, which typically flutter in/out of being in the realm of trademark parody protection.

On the other hand, copyright doesn't, and an author is pretty free to act [or not act] as they will with their property without losing their rights over it. Ostensibly, copyright length is finite [ ] and has a fixed minimum length. Just because someone else uses your work and you do nothing doesn't stop it from being under copyright protection if you do decide to do something about it later on [although it may affect how much you can receive when suing].

Aren't Touhou's characters/music/etc considered public domain, though?

Nope! ZUN set up some specific guidelines of his own for use in fan works, and he either turns a blind eye/doesn't know about a fair couple of things.

on a vaguely related note, the Vocaloids [Miku, Len, Rin, Luka, KAITO, MEIKO] are CC BY-NC licensed, so you can pretty much do whatever with them other than sell shit using them

[cave hermit]

Fucking printers.

I just want to plug in a printer with a USB cable so I can print out some documents.

First printer I buy, it can't detect the USB connection. After 2 hours I end up returning it and trying another printer.

Second printer, the driver installer keeps spitting out an error during installation so the printer control program installs without the actual printer drivers. I uninstall (through a menu in the control program, since there is no add/remove listing for it to remove it otherwise, this is important later), and also have to use another tool to remove the plug and play drivers.

I eventually realize after another hour or so of trying that the print spooler Windows service isn't running for some reason and that's the problem. I start it and then try to install the drivers. It works. However the print spooler service keeps stopping every few minutes, making printing large document batches incredibly frustrating.

I uninstall every old printer driver I could find before reinstalling this printer's drivers. No dice.

I go to the system32 folder for the spooler and create a new drivers folder while renaming the old one to something else.

Now installing the driver program installs the fax and scanner drivers, but not the printer driver anymore.

When I try uninstalling again (it has been 2 more hours at this point), my laptop decides to restart itself in the middle of the uninstallation.

Now I'm stuck with half uninstalled drivers and the half uninstalled printer control program, which will no longer boot since it is partially removed. Since it did not create an add/remove programs entry in Windows, there is no apparent way to get rid of the now broken control program and the drivers.

God fucking damn it I move into my dorm room yesterday and already I have to deal with this fucking bullshit I just wanted to print a fucking PowerPoint

[TransatlanticFoe]

I assumed setting up my printer for wireless would be more hassle than simply plugging the USB cable in... nope. Just the scan drivers would install. It works wirelessly fine but god damn literally every other device I've ever plugged in to a USB port has worked fine - except printers. Do the Windows default drivers work? Can Windows find the right ones through its obtuse automatic search? Does the disc actually have working drivers (haha nope)? Does the manufacturer's website have working drivers hidden somewhere? Why does the Vista driver work on Windows 7 but not the Windows 7 one and why is this listed by the manufacturer as a workaround (actual issue with an HP printer my parents have)?

Seriously, fuck fucking printers

[PAPER/ARTILLERY]

Printers are always dickheads, it's just a fact of life

[BulletMagnet]

The fact that gas stations now insist on charging you for the air you fill your tires with.

[null1024]

The fact that gas stations now insist on charging you for the air you fill your tires with.

Now?
man, it's been more than a decade since I've seen free air for tire filling at the gas stations, you usually need to put a quarter or two in

[null1024]

Fucking printers.

Printers are one of the worst devices. There's a fuckton of moving parts and liquids everywhere and consumer grade printers are practically built to be ink guzzling unreliable pieces of shit.
Who's the manufacturer, anyway?

Laser printers are a bit better about reliability [and being fast is pretty nice] -- but if you want color, enjoy paying more than $300-400 for a printer, and then like $100+ for a full set of replacement toner carts for it [B/W laser printers are pretty cheap though, $120 for a printer, $40 for toner, if you don't need color and do a lot of printing, it's a good option].

All that being said, when I was on campus at uni and needed to print, I just took a USB stick to the print shop or library and paid up, less hassle.
besides, they had color laser printing there

As for the drivers thing, try rolling back with a system restore point?
mind you, I've never actually had that fix anything [what you'd ideally want is a registry backup from just before the installation, and you probably don't have that, I know I've never gotten that lucky], but it's supposed to be the solution for issues that happen mid-installation doing weird shit to the machine

[edit]
whoops, didn't mean to double post
oh well

[BulletMagnet]

Now?
man, it's been more than a decade since I've seen free air for tire filling at the gas stations, you usually need to put a quarter or two in

Around here it's a full dollar...I dunno, guess my memory's been playing tricks on me, it doesn't seem THAT long ago that at least one or two stations in the area would just have the air hose plugged into the wall and you could just drive up and top your tires off. Guess the massive amounts of cash the early-adopting pay-for-air guys have been making forced them to follow suit to stay competitive or something.

[cave hermit]

It's a Brother printer; I originally bought a HP printer, but returned it before I found out the issue was with the laptop. Of course the laptop was almost certainly screwed up from HP drivers year earlier...

The very first thing I tried to do when the uninstallation screwed up was attempt a rollback, but it appears that the laptop had never been configured for restore points, and there were no rollbacks available.

At this point I have wasted enough time on this shit, so next time I head home I'm just going to toss the laptop at Geek Squad and have them try to fix it. In the meantime, my dad has unlimited free printing at his workplace for the lecture powerpoints that are posted early (of course I won't be able to pick them up until a weekend), and I can just dip into my free sheets for the semester for whatever lecture notes and reports I have to print out right away.

[Xyga]

Lol I was about to purchase a Brother laser printer. :p
(coz feeding my epson inkjet is like giving it my own blood)

To be fair all brands are a mess of connectivity drivers and network communication.
I've always suspected that industry to make things complicated and expensive on purpose.

[Durandal]

Olympic basketball AKA AMERICA WINSball

[emphatic]

I went to the dump with our Brother A3 printer/scanner/copier a few weeks back. Felt fucking great. I might get a b/w laser printer at the highest resolution though, but no more colour printers here, cause they just break.

[null1024]

I went to the dump with our Brother A3 printer/scanner/copier a few weeks back. Felt fucking great. I might get a b/w laser printer at the highest resolution though, but no more colour printers here, cause they just break.

Heh. Half the reason I still keep my garbage printer around [it's a Canon MX410, go look at the Amazon reviews for it, I only have it because I won it in a raffle] is because it scans shit and I thankfully don't print enough to need to go get a new printer/scanner.

[Zen]

Perhaps not such a "Little things that annoy the hell out of you", as much as giving me a giant case of moral indigestion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ9y8eRsoOE