Mildly Infuriating

Waking up every day and drinking that Hatorade.

If you don't like anything on the the platform, why stick around?

My family has watched CNN's NYE show every year since Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper were on. This year, it's locked behind a paywall. Cannot stream it on any service without paying

Kept trying for 20mins, decided to be patient and just try again the next day...

(Generic label used for illustrative purposes)

Instead of having the directions clearly, consistently, and conveniently at the top, it's expects you to unfurl the damn label like a scroll, read through the tiny print until you get to the directions and dosing information.

I've already got a headache. I don't need to be squinting at this tiny text to try to find the one bit of relevant info I need. I just want my headache to go away for a while.

It's not just aspirin, ibuprofen, etc. It seems like everything with a label is like this now.

This is the view out the northern window in my bathroom. My neighbor has been cleaning their yard for years, which has just involved them piling garbage in a trailer. The trailer has never been emptied, and At this point I doubt they could move it without the majority of the trash falling out.

Luckily the fence on that side of the yard is 6 feet, so I do not really see the trash under normal circumstances.

Is this stuff really not turning away more customers than it's bringing in?

Yes, please, hide options in a place of the window that simply cannot be accessed

This evening the thought, "who first said they were lost in the sauce?" Passed through my head. Googled "lost in the sauce etymology" and much of the Internet claims that Gucci Mane coined the phrase in 2013. The band Ween has a beautiful song released in 1997 featuring the lyrics "Lost in the sauce once again." This predates Gucci Mane's usage by 16 years and is surely not the first time the phrase has been used. The misinformation and misattribution is very mildly infuriating.

Please post the earliest usage of lost in the sauce you can find so we can right this wrong.

Because it takes more effort to get it wrong.

I just am mildly infuriated by this headline style. Obligatory SLAMS also.

Merry Christmas!

It was a no from me... I don't want an account and a dedicated launcher just to play a game that I am not even sure I'll get into

Where I live, we don't yet have those cards. I despise the idea of them and hate getting caught out by them (I'm looking at you Tesco and Lidl).

Normal price for something - 0.49 (in stores without these cards) But in their store it's only that price with their 'club card' or 'plus membership'.

Otherwise it's 1.59

There are loads of other items with high markups.

BUT - the marked price is the normal store price to the inexperienced shopper of these data collecting stores, with the blind spot being the need to have a store card to get the 'discount'. My full shop was an extra 103.46 altogether between the two stores (51.22 in one 52.24 in the other) rushing to get christmas dinner and dining and extras. Should be banned. /rant

The government doing a sick job of protecting consumers. /s

Looking at buying a handheld PC, and none of the review sites cover OEMs like ayaneo or onexplayer in their head-to-hear breakdowns, so I can't get an idea how those ones compare to the major OEMs.
It's frustrating because those small OEMs are the only ones that support eGPUs
But it's only mildly frustrating because honestly I know my usecase is a bit of an edge case.

Here's one that is truly mild — at least to most people. One, since most people aren't Mac users. And two, since most Windows users probably don't know about this Windows feature. But, onward.

One thing I like about the Mac is how it handles symbols. I'm a Mac user of about 2-3 years now, but I've been using Windows for over 30 years. On a Windows machine, I know if I hold ALT and strike 0151 on the number pad, it makes an em dash (—). But, on a Mac, just like on an iPhone or Android phone, you can get a lot of symbols just by holding a letter or number (on Windows, it just spams the letter or number). Making an em dash is a little different though, you hold Shift and Option and tap Dash/Hyphen.

I'm not sure if it's because ChatGPT/other LLMs (AIs) have made use of the em dash or if people are talking about it more, but either way, it's starting to make a comeback. (I've been using it all along — you can blame me for AIs using it.)

Anyway, Microsoft decided to copy the Mac shortcut using the exact same muscle memory shortcut. Shift is Shift on both keyboards, but where Option is on my Mac keyboard, is where the Windows key is on a Windows keyboard. I heard they were doing this, but I didn't believe it until it happened. In Office programs (such as Outlook), if you hold Shift and Windows (key) and hit Hyphen/Dash, it makes an em dash. But, it only does it in Office. It works in Word, but not in Notepad. And I do use Word at work, and Excel, but I also use Notepad and StickyNotes.

So, it's mildly infuriating that the shortcut I learned on my Macs works on Windows now — but only in some applications. Knowing which ones doesn't help.

That said, if Microsoft could get away with copying how Apple/macOS handles symbols, it would just be good for everyone. Like how do you make the º symbol? I used to know the alt code? 0186? Something like that. IIRC it's a hook or arc shape. On Mac it's just Option+0. Option+3 makes £ (it would be Shift+3 on an en_GB keyboard, or painted above the 3 on a keyboard sold in the UK) and Option+4 makes ¢. It's worth opening a text file and seeing what makes what and making note of what you might use. Or not, you could say degrees, pounds/GBP, or cents, and everyone knows what you mean. I just think it's nice to know how to make the proper symbols.

I actually deleted the health app from my sad-pad thinking maybe the bullshit would stop 😢

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

Yaaarrh

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.

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.

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