Mildly Infuriating

Need to complain. I tried to call my doctor's office and it was impossible to speak to a person. The AI kept telling me over and over that they care about my pronouns. I don't care about my pronouns, I just wanted to speak to a person. It's Seattle idk what I expected

slow in performance (short-lived bursty TCP connections) if it was ever used to transfer resource heavy HTML pages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol)#Reception

Well duh. A bicycle is also overloaded and cumbersome, if it was ever used as a car.

Edit: to clarify, the whole point of the gemini web is to avoid heavy and complex site layouts. Automatic embedding and stuff just doesn't happen there. Also doesn't use HTML but Gemtext. So, short-lived and bursty connections, are a ideal fit.

macOS recently introduced the ability to limit your battery to only charge up to 80%, a feature that I personally appreciate as I'm mostly using my MacBook plugged into a dock and it's arguably a great way to limit the ageing of the unit.

There's just one huge problem. Well, two actually. Firstly it doesn't allow me to set a minimum charge ("start charging when battery is at X%"), so when it falls to 79% it just tops it back up to 80, not a big deal but slightly annoying. The much bigger issue is that the charge limit apparently isn't being saved to the battery firmware itself so when the MacBook is turned off and plugged into my dock it just keeps on charging to 100%...

Similar issue with my Pixel 9 Pro, it normally sticks to the charge limit quite well, but multiple times a month I'd say it just randomly charges to 100% regardless. Apparently that's to calibrate the battery or something? As far as I know you have to do a complete cycle to calibrate a battery which 80% to 100% isn't, also I don't think a Li-ion battery needs to be calibrated this often, does it?

To contrast, KDE Plasma retains the limit at all times, lets you set a minimum amount and actually tells the battery to always stop charging at that amount.

Am I just not getting something about this?

Go easy on me… Post got deleted. So helpless lol

The phrase “tax the rich” can be “just as hateful as some disgusting racial slurs”, according to the New York City billionaire Steve Roth, who said that the top 1% should be “praised and thanked”.

Speaking on his company’s quarterly earnings call on Tuesday, Roth, the CEO of Vornado Realty Trust, expressed his support for fellow billionaire and the CEO of Citadel, Ken Griffin, who was singled out in the 15 April announcement by New York’s mayor, Zohran Mamdani, of the state’s first “pied-à-terre” tax on second homes valued at more than $5m. In a video, Mamdani announced the policy in front of Griffin’s penthouse, which he said was purchased for $238m.

“We are all shocked that our young mayor would pull this stunt in front of Ken’s home and single him out for ridicule,” Roth said. “This was both irresponsible and dangerous.”

Edit: Mamdani's video that sparked this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLKZnVB4F9k

Our kids headteacher just sent out an email saying that they’re changing the school uniform policy. The head seem to have a boner for this as she’s been talking about it in emails for about a year, she actually sent out a potential new uniform about six months ago and it got absolutely panned. She’s finally just sent out a new policy saying that all the polo shorts will be changing from white to blue, they’ve got to have a uniform for when the kids go out to do messy play rather than letting them just wear old clothes, loads of little rules like how leggings aren’t allowed under skirts but tights are, and every kid now basically needs to have a ponytail and they’re only allowed blue hair bobbles to hold it in place.

So basically now all the parents have to go buy new clothes, including for messy play when they get their clothes trashed, and apparently this is supposed to help the kids somehow. There’s already a uniform but the head’s decided it’s not strict enough, during a cost of living crisis. I have no problem affording the new clothes but I know a lot of parents are struggling and the school has bigger problems, not to mention my kid likes picking out different colours of head bobbles, wearing leggings under skirts, etc.

I’m going to complain, anyone got any suggestions?

I know, I know, reddit sucks ass. I've been using firefox with ublock to read the best ofs for the unquenchable need for bullshit drama in my life.

But now it's not just a pop up saying to use the app, but a full ass unpassable thing. Old Reddit still works, but that's just another step for something that's already so not worthwhile.

Welp...

Original Reddit discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1t36b25/neighbor_put_a_game_camera_on_my_property_on_my/

I say basically new because we've had them for maybe a month. Had to run the dishwasher again to get it unstuck. It's a crappy apartment provided dishwasher that doesn't do its job well (notice the food stains that won't come off). There's still melted plastic on the heating element and the plastic fumes are strong.

Edit: I was never taught that you're not supposed to put knives in the dishwasher. Going forward I will wash them by hand. Thank you all for letting me know.

Original Reddit discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1t31mjg/the_handle_on_one_of_our_basically_new_kitchen/

Original Reddit discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1t3ja4g/couldnt_use_toilet_paper_at_a_bathroom_in_nanjing/

You don't fit. Go to your own garage. You are several feet too long.

Original Reddit discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1t3oadt/your_truck_is_stupid_big/

Original Reddit discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1t3lkkq/some_people_really_lack_civic_sense/

Oof.