I hate those things, and I got one without a vent hole once. After it sitting for a couple of weeks the damned thing had some pressure in it, when I went to pour some it spit gas everywhere. I ended up putting a hole in it so it wouldn’t do that again.
There’s a copier at the historical society that I volunteer at. For some reason there is no way to tell the copier to always copy to 8x11, it always sets itself to auto pick the size. It’s so annoying because it always picks the 11x14 size no matter what. I tried taking that paper out and it wouldn’t copy at all. You can set it for each copy, but after about 5 seconds it would rest itself. It sucked trying to make copies of books as it would always print out these big, in color pages, when all I needed was black and white normal sized pages.
I’ve never noticed this - but I also don’t recall seeing signs about the locking carts in large suburban parking lots. Only in relatively small parking lots in the city, where people have actually been known to use the store shopping carts to transport their purchases home. The ones that before locking shopping carts didn’t even let you wheel the cart to your car , like this . Maybe these system are only meant for lots up to a certain size.
I went to Ace Hardware yesterday for a replacement spark plug. They were securely locked behind padlocked plexiglass doors on their section of the shelf. There was nothing on the sides – just open space. The clerk didn’t have the keys and just reached around to grab the item I needed.
They had literally blocked off a 3 foot section of shelf, only on the front. I could reach everything inside easily.
I used to shop at a store that had these. There were lines painted on the parking lot which apparently were meant to delineate the border of the range. I know this because one time when I was parked at the back of the lot I rolled my cart over the line for easy unloading access, and the cart immediately locked up. And of course the nearest cart corral was too far away to drag the cart to, so I ended up just leaving the cart in the dead zone.
Surprised no one has mentioned the USB connector. Unless you look very carefully, you have a 50/50 chance of correctly orienting it. (At least the first time. After that, you have to remember - for that device - if the seam in the plug should be up or down.) Stupid.
The name-brand version I buy when on sale has a nice hard-plastic nipple that allows one to direct the flow and volume of the fluid. Basically a little convex cone with a hole at the tip. Perfect!
The Costco brand version which I sometimes buy has an inverted nipple. Basically a little concave cone pointed into the bottle, with the hole at the tip of cone. This shape makes it impossible to control the direction and volume of the flow. You can drip a few drops well enough. But as more pressure is applied, the direction of the stream becomes chaotic. It’s slow or messy (or both!) to fill the lens case.
I’ve never in my life had a cart lock up while pushing it within its parking lot. Locking carts are neither universal nor rare around here. They do seem to be more a feature of lower SES neighborhoods than higher. Which is not quite the same thing as low- versus high-density.
I wonder if @Asuka happens to frequent a store where one or more of their parking lot transmitters is inop. Perhaps talking to the store management will give them/us a clue.
Note to music player manufacturers: NO ONE wants to listen to music alphabetically. So why does my car player default to that? In the meantime, people DO want to hear albums in proper song order, which my player cannot do.
So why can’t my player do that? I can only ‘shuffle’ all songs on the USB stick, which can cause a classical song to play, followed by a rap or metal song), or play them alphabetically. Ridiculous.
Agreed as to classical works, which includes operas too. Keeping the album together in order matters.
And for non-classical recordings, the one order I would never want is songs in an album together. I don’t think of albums as a coherent organized collection; just a grab bag of one act’s stuff from one short period of time. I’d much rather have a random shuffle across the whole collection.
ISTM the alphabetic organization is mostly to make it easy to scroll through and find something by the song title. Or to search (find really) by entering just a couple of letters.
And in effect it amounts to a random shuffle in that each song will be unrelated to any of the few on either side of it. My supply of songs is up around 3000 and listening to the whole pile in alphabetical order takes a long time. Like a few months of driving. There’s no way I’m going to complain that I always hear e.g. “Let it be” followed by “Let’s be friends”. I’m just not going to remember any of the sequence well enough for that. It’ll seem like a new fresh random order every time I run through the list even though it’s really unchanging.
The punch line being: it’s clearly the case that different users have different use cases. Why any one player has any particular subset of all imaginable features comes down to decisions by managers and developers. If someone is not happy with the features of their particular music player, there are probably alternatives available with different feature sets.
Here on the 'Dope, yes. IRL, not really. My new wife is especially immune / oblivious to my brand of humor. That’s disappointing.
Until the demise of albums in general and for explicit compilations, albums of songs were all recorded specifically for said album, not randomly thrown together from existing material. Many albums are ordered in a carefully selected structure, some more than others.
That doesn’t surprise me. But even back in the heyday of the LP album that was always them casting pearls before this particular swine.
To me it always seemed to be just a bunch of songs, generally with a couple of good ones and a bunch of meh. Merely the classic 45RPM single A-side vs B-side dichotomy but with a couple intermediate points thrown in to fill the time.
I make no claim to be a sophisticated or knowledgeable consumer of music. Not then, not now.
There are many albums which need to be listened to as albums. Rock operas, for example. ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ is much better as an album than as seperate songs. Many albums have songs that lead into other songs, or have short instrumental breaks between them that ties them together.
On my car player, an instrumental break shows up as its own random song, about 15 seconds long, between two completely unrelated tracks.
Gathering customer requirements should not be this hard. The preferences for playing music are well known, and the code for enabling this should be common and trivial. And yet, I see horrendous usability issues in media players and car interfaces all the time.
Another one that drives me crazy: The steering wheel controls in my car have play/stop, and advance track/go back a track. There is no pause button. You know, the thing you have to do when your phone rings, or you want to talk to someone in the car, or you go through a drive-through… It’s not a huge inconvenience for a song, but maddening if you are halfway through a 2 hour podcast.
Except when it resets itself back to the top of the order every few days, and you’re constantly listening to only A-E.
My related music interface complaint: The Spotify interface in my car doesn’t remember position for each playlist, just the last position in the current playlist. My wife usually selects one of the Daily Mix auto created playlists, which means we end up listening to the same 50 or so songs over and over. Kind of like listening to a real radio station.
I’m sure the reasons are some deeply complex interactions between Spotify and the car’s media system, but come on, the car has a sophisticated AI system to (more or less) drive itself, and it can’t save position in a playlist?
