Things that infuriate you well beyond their actual importance

In My Humble Opinion
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I don’t know the German keyboard at all but I long ago abandoned the Canadian French one and use US-International instead. It, or something similar, might be worth looking into for you. I can type away in Franglais to my heart’s content.

The only character I can think of from my limited German knowledge that might not be straightforward is the eszett, but I’ve also never needed to use it. I’m on a phone now, so I can’t test it, but it might me ctrl+&+S?

The thing annoying me today is the apparent 2" left-hand offset to the TV installation on the wall of the hotel room I’m in. There’s a wooden background frame for the TV on the wall, yet this damn thing isn’t centered. It’s also slightly #TVTooHigh even for bef viewing but that’s to be expected in hotel rooms, in my experience.

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To add to annoying IT stories, several years ago IT was setting up a new laptop for me. I got a call on my desk phone (that’s how long ago it was) from someone who said they were from IT, and could I tell him my password to the company network so he could finish setting up the PC. My first thought was phishing, but it was an internal number and he did know I was getting a new PC, so my second thought was he was testing me. So I told him, no, I wouldn’t give him my password, that’s a violation of company policy. He actually got kind of annoyed, and said “Well, if you won’t give me your password, you’re just going to have to come up here to IT and type it in yourself!” Which I did, and took about 5 minutes.

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Our genius company simultaneously has constant anti-phishing surveys and tests which management gets scored/punished against for compliance, while simultaneously outsourcing much of their HR and business communications to external hosting services and contractors that are outside the domain address.

No, boss, I did not click on the hot mandatory T&C action from HR that you needed by close of business, and I will not until either they send it from inside the company domain, or you stop with the anti-phishing crap and implement an effective firewall.

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My employer solved that by:

  1. for really critical things, they sent us an email from a known person with a standard email within the company domain, that said, “expect an email that looks like this from this domain next week”
  2. for anything, i could click the “this is a suspicious email” button, and if it was legit, I’d get a reply from that system saying so.
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Wow! That’s wild.

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The shoelace on my right work shoe migrates to the right. Meaning the right-side lace end is much longer than the left. Every 2 weeks or so I need to re-adjust the lace.

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Preach!

Yeah. I write a bit in German and French (for me, many words in those and other languages are easy to remember, because I know the words) and use some other special characters. Yes, I’m familiar with the nerd thing of using the numeric keypad, which I happen to think is Simple Jack hard-R, but am endlessly frustrated when I have to use WinShit3000 at work and have to set up their crap system of compose keys.

It’s a royal PITA. Just let me use diacritics in my passwords! Oh, wait, WinFuck makes it a royal PITA to even set up a compose key.

And, yes, I use Arch, BTW! :rofl: (Trust me, it’s an old joke/meme thing…trust me, there is nothing special about Arch Linux…it’s the same as any other, but you have some more control since you do it yourself. and don’t get rickrollled into using Canonical’s crap). Granted I rolled over to using KDE Plasma with my own custom Arch as my daily driver except when VPNing into work from home or being forced to use WinShit at work.

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Some of the flashlights I use at home spontaneously go into strobe mode. Why is this even a thing? I want that never.

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I think it’s supposed to be in case you need to signal for help though, yeah, it’s just one more button press I have to go through to turn it off. Would be super annoying if it just happened without me even clicking to that mode.

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My flashlights must think I’m in frequent distress. :slightly_smiling_face:

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Yeah, that’s a good one I’d forgotten about.

It seems lately more LED flashlights have become hip to how annoying that “SOS” or strobe “feature” is and provide more cromulent means to avoid activating those modes when undesired. A button on the butt end of the light, for example, that just activates high beam initially, and some other schemes.

I could see using the strobe if stranded on a dark road somewhere, changing a tire or similar…but not regularly.

I couldn’t say about your own light spontaneously just deciding to light up…I’m assuming without any input on your part…that likely would have been tossed out of a window on first occurrence.

Probably a poltergeist.

LOL. Definitely a poltergeist!

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Here’s some fresh meat, though.

Yeah, I understand that not all casual pants (for men) come with the increasingly common “utility pocket” on the thigh…let’s be real, it’s a cell phone pocket!

But if I buy a pair of jeans from, say, Duluth Trading…and it doesn’t have the “utility” pocket? I feel cheated! Or, more likely didn’t read the fine print, but IMHO, while they make some good pants, I think it’s on the way to being a failed company with neither acumen nor reputation any longer.

Yes, I suppose I can make do but smashing a phone into a [sic, on purpose] ass pocket…

And I don’t expect such a pocket on various other forms of trousers…but when wearing those, I’ll usually be wearing a sportcoat, which often has various other even more convenient pockets more than suitable for the purpose.

Yeah, yeah, I know, we men have it so rough compared to the gals who are lucky to get any decent pockets in any clothing…

But it still annoys me! Should be standard pocket equipment on any kind of casual trousers these days.

Damn them.

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Utility pocket? On jeans?

Are you talking about ‘cargo’ pants?

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Fashionably dark denim jeans, khakis of good quality, canvas work pants for when you’re working the back forty or whatever…and probably just those three categories.

Those are what I’d consider “casual” trousers.

Oh, also shorts…Carhartt makes some OK shorts that are decidedly not cargo shorts, but they do have the “utility” pocket. Actually, fairly trim and, while not the height of fashion, they can be worn in public!

I haven’t worn cargo pants/shorts for ages…I suppose you could shove a phone in those voluminous pockets, but I prefer not to.

Cargo pants are dead to me! Never again! :rofl:

The little “utility” pocket kind of recedes into the shape of the pant or short…more than once someone looked at me retrieving my phone as though I were a magician grabbing some doves out of a top hat…“Howdy Dodat?” “Where’d it come from?”

ETA I suppose it’s possible I could have somebody make some made-to-measure woolen trousers with a similar pocket…but, again, I’d be wearing a sportcoat with real pants, so no need.

Or even with decent khakis or jeans, yeah, the sportcoat solves everything.

Doesn’t add much if any bulk to the “line” of the trousers, and it’s a damn shame it isn’t standard equipment.

Cannot stand just shoving my phone in a ass pocket. That leads to one direction only: Costanza.

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And, no, one would have to have the eye of an eagle, or be some kind of fashionista, to notice the “utility” pocket, whether it were empty or contained, say, a slender phone.

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I have zero idea what you are talking about here. “Utility pocket?” Where? Specifically. On whose pants/shorts? Because I’m not seeing them on Carhartt shorts anywhere except cargo.

As for phone, that’s what the left front pocket is for.

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Best not go there.

I’m still a bit confused about the utility pocket myself.

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Hey, that’s where my phone lives, too. I have them made deeper, so the phone fits comfortably “below the fold” when i am sitting.

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Same. Left front pocket for phone. Add me to the ones confused about what a utility pocket on jeans would be, unless they are the baggy carpenter-style with giant side pockets. Hardly what I would think of as “fashionable”…

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Anyone else read this as a Simon and Garfunkel lyric?

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Well, maybe in some alternate universe! That’s where a handkerchief, pocketknife, and keys go!

Right front pocket? Wallet, pair of dice.

Ain’t no room for no phone up there!

Well, considering I never ever wear cargo shorts nor cargo pants, I’m positive I’ve not hallucinated these multiple articles of clothing featuring a utility pocket.

Here’s an example of shorts. Utilitarian, to be sure, but not at all cargo shorts.

And here’s a pair of pants with the same pocket: