Seemingly trivial things that annoy you
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I've always been a bit old skool carrying paper copies but this was highlighted once when a flight was cancelled and most people's phones died between realisation something was wrong and finally actually being announced 3 hours later. Who knows what would have happened to those if we'd been transferred?
There was no charging points and everyone was on their phones continually trying to find out what was going on (no easyJet reps) and find solutions. We were escorted out of the airport for "security" and left to fend for ourselves.
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
I used to be old skool, but now as Mr-Two-Phones (I keep the French SIM in a separate phone, so have that back-up) and having done the journey paperless several times, I'd not go back to the paper experience.
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E boarding passes are an enshitification. I am sure boarding takes longer while everyone fannys around unlocking their phone and finding the right app.
Versus a piece of paper, that doesn't go black after 5 seconds.
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I quite liked the system at CDG where you went to a machine, scanned your passport, put in your flight no. and it spewed out a card boarding pass. To be fair, most people have the sense to use queuing time to get the phone ready... I take the precaution of always doing a screencap in case the app or wifi goes down at the wrong moment.
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Can you still print them? I don't have google wallet
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Yep - can do that from the webpage... the app itself seems to have GW as the only option, unless I'm missing a trick.
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Nope, I'm flying tomorrow and I have the same gripe with it.
I also fret that I'll run out of phone battery by the time a delayed easyJet flight boards.
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It's not a fret if you've actually experienced it happening.
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My phone is quite old, so there's some truth in the dinosaur analogy.
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Still a fret, even if it's justified, such as terrorism frets.
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Just go fretless. Be mellow.
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This just sounds like the turnstiles at Liverpool Street. I never understand how it comes as such a surprise to some people that they need a ticket, card or phone handy to pass through.
Not an E ticket thing, just an idiot thing.
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Ditto every tube station at rush hour - no doubt the same people who stop to check their phone one step in front of the top of the escalator at waterloo.
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Or the supermarket shoppers who wait until all their items have been scanned and are told the total cost before they start hunting round for purse/wallet/cards
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OK, so now having easily loaded my next three TGV tickets into Google Wallet, I'm starting to see the benefit. Might not be annoying after all, even if the initial lack of choice was.
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Group of four halfwits actually stopped for a reunion chat halfway down/up the staircase into the station. Maximum tutting.
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Youtube analytics, they are useless. Ever wondered why you get presented with stuff you are not interested in?
I looked in my history to find something that I hadn't finished watching. I had not watched at least 3/4 of the the stuff in my "history" so how their analytics can derive anything is beyond me. I think it works along the line of, if you pause for half a nano-second while scrolling then you've watched it. Garbage.
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I don't know. I was recently presented with some videos of a slightly mad couple having a boundary dispute near a station in the far north of Scotland. It's not that far off.
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Someone else using the same login? The history is pretty accurate.
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Yours is? Not mine.
I've just re-checked. The vast majority of stuff that I have "watched" has been in my Home Page suggestions but I haven't watched them as I wasn't interested. Severely doubt someone else is using the login. I suspect it has more to do with scrolling. Trouble is that my future suggestions will be based on stuff that I haven't watched and explains why most of the suggestions are uninteresting to me. Garbage data in, garbage data out. Garbage algorithms.
Edit:- Yeah 100% scrolling. I deleted 20 unwatched videos from my history and reloaded. Scrolled through my now improved suggestions. Paused a couple of times to read descriptions without watching. Two new videos now show up in my history. Not the ones I was reading though (how would it know?), just random.
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I feel the YT algorithm over aggressively targets the last video watched, bombarding you with similar ones. I’ve got to the point where if I spot something that I might be vaguely interested in, or only need to watch once (like a how to fix… etc), I’ll sometimes not watch, just to avoid the forthcoming flood of suggested videos.
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Facebook’s algorithms seem worse than ever at the moment too. I keep getting bombarded for things I’ve never shown any interest in, mainly local interest groups for parts of the country I rarely visit with other stuff I have zero interest in thrown in the mix like US sports. I keep hitting the ‘not interested’ option then when I go in the next time they are showing again and / or very similar groups. Add in the way FB randomly displays posts (one visit it will be new stuff and the next it will be posts I’ve seen days or weeks earlier) and it seems barely functional. Has Elon Musk taken it over? Luckily I only use it to check on a few groups, if I still used it like I did in the early days I’d be smashing my phone in frustration.
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Yeah, if I go via facebook.com that's all I get, but via https://www.facebook.com/?sk=h_chr is much better, especially with uBlock Origin extension on Chrome.
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Chrome! 😱
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Setting up new Smart TV's. If they are that fecking smart they wouldn't need all that input!
Doesn't help that my wife has a stupidly long email acc for setting up Netflix etc. A real PITA! I gave up in the end and left her to it as my fingers are too sore to continue and the increased steroid dose has left me grumpy. Grrr. Bah! Humbug!
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Grrrr. Buying a SCART to Composite Video cable to digitise an old VHS tape only to spend hours trying to get it to work but realising that it is probably faulty so returning for a refund.
Luckily new Smart TV above meant old tv going to Currys for recycling. Old TV had SCART socket. Tested old VHS recorders with OLD TV and they were fine via SCART but no Image Signal via Composite hence no signal into PC for transfer. Grrrr.... You expect tech to work out of the box with something like a cable, not to have to spend hours troubleshooting.
Grrr. Doubly annoyed now. At least I know VHS Players work and one is better than the other.
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Applying for a role with a job description almost identical to your current job and being turned down without even an interview via a standardised email with no feedback on the reasoning but also being asked to respond to their survey giving them feedback on the process.
I used to get to the interview stage at least (and know I do badly in more formal interview situations that the larger companies and public sector use) so I'm struggling to work out if my CV needs completely renewing, whether the jobs aren't real, if I just look genuinely shit or if there are other reasons (e.g. setting salary expectations too high or even the hiring manager being reluctant to take on someone with more experience than them) so a bit of feedback would be useful although given the volume of applicants I understand why this doesn't happen but then asking the applicant for feedback is taking the piss.
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I suspect that my feedback would be short and sweet.
Give and you shall receive.
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5/5 Response to application was abundantly clear and swiftly issued.
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