#petpeeve — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #petpeeve, aggregated by home.social.
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@VeroniqueB99 This picture of text could've been text.
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#PetPeeve applications that ask you to reboot right after a boot for an update #OnlyOnWindows
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My grandparents on my mother's side were born in the 1900s. I was born in the 1970s. These are absolutely not the same thing.
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Was the emergency that the the pilots had mistakenly taken a Boeing 787 Dreamliner instead of the little Q300 turboprop that might actually have room to land at Gisborne?
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I honestly wonder why LED display manufacturers - especially portable displays - think buyers want crappy quality, monoaural speakers built into their displays.
Either provide decent audio through the speakers you include or don't do it at all.
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#PetPeeve: Omnivores' "We're the normal ones" mindset. (HT NotAllOmnivores.)
In the "Identify these liquids" task, their guesses about the stock are almost invariably "beef stock". Like the setup were not made for five people.
(Admittedly, TM used to swap non-veg things between contestans, like Bovril to Marmite as late as series 12.)
When will the "Yeah, but I couldn't do without bacon" crowd accept their style as not the norm?
(Norm as in should, not would.)
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CW: Pet Peeve - D&D Edition
My husband turns to me & says “Do you have bandwidth for something? I really hate orcs in 5e because of their teeth.”
I looked at him with wide eyes, “Do you know HOW LONG I’ve been so annoyed by this? And what the frick is their culture?! BORING.” 2/2 #orc #DungeonsAndDragons #petpeeve
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Thinking this is Mastodon is like thinking the entire Internet is Chrome just because that is what you personally use to see it.
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I hate when people say "quote unquote" before saying something. You just unquoted. So, it's not a quote? Quotation marks usually bracket the thing. One comes before. The other comes after. If you did that in coding, you'd break your code.
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Recently growing pet peeve: People sharing a screenshot of some social network twoot. A few pixels of irrelevant avatar, a name and a short message.
The part that annoys me is that it's encoded as a JPEG or PNG and instead of using 200 bytes for the message and name it uses 1024 times that for the image.
Instead of repeating it in the alt text to make it accessible, just frigging omit the screenshot. Paste the fucking text. It's what quotation marks are for.
Nobody with a dialup modem would've ever thought this was anything but pure mindboggling insanity.
Bothers the shit out of me and I refuse to boost any such, no matter the message.
:oldmanyellsatcloud:
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Pet peeve: Wrong language settings in #Mastodon posts, so I can't just click "Translate" 😬
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I still think it should be "body autonomy" instead of "bodily autonomy". It's being used as an adjective, not an adverb.
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The sky is blue…
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Not all roses are red. They come in many colors. Many are not red.
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Love the energy from Rep Jason Crow, but one word bothers me.
No, it's not "fuckers," it's "thing," which should be "think."
Ex:
"If they think ... [incorrect assumption], they've got another *think* coming."The second "think" refers back to the first "think." IOW, they should *think* again about their incorrect assumption. "Thing" does not make any sense in that context. It just sounds similar to "think."
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If you can't properly spell the product name, it doesn't give me a ton of confidence in your training. (It's "Copilot" not "CoPilot") #PetPeeve
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When someone posts about something they've read or watched, but never actually mention what it is, but add a link at the bottom to a blog or whatever, I never click that.
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Having an autocorrect with a smaller dictionary than the average person's vocabulary seems less than helpful.
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Here's the thing about typing in all caps for emphasis…
If you put an entire lengthy post in all caps, you're not really emphasizing anything. You're just making it more difficult to read.
Scientific studies, notably the ones out of Gestalt in the twentieth century, have clearly demonstrated that all caps is significantly more difficult to read. Standard capitalization practices are the easiest and most natural to read.
Similar applies to other forms of emphasis, like bold, italic, or underlined text.
And all this applies to perfectly healthy people with 20/20 or better vision. There are obviously multiple other accessibility reasons not to do this as well.
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Phone call on speakerphone on public transport. So classy. #PetPeeve
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New #petpeeve unlocked:
#Government services that do not use BCC in notification emails!
I signed up for a lecture that (like currently everything Down Under) was cancelled due to heat - & the geniuses of the local government (library service) sent a mass email exposing everyone's private emails.
Already got an email from some random confused person.
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Every #Mastodon / #Fediverse poll that includes the text "boost for larger sample size" should be required to have "Dewey Defeats Truman" as one of the poll answers.
#peeve #PetPeeve #statistics #poll #sample #bias #DeweyDefeatsTruman #SamplingError #SamplingBias
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CW: I complain about a minor grammatical error that no one should care about, but inexplicably, the Owlbear does.
The Owlbear isn't a stickler for grammar (check my feed if you don't believe me) but there are some things that set me off. One of the biggest ones is using "me" in the objective.
If you say "Me and my mates went to the store," I don't really hear that.
What I hear is "Me went to store," and I immediately wonder when I started talking to Cookie Monster.
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Stupid things #pharmaceutical companies do:
Design #packaging for #medication prescribed for longterm and daily use on base 10 instead of base 7.You couldn't find the space for one more pill on a card of 20? Or maybe just put on 14 instead? 🤷♀️
Granted they do muche more way more stupid stuff. But that's the one that's bugging me right now, as I try to wrangle different half used blister cards from 9 different medications and supplements 🫠
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"📁 OMG, my pet peeve! Command-line tools putting #dotfiles in 'Library/Application Support' on #macOS is a typo in the matrix, obviously 🙄. Let's pretend #XDGCONFIGHOME isn't just another place to hide our messes! 🧹"
https://becca.ooo/blog/macos-dotfiles/ #commandlinetools #techhumor #petpeeve #HackerNews #ngated -
@bomkatt Machiavelli was brilliant. The Prince has an “ends justify the means”, self-interest-above-all rep that’s completely unjustified. The actual book is a bunch of advice about being an effective ruler & putting the good of the country above your own preferences. It was just shocking because it dispensed with notions of valuing honor & idealism in favor of a pragmatic “what achieves the greatest good” approach. Machiavellian is a compliment of the highest order. ❤️
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One of many things I never understood about the portrayal of Superman on screen was when he crushed coal in his hand to create diamonds. Wouldn't it still take thousands of years to form diamonds from coal? It's not just a matter of strength. Also, why were they already cut when he opened his hand?
* I think the George Reeves Superman did that in one episode. Christopher Reeve may have also done that in one of the movies. I can't remember just now.
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Maybe this marks me out as a #curmudgeon , but if you post a link to an obvious "listicle" without adding anything of substance of your own, not only will I not visit the #listicle, I may mute you entirely.
It's not personal. I just hate, with the heat of a thousand dying suns, the information sphere's equivalent of empty calories. We used to make fun of information-lite news like USA Today, but that stuff from decades ago would compare favourably to a lot of big-city newspapers' websites these days.
You *can* read deeper content. I *believe* in you.
#EmptyCalories #information #InformationSphere #JunkFood #JunkInfo #JunkContent #InformationLite #PetPeeve #peeve #grumpy #GrumpyOldMan #content
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The number of people who really don't (and probably don't want to) understand modern normal lift controls is mindboggling to me.
The lifts here are advanced in the sense that if you called one for going up, and someone enters with you and manages to press a downwards floor first, it still goes up. It also clearly shows on the outside that it wants to go up, like you ordered it to.
It's great, but it seems to be too complex for most people.
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Things that irritate me - take a look at the bars of rest for the Trio (this is from an arrangement of The Klaxon). Notice anything? No? All the 8's are upside down. #music #scoring #engraving #petpeeve
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Pet peeve: national-level mainstream media outlets that absolutely cannot differentiate correctly between a budget deficit and national debt.
#debt #deficit #NationalDebt #BudgetDeficit #MSM #media #peeve #PetPeeve
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Pet peeve: sales people who are trained to completely run over people with their scripted pitch. If you want to sell something — anything —relationship building is key.
If you come to my door selling something that I politely decline, the best response is, “thank you for your time, I hope you’ll consider us if your needs change.” If you want to ensure you’ll NEVER get my business, you’ll talk over me, disrespect my time, and refuse to listen when I clearly say no. #SalesTraining #PetPeeve
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I have a new #PetPeeve . We've entered a hypercritical point in #history and there are thousands of individual #FactMessengers in the #fediverse and elsewhere, who aren't spewing #fascist shit every 12 seconds, being pricked at by bots and BS posts/toots/DM's and otherwise chided by #misinformed 'helpers' who want to point out those facts as "not helping".
Everyone is entitled to an #opinion . Just remember that your opinion can still be absolutely unadulterated, stanky-assed horseshit.
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I really wish the person running this meeting would stop pronouncing the word "checkbox" as if it were "chexbox" (or checksbox?).
I'm not even going to speculate about how she pronounces "asterisk". (Actually, I'm pretty sure I know. Just like Goscinny and Uderzo's Gaul. 🙄)
Anyway, it's a small pet peeve, but it's still a peeve. So I'm peevish.
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It will never stop annoying me when I offer something on #TrashNothing or #Freecycle, and someone says they want it and names a specific day and time when they're going to come pick it up, and then they no-show and ghost me.
If you're enough of a grown-up to be participating in one of these groups, you're enough of one to figure out to show up when you say you're going to or apologize if you can't.
Grow the fuck up, show some respect for other people.
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This applies to lots of types of sites, but it particularly pisses me off with mainstream news organizations.
Many of them publish content to the web, but they absolutely refuse to actually link to anything else on the web. Any #links you happen to see in their #news #stories are only to other things on their own sites - category links, indices, search for a given name, etc.
A story about a contractor issuing a public letter to a city council about cost overruns on a project and pushing back against the council's misleading public statements? "Why on earth would you expect us to link from that story to any of the following?"
1) the background on the project in question, or the city's info page on it
2) the contractor's website
3) the contractor's publicly posted statement
4) the city's publicly posted statement that the contractor is replying to
5) hell, even the city's main site pageIt's infuriating. Are you scared to link to other, relevant sites? Why, do you think the web's links are one-way streets and the visitor will never come back?
#ExternalLink #link #news #MainstreamNews #LegacyMedia #annoyance #annoying
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Is anyone else bothered when people say the incorrect #timezone though it's obvious what they mean?
For example, "PST" (Pacific Standard Time) when it's currently "PDT" (Pacific Daylight savings Time).
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What’s One Pet Peeve Of Yours That You Wish That You Could Get Rid Of–Because It Hampers Your Enjoyment Of Life?
#CriticalQuestions #Quiz #PubQuiz #PetPeeve #Peeve #irritation #Enjoyment #StayHome #StaySafe #StayHomeStaySafe
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I hate when people in shows talk about a "genuine UFO" to mean that it's an alien craft. No. That would definitely *not* be a UFO because you have *identified* it. UFO means it is unknown, unidentified.
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CW: When sim builders in OpenSim seem to have no idea what their own sims look like in the dark; CW: long (almost 3,200 characters)
There are two things that I keep noticing when exploring the Hypergrid: One, many many sims lack illumination in any shape or form. It is as if many sim builders are completely unaware of the concept of in-world objects shining a light on something else. Basically, when it's dark, the sims are actually dark. It actually pays off for the sims to have the default EEP or Windlight settings with their unnaturally bright nightly ambient light.
Two, however: They still aren't really that dark everywhere. Some things glow in the dark although they shouldn't. Entire buildings, plants, street segments, what-have-you.
I've got a few possible explanations for this phenomenon.
The first one is that the builders simply don't care or even notice when something that isn't a building is glowing. If it's a plant, they don't pay attention to such small details. If it's a building, it might be more of a case of convenience: It's easier to make the interior of a building, furniture included, full bright than to go find and install lamps which, in turn, is easier than making your own working lamps. And it's even easier to make the whole building full bright.
The other two are based on my suspicion that the sim builders have their viewers permanently set to midday. But why would they?
Either if they find their sims too dark at night, switching to midday is even easier and more convenient than making anything glow, let along educating yourself about full bright first.
Or they simply use OpenSim on absolute toasters. In order to have FPS beyond a slideshow, they have to turn everything in the graphics settings off that they possibly can. I'm not just talking about shadows, normal/specular maps and water reflections. I'm also taking about transparent water, atmospheric shaders and all light sources that can possibly be turned off, i.e. everything except the Sun, the Moon and ambient.
They may actually have tried installing light sources on sims before, but they didn't see a difference. Or if they did see a difference, the FPS took a nose dive at the same time.
So if they justify the lack of illumination on their sims with, "Nobody else has lights on their sims either," it's either because illumination is so rare in OpenSim that they genuinely only ever end up on sims with no light sources. Or it's because they can't see the light sources after having turned them off in the viewer.
Those who are simply too lazy and who don't care while having a powerful enough machine will end up having a hard time with PBR. It'll simply look drab to them in-doors. That's because PBR heavily relies on light sources that are not ambient. But if you don't install any lights in building, and you have shadows on, ambient light is the only light you have.
I guess the only way to mitigate this would be if all those super-popular freebie sims that see more visitors than Lbsa Plaza only offered lamps that actually act as light sources and buildings with already built-in lamps. If sensible, these lamps would have to be scripted and emit light by default, otherwise they'd have to emit light permanently.
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@jhaue The “cleanest air in the world” claim is a bit bullshit, really.
The site gets affected by smoke coming from Tasmania, dust coming from the mainland... you name it, they get it. But they don’t bother making as many measurements when it is not in “baseline” conditions. It’s *only* when it is getting air from the west or southwest that it is “clean”, and then only as clean as the rest of the Southern Ocean.
The researchers quoted in the article say that, but *every time* it appears in any media the claim is exaggerated. -
#PetPeeve I’m required to "sign" a form in Microsoft Word format, sent by email. It says “typed signatures not accepted”. So presumably they want a picture of my (fake) signature pasting in? And that is somehow better than me typing my initials?
There are software solutions for this e.g. docusign. More simply, I can reply to the email stating that I agree and they can keep that on file - it's time-stamped and auditable. Why make more #busyWork
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I'm adding an item to my list of capital offenses when I am elected dictator-for-life:
Putting a "Keep me logged in" checkbox on a login page that does not, in fact, keep you logged in.
I added three items yesterday (they may actually be repeats, not sure):
Putting a "tear here" on product packaging that does not work.
Selling a resealable package that doesn't seal.
Selling a resealable package that doesn't *un*seal, such that you have to rip it open.
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CW: Why can't sim owners test the stuff they have on their sims? CW: long (slightly over 2,500 characters)
It's a pity that so many sim owners apparently can't be bothered to ever test what they have on their sims. And I'm not even talking about fixing what's obviously broken.
Some two years ago, I've already mentioned sims that can't be navigated because the builder and owner has never tested the ways that mere mortals are supposed to get around the sim. This can range from footpaths that are unusuable because something is blocking them to teleporters that are necessary but non-functional or misconfigured.
In general, anything scripted may be failure-prone. It can be because the scripts need to be reset but weren't. It can be because the scripts are hopelessly outdated, especially if objects with stone-old scripts from the 2000s end up on a sim running YEngine. Or it can be because a script is written in OSSL, but OSSL is deactivated on the sim.
Or, better yet, objects that ought to be scripted, that everyone would expected to be scripted, but that aren't scripted for some reason. And be it because the sim builder has unknowingly picked up an empty copy.
All issues that could have been discovered and ideally fixed if the sim owner had taken some time and effort to test them. Instead, they just drop stuff on their land, and they're done with it. Or they load an entire OAR, blindly assuming it works perfectly out of the box.
Experience from travelling around the Hypergrid should bring with it the realisation that not exactly few OARs are buggy, ranging from Linda Kellie sales boxes of which no intact copies exist anymore to the bathroom door in her Freebie Mall 2.0 which I've only ever seen fixed once to Clarice Alelaria's Avataria sim in which the majority of sales boxes have mangled permissions and can't be acquired. And I'm not even talking about dropping old OARs that heavily rely on advanced scripts, made in times when there was only XEngine, onto a sim running YEngine.
The common lack of feedback doesn't help. Some visitors prefer to downrate entire sims on OpenSimWorld because scripted stuff doesn't work over letting the sim owners know so that they could go and fix the issue. But sadly, some sim owners take each bug report concerning any of their sims as a personal attack, or at least they completely ignore bug reports. No wonder nobody ever reports bugs.
#OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #PetPeeve #SimBuilding #Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost -
When there is a penalty, commentators often say it's a "break" for the other team. That's not my definition of a break. If the penalty occurred because of an illegal action that led to a TD, then that TD wouldn't have happened except for the foul. It's not luck that it's being called back, it's the rules.
Unless they're saying the officiating is so bad that it is a "break" that they actually called it. Perhaps true, but pretty damn rude.
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#PetPeeve #Photographs #StrikeAPose #StrikeTHISPose
It won't be a day too soon for the abolishing of the pose where the horn fingers are up, and the mouth is wide open, and the tongue is hanging out.
Y'all look ridiculous, especially if you've just won a contest, or are at a wedding reception.
It's not a cool look, it was never a cool look.
One grumpy old man's opinion.
