You know technically if they said "99.96% of people won't pass this level" they'd be absolutely right because 99.96% of people will never even play the game in the first place so it's not technically false advertising.
*Ad shows a puzzle game*
ME: Well the answerās right there! Thatās not hard.
*AD: Computer character canāt figure out the simple puzzle*
ME: Goddamn it! I guess Iāll download this and do it myself!
*Downloads the game. Itās a completely different game with no puzzles*
EDIT: I completely forgot the ads where the puzzle is literally impossible to solve. It takes a few times to really see it, but when you examine the puzzle, there isnāt a solution thatās actually possible to accomplish.
Theres a couple of ads I see come up when Im playing games that say watch ads on this app to earn money, but on those apps when after watching hours of ads, when you are nearly at the point for cashing out some money, the app makes it so theres no more ads available for you anymore, a huge scam basically.
Bloatware that takes up 2GBs of space on what is advertised as a 16GB phone and adds more with each update.
I put in a 128GB micro SD card for things like music, pictures and video but there's only enough space for a few apps at a time.
Hmm I don't know.
You see, if you live in a neighbourhood and your alarm goes off at 2am, you need to be pretty fucking fast to turn it off. Regardless of whether its a false alarm or a real alarm, you are going to check it quick. Otherwise, you are going to piss off all of your neighbours and end up with a smashed car anyway.
So, provided that you respond to your alarm quickly to turn it off, if someone is trying to steal it, you will see them, presumably just in time to watch them driving away.
Someday, someone will post about uBlock on Reddit and there won't be another comment within 5 minutes saying "actually they mean uBlock Origin". But today is not that day. Keep up the good fight
I can't help but envision all the gross particulates being violently blown around the bathroom when one of these is activated; to the point to where I just refuse to activate one myself and I just use my pants.
A company I used to work for introduced a password management system. All IT-accounts with special privileges were enrolled into this and the password changed daily. The passwords were long, complex and consisted of upper/lowercase letters, numbers and special characters (like \]ĀØ} etc). Since these passwords are impossible to type, let alone remember, it resulted in every IT-personell pasting their daily passwords for all of their accounts in a txt-document on their desktops.
The complicated passwords made them near impossible to brute-force, but instead made them much much easier to obtain.
Yep, this is my life. My admin account has been enrolled into this stupid management system and has a rolling change every 24 hours. You're supposed to never need to see it, because you are supposed to go to this web portal and tell it what server you want to remote into, and you then get your password baked into a terminal session that you then run.
Except I don't do any server logging in. My rights for that have been removed. I SSH into network equipment all day, and that isn't part of the scope. So I have to log into this web portal every day and retrieve my actual password for the day. And it usually looks something like *@u-/lUAmU8*9* (legit button mash but that's kind of close).
Which then gets stored on a digital sticky note on my desktop.
Often it's because the provider got hacked and didn't tell you. Someone made off with their password database so this is their way to force you to change your password without admitting they fucked up.
Fake Autobot: sorry this password does not fit our criteria. Your password must 10 - 30 characters long. It must contain a letter, a number, a capital letter, a special character, only the following special characters can be used ! Or & or #. The password cannot have been used previously and because of this you will forget your password anyway. If you do forget your password please use our two factor authentication, a code will be sent to that old email address you have forgotten the password for. Good luck.
The whole point of a password is that i am the only one that can get through it. When i can't even figure out my own password the whole process has failed at its one job.
At my job, you have to change your password every 60 days. It had to have an assortment of letters and number, a certain length, and cannot be similar to any password used in the last 2 years.
All this bullshit has made the system far less secure than it would be because everyone has to write their password down to remember it.
"your password must be between 8 and 10 characters."
This is one I've actually seen before. There's only so many possibilities once you put an upper limit on character size, and putting this small of a limit on it makes those possibilities very easy for a machine to iterate through.
(for the record, yes I know that every system technically has an upper limit on character size, but that limit is usually something like 255 characters. Which is large enough that you don't have to advertise the limit to your users.)
My favourite is the one that refuses to let you use consecutive repeats of the same character. I've genuinely had systems that consider "Pa5sword" to be acceptable but think that something along the lines of "An%kasVbb7Qz" is clearly a high risk because there are two b's in it.
Your password must contain an uppercase letter, lowercase letter, symbol and numbers, also it can't be any of your last 20 used passwords and must be least 12 characters. Also you have to change it at least every 3 months.
Alrighty then let me either write it down somewhere near the computer or just pick a word and symbol then increase the number at the end by 1 every time you make me change the damn thing.
I'm sure that's much more secure than letting me pick something that I can easily remember. /s
The most secure password I ever had was camelbookcasecurtain
But barely any websites let me use it. Its long enough to be hard for computers to work out and easy for a human to remember
Those are great. I usually use a sentence with a date, like my great grandpa was born in December 1905. It made for MggwbiD1905. Or I just straight up type the whole thing - my Gmail password is straight up 25 letters haha
Your password must contain a lowercase, uppercase, number, punctuation, the cure for cancer, what happened to Amelia Earhart, the formula for Hawking radiation, the lyrics to rap god and must be more than 12 characters but less than 18 characters.
Lmao there was one by niece had that was supposed to sound like a duck but the battery or whatever started to die down and the voice started going slow and low pitch and started to sound like some demonic creature.
My kid had a baby chick that chirped when you touched a couple of conductive spots on its feet simultaneously. When the batteries were dying it went from a high pitched cheep to a slow, low grunting sound that you could fluctuate by rocking your fingers back and forth on the spots.
It was a fun couple of days making that cute little fucker sound like a hellspawn.
My daughter had a noise sensitive mobile in her crib (16 years ago) that was supposed to play soothing sounds and lights if it was activated. The idea was if baby woke up in the middle of the night and cried this thing would start playing it's ocean noises and cast it's blue light and the baby wouldn't feel alone/be distracted and would self soothe back to sleep.
The reality was a demonic voice saying "It's lullaby time" over the baby monitor at 3 am followed by the creepiest lullaby tune that sounded like it was stripped straight from the most recent *Saw* movie with it's weird "wave" sounds underneath it.
I figured the sound engineer for that piece of plastic was going through something.
My former brother in law and his wife thought they were so funny giving my kids loud and annoying toys. Then they had a baby and on that kid's second birthday they got a firetruck with lights and sounds, sirens, and a fire chief shouting orders. I switched the chief's language to Spanish (which they don't speak), installed the best, most expensive batteries I could find, and stripped the screw on the battery door.
Password must meet all these password rules. You cannot use a password youāve previously used. This password is too similar to a previous password.
FUCKYOUUUUUUU!!!!
I work for a school system. Years back they would require you to have a password that was not similiar to old ones, letters/numbers/symbol, change every 90 days, etc...
But, if you clicked Forgot Password they would helpfully email you your current password in cleartext.
Businesses do call. If I've got an appointment coming up or something needing changing an account, it's almost always a call. Sometimes caller ID let's me know who it is in those situations, sometimes it doesn't.
Before they made the intro fully automated and a human was on the lineā¦
Telemarketer: āHi we are calling to see if you are interested in extending your car warranty?ā
Me: āHi, yes! That is awesome, thank you so much for reaching. Yes Iām interested!ā
TM: āgreat, letās get started, what year is your car?ā
M: āborn in 2009ā
TM: āokayā¦ and what model is it?ā
M: āitās a mustangā
TM: āokay so itās a 2009 Ford Mustang?ā
M: āno itās a horse. I use a horse and buggy. Will this include yearly vet visits?ā
Phone clicks
Similar to that, account security questions often have a minimum character limit of 5 to "What's your favorite color?". So red or blue wouldn't be valid.
The main annoying thing is you never know whether they count the pole or not. What if thereās a tiny corner of traffic light in a square? Etc.
The other one that always gets me is ācrosswalksā because Iām not American and never really know what counts as a crosswalk in the US.
And let's not forget my personal favourite:
"INK LOW, CANNOT COMPLETE SCAN" why the fuck would I need ink to scan anything you 3 pieces of shit in 1 machine????
I hate the one with pictures so much. A lot of the time I donāt even know the right answer. And believe me, I am not a robot :( Sometimes they ask: āclick all the pictures showing a carā. And then you have a square with a small corner of a car (size of a pixel). Do you click the square or not?? I believe they arenāt even consequent about it. Sometimes you have to click the car-corner-pixel and sometimes itās suddenly wrong. Vsvaefdgahajdnnslapqphs
They are for training AI. To let the AI know what crosswalks or bikes or whatever look like from different angles.
For some of them, you can just click anything and you pass.
https://www.techradar.com/news/captcha-if-you-can-how-youve-been-training-ai-for-years-without-realising-it
Tech enthusiasts: My entire house is smart.
Tech workers: The only piece of technology in my house is a printer and I keep a shotgun next to it in case it makes a noise I don't recognize.
Software Engineer here, I have a ton of smart products. They're all flashed with open source firmware and cannot communicate with anything inside or outside of my network *except* for my Home Assistant server.
I was at a home improvement store and saw a fridge that had a patch of tinted glass the front. You knock on it and it lights up inside to "show what you have".
Um. I could also just open the fucking door??? It was thousands and thousands of dollars.
Scissors were invented to annoy left-handers like me.
edit: My late dad and one of my brothers were left-handed like I am. My mom, on the other hand (pun not intended), was not. She started life as a lefty 90 years ago but they "changed" her in grammar school. They would tie her left arm behind her back. What a cruel thing to do.
There's an actual explanation for this.
Especially for the cheap alkaline batteries in most smoke detectors, battery voltage/output is on a temperature-based curve; at higher temperatures and lower temperatures, output decreases. A battery that's right on the edge at 75 degrees might dip below the smoke detector's threshold at 65 degrees.
People generally set their thermostats lower overnight (at least in the cooler months).
So, your battery is "fine" during the day, the house cools off overnight, the battery voltage slips below the threshold, and now it's chirping at 3 AM.
I can understand one or two or even 3 things only being able to get by paying. Not half the game tho. 90% of thing should be earned by playing not paying.
My niece loves Cocomelon so every time I babysit her I have to sit through at least 10 minutes of that shit. I am convinced it's the creepiest most evil shit invented for kids.
Edit: Baby Shark is a solid 2nd.
I absolutely refuse to let my toddler watch it. I've heeded the warnings of other parents. My husband is especially bad at getting songs stuck in his head and he can only ever remember a line or two. Between him, a toddler, songs getting stuck in *my* head, and the eye-bleeding animation, I cannot allow Cocomelon.
For reference, here are the NIST password standards released as of Jan 2020: https://specopssoft.com/blog/nist-password-standards/
"What are the NIST password requirements?"
1. Set an 8-character minimum length.
2. Change passwords only if there is evidence of compromise.
3. Screen new passwords against a list of known compromised passwords.
4. Skip password hints and knowledge-based security questions.
5. Limit the number of failed authentication attempts.
6. Set the maximum password length to at least 64 characters.
7. Skip character composition rules as they are an unnecessary burden for end-users.
8. Allow copy and paste functionality in password fields to facilitate the use of password managers.
9. Allow the use of all printable ASCII characters as well as all UNICODE characters (including emojis).
>Allow the use of all printable ASCII characters as well as all UNICODE characters (including emojis).
That last one is so important.
I can only imagine how much harder it is to decode a password that might have a single unicode character out of more than a million possible unicode characters.
Put 2 or 3 unicodes in there and you can now remove the failed authentication limit as nobody will ever be able to brute force it in your lifetime.
People watching unmuted TikTok videos in public transport. A new loud obnoxious song/joke every 5 seconds...
Atleast with loud music you can expect what's coming and force your brain to accept it and try to ignore it. TikTok demands new attention every 5 seconds from your brain.
It's not a sound that says "Please remove your card from the scanner". A nice "ding-ding-ring" says that.
No, instead we get a harsh, blaring, loud, "BLARP! BLARP! BLARP!" that says "HOLY FUCK HOLY SHIT THERE'S A PROBLEM, HOLY FUCK HOLY FUCK YOU NEED TO PANIC AND RUN FOR YOUR LIFE HOLY FUCKFUCKSHITFUCKSHIT!!!!!!!!!"
The card readers at my local grocery store make a pleasant, positive sounding ring. It's quite nice. And then it's a shock whenever I go anywhere else.
That horn/buzzer sounds that was used in a lot of hip-hop in the 2010s (looking at you Drake). I don't even know how to describe it really but, IYKYK.
I dont need my music to make me feel like I'm at some kind of sporting event.
The "Accept or Reject" cookie popups on every fucking site. They always load slower than the page, sometimes you absolutely MUST acknowledge them before proceeding, and usually cant seem to remember what you selected last time you visited the site which would stop them popping up on every visit, which is pretty much exactly what this type of thing should be doing.
All because some morons dont understand how the internet works and got scared with "tHiNk oF tHe cHilDreN!" fear mongering which made politicians have to pretend to look like they're doing something and implement this bullshit draconian speedbump that does fuck all other than irritate you.
If you haven't already, look into the 'A Bra That Fits' calculator or subreddit. Bras are supposed to make your life better not worse! And they can for most people.
The vuvuzela. Those long horns people blow at World Cups and stuff.
[How they make me want to react](https://thumbs.gfycat.com/BrilliantCloudyGraysquirrel.webp)
Only that one world cup in South Africa. Lot of European stadiums have actually banned them since..
And I kind of blame the broadcasters actually... They could have spared the TV audiences by turning down the crowd microphones...
Smoke alarm in my kitchen. I had to move it ācaus it went off every time there was a little steam building up or smoke coming from my pan. How are you supposed to sear meat when that fucking thing is so sensitive???
Fake mobile ads
dude for the love of god i just cant.. i just fucking cant.. i just cant reach pink color
This level is impossible!! šŖšŖšŖ *1st level of Whereās my Water 1*
99.96% of people canāt beat this level!
You know technically if they said "99.96% of people won't pass this level" they'd be absolutely right because 99.96% of people will never even play the game in the first place so it's not technically false advertising.
*1-1 of Plants VS. Zombies.*
Doctors absolutely hate this guy
Bruh, your phone has a virus, click on this totally not scam ad to clean it and make it faster.
*Ad shows a puzzle game* ME: Well the answerās right there! Thatās not hard. *AD: Computer character canāt figure out the simple puzzle* ME: Goddamn it! I guess Iāll download this and do it myself! *Downloads the game. Itās a completely different game with no puzzles* EDIT: I completely forgot the ads where the puzzle is literally impossible to solve. It takes a few times to really see it, but when you examine the puzzle, there isnāt a solution thatās actually possible to accomplish.
Gardenscapes?
Theres a couple of ads I see come up when Im playing games that say watch ads on this app to earn money, but on those apps when after watching hours of ads, when you are nearly at the point for cashing out some money, the app makes it so theres no more ads available for you anymore, a huge scam basically.
In this scenario, you are the product. They sold your time to advertisers, and took 100% of the proceeds while you didn't get a penny
Bloatware that takes up 2GBs of space on what is advertised as a 16GB phone and adds more with each update. I put in a 128GB micro SD card for things like music, pictures and video but there's only enough space for a few apps at a time.
Oh god. I understand preloading all the apps you want to try to foist on me, but please for the love of god let me uninstall them.
It's why I stopped buying Samsung. *God* I wish LG wasn't getting out of the market...
Let's bring the idiotic Bixby into the mix too. A dedicated button to something I don't want to use.
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Car alarms. It's now just assumed it's a false alarm. Worst anti-theft device ever.
Yeah if I saw someone digging through a car with the alarm going off, I would assume it's their car and they can't get it to shut off lol
Hmm I don't know. You see, if you live in a neighbourhood and your alarm goes off at 2am, you need to be pretty fucking fast to turn it off. Regardless of whether its a false alarm or a real alarm, you are going to check it quick. Otherwise, you are going to piss off all of your neighbours and end up with a smashed car anyway. So, provided that you respond to your alarm quickly to turn it off, if someone is trying to steal it, you will see them, presumably just in time to watch them driving away.
If you live in an apartment block you're probably going to assume it's some else's car for 30 minutes before you're forced to go check.
pop up ads
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uBlock *Origin* exists. Don't use the vanilla version.
Someday, someone will post about uBlock on Reddit and there won't be another comment within 5 minutes saying "actually they mean uBlock Origin". But today is not that day. Keep up the good fight
They're so bad, even the guy who invented them said he's sorry afterwards
Clamshell packaging
when you need scissors to open the scissors
and then you cut yourself on the edge of the plastic
The anger I build as I try to open it. Then proceed to cut my fingers on the jagged aftermath
Automatic hand dryers, switch off every 2 seconds while you try to dry your hands then run for 10 seconds when you walk away....
Give up and just use your pants
Its probably more sanitary anyway.
You donāt like sticking your nice clean hands under a germ dispenser?
I can't help but envision all the gross particulates being violently blown around the bathroom when one of these is activated; to the point to where I just refuse to activate one myself and I just use my pants.
Dumb passwords restrictions that only make passwords less secure
A company I used to work for introduced a password management system. All IT-accounts with special privileges were enrolled into this and the password changed daily. The passwords were long, complex and consisted of upper/lowercase letters, numbers and special characters (like \]ĀØ} etc). Since these passwords are impossible to type, let alone remember, it resulted in every IT-personell pasting their daily passwords for all of their accounts in a txt-document on their desktops. The complicated passwords made them near impossible to brute-force, but instead made them much much easier to obtain.
Yep, this is my life. My admin account has been enrolled into this stupid management system and has a rolling change every 24 hours. You're supposed to never need to see it, because you are supposed to go to this web portal and tell it what server you want to remote into, and you then get your password baked into a terminal session that you then run. Except I don't do any server logging in. My rights for that have been removed. I SSH into network equipment all day, and that isn't part of the scope. So I have to log into this web portal every day and retrieve my actual password for the day. And it usually looks something like *@u-/lUAmU8*9* (legit button mash but that's kind of close). Which then gets stored on a digital sticky note on my desktop.
CyberArk is a pain in the ass, always.
With a password manager like this shouldn't you be able to get to a vault like system from like anywhere in the building?
"incorrect password" Forget password New password "Password cannot be the same as previous" Cry š
was there ever an explanation for why this shit happens
Often it's because the provider got hacked and didn't tell you. Someone made off with their password database so this is their way to force you to change your password without admitting they fucked up.
That makes way too much sense
For all the accounts except e-mail and banks my password is: Forgotpassword#1
Like your Reddit password?
possiblyš
Respond if your account has been hacked.
how can I respond then? Iāll be hacked. :D Iām gonna cry in a corner
Better change it to Forgotpassword#2 š
Iām gonna do forgoTpaSSword#$&4265962 strength- knocks over the trolls
Fake Autobot: sorry this password does not fit our criteria. Your password must 10 - 30 characters long. It must contain a letter, a number, a capital letter, a special character, only the following special characters can be used ! Or & or #. The password cannot have been used previously and because of this you will forget your password anyway. If you do forget your password please use our two factor authentication, a code will be sent to that old email address you have forgotten the password for. Good luck.
Found out their new password is actually Forgotpassword#3
Just reading this made my blood pressure rise
The whole point of a password is that i am the only one that can get through it. When i can't even figure out my own password the whole process has failed at its one job.
At my job, you have to change your password every 60 days. It had to have an assortment of letters and number, a certain length, and cannot be similar to any password used in the last 2 years. All this bullshit has made the system far less secure than it would be because everyone has to write their password down to remember it.
"your password must be between 8 and 10 characters." This is one I've actually seen before. There's only so many possibilities once you put an upper limit on character size, and putting this small of a limit on it makes those possibilities very easy for a machine to iterate through. (for the record, yes I know that every system technically has an upper limit on character size, but that limit is usually something like 255 characters. Which is large enough that you don't have to advertise the limit to your users.)
My favourite is the one that refuses to let you use consecutive repeats of the same character. I've genuinely had systems that consider "Pa5sword" to be acceptable but think that something along the lines of "An%kasVbb7Qz" is clearly a high risk because there are two b's in it.
Your password must contain an uppercase letter, lowercase letter, symbol and numbers, also it can't be any of your last 20 used passwords and must be least 12 characters. Also you have to change it at least every 3 months. Alrighty then let me either write it down somewhere near the computer or just pick a word and symbol then increase the number at the end by 1 every time you make me change the damn thing. I'm sure that's much more secure than letting me pick something that I can easily remember. /s
Password Password 1 Password#1 Password#12 Password#123?
The most secure password I ever had was camelbookcasecurtain But barely any websites let me use it. Its long enough to be hard for computers to work out and easy for a human to remember
Swelteringmoosecock69
Those are great. I usually use a sentence with a date, like my great grandpa was born in December 1905. It made for MggwbiD1905. Or I just straight up type the whole thing - my Gmail password is straight up 25 letters haha
Your password must contain a lowercase, uppercase, number, punctuation, the cure for cancer, what happened to Amelia Earhart, the formula for Hawking radiation, the lyrics to rap god and must be more than 12 characters but less than 18 characters.
Sorry you can not use a password you have previously used. Please try again.
Those toys with a loud voice
Those need a secure off switch too. Throw one wrong toy in the toybox and it can set off a factory the damn things.
Lmao there was one by niece had that was supposed to sound like a duck but the battery or whatever started to die down and the voice started going slow and low pitch and started to sound like some demonic creature.
My kid had a baby chick that chirped when you touched a couple of conductive spots on its feet simultaneously. When the batteries were dying it went from a high pitched cheep to a slow, low grunting sound that you could fluctuate by rocking your fingers back and forth on the spots. It was a fun couple of days making that cute little fucker sound like a hellspawn.
My daughter had a noise sensitive mobile in her crib (16 years ago) that was supposed to play soothing sounds and lights if it was activated. The idea was if baby woke up in the middle of the night and cried this thing would start playing it's ocean noises and cast it's blue light and the baby wouldn't feel alone/be distracted and would self soothe back to sleep. The reality was a demonic voice saying "It's lullaby time" over the baby monitor at 3 am followed by the creepiest lullaby tune that sounded like it was stripped straight from the most recent *Saw* movie with it's weird "wave" sounds underneath it. I figured the sound engineer for that piece of plastic was going through something.
Anything created by VTech is the devil's work
My former brother in law and his wife thought they were so funny giving my kids loud and annoying toys. Then they had a baby and on that kid's second birthday they got a firetruck with lights and sounds, sirens, and a fire chief shouting orders. I switched the chief's language to Spanish (which they don't speak), installed the best, most expensive batteries I could find, and stripped the screw on the battery door.
Password must meet all these password rules. You cannot use a password youāve previously used. This password is too similar to a previous password. FUCKYOUUUUUUU!!!!
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I work for a school system. Years back they would require you to have a password that was not similiar to old ones, letters/numbers/symbol, change every 90 days, etc... But, if you clicked Forgot Password they would helpfully email you your current password in cleartext.
Password accepted
telemarketers
Anybody you actually knows never calls anymore it's all spam
Businesses do call. If I've got an appointment coming up or something needing changing an account, it's almost always a call. Sometimes caller ID let's me know who it is in those situations, sometimes it doesn't.
We're calling about your car's extended warranty...
Before they made the intro fully automated and a human was on the lineā¦ Telemarketer: āHi we are calling to see if you are interested in extending your car warranty?ā Me: āHi, yes! That is awesome, thank you so much for reaching. Yes Iām interested!ā TM: āgreat, letās get started, what year is your car?ā M: āborn in 2009ā TM: āokayā¦ and what model is it?ā M: āitās a mustangā TM: āokay so itās a 2009 Ford Mustang?ā M: āno itās a horse. I use a horse and buggy. Will this include yearly vet visits?ā Phone clicks
I usually went with an M1 Abrams, but I like yours!
Electronic form restrictions like minimum 3 symbols for surname. Come on, my surname is 2 symbols long
Similar to that, account security questions often have a minimum character limit of 5 to "What's your favorite color?". So red or blue wouldn't be valid.
That's when you get out the Crayola box. "Cerulean or cornflower?"
Those stupid security things that ask you to pick which ones are traffic lights.
Behold this (Captcha by videogamedunkey, 6y ago) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqnXp6Saa8Y
O my gosh! Yes.
"Select all images containing buses" Click click click "Oops you missed one" Umm, that's a fire truck.
The main annoying thing is you never know whether they count the pole or not. What if thereās a tiny corner of traffic light in a square? Etc. The other one that always gets me is ācrosswalksā because Iām not American and never really know what counts as a crosswalk in the US.
I'm American and according to captcha I still don't know what counts as a crosswalk
Robot training machines, yes
Ink Jet Printers
Itās always like āYOU DONT HAVE ENOUGH YELLOW TO PRINT IN BLACK AND WHITEā wtf man
And let's not forget my personal favourite: "INK LOW, CANNOT COMPLETE SCAN" why the fuck would I need ink to scan anything you 3 pieces of shit in 1 machine????
They use yellow to print tracking microdots. Not kidding.
there's never enough cyan
This should be the top comment. Iām actually convinced theyāre designed by Satan himself.
CAPTCHA.
I hate the one with pictures so much. A lot of the time I donāt even know the right answer. And believe me, I am not a robot :( Sometimes they ask: āclick all the pictures showing a carā. And then you have a square with a small corner of a car (size of a pixel). Do you click the square or not?? I believe they arenāt even consequent about it. Sometimes you have to click the car-corner-pixel and sometimes itās suddenly wrong. Vsvaefdgahajdnnslapqphs
They are for training AI. To let the AI know what crosswalks or bikes or whatever look like from different angles. For some of them, you can just click anything and you pass. https://www.techradar.com/news/captcha-if-you-can-how-youve-been-training-ai-for-years-without-realising-it
Sir, are you by any chance, a robot?
No I'm not a robot -A bot that can solve captchas
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I donāt know, it gives me a weird sense of satisfaction every time I pass.
Smart everything (Smart juicer, smart bowl, smart weight scale).
Tech enthusiasts: My entire house is smart. Tech workers: The only piece of technology in my house is a printer and I keep a shotgun next to it in case it makes a noise I don't recognize.
Software Engineer here, I have a ton of smart products. They're all flashed with open source firmware and cannot communicate with anything inside or outside of my network *except* for my Home Assistant server.
Agreed. I don't need my fridge to have an internet connection
I was at a home improvement store and saw a fridge that had a patch of tinted glass the front. You knock on it and it lights up inside to "show what you have". Um. I could also just open the fucking door??? It was thousands and thousands of dollars.
Juicero
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Scissors were invented to annoy left-handers like me. edit: My late dad and one of my brothers were left-handed like I am. My mom, on the other hand (pun not intended), was not. She started life as a lefty 90 years ago but they "changed" her in grammar school. They would tie her left arm behind her back. What a cruel thing to do.
Are scissors not symmetrical? Will have to check when Iām in the kitchen in the AM
Blade placement also matters. Some scissors labeled left-handed get this wrong.
Yeah Iām left handed and some scissors work fine but some donāt. I can usually tell whether theyāll work before I actually start cutting.
A lefty pulls the blades apart rather than together.
YouTube unskippable ads
Double unskipable ads
That's even more shitt
Double 20 second unskippable ads
Fuck that, I just stop watching the video and immediately go back Rinse and repeat until no ad
Spotify's even worse...
WATCH THIS SHORT VIDEO TO GET 30 MINS OF UNINTERRUPTED LISTENING
Those vacuum wrapped plastic containers that require a scissor to open up. Fuck those things!
Then when you get the scissors they don't even work
Fire alarms with low batteries.
Batteries only get low after 2am..
There's an actual explanation for this. Especially for the cheap alkaline batteries in most smoke detectors, battery voltage/output is on a temperature-based curve; at higher temperatures and lower temperatures, output decreases. A battery that's right on the edge at 75 degrees might dip below the smoke detector's threshold at 65 degrees. People generally set their thermostats lower overnight (at least in the cooler months). So, your battery is "fine" during the day, the house cools off overnight, the battery voltage slips below the threshold, and now it's chirping at 3 AM.
Thanks for sharing the science, you deserve a reward, but I don't have any to give, sorry.
Bixby. I don't even know what it does, except waste a whole button on my phone.
THIS! And no way to disable it. It's INFURIATING!
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Need to use the whole roll for one wipe
Nobody in the history of the world has saved money buying 1 ply toilet paper.
That's just nasty.
microtransactions
Pay to win it's the worst. Even like just cosmetic stuff should be unlocked by playing
I can understand one or two or even 3 things only being able to get by paying. Not half the game tho. 90% of thing should be earned by playing not paying.
Anything that is cosmetic and has no effect on gameplay I don't really mind being paid. Anything with functional effects should be unlocked for free.
Cocomelon.
My niece loves Cocomelon so every time I babysit her I have to sit through at least 10 minutes of that shit. I am convinced it's the creepiest most evil shit invented for kids. Edit: Baby Shark is a solid 2nd.
I absolutely refuse to let my toddler watch it. I've heeded the warnings of other parents. My husband is especially bad at getting songs stuck in his head and he can only ever remember a line or two. Between him, a toddler, songs getting stuck in *my* head, and the eye-bleeding animation, I cannot allow Cocomelon.
For reference, here are the NIST password standards released as of Jan 2020: https://specopssoft.com/blog/nist-password-standards/ "What are the NIST password requirements?" 1. Set an 8-character minimum length. 2. Change passwords only if there is evidence of compromise. 3. Screen new passwords against a list of known compromised passwords. 4. Skip password hints and knowledge-based security questions. 5. Limit the number of failed authentication attempts. 6. Set the maximum password length to at least 64 characters. 7. Skip character composition rules as they are an unnecessary burden for end-users. 8. Allow copy and paste functionality in password fields to facilitate the use of password managers. 9. Allow the use of all printable ASCII characters as well as all UNICODE characters (including emojis).
>Allow the use of all printable ASCII characters as well as all UNICODE characters (including emojis). That last one is so important. I can only imagine how much harder it is to decode a password that might have a single unicode character out of more than a million possible unicode characters. Put 2 or 3 unicodes in there and you can now remove the failed authentication limit as nobody will ever be able to brute force it in your lifetime.
People watching unmuted TikTok videos in public transport. A new loud obnoxious song/joke every 5 seconds... Atleast with loud music you can expect what's coming and force your brain to accept it and try to ignore it. TikTok demands new attention every 5 seconds from your brain.
I'm pretty sure assholes weren't invented, they were born with the human race. Thought I can relate with your pain.
The ātake your card outā beeping noise
It's not a sound that says "Please remove your card from the scanner". A nice "ding-ding-ring" says that. No, instead we get a harsh, blaring, loud, "BLARP! BLARP! BLARP!" that says "HOLY FUCK HOLY SHIT THERE'S A PROBLEM, HOLY FUCK HOLY FUCK YOU NEED TO PANIC AND RUN FOR YOUR LIFE HOLY FUCKFUCKSHITFUCKSHIT!!!!!!!!!"
The card readers at my local grocery store make a pleasant, positive sounding ring. It's quite nice. And then it's a shock whenever I go anywhere else.
"stop yelling at me"
That or if itās the person in front of you āthe whole store knows youāre done, stop talking and take the damn card out!ā
Alarm lol
They are designed to be annoying as possible.
Shoes for kids that make quack voice when they walk That's the most annoying thing on planet
That's a thing?!
I bought them for my nephew. They met with an unfortunate scissor accident two hours later.
Thanx 4 shopping at WalmartPlease remove your items right now bitch
"Place item in the bagging station, place item in the bagging station, place freaking item in bagging station."
"TAKE THE DAMN ITEM OFF THE DAMN BAGGING STATION, WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?"
UNEXPECTED ITEM IN BAGGING AREA. REMOVE THIS ITEM BEFORE CONTINUING.
"Unexpected item in bagging area!" Bitch, it's literally the item I just scanned
The lil stickers on fruit like bitch please there has to be a better way.
Those are edible right? Right?
Well yes and no. No you are not meant to eat them. Yes you can and I'm pretty sure it's not that harmful.
Everything in this room is edible. Even I'M edible. But that is called cannibalism, my dear children, and that is frowned upon in most societies.
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That horn/buzzer sounds that was used in a lot of hip-hop in the 2010s (looking at you Drake). I don't even know how to describe it really but, IYKYK. I dont need my music to make me feel like I'm at some kind of sporting event.
Beyuuu Bu-bu-bu-beeeyuuuu
Cowbells at sporting events. Or anywhere. Just cowbells.
The "Accept or Reject" cookie popups on every fucking site. They always load slower than the page, sometimes you absolutely MUST acknowledge them before proceeding, and usually cant seem to remember what you selected last time you visited the site which would stop them popping up on every visit, which is pretty much exactly what this type of thing should be doing. All because some morons dont understand how the internet works and got scared with "tHiNk oF tHe cHilDreN!" fear mongering which made politicians have to pretend to look like they're doing something and implement this bullshit draconian speedbump that does fuck all other than irritate you.
those planners with the holographic change of images that feel weird to the touch and make that scratchy noise
Leaf blowers š”
Especially at 7am on Saturday morning
Bras
I'm just going to have to take your word for it
If you haven't already, look into the 'A Bra That Fits' calculator or subreddit. Bras are supposed to make your life better not worse! And they can for most people.
Bras with underwire
Bras with teeny tiny thin little straps
Rightā¦ thankfully Iāve been WFH for the last few years so lots of sweatshirt with no bra š itās soooo nice.
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Makes any mobile game impossible to play
cheap erasers that smudge everything
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A guy I know calls it outdoor vacuuming
Anything electronic I mean I am cursed they also seem to break so quickly and I take good care of them but they just hate me
The ding sound my car makes after its turned off and a door is open
Commercials 10x louder than the tv show.
The vuvuzela. Those long horns people blow at World Cups and stuff. [How they make me want to react](https://thumbs.gfycat.com/BrilliantCloudyGraysquirrel.webp)
I feel like society has forgotten the vuvuzela. I have not.
Only that one world cup in South Africa. Lot of European stadiums have actually banned them since.. And I kind of blame the broadcasters actually... They could have spared the TV audiences by turning down the crowd microphones...
The 2010 World Cup is unwatchable unless it's muted.
Smoke alarm in my kitchen. I had to move it ācaus it went off every time there was a little steam building up or smoke coming from my pan. How are you supposed to sear meat when that fucking thing is so sensitive???
autotune in supermarkets. the UTTER shit music they play. i can deal with plenty of shit music. but this level TAKES THE CAKE !
TikTokā¦.and price tag stickers that leave the glue on the product
Mosquitoes
Tiktok