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Rant Thread - What really grinds your gears?

Towing doubles and triples is OK and legal in many places. I guess when you're running logistics for a shipping company, you'll understand why they do it.

But I agree with you 100% on tailgaters. I hate them. I also hate those who drive 5 mph below the limit in the hammer lane.
 
Dngrsone said:
I don't even know what the hell Pinterest is...
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Me neither, but my wife gets lost in it for hours and then puts stuff on my honey do list.:mad:

I did find this definition:
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Pinterest is the pits. You pin everything you like, others do, too and you can compare notes and other crap. Messiest site I've ever seen.
When it first started, you would look for an item you searched for, but the link to where you could see, buy, whatever the item was never posted. All the user posted was the picture. Now it's being included in the logins along with FB, Twitter, and G+

I really don't care what the posters are interested in. I've learned to search without any damn Pinterest results so I don't have to even see the site.

If I see something and want to make it, I will find a pattern instead of a wish list. I've got better things to do than daydream.
 
Pinterest is just another social-networking site that employs the photo stuff that Flickr does, but, it's a subversive Amazonian stunt that gets you to buy, while comparing notes with folks that you really don't know... for young people, it's a hit - but, for people like myself - it's one less thing that I need updating me with @#*! that I really don't need, like Abercrombie & Fitch low-rise jeans. I'm too old to be hanging out with the young, 'emo' set - I've got real problems, that require psych, therapy and pain management without opioids... 2015, still, is going to be a better year for all of us.

I'm optimistic. Fancy that. LW
 
Dngrsone said:
I'm not social (Android Forums notwithstanding), and I take a dim view of modern media.

That pretty much rules Twitter, Pinterest, vine, and the rest of that crap right the hell out.
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I use YouTube (by way of my fiancée's Google Account; I closed my old one), and, Twitter for more music promotion - usually by sending a video from YouTube. Facebook, Instagram, SnapChat, and the rest - I avoid like the plague... as a matter of fact, I was bringing in the New Year watching the HLN (CNN) New Years' Eve show with Kathy Griffin, and Anderson Cooper - and, here's what I posted on Twitter:

"Anderson Cooper plays a great straight man, and Kathy Griffin is as wild as ever. Happy New Year #CNNNYE"

Within 30 seconds, my post was retweeted by a bigot, who wrote, "You may want to re-examine what you wrote about Anderson Cooper..." and, over 700 people got to read my tweet, with this guy's bigoted comment. I was angered, greatly. I responded that 'I was talking about his role in the show, and nothing more'.

2015, and we still have hate toward whatever it may be - sexual preference, et cetera. There's a rant for you. I grew up watching Paul Lynde, Charles Nelson Reilly, Rock Hudson, and Rip Taylor - and I could care less about what they did in their private lives. People just need to be more tolerant, and compassionate.

Yet, I'm a pragmatic realist. Changing some of our society is going to take awhile. Good night from the willywags - LW
 
Last Night I got a LG G2, because I liked its UI better than the one in the G3. Setting up my Hotmail account on the new phone ended up being a chore lasting well into this morning. You know what I hate? When I login successfully using the correct username, password and still get flagged for 'suspected activity' and am forced to change my password to something so obscure, that if for any reason I ever lost my phone or had to replace it, there'd be zero hope of recovering that account because they force me to make a password even i can't remember.

Listen here, Microsoft, Yahoo! and the like. If I want to use what you call a 'weak' password (not sure how a password with a total of nine characters mixed with numerals is weak but oh well) then that's my decision. I do not tolerate nanny crap such as protecting me from myself! If I somehow get hacked because of my, MY choice of password, that's my business. If I need your help I'd ask for it!

I've tried many times to change the 'new' password back to my old one I've used for years, and one which I use for all my online accounts, without success. They say I can't use one I've used before, and I try to use another one that is easy to remember but they say it has to have capital letters, numbers and x amount of crap. Screw you, Microsoft. When Yahoo pulled this crap on me I canceled it and went to Google.
 
It just plain irks me when some website assumes they know what's best for me or decide to pull some Nanny State BS and protect me from myself. Lord knows how many times Facebook pulled similar crap just because I logged in from my iPhone in the same house as the laptop I previously used, and they flagged it as an 'unknown location'

Huh?

It's getting to the point where we will have to write the obscure passwords down on Post-It notes which, to anyone familiar with office environments, is perhaps the worst security risk.

Point being, it's my account. I'll choose what I want as the password. I don't tolerate dumbing down to the masses. It's bad enough user interfaces are suffering this, which is why I don't use many current UX anyway. Relying so entirely on gestures to the point vital functions are buried under a gesture I find completely by accident, or worse, have so many I can't possibly remember and trigger by mistake, such as the number of times I accidentally dismiss a card on Android Wear and can't get it back.

I know it's standard fare to hate on the menu and hardware buttons, but i won't use a phone or tablet without hardware keys and a menu key. It's like Google refuses to pick a specific icon for menu, or some apps bury it under a swipe gesture, or it ends up mixed with options in the hamburger menu. Sorry, I'll keep my menu key, skeuomorphic UI, and the password I have used for over twenty years.

It's really unnerving when people who've used a computer since the days of MS DOS have such trouble using modern operating systems or websites. It's as if they are now formatted for teens who think gesture controls are hip, and obscure passwords only seen in an episode of Star Trek The Next Generation are secure enough.

Maybe it's my age showing, but it's getting harder to understand modern interfaces and icon designs. There are still instances where I open or worse, archive a Gmail instead of selecting it as I intended, because a Google thought it wise to remove the check boxes. It's harder to even find the delete or download icon as it, too have changed to something very vague or unfamiliar. I still expect a 'floppy' save icon, or expect a downward pointing arrow for 'download' instead of a pushpin or check mark.
 
We are on the verge of creating a new thread with this, but I am very much not a fan of how most sites do two factor authentication: I attended three student elementary schools, my memory is spotty enough that I can't name my first or favorite pet consistently, I can not seem to be able to spell the name of my favorite constellation correctly, and nearly the entire internet seems to know my mother's maiden name.

Additionally, I can't do bank business on my laptop because my wife does bank business on her laptop; apparently the bank doesn't know that there are families (let alone individuals) who own more than one computer. "Next thing you'll tell me is that you have more than one email address... madness!"
 
nickdalzell said:
Maybe it's my age showing, but it's getting harder to understand modern interfaces and icon designs. There are still instances where I open or worse, archive a Gmail instead of selecting it as I intended, because a Google thought it wise to remove the check boxes. It's harder to even find the delete or download icon as it, too have changed to something very vague or unfamiliar. I still expect a 'floppy' save icon, or expect a downward pointing arrow for 'download' instead of a pushpin or check mark.
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I like good, unambiguous and clean icon designs. Where you can tell what they do, or make an educated guess, even if you might not be able to read the language.
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And I think there should be standards, like "floppy" for save, down arrow for download, etc. Media player control icons are very much standard, based on reel to reel tape recorder controls, like triangle pointing right for play etc. Airport signage is the best, you can go in very much any airport in the world, and know where things are just by looking at icons.
 
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