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Rant Thread - What really grinds your gears?

nickdalzell said:
FYI transferring an MP3 via RS-232C would be faster than transferring it via BlueTooth because Samsung's wifi direct still doesn't work! Of course, we could just get USB Mass Storage back but Google can't let us have nice things.
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I usually use my phone's own WiFi for MP3 and FLAC direct wireless transfers between laptop and phone. No external WiFi network needed.

How long would it take to transfer my 273 megabytes of Wagner FLACs at RS-232's maximum speed of 115kbps, probably days, weeks? Using my method it takes less than a minute.

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Bluetooth is the only method that works for me. Ever since they ditched USB Mass Storage, Windows just sees my phone as a camera and not as a media device and only allows access to photos, and Linux doesn't even think it exists. Wifi Direct is supposed to be a point-to-point network between two devices like you use, but it never has worked. It fails and relies on bluetooth as a fallback, which can take an hour to transfer one 20MB MP3 file.

Bluetooth is ten times slower than RS-232. That's why I'm glad I got SD cards and expandable storage (for as long as it lasts) because I'd really hate to beam over 10GiB of MP3s onto a device. (I don't do the whole cloud or streaming thing, as you don't own the content, it gets taken away during license disputes, requires monthly fees for no ads, and there's a lot they don't got that I like, plus I hike in areas without signal coverage thanks to them killing 2G/3G. Now it's searching for service in most places, services require updates, and many times they EOL out like Google Play Music did so you can't count on them being around long.)
 
Bluetooth is supposed to be up to 3Mbps, although from experience around 1Mbps is more the norm. Ten times slower than RS-232 would be probably about 11kbps, and for that I'm thinking something has to be seriously wrong.

Nick, I don't like streaming either, and have all my Wagner, King Crimson, etc. on the device itself. And I've always insisted that my phones have removable/expandable SD storage. The only times I really use cloud , is for sharing and/or collaborating on documents and things with colleagues and friends.
 
I also have so many albums to burn,but to be honest,my ps3 does not like the "Search for each track, as well as artist." So I had to look over to here to find the name of each song, and then type it in manually ,with an on screen keyboard with a ps3 controller...And search for the album cover, but oh wait I cannot see the new album cover when it is over skipped to my ps vita... Seriously.
 
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Ya know that aweful gut feeling that comes back at you and haunts you, as you try to understand what if feels like when time flies on..
Besides doing garden work with my mother, and I have mostly a mental schedule when writing and doing artwork most of the time.
Funny when I am away from my desk, I pack up a "to go" stationary most of the time, I am glad things are better slowly though, but I am alright for that time being though, funny using time of saying that cliche.
 
The reality that apparently no one is taught to look both ways before crossing the street. That was common sense when I was little, but today it don't matter if it's the parking lot at Walmart, Kmart or Kroger. Or even anywhere. People run out in traffic and suddenly I'm supposed to stop for them?! When did the right-of-way law get reversed?! Even worse, people much older than I are doing it. I figured since I was taught that whole 'look both ways' thing as a child, certainly an elderly person would have, or be the one who taught their grandson/daughter the same? but apparently everything is backwards...The amount of time I had to slam on my brakes to get a middle finger or a 'HEY! LOOK OUT MORON!' from someone who fails to check traffic before crossing is becoming sadly more common.

When I left Walmart today, since I'm actually smart enough to look both ways before crossing, people suddenly look at me funny, stopping to let me cross, while confused when I have to motion or yell 'hey you got the right of way, I'm supposed to look out for you, you don't have to stop for me!'

I honestly don't belong in 2023. I belong in 1963.
 
I have been chewing on this for a long spell.
My mother has pention with my father's death several years ago, also a few other things. But I will never see the light of that day of when I can pyschially see it, or even touch it with also "Insurance" too, seriously it is like horse with a carrot type of trick.
Sure it may sound like "Well he's going to get this ammount per week." and I am like "Where's the proof, unless you feel like jerking on my rein?"
Seriously.. Why would I deserve that huge clump of money when I cannot see it ever?
 
So I'm at the grocery store in the lunch meat aisle. There's a woman about 30yrs old changing all the lunch meat around. I figured she was an employee or a vendor, but something was wrong. Then she starts talking to an older woman who was her mother, and then she goes back to changing everything around. I looked at her and said you're screwing everything up. She putting $1.99 stuff into $4 and $6 rows and $4 and $6 stuff in $2 & $4 rows. She walks away. She comes back again and starts doing it again. I again said, you are screwing every up, stop. She said some to me and walked away again.

Her mother was right there at first, she had to see what she was doing and didn't stop her.
 
One desperate financial winter I stocked shelves at a super grocery store. It was mind boggling what you might find shelved by a shopper in the wrong place. Thawed out frozen goods behind a row of beans for instance. At least a cart full of "waste" products were trashed each night. The end result.... higher prices for consumers!
 
I get a bit miffed when stores intentionally try to hide the vegan options either behind the meat products that have similar packaging (Walmart loves pulling this stunt with Amy's Vegan Mac & Cheeze, putting it way way behind a similar looking product but which has dairy) or putting it on the super top shelf out of reach. I really hate that.
 
Speaking of.
Sometimes I do head over to the bakery and just pick up like oh cupcakes or whatever, but that package it is hard to open up, sometimes I just exploded with cupcakes all over the place. It is the package it is loud and noisey as well.
The last time I had my mother picked some up for my co-workers at my side occupation, they did not say "Oh happy birthday" Well a few of them remember, but my girl did not say a word to me of my birthday or anything.. Kind of forgot about that day though.
So those packages are loud and sometimes cumbersome to take it though. Yeah... I keep seeing a kid who is always like that who is a worker over there.. Seriously if you are going to put back an item then put it back in a same place though.

I still have a few "friends" who do work over there though.. It is an odd thing running into them though. Kind of scary on seeing how much it does intake and breathe.
 
So I order a Suncast Storage Shed from Ace Hardware. I get a confirmation. 30 minutes later I get an order cancelled from Ace with no explanation. I call Ace and they told me the warehouse cancelled it, due to the ones in stock are returns with missing parts. I said could I back order it and they said sure. I get the back order confirmation. 30 minutes later I get back order cancellation. It said the vendor didn't know when he would get more in stock.

Next I order a Rubbermaid Storage Shed from Tractor Supply. I get a confirmation. 5 minute later I get a cancellation saying sorry we no longer carry that storage shed.

Next I find a storage shed at Lowes, but it won't let me order it, it tells me to pick it up at a different store 54 miles away. So I called the local Lowes to see if the other store could ship it to them. No one I talked to at the Lowes knew if that was possible. Everyone said we have no training on online ordering or transfers.

So I'm driving 54 miles to a different Lowes store near Nashville tomorrow, How do these retailers stay in business?
 
My new Skechers would of been in the FedEx people's hands yesterday, but noooooooooo, its been a few more days since I placed the order of them, I am stuck with my older shoes I do not wear most of the time,but on the flip side, my heels feel a lot better with the raised gel cap underneath my feet though... :) Soooo sort of a mini rant with a golden star.
 
AugieTN said:
So I order a Suncast Storage Shed from Ace Hardware. I get a confirmation. 30 minutes later I get an order cancelled from Ace with no explanation. I call Ace and they told me the warehouse cancelled it, due to the ones in stock are returns with missing parts. I said could I back order it and they said sure. I get the back order confirmation. 30 minutes later I get back order cancellation. It said the vendor didn't know when he would get more in stock.

Next I order a Rubbermaid Storage Shed from Tractor Supply. I get a confirmation. 5 minute later I get a cancellation saying sorry we no longer carry that storage shed.

Next I find a storage shed at Lowes, but it won't let me order it, it tells me to pick it up at a different store 54 miles away. So I called the local Lowes to see if the other store could ship it to them. No one I talked to at the Lowes knew if that was possible. Everyone said we have no training on online ordering or transfers.

So I'm driving 54 miles to a different Lowes store near Nashville tomorrow, How do these retailers stay in business?
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I concur, they have no idea what's up. When I went online to shop for a Blackstone griddle, Walmart had them at a great discount. There are a number of of their stores around town but they all showed not available for pickup. The cooker had free shipping to my house so I ordered online and received it a day earlier than projected... no complaints. However, while waiting for the griddle to arrive, I went to my local Walmart looking for cooking utensils I wanted for it. There in my Walmart, five minutes from my home, sat the very Blackstone for sale. What???
 
That apparently the 'you get what you pay for' mantra isn't always correct. Case in point. Last week, I spent $100 for a set of Jlab True Wireless ANC Sport Pros, since they had the 'clips' that held onto my ears like my old Philips wired set (and therefore don't fall out of my ears or become vulnerable to curious deer or goats at petting zoos). First week they worked great, and this was when I just got the Galaxy A03s. But I recently went to Spectrum Mobile and upgraded to a faster Galaxy A14 5G (to have future proofing as after 3G's death I can't count on 4G being around long enough to be confident). Thought it'd be as simple as unpairing then rep-pairing to the new phone, right? WRONG!

The Jlabs have a really convoluted procedure for resetting them and re-entering pairing mode, and with my failing dexterity I couldn't figure it out. I'd end up with either the right or left bud pairing by itself, or them both showing up as two different headsets. Obviously that broke their companion app meaning no ANC or Be Aware (transparency) or Equalizer. Also they would both be in mono audio.

I tried many attempts to follow the instructions by the letter but ultimately always ended with one pairing and not the other, or them both pairing as separate headsets with the same name. I got angry, smashed the case to the floor, which now no longer charges the buds, and now, realizing it's entirely useless, I took a hammer in frustration to the buds themselves, and tossed 'em. I didn't want to return them to Walmart because our Walmart has been known to put returns back on the shelf for a discounted price, including non-functioning returns, and I, being burned before that way, didn't want to subject another poor schmuck to that! But still, $100 lost. One week of use, and apparently learning that Jlab buds are pretty much 'married' to the first device you pair them with.

My solution to this was to revive my failing Galaxy Buds Live, which had the left so quiet as to be inaudible, with the right very distorted and loud. I learned that while disgusting, that 'sucking' on the buds fixes that issue. Go figure! Just need to stay away from curious animals (I've heard stories of dogs eating AirPods) Doesn't help they are shaped and look like beans.
 
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No skechers..
Seriously are they holding for ransom for what?
My flipping feet, seriously no thanks, could of drove to town and get some up in the morning..
 
I had to order mine. Sketchers used to sell at Kmart around here but Kmart no exist today. I got mine via Amazon.

People gonna have the same bad luck with brands such as McGregor, Jacklyn Smith, and Texas Steer.
 
nickdalzell said:
I had to order mine. Sketchers used to sell at Kmart around here but Kmart no exist today. I got mine via Amazon.

People gonna have the same bad luck with brands such as McGregor, Jacklyn Smith, and Texas Steer.
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Again, I fell in feety in love with my Sketchers and never ever went back with traditional shoes, except for Saftey ones for my side occupation.
 
I got Sketchers Work branded ones for work, as a vegan I cannot and will not compromise on work boots. Sadly many are leather but Sketchers made some that don't use leather.

I wish I could still walk down the street to the Kmart to pick up stuff like that but thanks to stupid shareholders and corporations ruining everything we can't have an easy life. It's 'online buying' or nothing these days.

If it were possible I'd time travel to the '60s and never leave.
 
I have a local shoe outlet that sells sketchers. Famous Footware has sold me a couple of pairs of Skechers now and I like them.
Most everything they sell is not leading edge. Neither my feet nor I give a care. I'm hard on shoes so the cheaper they can be purchased, the happier I am.
 
The Shoe Stop and The Shoe Carnival both have insane markups on prices of shoes. I really, really miss the 'low Kmart Price' on a brand of shoes, be them Sketchers, Nike or Reebok.
 
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