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Thread: Shit that annoys you
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10-11-2022, 08:25 AM #39601Registered User
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Because I want a glass one and the glass one I have has a plastic top to make it whistle. I therefore don't use the top because of the plastic. My wife won't boil water for my tea if the device doesn't make a noise and or shut off. And if I make my own tea with the glass kettle, it will invariably live on the stovetop. That will aggravate my wife. Given what's up with the electric kettle, I'm not going to go get a stainless one. I suppose I could get an enameled one. See previous point about shit living on the stovetop. Also, the electric is sorta cool because it has multiple temperature set points for different beverages. Why can't they make an all glass electric kettle?[/QUOTE]
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10-11-2022, 09:06 AM #39602
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10-11-2022, 09:22 AM #39603
Shit that annoys you
I’ve got a Breville in the house & one in the studio. They both get used everyday. The buttons have gotten wacky in their old age on the house unit, but it still works 90% of the time (10% turning itself off after you walk away & not coming to temp). Studio unit going strong after 3yrs thus far.
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10-11-2022, 09:28 AM #39604
Shit that annoys you
Last edited by neufox47; 10-11-2022 at 10:05 AM.
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10-11-2022, 10:07 AM #39605"fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
"She was tossing her bean salad with the vigor of a Drunken Pop princess so I walked out of the corner and said.... "need a hand?"" - Odin
"everybody's got their hooks into you, fuck em....forge on motherfuckers, drag all those bitches across the goal line with you." - (not so) ill-advised strategy
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10-11-2022, 10:13 AM #39606
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10-11-2022, 10:14 AM #39607Registered User
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My wife doesn't like our city water, so we just ended up getting those five gallon jugs of water at the grocery store and filling it from that. The tea tastes a lot better, doesn't tend to scale up on the inside as much, and you get a lot of refills out of a five gallon jug. If your water has enough iron in it to stain your stainless cookware, it probably really jacks up the taste of your tea. #teasnob
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10-11-2022, 11:44 AM #39608
I just use the same plastic kettle I've been boiling water in for the past 10 years. Tried to replace it with a stainless one once, damn thing broke in a month.
I figure whatever was gonna leech out of that thing has already done so, so who cares.
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10-11-2022, 01:07 PM #39609
City water here. Nothing else gets stained, just the kettles. Water tastes fine except a few times a year when it rains a lot and it tastes like too much bleach or it tastes like the lake, because they didn't treat it enough. However, regarding the staining, now that I'm looking, I do see a tiny bit of red staining in the little ring that stays wet around the drain of two of the bathroom vanities, however it is easily wiped away. The stainless kitchen sink is just fine. The toilets and other fixtures don't have either the big red or blue/green stains you sometimes see which is why I didn't think of it. So maybe iron is my problem and I have to regularly clean my kettle. Or filter the water. I sorta like the glass walled kettles because of the trippy lights. Oh, and regarding jugs of water, my wife will freak if I am buying that much water in plastic.
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10-11-2022, 01:14 PM #39610
we have some red if we lapse on cleaning, but it's organic, not mineral
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10-11-2022, 01:18 PM #39611
Being the only guy with their camera on during online meetings. Grow some self confidence you dorks.
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10-11-2022, 01:30 PM #39612
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10-11-2022, 01:45 PM #39613
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10-11-2022, 05:10 PM #39614I drink it up
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10-11-2022, 05:58 PM #39615
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10-11-2022, 05:59 PM #39616
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10-11-2022, 05:59 PM #39617User
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My work laptop has a little slide shutter that you can use to cover the camera for the paranoid among us.
I often leave my camera off for zoom meetings where I only occasionally have to pay attention. Those meetings are often my most productive times to complete other tasks.
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10-11-2022, 06:12 PM #39618
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10-11-2022, 06:18 PM #39619User
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10-11-2022, 06:23 PM #39620
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10-11-2022, 06:27 PM #39621
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10-11-2022, 06:34 PM #39622
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10-11-2022, 06:59 PM #39623
Pre-covid our company was mixed on camera use, some would have it turned on some not. Got a new boss (CFO) a few months in who insisted everyone have camera on for calls with him. He wouldn't do phone calls, everything had to be video call. And of course every time I was on a call was when my internet connection would start to lag. Same CFO was also going to move the company off Slack and Zoom to Microsoft Teams. We had tried Teams before as well as other alternatives and our IT group was too incompetent to get them to work. Everyone hated teams though, but the whole company would be back on it since one exec loved it.
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10-11-2022, 07:05 PM #39624
I never get the love for Microsoft Office products. They are fine, but why blow up your tech to switch to teams?
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10-11-2022, 07:39 PM #39625
Our place has gone full MS. I had to order a new windows laptop after 10 years and three different machines all running RHEL. Supposedly they are saving money by not having to have a support structure for all 3 OSes. However, joke's on them. There's several thousand folks like me who were given Linux machines in 2012, refreshed in 2016 and then didn't get a refresh in 2020 because refreshes were halted during COVID. The old laptop only has 8GB which is barely enough for Win 10 and I will have to run a virtual machine with RHEL on top of that, hence the new one. Of course the new laptop with 16GB might be better than trying to run a Win 10 KVM on RHEL using that same 8GB.
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