Shit that annoys you

[rideit]

From those of us who have never bitched and moaned to a moderator about anything (that I remember), thank you, mods, for your service.

And for the farts and bacon forum.

[MultiVerse]

Yeah, thanks mods. Never complained but glad to see the thread moved. I clicked way too many times hoping to see pics of rockets but only ever saw very large images of text. The IFT-5 landing burn is very photogenic:

[The AD]

Fuck off. I’ve been here twenty five fucking years. I delete the app I don’t really come back. That’s how it works.

The pussification of tgr. That fucking annoys me.

I don't get it, why can't you just look at it in Poliass?

Well, I’m out.

WTF? Leaving the forum because a fucking thread got moved to a different sub-forum? That is some weak shit. Seriously, this is one of the lamest tantrums I've ever seen here and that's saying something. I hope you haven't actually left because I think you need to distance yourself a bit from this and look at how weird this behavior is.

[Mustonen]

You can’t get to poli from the app. Don’t know why and I don’t need to know, it’s just one more broken thing. I don’t come here for poli, but I do come here for discussion and opposing points of view and that’s one I was loosely following in the free time I don’t really have these days.

This wasn’t THE reason, just the last one. It’s not trying to be some bs circle jerk popularity contest, but it is one just the same and I’m pretty over that too. If being a mod is so thankless and hard why make it worse by this kinda bullshit? That’s annoying.

So, I deleted the app. It’s mostly the same thing. The html version is worse, somehow, so doubt you’ll see me much from here. It’s a good thing. I’ve been working on decluttering. Tell your dog I said hi.

[riser4]

I tried the app once and it sucked. I tried Tapatalk once and it sucked too because it kept the pictures from the NSFW thread in plain view.

Both of those are annoying.

I use the black and white metro mobile setting on my phone. I like it. On a computer I use the blue setting as Dog intended.

[::: :::]

Not sure what large format old person phone you’re using, but you can get to polyass from the app just fine

The biggest problem with the app is how it tries to turn numbers into emoji codes (at least via iOS)

It also does video differently

But the lack of ads is huge and the screen dedicated to just thread makes it still the better viewing option imho

The image preview can be turned off in the settings so that nsfw imgs don’t show in your first forum screen

[riser4]

I don't have any adds using b&w metro mobile in my browser. I'm looking at this right now on my phone in Chrome with no add blocker.

[Mazderati]

I thought everyone posted from a cream-colored desktop and tube monitor.

[frorider]

The announcement of the withdrawal of the $7500 EV tax credit would’ve brought the Elon thread back to a discussion of Tesla, but I guess we’ll never know.

The reasons (technical or otherwise) people avoid polyass have been discussed here plenty.

But assuming Elon has a role in the new administration, his thread would’ve gone poly eventually.

[singlesline]

USPS. I know this has been covered ad nauseum but I'm still annoyed.

USPS sends me an email every day showing the mail that I should be receiving, which is nice. And that mail, inevitably, does not arrive. They say to wait seven days before reporting it missing, and conveniently the email has a link to report missing mail. Except that link doesn't work if you wait more than seven days.

Of the mail I know is coming to me (i.e. not junk mail), 0% of it arrives within a week, regardless of where it's coming from. Around 20% of it never arrives at all. I'm approaching the point where I need to tell people to send letters to me via UPS / Fedex if they want me to actually get them.

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Huh, I don't have any of those problems coming from the same post office. Stuff that shows up in that email shows up in the mailbox when it says it will and it comes on what seems like a reasonable amount of time.

The only one I have on occasion is if USPS is delivering a parcel but the package is too big to fit in the lock boxes...10-20% of the time I think they are too lazy to actually bring it to the door step so they just don't attempt to deliver it. Almost always shows up the next day. I like to think this only happens when the regular postman is off duty and the fill-in guy just leaves extra work for him when he gets back.

[singlesline]

I've inherited my previous owner's junk mail. Guy's wife was on every single mailing list you could be on...I'm getting catalogs every day, often from clothing/furniture companies I've never even heard of. And they all say "Or Current Resident" so they don't get forwarded.

Although the post office has also done a terrible job of forwarding mail. We get a fair amount of the previous owner's mail...which makes me wonder how much of our own mail isn't getting forwarded.

Also annoying: at my last place I got a lot of fundraising junk addressed to some dude with my same last name. Lots of the like...sad full color cleft lip mailers, that kind of stuff. Never got them where I lived before that so I assumed it was just a coincidence that a former resident had the same name (and the post office was now delivering it because the name on the box matched)

I was real excited for those mailers to disappear when I moved. Nope. Somehow all of those fundraising agencies have updated this dude's address in their systems and it is now addressed to that guy at my new address. WTF?

[toast2266]

The only one I have on occasion is if USPS is delivering a parcel but the package is too big to fit in the lock boxes...10-20% of the time I think they are too lazy to actually bring it to the door step so they just don't attempt to deliver it. Almost always shows up the next day. I like to think this only happens when the regular postman is off duty and the fill-in guy just leaves extra work for him when he gets back.

Dang. They bring things to your door step? USPS has never once brought something to my house. If a package is too big for the box, they'll leave a "sorry we missed you tag" and I'll go pick the package up at the post office. Although about 20% of the time they can't find the package because the delivery guy didn't bother unloading it off the truck. And about 5% of the time the guy doesn't leave the package or a tag, and the box just gets returned to the sender as undeliverable because I didn't know I had a package that I needed to go pick up (this happens about once a year).




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[rod9301]

The post office drops off packages at my door if they don't fit in the mail box, and they have to drive almost a1/4 mile to do this.

Nevada City!

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[Cisco Kid]

Do you know the first name of your mail carrier? I do. She brings any package too big for the box to the door and signs for it if I'm not home. Whatever USPS issues you are dealing with it will only get worse.

[singlesline]

Dang. They bring things to your door step? USPS has never once brought something to my house. If a package is too big for the box, they'll leave a "sorry we missed you tag" and I'll go pick the package up at the post office. Although about 20% of the time they can't find the package because the delivery guy didn't bother unloading it off the truck. And about 5% of the time the guy doesn't leave the package or a tag, and the box just gets returned to the sender as undeliverable because I didn't know I had a package that I needed to go pick up (this happens about once a year).




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Well that sucks. I guess that's the benefit of living on a paved road in a dense neighborhood...Everything's a tradeoff, but I think I've only had to go get something at the post office once in the last 3 years (but it wasn't actually there because it hadn't been unloaded from the truck).


Nothing beats the mail service I got when I lived in a high rise on Chicago's north side. Place had a loading dock, a package receiving room, and at least once-daily visits by every major carrier and Amazon. Packages always came and never got stolen.

Since the carrier trucks were there daily, you could also send/return packages of any size without having to go to the post office or UPS store.

[heckacali]

Stop junk mail easy peasey

https://www.paperkarma.com/

You're welcome.

We have our kids process all junk mail through it and it works great.

[The AD]

I thought everyone posted from a cream-colored desktop and tube monitor.

I'll admit I didn't even know there was "app." I access this site 100% of the time from a computer.

[old goat]

Do you know the first name of your mail carrier? I do. She brings any package too big for the box to the door and signs for it if I'm not home. Whatever USPS issues you are dealing with it will only get worse.

Especially after a dog is appointed postmaster general.

[steff]

trying to get a straight answer from people these days

"yeah no absolutely like whatever literally for sure"

[concretejungle]

Stop junk mail easy peasey

https://www.paperkarma.com/

You're welcome.

We have our kids process all junk mail through it and it works great.

A fucking app with a fucking monthly subscription. Mother fucker I hate this world.

[brutah]

Especially after a dog is appointed postmaster general.

Louis DeJoy (trump appointee) is still the postmaster general. Doubtful they replace em

[old goat]

Louis DeJoy (trump appointee) is still the postmaster general. Doubtful they replace em

Overqualified.

[heckacali]

A fucking app with a fucking monthly subscription. Mother fucker I hate this world.

I have a use case that makes it absolutely worth it for us though, so, yeah, maybe a single residence makes it absurd in that case, but it is effective at stopping junk mail if needed

[Ted Striker]

For $5 https://dmachoice.org/ will kill most unsolicited sales junk mail (from senders you've never bought anything from)

https://optoutprescreen.com will stop credit offers from banks you've never used.

[old goat]

OK folks, time to take down the Trump and Harris lawn signs. Enough with the virtue signaling, or whatever you call a Trump sign--asshole signaling?