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39794 No. 39794 [Edit]
What are some things that really bug you?
Things that genuinely piss you off?

I thought it would be nice to have a thread to vent about any little annoyance, no mater how big or small.
Any and all complains about the world around you are welcome here!
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>> No. 42096 [Edit]
>>42093
>you are locked out of half of steam features until you spend some money anyway
Same anon. Found that out first hand. Can't friend anyone.
>> No. 42097 [Edit]
>>42092
Your point doesn't stand at all, really.
>> No. 42098 [Edit]
>>42097
Tell me you're a valve fanboy without telling me you're a valve fanboy. The only reason I figured out to do that is a reddit post from 6 months ago. Having that problem is on them. Using google captcha is on them.

Post edited on 25th Dec 2023, 7:52pm
>> No. 42099 [Edit]
>>42098
No, friend, you're just hysterical. The reality is things just werk most of the time, and unfortunately, you happen to run into a snag. Happens to every service, and why there are official and unofficial support channels, as you've noted.
>> No. 42100 [Edit]
Oh boy, I forgot which this thread this was. If the moderators want to delete my posts, that's fine with me. Let the man have his rant uncontested.
>> No. 42101 [Edit]
>>42099
>Happens to every service
Some more than others. Pretty much any microsoft service is a colossal pain in the ass. Facebook too. I and people I know have stories to corroborate that. Amazon or DLsite, not really. Steam is on the microsoft side of the fence, and I'm not alone in feeling that way. There's definitely no excuse for using google captcha.

I see right through you. You are a valve fanboy, that's why you're defending them.

Post edited on 25th Dec 2023, 9:00pm
>> No. 42103 [Edit]
>>42092
>edit: making an account worked after flushing my dns
I also do this exact kind of thing where I get stupidly mad and then find an easy fix and it makes me madder.
I was tryin' to get photos off my phone onto my computer and it didn't work and I go "What the HELL the only thing phones DO is take pictures and I can't even keep them this thing is USELESS" then my mom says "you can enable file transfer in the settings" and then it worked but now I'm annoyed. I want a real digital camera...

Anyway, Steam drops support for Windows 7 next week, I'm nearly free!
>> No. 42105 [Edit]
>>42099
>The reality is things just werk most of the time, and unfortunately, you happen to run into a snag.
Not him, but you can say that for any service. The whole shtick of captcha-gating is that if you're a "normal" user who uses google services, accepts cookies like they're treats, doesn't do anything to defeat browser fingerprinting, then the services will work just fine. The majority of users are like that so they never notice any issue.

If you stray off this path: you are privacy inclined, or you use an older device, then you get served with the notorious undefeatable captchas of cloudflare and google. The infinite cloudflare captcha is particularly notorious: at least google will tell politely you that you're fucked at some point, the cloudflare captcha will just take you down an infinite time-wasting hole, never telling you anything except that you need to solve more captchas.

When you use a captcha-gating service, you're basically saying you don't care about anyone other than the average joe: fucking over people using screenreaders, people using older devices, people using non-mainstream browsers, privacy-minded people, and finally the unlucky people who just have the misfortune of sharing an IP that belongs (or used to belong) to someone in the former categories.
>> No. 42107 [Edit]
>>42105
>you can say that for any service
Indeed, that's why I said it.

>The majority of users are like that so they never notice any issue.
Exactly.
>> No. 42108 [Edit]
>>42105
>The infinite cloudflare captcha
In my case it's an infinite "checking to make sure your connection is secure"

I think your post sums up my feelings on the matter pretty well. I'm not hard core privacy at all costs, but I do use some out dated software and extentions that big brother doesn't like sometimes.
I think it's unfair and flat out unreasonable to not offer an alternative solution for the 1% of people this system fails for. Sure, 1% or even 0.01% might not seem like a big deal, but that's a LOT of people when you're talking about a million plus people. These companies have all lost their humanity long ago, they won't work with you and instead force you to work with them. If their oh so perfect system doesn't work for some random average joe, it's their problem that they get to struggle and fight with resolving. They get to spend hours upon days with unhelpful automated systems struggling to just talk to someone, anyone, about their honest mistake or simple error that any human could fix in a few seconds.
Sometimes you even hear about these unlucky people who trip some weird glitch or technical issue in the system and find themselves in high legal and/or financial issues not because they did anything really wrong but because they didn't fit perfectly into the machine, a machine with no sympathy or mercy that can't be reasoned with, bargained with, pleaded with, or convinced of anything. Even in cases where you're lucky enough to get in touch a real person, most of the time they're practically robots themselves, programed to read scripts and follow strict instructions to the letter, trying to reason with them can be like trying to reason with a zombie.
It sounds like something an old boomer would complain about, but these companies need to remember people aren't just numbers on a chart, something to be sorted and processed like an assembly line and discarded at the first sign of a defect. It's inhuman to treat people like this.
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>>42107
Exactly nothing. They are cunts. Catering to "most people" isn't a defense. And didn't you say you'd shut your fanboy mouth up?

Post edited on 26th Dec 2023, 4:28pm
>> No. 42110 [Edit]
>>42109
>And didn't you say you'd shut your fanboy mouth up?
I was replying to somebody else who quoted me, rage-kun. Take it easy.
>> No. 42111 [Edit]
>>42109
Not agreeing or disagreeing here, but could you take it easy and maybe ease up with the borderline name calling? It's kind of childish. Your choice of imagery could use some work too, just sayin...
>> No. 42134 [Edit]
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I hate this world; any chance of a reset?
>> No. 42137 [Edit]
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>>42134
Nope! Here is a cute image of Reisen.
>> No. 42138 [Edit]
>>42137
>cute
More like delicious.
>> No. 42168 [Edit]
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42168
Do these looks like the same product to you, because they're on the same Amazon listing.
>> No. 42172 [Edit]
>>42168
Amazon is full of bootleg garbage now.
>> No. 42201 [Edit]
I wouldn't say this makes me angry, but I do grow tired of DMM requiring me to use a VPN so that I may support the great studios that provide us with visual novels. Meanwhile, dlsite just werks.
>> No. 42225 [Edit]
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The monitor market is too small, so it caters to a very narrow set of buyers. For most of my life, I've been using laptop screens. Nothing over 17 inches. Now that I'm on a desktop, I got myself a 22 inch, 1080p IPS display. I tried using a hand-me-down 27 incher, but it was really uncomfortable.

Everything was too small for my crappy vision by default, so I had to scale it up. But there was still the problem of feeling like I was sitting right in front of a tv. Everything wasn't in my field of vision like I'm used to, even when I moved half the stand off my desk that has 25 inches of depth, balancing it against the wall. I'm also used to maximizing most applications, especially the browser. If you do that with a huge screen though, even scaled to look fine, it takes way too much dragging for your mouse to get from one end to another. It's just sub-optimal, but that's the "work-flow" I'm accustomed to.

So what's the problem with what I have now? I want better colors and higher resolution. Even my laptop screen has better colors although that's also an ips. I'm willing to pay money for primo colors, but there aren't even any 24 inch OLEDs. Anything with new technology is 27 inches at the minimum, or a laptop screen, because that's what most people actually use, OR a portable monitor that's at most 16 inches and 1080p.

Maybe if I got a 27 incher and forced myself to use it for weeks, I'd eventually get used to it, but I really hated my short stint with one.

Post edited on 16th Jan 2024, 3:31pm
>> No. 42247 [Edit]
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42247
My co-worker. Shuddap and do your job. Sheesh.
>> No. 42255 [Edit]
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42255
I guess I always feel inept at social interactions and always assume the worst. I can't socialize well at times, especially with normalfags
>> No. 42258 [Edit]
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42258
Midwesterners don't know anything about food. Anybody who gives British food crap, has never been to the American midwest. Ultra processed, fatty, boring slop. Lots of canned shit combined in bizarre ways. It's part of why they're so fat. Those tasteless fucks will put ranch or barbecue sauce on anything, including pizza. Italian is exotic to them, and many are afraid of fish. If they drank tea, which they don't, they'd boil the water in a microwave. For a gourmet, the midwest is one of the worst places in the world. Food wasteland.
>> No. 42259 [Edit]
>>42258
From the foods that people in the west eat, I would die within a year, or at least would become mentally and physically wrecked very fast. I always wondered how can they eat all that crap and still do so fine? Can you just get used to it? Or is the healthcare so great there?
>> No. 42260 [Edit]
>>42259
There's a reason why obesity is so high in america.
>> No. 42261 [Edit]
>>42260
Obesity is still within the range of "fine". You just can't climb trees and what not. And maybe live a few years less.
>> No. 42264 [Edit]
>>42258
Hello, I am in the midwest.
My sister seriously combines ranch and barbecue sauce and dips pizza rolls in it. I am so very sorry.
>> No. 42266 [Edit]
>>42261
Don't try to justify it.
>> No. 42267 [Edit]
>>42261
It's not, the consequences to your health are more severe than just a few less years lived. It raises probability of basically every health issue across the board.
>> No. 42275 [Edit]
You haven't lived until you've eaten a tater tot casserole straight out of the oven.
>> No. 42276 [Edit]
>>42275
"A hotdish or hot dish is a casserole dish that typically contains a starch, a meat, and a canned or frozen vegetable mixed with canned soup."
"Hotdish secured its popularity during the Great Depression, when grocery budgets required creative preparations for cheap foods, and the popularity continued into the rationing during World War II."
Checks out.
>> No. 42352 [Edit]
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42352
Everything seems to upset me these days..
>> No. 42353 [Edit]
>>42352
i have a similar issue. i use other imageboards all the time and my day inevitably gets ruined. but then i'm not in a good enough mood to do anything fun, so i keep browsing imageboards and the cycle repeats...
>> No. 42355 [Edit]
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42355
The discrepancy between human-readable, and unique file names, has some very annoying consequences. When you right click an image and select "save as", the default name is specified by the url. Urls though have no way to specify a filename that's different from what's stored on a server. So what ends up happening is that everything you save is named something meaningless, like a unix time stamp, unless you go through the trouble of renaming it.

The anchor tag has partially solved this issue with the addition of the "download" attribute, but the image tag has no such attribute. 7 years ago, adding something like this was suggested, but nothing has come out of it.
https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/2722

I thought I figured out a work around: include # in the filename, followed by a unique identifier. The url would contain %23 (code for #) to refer to this file, but it and everything after wont appear in the "save as" prompt because it'll sort of confuse it with the fragment identifier. This works in firefox, but not chrome. The other options are to place every file in a uniquely named folder, or do some kind of server-side scripting, but that seems massively inefficient.

edit: adding a url parameter to the image;s url, and setting the content-disposition header in nginx based on said parameter($args variable), seems to work

Post edited on 21st Feb 2024, 4:47pm
>> No. 42375 [Edit]
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42375
When translations get uploaded to exhentai, but not the original. Whoever does that has the original, it would only be a tiny bit more effort to do so, and it would benefit everybody, but they don't. It's so basic a courtesy that costs nothing, how would anybody not think to do it? What the fuck?

Post edited on 1st Mar 2024, 8:06pm
>> No. 42376 [Edit]
>>42375
There might be some slight ethical argument that since the majority of a Japanese artist's revenue would be from Japanese subscribers, posting the untranslated version would have a larger impact on their revenue than posting the translated version.
>> No. 42377 [Edit]
>>42375
As it turns out, the particular gallery I was looking for did have its raw uploaded, but was taken down by that irodori piece of shit
https://text.is/24N2

I will celebrate when he dies and his "company" disappears from this earth.
>> No. 42400 [Edit]
>>42377
You may be able to find it on here, assuming you haven't already looked: https://panda.chaika.moe/?view=list
>> No. 42401 [Edit]
>>42400
I've already torrented it from elsewhere, but it's good to know a site like that exists.
>> No. 42404 [Edit]
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42404
The need to provide your identification for (online services) everywhere these days. I'm trying to book an accommodation for airbnb and they have mandated that it is necessary to verify my identity and I'm having doubts on whether I should proceed. Perhaps I'm being paranoid but I've never liked to put myself on the 'radar' and yet it seems like it's almost mandatory that you would have put your face up on the web to access a variety of services nowadays. I wish people valued anonymity more though I understand that in many cases these things are done in the name of security. I suppose it ultimately comes down to trust and altruism. Sometimes you can't have nice things because there are people who will exploit certain freedoms at the convenience of others.
>> No. 42405 [Edit]
>>42404
In a lot of cases I think it's unnecessary and invasive, but I think trusting one's home to a stranger requires them to put forward their face a little for the sake of building the trust necessary for it.
>> No. 42440 [Edit]
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>>42225
Update, I now have an even shallower 23 inch desk, but I decided to give the 27 inch monitor another go, this time keeping browsers and other stuff in windowed mode. It's still uncomfortable. Watching a video in full screen has me rolling my chair back, and afterward I have to roll inward. It's ridiculous.

I'm not actually utilizing the extra space, it's just getting in the way. Even if I had a deeper desk, I'd need to massively scale things up for text to be legible on account of my bad vision, rendering the larger size completely pointless.

The most frustrating part is that colors and sharpness ARE better on this thing. That's all I want.
>> No. 42446 [Edit]
I hate that the west has noise and loud speaking as well as lights being turned on everywhere as part of it's culture. It's like people are programmed to avoid being quiet and polite, feels like quiet places with dim lights are a thing of the past.
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>>42446
>feels like quiet places with dim lights are a thing of the past
Have you tried going to a library or church? Maybe fancy lounges are like that too...

Post edited on 19th Mar 2024, 5:20pm
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>>42446
>feels like quiet places with dim lights are a thing of the past.
Sometimes I like to imagine myself as the owner of an establishment like a cafe or similar. A quiet, warm place where to have breakfast or where to seek refuge after a sudden downpour. I don't know how economically viable it would be but I do appreciate quiet places where people try not to inconvenience one another and just relax doing their own thing
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>>42446
I was surprised when I learned of the existence of snack bars in Japan (¨sunakku¨ if you want to google it). They are small bars specifically designed to create a pleasant atmosphere where you can enjoy your drink and talk with someone else (or not); Other places like Izakaya also have their own pleasant traditional elements to them. I had seen them in anime, movies and games before but I didn't know that their purpose is to be relaxing. All the anime with ¨foodie¨ elements in them are interesting too, there are many but I have a strong bias for Love is like a cocktail, Dagashi Kashi and Gochiusa. Traditional coffee shops in the mornings are the most relaxing type of restaurants in the west I can think of.
>> No. 42455 [Edit]
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I was watching some old anime OPs on YouTube and ended up reading some of the Japanese comments, and their reminiscing really got to me. Otaku culture, or whatever you want to call it — just the community spirit surrounding the media in general — seems to be gradually fading away, both in western & eastern communities.

Back then people didn't have to necessarily agree with you or understand you, but they didn't outright deny you either. There really was a sense of community and shared passion for the media that was shared among everyone (hell, 同人 for example outright means same person/kindred spirits). Nowadays it just feels so uptight, stiff, arrogant ... people look for the smallest thing to disagree with somebody on and make the entire discussion about that, with things frequently devolving into silly bickering. It's not enough to just enjoy something, discuss it with others, and accept that others may not like it as much. Instead some silly form of social hierarchy has to exist, despite everyone sharing the same underlying passion...
I'm not saying disagreement is inherently bad by any means, since that's a large part of where good conversation comes from. A person shouldn't be 'denied' just because of that, though; disagreement and a shared sense of camaraderie aren't mutually exclusive.

Maybe I'm just getting older and jaded since I'm already older than nearly anybody I meet online nowadays. I'm sure somebody who reads this will think people were just as unfriendly back then, but that wasn't my experience at all.
I guess I just miss that sense of camaraderie. Otaku media wasn't widely accepted by society, but in exchange it felt like such a more enjoyable time.
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>>42455
>people look for the smallest thing to disagree with somebody on and make the entire discussion about that, with things frequently devolving into silly bickering
My impression was that's a westerner thing. Has it spread to Japan?
>Otaku media wasn't widely accepted by society, but in exchange it felt like such a more enjoyable time.
It's like a bottle of white wine. If you pour it into an ocean of piss, the wine loses its value.
>> No. 42472 [Edit]
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When anime studios do not release songs from anime. I watched the Junk Boy some days ago and it had some great citypop songs, but Madhouse decided to not release them in any media whatsoever. So for one of the songs - Tsuki no namida - the only record there is of it lasts around 40 secs and it has the protagonist talking about his sexual desires over it. Such an amazing song but no way to hear it in full. I searched vgmdb, anison, anidb, soulseek, youtube and nothing. It shows up, but there's no record of any release. Even tracked the singer and tried to find it among collection style albums, but nothing.
>> No. 42492 [Edit]
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I've been messing around with music players ever since deciding to use a dedicated one. There's this foobar2000 extension I wanted to use(to add S98 support), but it only works on the 32-bit version, while I had installed the 64-bit one. I can't find the source of that extension either to try recompiling it.

This led me to a realization, Foobar2000 is closed source, and after looking into it, the reasoning for why is completely asinine. Pic rel shows how much of an arrogant fuck the dev(Peter) is. It only works on Windows, and despite how incompetent Peter thinks everybody else is, I bet in the almost 20 years since he wrote that shit, it would have been ported. ARM is also right around the corner. Who knows when, if ever, it'll get ported to that.

Winamp and its successor, Wacup, have the same issue in their insistence on being closed source. Architecture and OS specific extensions are also generally an awful thing that needs to die. I like the minimal UI of these, but the culture around them is antiquated and disappointing.

edit: this is in a similar vein to winamp
https://qmmp.ylsoftware.com/index.php
edit2: Foobar2000 does have an ARM version. I imagine plugin support for it is lacking though.

Post edited on 28th Mar 2024, 9:51pm
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