What is some of your Pet Peeve's

[Oaktree]

When developers make items smaller and add layers of color which obfuscate the numbers.

Or "manuals" for products that are printed with 6p type on a 4x4" "booklet". Can't read some of that even with a magnifying glass. As you noted, weird color combinations don't help either.

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

Another day, Another peeve...
At my homeplace where my 98yo Mother still lives and I was born 73 years ago I remember when Grandfather had a 2 acre pond put in 1954. Spring fed and until a year ago clear water. You can see Google satellite view how grey/brown the water is now. About 40 years ago the county put in sewage pipes, one gravity one high pressure pipes in through the property.
I had county inspectors out and they called today saying everything is fine. The lake and creek has a sewer smell and water is cloudy gray. They said it's "stagnant water"!!!!!?
I called the DEQ and see if it can be escallated, although excavation and trying to find the problem won't be easy.
I'm certainly not expert, just common sense but I said why not have sample jars. Start upstream from lake, then lake, then downstream every few hundred feet. Testing for E. Coli (or whatever they do) if higher levels would show where it's coming from.

 

[Camofurever1]

Most of my software runs on Linux, as stated in my post, just not Mac OS. This is mostly 3D modeling and electrophysics simulation software, for high frequency, thermal, flomerics, and particle physics. But even stuff as basic as my 3D CAD software (SolidWorks) isn't supported on Mac or Linux.

Of course you can make it run on either with emulation, but without native support for 3D graphics accelleration and GPU functionality, they're too slow for working large models. Likewise with simulation, when a simulation can take hours to days on exceptionally powerful multi-socket PC's with dozens of cores and can bind up dozens or even hundreds of gigabytes of memory, the last thing you want is to be running it on CPU emulation.

Yeah, I don't do anything that sophisticated with my CAD. I create 2D drawings of flat backplates and electrical enclosures to be machined on a large CNC machine. We are just drilling holes, tapping holes and running a roughing cutter to create large openings in the enclosures. Also create drawings for laser engraving signage and tags to go on the enclosures and backplates. Glorified etch-a-sketch.

 

[Jstpssng]

Another day, Another peeve...
At my homeplace where my 98yo Mother still lives and I was born 73 years ago I remember when Grandfather had a 2 acre pond put in 1954. Spring fed and until a year ago clear water. You can see Google satellite view how grey/brown the water is now. About 40 years ago the county put in sewage pipes, one gravity one high pressure pipes in through the property.
I had county inspectors out and they called today saying everything is fine. The lake and creek has a sewer smell and water is cloudy gray. They said it's "stagnant water"!!!!!?
I called the DEQ and see if it can be escallated, although excavation and trying to find the problem won't be easy.
I'm certainly not expert, just common sense but I said why not have sample jars. Start upstream from lake, then lake, then downstream every few hundred feet. Testing for E. Coli (or whatever they do) if higher levels would show where it's coming from.View attachment 3887340

If they won't do it, you can. There will be a cost involved but if you find a problem you should be able to recover it.

 

[NoTrespassing]

Another day, Another peeve...
At my homeplace where my 98yo Mother still lives and I was born 73 years ago I remember when Grandfather had a 2 acre pond put in 1954. Spring fed and until a year ago clear water. You can see Google satellite view how grey/brown the water is now. About 40 years ago the county put in sewage pipes, one gravity one high pressure pipes in through the property.
I had county inspectors out and they called today saying everything is fine. The lake and creek has a sewer smell and water is cloudy gray. They said it's "stagnant water"!!!!!?
I called the DEQ and see if it can be escallated, although excavation and trying to find the problem won't be easy.
I'm certainly not expert, just common sense but I said why not have sample jars. Start upstream from lake, then lake, then downstream every few hundred feet. Testing for E. Coli (or whatever they do) if higher levels would show where it's coming from.View attachment 3887340

What a shitty deal. But seriously, that sucks if it's really happening.

 

[WinterDeere]

"Everyone hates a lawyer, until they need one." This might be one of those times.

Of course you can do your own dig and find the problem to prove your point, but that could lead to claims that you somehow caused the damage, and could become very expensive for you.

 

[Jstpssng]

"Everyone hates a lawyer, until they need one." This might be one of those times.

Of course you can do your own dig and find the problem to prove your point, but that could lead to claims that you somehow caused the damage, and could become very expensive for you.

First he needs to determine there is damage. Once he can demonstrate there is indeed a leak, taking it to the state level should get it resolved.

In a perfect world...

 

[Fuddyduddy1952]

My cousin just retired from the DEQ, but I had a long talk with a fellow worker about it. Hopefully something can be done.

 

[BravoXray]

A friend bought an Epson EcoTank printer and was having problems, so I went over to help get it sorted out. Nice printer, good print quality, but the display screen is the size of a friggin' postage stamp, really, it was. WTF were they thinking?
Had to use a magnifying glass to read the damn thing.
Got the problem sorted out, paper size was set to A3 or A5, some European size instead of US letter size.

 

[BravoXray]

Another pet peeve is door to door salesmen that just keep yakking when I tell them I'm not interested.
Had one this evening, a young guy, probably in his late 20s, was selling pest control. Told me a couple of neighbors to the north had signed up for their service. One of them I could believe, they have a lot of crap around their house, so probably have various type of vermin living there. Told him I didn't have a problem, and he just kept telling me I had to have a problem because one of my neighbors did. I repeated three times that I wasn't interested, but he never missed a beat. Was still talking when I closed the door an turned the dead bolt. He was riding one of those Segue, two wheel scooters. He headed south to my next door neighbor lady's house, so I called her and told her not to answer the door if he rang her doorbell.
I get a lot of these guys telling me I need to driveway sealed, the gutters replaced, or the roof reshingled.
I guess I'm going to have to put up a "Solicitors will be shot and eaten" sign at the end of the driveway.