well yeah, it's usually the person paying that gets charged the fee because their bank is "doing the work" as well as disbursing money. Wire transfers are different. And foreign transactions.
― sarahell, Thursday, 23 December 2021 21:13 (two years ago) link
I was thing of tables’ transferring issue. Might be able to just reverse it from a push to pull situation and save a check
― mh, Friday, 24 December 2021 17:04 (two years ago) link
Ovens that you can't just turn on and set a temperature with two handy dials, instead you also have to set a cooking time via an options menu and press "start", on a touch screen that only makes sense with the aid of the manual.
― ledge, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 16:51 (two years ago) link
My friend has a microwave that is so complicated I can barely cook anything in it when I housesit. A microwave!
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 23 February 2022 19:06 (two years ago) link
Dials are so satisfying. I imagine the % of the world that prefers repeatedly stabbing buttons (worse still, flat buttons) to adjust a time or temperature to be very small.
― Alba, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 19:19 (two years ago) link
Just last night I tried to microwave on “low” for the first time ever and realized I had no idea how to do it. There’s a button that says “Power level” but it doesn’t seem to do anything at all. Could be that the microwave’s broken but this is a newish model I haven’t used all that much.
― Josefa, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 19:35 (two years ago) link
I have that same issue on my microwave I don’t know if this helps in the case of yours, but I realized I had to do "cook time" first, then hit “power level”. Frustratingly, it only affects that specific instance—so if I need to cook a few more minutes after it finishes, I have to re-do the whole process, rather than it remembering the level.
― blatherskite, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 20:29 (two years ago) link
That's it! What I didn't get was you have to not just press "cook time" but actually set a cook time before hitting "power level." Once I do that it says "PL 10" and then enables me to change the 10 to a lower digit.
― Josefa, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 20:35 (two years ago) link
Of course a button that just said "low cook" would be much simpler. Don't think we really need 10 different microwave temperatures.
― Josefa, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 20:41 (two years ago) link
7.5, that's a good power level.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 23 February 2022 20:41 (two years ago) link
TBH I still see the introduction of that second dial as a technological/practical backward step; much handier when there was just the one.
― fetter, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 21:15 (two years ago) link
My main requirements for an oven/stovetop are that it runs on gas of some sort and that it doesn't have any fucking technology hoonja-doonjas beyond some knobs and a button or two. I'm trying to cook not play Banjo Kazooie
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Thursday, 24 February 2022 02:40 (two years ago) link
i used my parents' gas powered oven the other week to bake some bread and did not like it. vastly prefer the heating elements in my electric wall mount oven at home (it has 1 knob for temp and 1 knob for which elements you want btw - pretty simple.)
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 24 February 2022 10:07 (two years ago) link
My bugbear is microwaves and washing machines with pictograms that aren't decipherable without the manual. Just write the damn function in words on the machine if you can't come up with a clear symbol.
― Sam Weller, Thursday, 24 February 2022 13:15 (two years ago) link
that doesn't travel though. they use pictograms so they don't need to translate words.
(although the opposite always used to tickle me when, say, they translate the "74 minutes" on minidiscs* into 5 different languages, all of which were pretty much the same word anyway - minute / minute / minuto / Minute / minut / minutt / minuutti)
(* this was a while ago)
― koogs, Thursday, 24 February 2022 13:42 (two years ago) link
On my microwave you cant just set it on 'defrost' and punch in a cook time. hit the 'defrost' button and what would you expect the little display to say? thats right: it flashes the word "F00D"... huh? For years I never got past that part.
eventually, after many years of fruitless research, travelling the globe pondering ancient texts in the sub-basements of forgotten libraries and crumbling monasteries, i was able to figure out that the defrost setting requires a satanically bewildering series of inputs based on weight and food group, all of which the user is expected to navigate via the little 4-digit numerical display and a 10 digit keypad with no letters or anything. god is dead.
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Thursday, 24 February 2022 14:44 (two years ago) link
i have a fairly new microwave with a "chaos defrost" function where the three food types you can choose are BREAD, MINCE or MEAT. which tbh is about right.
― kinder, Thursday, 24 February 2022 16:26 (two years ago) link
Not sure I agree with all these crazy knob and button takes, but one thing my microwave does that I like is that it beeps and the display says GOOD when the time is up. Just GOOD. Your food is now GOOD. You are GOOD to proceed with eating your food.
― Jeff, Thursday, 24 February 2022 16:46 (two years ago) link
It’s the little things that make me happy.
― Jeff, Thursday, 24 February 2022 16:47 (two years ago) link
one day you're going to do that and it's going to say BAD
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 24 February 2022 17:04 (two years ago) link
Fuck, I hope you’re wrong. That’s going to be a terrible day.
― Jeff, Thursday, 24 February 2022 17:04 (two years ago) link
https://i0.wp.com/tuninginshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/xf203_1090.jpg
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Thursday, 24 February 2022 17:30 (two years ago) link
I can't even guess what the second dial is supposed to do
― bad luck banging, or Lorna Doone (sic), Thursday, 24 February 2022 17:57 (two years ago) link
― kinder, Thursday, 24 February 2022 18:17 (two years ago) link
I think the second dial's a timer?
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Thursday, 24 February 2022 18:47 (two years ago) link
We just got a new microwave, and I can't tell you how much more I enjoy pressing actual buttons instead of just numeric indentions on a pad:
https://i.imgur.com/Vj0tm0k.png
― pplains, Thursday, 24 February 2022 19:48 (two years ago) link
the "stores with no phone numbers" thing is getting worse and worse. the other day i went to the Google store in Manhattan to buy a phone. their point-of-sales system was down and they couldn't sell anything. i went for a walk, had a slice of pizza, came back, same problem. OK - went home. i want to call them today and make sure it's all on the level before i make the one-hour round trip again. guess what? no phone number! it's not listed anywhere online, not in the store website, not on maps, not in the FAQs, and if you chat with online support, they will take twenty minutes to confirm they don't have a phone number, and that's if you sit through questions about whether you consent to have information about your Pixel device is recorded. i don't own a Pixel device, which is why i wanted to go to the store. and this is a leading technology company, or so i'm told.
― The creator of Ultra Games, for Nintendo (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 13 March 2022 18:06 (two years ago) link
Infuriating. I guess you could look it up on Google Maps and see if the live report says it’s much less busy than usual lol
― Alba, Sunday, 13 March 2022 18:14 (two years ago) link
It kind of does. Bad sign?https://i.imgur.com/ZA0gzfO.jpg
― Alba, Sunday, 13 March 2022 18:15 (two years ago) link
Though maybe they just haven’t updated their averages since the pandemic
― Alba, Sunday, 13 March 2022 18:16 (two years ago) link
Hard to say. When I was there on Friday, the place was packed.... with people waiting around to see if the issue got resolved.
― The creator of Ultra Games, for Nintendo (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 13 March 2022 18:22 (two years ago) link
Instead of telling you when it's safe to cross the street, the walk signs in Crystal City, VA are just repeating "CHANGE PASSWORD".Something's gone terribly wrong here. pic.twitter.com/W5h8OjBXUu— Joey Politano (@JosephPolitano) March 13, 2022
― koogs, Monday, 14 March 2022 16:46 (two years ago) link
lol. tells a whole story of some unnecessary tech vendor, tech consultancy, or over-eager municipal tech office, inserting themselves unnecessarily into the delivery of public services.
― The creator of Ultra Games, for Nintendo (Doctor Casino), Monday, 14 March 2022 17:10 (two years ago) link
alternatively about how every public service has been / is being sold to the highest bidder at every possible node.
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Monday, 14 March 2022 17:14 (two years ago) link
It’s probably more that the controls are in “the cloud”, rather than on site.
― Otto Insurance (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 14 March 2022 17:30 (two years ago) link
I think it means people have bad password maintenance requirements/scheduling
― mh, Monday, 14 March 2022 18:25 (two years ago) link
But like........... Must passwords even be a thing here? How did the world ever get by before etc etc
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 14 March 2022 18:30 (two years ago) link
why does everything need to be a computer?
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Monday, 14 March 2022 18:35 (two years ago) link
Well, yeah
― Otto Insurance (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 14 March 2022 19:02 (two years ago) link
in fairness, traffic lights have always sorta been computers, just dumber ones
― Nhex, Monday, 14 March 2022 19:25 (two years ago) link
Somehow missed the follow ups to my cooker complaint post.
It selects the function - grill, oven, fan oven, light, off.
― ledge, Monday, 14 March 2022 20:54 (two years ago) link
So you have to turn it from OVEN to LIGHT to look inside??! I’m understanding even less with every explanation
― beepy fridges (sic), Monday, 14 March 2022 21:06 (two years ago) link
tbc I blame this on the oven, not you
― beepy fridges (sic), Monday, 14 March 2022 21:07 (two years ago) link
I’m all in favor of traffic signals that just detect the presence of cars, whether a pedestrian has pushed the button for a WALK signal, etc. but it makes a bit of sense to have some flow control on busy streets? Having one stop light turn red with zero cars when the one two blocks to the west has 15 cars waiting is just a logistical mess
― mh, Monday, 14 March 2022 21:28 (two years ago) link
i'm going to give this oven the benefit of the doubt and assume (pray) that the light is on for all dial positions other than "off"
― maf you one two (maffew12), Monday, 14 March 2022 22:17 (two years ago) link
Without getting out of bed and going downstairs to check, probably.
― ledge, Monday, 14 March 2022 22:27 (two years ago) link
What was that thing a few years back when MTA machines were having a glitch and not taking credit/debit cards? iirc the only person possessing the requisite knowledge or special secret codes to fix the problem had driven out-of-state on vacation or something and it was a full day or so before they could even manage to get in touch w him... anyway I'm guessing there are probably more situations like that currently baked-in than we might tend to imagine. Will probably be fine, though...
― dell (del), Tuesday, 15 March 2022 00:20 (two years ago) link
The world is so stable now that it's become completely unnecessary to have any sort of redundancies in place for vital systems that affect millions of ppl...
― dell (del), Tuesday, 15 March 2022 00:27 (two years ago) link
the "stores with no phone numbers" thing is getting worse and worse
this is up there with my FedEx problem last fall, where I called FedEx to get the phone number to the distribution center to see if my package can be held for pickup and the FedEx customer service that you call on the phone did not have the phone number for the distribution center. I wasn't expecting them to be able to transfer me, but just look up the number? Anyway, I didn't want to be an asshole customer and asked, (probably kinda bitchily tho :( ) "so should i just google the place to see if i can find a phone number?" and the customer service person said, "uh .... i guess?"
― sarahell, Tuesday, 15 March 2022 00:35 (two years ago) link
why the FedEx customer service people can't be given a list of numbers idk ... like, the other day when i went to the corner store, they have the phone numbers for many of the vendors written on the wall behind the counter, and this is a mom & pop corner store.
― sarahell, Tuesday, 15 March 2022 00:38 (two years ago) link