Your pet peeve, technical or otherwise.

[vk6zgo]

There is no apparent allowance for auto-anything, nor for typos or simple brainfade. Which wouldn't be so bad if he then didn't do much worse. It's that hypocrisy that I'm calling out, not errors per se.

Which brings up my "pet Peeve":

The keyboard of my ASUS laptop regularly mangles words, either by dropping letters, typing one or more incorrectly, or the all time favourite, including all the letters, but getting them out of order.
All the above happens, unless I type at a glacial pace.

[vk6zgo]

Another one:

People who say an acronym, then explain the acronym right after. Why not just say the full words?

Example: “… run by a BMS, or Building Management System”

People LOVE sounding “clever” by confusing people and then immediately clarifying the thing THEY made confusing.

I often do the opposite, by typing the full name, followed by the acronym in brackets, so I can use it later.

This is useful when describing a device which has had its acronym stolen in more recent years to use for something else, for instance an "automatic voltage regulator" as distinct from the series of AVR microcontrollers.

[RoGeorge]

What AVR stands for in AVR microcontroller? 
(nobody knows)

[Ranayna]

Another one:

People who say an acronym, then explain the acronym right after. Why not just say the full words?

Example: “… run by a BMS, or Building Management System”

People LOVE sounding “clever” by confusing people and then immediately clarifying the thing THEY made confusing.

I tend to do that, simply because it is required when i write my technical documents.
Though i do it the other way around: "... Building Management System (BMS) ..." and from then on out through the document i only use the acronym.
Indeed i would say, if you are using acronyms, it is just polite to write them out at least once, even when not writing a formal document.

Especially with ambiguous ones, like BMS in an electronics forum...
Whether you write the full name oder the acronym first comes down to style i would say.

[SteveThackery]

Doesn't that show that in English ABS is 'anti-lock brake system', whilst in another language it is whatever the local idiom is? And since we - and presumably Steve's nonplussed mechanic - are using English...

Well, not really, because it was Bosch Germany who first coined the term "ABS", so they get to say what it stands for.

In German. And Bosch themselves say it is anti-lock brake system in English. Or do they only get to decide when they agree with you?

Oh, here we go. Getting tetchy, are we? 

Actually I think my post was silly - nobody gets to dictate what an abbreviation stands for*.  Yes, in the context of vehicle braking, Bosch first used the term "ABS", and it was an abbreviation of "Antiblockiersystem".  Does that preclude its use for "anti-lock braking system"?  Of course not; in fact it can stand for whatever the user wants: American Bible Society, Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene, Automatic Bullshit Spreader, etc.  And, of course, anti-lock braking system. 

I do actually think it is interesting to know what it originally stood for, but I don't think that should imply any authority.

So there you go: I've changed my mind and agree with you. 😘

*Unless it's a registered trademark, or something.

[woody]

What AVR stands for in AVR microcontroller? 
(nobody knows)

I'll buy "Alf and Vegard's RISC processor"

[woody]

Another pet peeve of mine:

Whenever I buy a new version of something it invariably is less value for money or downright bloody worse than the object it replaced.

The latest example, the other day I dropped my 10 year old electric kettle from the counter. Although stainless steel the plastic handle and switch broke off in twenty pieces. Beyond repair. This being a standard thing I ordered the same object from the same company, but now in its 2024 invocation. The result: I now optically have a replica of the broken one that

- Feels flimsy
- is slower
- is way more noisy
- has the window through which you can see how much water is in the kettle right behind the handle. I mean, what were they thinking at Philips?

I had this experience with a number of products lately. Maximization of shareholders value at work, which leaves us customers with the  shitty products.

[paulca]

There is no apparent allowance for auto-anything, nor for typos or simple brainfade. Which wouldn't be so bad if he then didn't do much worse. It's that hypocrisy that I'm calling out, not errors per se.

Which brings up my "pet Peeve":

The keyboard of my ASUS laptop regularly mangles words, either by dropping letters, typing one or more incorrectly, or the all time favourite, including all the letters, but getting them out of order.
All the above happens, unless I type at a glacial pace.

Check the manual for the laptop.  Some keyboards have "typometric" adjustments you can make.  It usually changes the response time with longer response times helping avoid "side strikes" being registered etc.  It also changes the key repeat delay and rates etc.

[paulca]

Reminds me of my peeve having just bought myself new keyboards.

The amount of keyboards today who feel it is absolutely fine to, by default, map the F keys to media functions.  By default.  So ALT+F4 does not in fact close the current window, it open a new browser or something.  F11 puts the computer to sleep FFS!

STOP, just STOP!

Thankfully I found two basic 105key office keyboards that still have normal F keys.

[PlainName]

You peeves would come across much better if you weren't so hypocritical by mangling nearly all of your posts. You're actually a very bad example for language purity.

How exactly are my posts mangled? If they are, I want to rectify that. But I don't see it.

"Like being "very pregnant". You either is or you ain't"

And similar stuff. But in reviewing that I think it might just wind me up the wrong way, so I will retract my accusation.

[BILLPOD]

The keyboard of my ASUS laptop regularly mangles words, either by dropping letters, typing one or more incorrectly, or the all time favourite, including all the letters, but getting them out of order.
All the above happens, unless I type at a glacial pace.
[/quote]

I thought my HP Pavilion g7 laptop keyboard was screwed up, but your ASUS is worse. My HP does not enter the letter 'y' where I put it.  It carries it along with anything I type, and I have go back and insert a 'y' where I initially wanted it.
Good to know I'm not the only one with a goofy keyboard.  Thank you  Vk6zgo

[Xena E]

Latest Andriod update.

Adding to Rick's post.

Auto punctuation, (how many commas and periods does a sentence need- it's only clever with speech to text).

Overzealous autocorrect, automatically 'correcting' or just changing correctly typed words for alternatives.

Dropping the last word typed if space not hit within a few seconds.

Puts mis-spelled typos into the dictionary and replaces correctly spelled version when next typed!


X

[Ranayna]

Reminds me of my peeve having just bought myself new keyboards.

The amount of keyboards today who feel it is absolutely fine to, by default, map the F keys to media functions.  By default.  So ALT+F4 does not in fact close the current window, it open a new browser or something.  F11 puts the computer to sleep FFS!

STOP, just STOP!

Thankfully I found two basic 105key office keyboards that still have normal F keys.

At least that can be switched on most keyboards. And modern keyboards actually remember the setting
Also this is not new. I would estimate this feature to be at least 20 years old. Back in the day i had an especially infuriating keyboard...
There was a toggle to swap the F keys back to their original function. But the bloody thing defaulted to media keys everytime it lost power. Since it was wired, i needed to switch back everytime i booted my computer.

[RJSV]

   What I'm going to be describing now is...well;  When 'they' start telling you something, by saying, that (they) will be "telling you", such & such.
   Or,once they've (TV announcers, usually), have introduced a subject, by telling you what they are about to introduce, first.
No one (usually) catches the fact, the fact that, often you are not even actually 'told' the thing directly....that factual content is earlier on,  during the intro into the introduction.
(lol).
   You cannot get excessively worried, about mangled Grammer, that's for sure !

But first,  what I'd like to talk about is...

[RJSV]

Peeved by:
   Supposed 'professionals' in relatively high office that term false information as being:
   'Mis-disinformation...or whatever',  (they say).

   Grammer would be nice,  even if you are pushing some lie, or attempting to discredit someone else's presented info.
The whole label, as 'conspiracy Theory' in a rapid fire dispensed as a weapon.

[RJSV]

   Just to be clear:
   Literally,  the verbage that got me thinking ran like this:   (US State Dept. Briefing)

   "What I can tell you is...(Sky is blue)...and that is what I can say,  that ...sky is blue...and we have been telling everyone,  that...sky is blue...and we will, certainly continue, to point this out ...sky is blue...so no one here has denied that.
   We have not denied it;...sky is blue..., so there is THAT."

[vk6zgo]

   Just to be clear:
   Literally,  the verbage that got me thinking ran like this:   (US State Dept. Briefing)

   "What I can tell you is...(Sky is blue)...and that is what I can say,  that ...sky is blue...and we have been telling everyone,  that...sky is blue...and we will, certainly continue, to point this out ...sky is blue...so no one here has denied that.
   We have not denied it;...sky is blue..., so there is THAT."

I have it on good authority from a prominent person in the USA that "A lot of people are saying that the sky is blue"!

[PlainName]

"It's the most blue color they've ever seen."

[flipper]

When a channel or any online entity “suggests” I:

Comment ❌
Rate ❌
Subscribe ❌

Nope, nope and nope. And no, Mr Chinese seller, you won’t spam me into fake rating your service, either.

I do things of my own volition, not under pressure.

[Fryguy]

Any kind of broken light drives me nuts - they don't have to be switched on , but they must be in working condition . . .
If i see one i need to fix it immediately or get away from it as fast as possible 

[TimFox]

My pet peeve is using "acronym" as a synonym for "abbreviation".
Acronym is a word analogous to "homonym", "antonym", and others ending in "onym" meaning a type of word.
Specifically, an acronym is a word formed from a pronounceable abbreviation.
Examples include "MOSFET", "NASA", "Laser", "NATO", etc. in English.
"BJT" is an abbreviation for "bipolar junction transistor", but not pronounceable.

[Analog Kid]

Yes; aren't those things properly called "initialisms"?

[flipper]

My pet peeve is using "acronym" as a synonym for "abbreviation".
Acronym is a word analogous to "homonym", "antonym", and others ending in "onym" meaning a type of word.
Specifically, an acronym is a word formed from a pronounceable abbreviation.
Examples include "MOSFET", "NASA", "Laser", "NATO", etc. in English.
"BJT" is an abbreviation for "bipolar junction transistor", but not pronounceable.

I couldn’t care less about the pedantry of which is which; what I find irritating is when people *deliberately* say an acronym to sound “clever”, then immediately explain what it stands for… or sometimes they’ll use the acronym for ages in a conversation, KNOWING the other participant doesn’t understand it, and they lack the self-awareness and critical thinking required to pick up on the nuances of conversation and body language which would CLEARLY show them the other person was drowning in their alphabet soup!

As crap as it is at a lot of things, this is why I Google first, and if that fails, ask ChatGPT if it “knows”, before engaging people and their egos, and desire to steer or manipulate (or gaslight) me 😆

[vk6zgo]

My pet peeve is using "acronym" as a synonym for "abbreviation".
Acronym is a word analogous to "homonym", "antonym", and others ending in "onym" meaning a type of word.
Specifically, an acronym is a word formed from a pronounceable abbreviation.
Examples include "MOSFET", "NASA", "Laser", "NATO", etc. in English.
"BJT" is an abbreviation for "bipolar junction transistor", but not pronounceable.

I couldn’t care less about the pedantry of which is which; what I find irritating is when people *deliberately* say an acronym to sound “clever”, then immediately explain what it stands for… or sometimes they’ll use the acronym for ages in a conversation, KNOWING the other participant doesn’t understand it, and they lack the self-awareness and critical thinking required to pick up on the nuances of conversation and body language which would CLEARLY show them the other person was drowning in their alphabet soup!

As crap as it is at a lot of things, this is why I Google first, and if that fails, ask ChatGPT if it “knows”, before engaging people and their egos, and desire to steer or manipulate (or gaslight) me 😆

ChatGPT will quite readily lie to you if it "doesn't know".

[PlainName]

Any kind of broken light drives me nuts - they don't have to be switched on , but they must be in working condition . . .
If i see one i need to fix it immediately or get away from it as fast as possible 

If it's not switched on, how do you know whether it's in working condition or not?