Nothing…
People who seemingly have all the time in the world to troll forums and make what could be happy places toxic. There aren’t enough positive people with spare time to keep a forum active and attractive compared to how little time it takes to turn something into a cess pit.
Which ones do you use?
Steam and lemmy are my go-tos these days, probably thirty minutes a day. Yet I see the same people in every thread promoting negativity. (My block lists are in the hundreds for both sites, but once they finally incur the wrath of moderation they just make a new account)
Your face!
ATSC 3.0 having DRM that requires an internet connection. Defeats the point of over the air broadcasts if you need to be wired to the internet!
Low effort posts annoy me.
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The world…
Being ignored and/or argued with about something that I have the credentials and experience to understand better than the person arguing with me. Especially if all they do is regurgitate what chatGPT or their favorite political figure said instead of their own thoughts and opinions. Look dude, you’re unarmed and I am giving you one chance to walk away before I violate the geneva conventions.
Myself, my stupidity.
When I realize that something I spent quite some unnecessary effort had a simple solution.
Actually just now I was playing around with Wireguard settings for an hour. Changing each setting to see if something would maybe would help, searching forums, thinking about just giving up. Nothing worked.
I copied the wrong public key…Or yesterday…
My carrier has some contract with another carrier (with faster network speeds) only for extending coverage, not load balancing. In the end their towers get me 30-50Mbps while my carrier’s only 0.5-3Mbps.
My carrier only has towers in 1800MHz band, so that’s a way to tell I am connected to the other carrier. (It signs in natively now so it’s not possible to select that carrier manually like in the past)
To connect to it, my phone needs to loose signal on my carrier. Originally I just let it do that while travelling by bus and then staying on VPN 24/7 (TCP) as it wouldn’t kill existing connections to switch bands.
I was thinking about another wild way to fix this - 1800MHz band jammer. But that would be illegal.
Yesterday however I realized what kind of a dumbass I am. It only needs to loose signal for like 15 seconds. Faraday cage.
And indeed, I tried putting it into microwave oven (TURNED OFF) for a few seconds, and TaDa! 2100MHz. 0.8Mbps -> 35Mbps.Don’t be too hard on yourself. Those sound like honest mistakes anyone in your domain could have made.
At least you learned from it? Might happen again. Probably won’t.
People not taking the time to understand something that is explained to them.
This can apply to technology, mental health, etc. Drives me bonkers.
Example:
“I don’t get why my cats don’t like hanging out with us!”
“The cats are constantly picked up and dragged out of spots they go when they are stressed from all the noise. You forcing them to ‘cuddle’ and ‘bond’ with you is doing the opposite.”
— continues to do the same thing, stress out their cats, and complain about it —
I would like to solve the puzzle.
My own inability to switch to a positive mindset and actually contribute to a solution, instead of being a pessimist.
Megacorps, regular corporations and just people with influence unilaterally deciding what people do and do not want, and what they can and cannot do.
For example:
- The push for AI in everything, without the option to turn it off.
- Also assuming that clearly I’m cool with contributing to the datasets used to train these AIs without compensation.
- Constant changing and redesigns of UIs/UX to “modernise them”.
- Not allowing people to customise or tweak things, or use custom clients.
- Deciding that clearly I’m cool with them violating my privacy and tracking me.
- Unilaterally changing contracts because you’ve decided you need more money (which sounds super illegal yet has happened twice over the last year).
- Mastercard, Visa and AMEX’s anti-horny policies.
- Likewise, governments banning or restricting porn to “protect people”.
- Deciding that sharing photographs of IDs is at all am appropriate way to verify age.
- Games requiring rootkit and Linux incompatible anticheat and that’s somehow preferred over server side anticheat.
- Likewise, games that don’t let you set up custom servers.
- People deciding that streaming music and tv for a monthly fee is somehow better than owning it.
- Companies that guard their IP so tightly that they stifle creative expression.
- Homophobia, transphobia and all the other discrimination stuff.
- Furry hate (which is just homophobia btw).
- People in many democracies not being willing to try things that aren’t first past the post.
- That the only way to run an economy is to have people at the bottom live in poverty and suffer.
- The fact that a conversian therapy is still used to “treat” autism in many places.
- And the fact that people are trying to “cure” autism by genetic screening (eugenics).
- And in general that people have the right to decide what a marginalised group wants or needs, even without being a member of that group.
And a special fuck you to the people who hear these comments and respond with “well, they have the right to run business/raise their children how they want”. As if monopolies have no social responsibilities… Or to instantly disbelieve anything I say because they have an overly optimistic world view…
… Sorry for the rant. Been having a bit of the ol’ depression over all this and saw an excuse to just get things off my chest.
Specifically towards business can run how they want. It’s such bullshit! We can create regulations, we NEED to create regulations.
We need to use the power of the government to protect the people from greedy corporations.
Colleagues who start a conversation 0.5 seconds into silence. Dude, I am working, you are working, our tasks are not related, don’t start with smalltalk. Hell won’t spill into real space when we just stfu for a couple of minutes.
People who bring their feelings and baggage to work. Like, we are not here to be your therapists. We work in a factory. Fuck off with your squishy bullshit. That goes double if you also suck at your job. I have 10 fucking minutes to nit stare at my machine, shut up and let me smoke my cigarette.
People so affected by peer pressure they would do so much as to convince themselves things which couldn’t have anymore of an obvious existence just don’t exist and to throw out common sense/courtesy.
Example: I see a lot of “forever alone” people (what many would call incels), and the idea some people such as myself might be asexual is overridden in their minds. Almost in a way that resembles them trying to will it away. Or often the people will cling to terrible judgment habits to sync themselves, in their view, to society.
When someone has a very against-the-grain viewpoint, such as the very infamous one regarding the Earth’s shape, even when it’s rooted in a certain mindset or point of view that can stand when explained a certain way, it’s common to call these people as having a mental condition, either out of mockery or a genuine concern for them. However, by the same token, people don’t seem concerned with the issue I just implied, they simply ground it as human nature. To me, either that’s a lie or it implies human nature itself is a mental condition, perhaps the mental condition, and I’m glad if I can say I’m not a part of that, either despite or in spite of being neurodivergent.
