What Irked You Today?

[John M.]

The GM texted all drivers this morning to let us know that school will be out for tomorrow due to the state and local elections here in Massachusetts. We won't get paid but one of my personal days will make up the difference. For tomorrow though, I'll sleep in some. 

Edited November 3 by John M.

[Ace-Garageguy]

I've run several things through Googli's AI, phrased slightly differently, but all the exact same topic.

And I got responses all over the board, some entirely contradictory.

Just more proof that consumer-level AI doesn't understand context and will say anything that sounds remotely plausible.

Which is pretty much the definition of LLM-based AI.

Yet more and more people are depending on these inane gibberish-generators for 'information'.

And interestingly, I just ran this assertion through Googli, and it says I'm wrong...even though the self-same AI just gave me a load of contradictory responses.

I sure wish I could get paid the big bucks for making stuff that doesn't really work.

EDIT: I just rephrased the above assertion slightly differently, and Googli says I'm right this time.

Boy howdy. Ain't technology grand?

Edited November 4 by Ace-Garageguy

[johnyrotten]

2 minutes ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

sure wish I could get paid the big bucks for making stuff that doesn't really work

That would be great. I seriously believe the consumer is now the last step in R&D, and we aren't paid for it. We actually pay to finish their work for them.

[michelle]

I am irked /mad/angry I broke the motherboard on my elegoo Saturn 3 ultra resin printer following the offical elegoo instruction video on how to replace the lcd print screen cause the video failed to mention they glue a couple clip style plugs in and they also do not need to be unplugged as they are for the fans not the print screen and they apparently lie about how long the print screens last before they start dying via dead spots so now I am out 200 dollars I paid for the printer a few months ago in july and the 97 dollars I paid for the new print screen last month  which I never even got to install cause that was a later step in the how to video and the warranty does not cover this so yeah now I have to buy another resin printer in December 


 

[Ace-Garageguy]

I'm irked today by seeing stupid sheeple in action, en masse, and then all patting each other on the back because they think they're so smart.

Edited Thursday at 01:06 AM by Ace-Garageguy

[Ace-Garageguy]

Long time ago, I lived in the city. When I was young I liked the energy, the nightlife, all that stuff. I never encountered any serious crime, but I thought I was pretty much invincible anyway, as some young men used to do.

As I grew up though, I began to appreciate calm and quiet more and more.

First I moved to an upscale suburb called Buckhead. City energy and nightlife, more laid back than intown. But as it became more heavily populated and full of constant traffic and noise, I moved to a rural county about 30 miles out of the city. Still had easy access to Buckhead and downtown, but could also enjoy quiet. When the developers started coming there in droves, bulldozing all the farms, and the traffic became intense, I moved in a different direction to another rural county.

It was quiet out here then, "safe", still the kind of area where you could leave your car doors unlocked and there was a very good chance nobody would steal your stuff, or mug you in a parking lot.

But the "demographics" have changed significantly over just the past few years. Trash is everywhere now. Most of the farms in this county were bulldozed 20 years ago for ticky-tacky housing developments full of quarter-million-dollar-and-up McMansions on tiny lots where you look into your neighbor's bathroom window because the houses are so close together, and of course traffic is intense now too.

And recently I've noticed that what used to be still quiet at night here is now broken hourly by sirens, just like it used to be in the heart of downtown.

This is supposed to be "progress"?

 

Edited Saturday at 03:29 PM by Ace-Garageguy

[Trainwreck]

12 minutes ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

 

This is supposed to be "progress"?

 

I've lived in my neighborhood for 40 odd years, it was pretty quiet when I moved in but now I've got cherries flashing once every couple weeks, progress?!?!, Not so much.

[Ace-Garageguy]

29 minutes ago, Trainwreck said:

I've lived in my neighborhood for 40 odd years, it was pretty quiet when I moved in but now I've got cherries flashing once every couple weeks, progress?!?!, Not so much.

Half an hour ago when I posted, the sirens had just stopped.

Just now, there's something else going on.

It's getting to be quite often at night.

Maybe time to buy an actual emergency-frequency scanner.

Edited Thursday at 05:24 AM by Ace-Garageguy
punctiliousness

[Trainwreck]

On 11/6/2025 at 12:22 AM, Ace-Garageguy said:

Half an hour ago when I posted, the sirens had just stopped.

Just now, there's something else going on.

It's getting to be very often.

Maybe time to buy an actual emergency-frequency scanner.

Just waiting for my son to move and I'm getting out of Dodge.

 

Edited Sunday at 11:01 PM by Trainwreck

[OldTrucker]

My shoulder surgery was canceled after a dental check up.

Dentist charged me 397 dollars for trays and cleaning my 14 teeth.

Would not see me unless I had the cleaning then just popped in to look at the pictures.

Have two that need pulled and an impacted wisdom tooth that he said is infected.

Can't afford the overpriced  dental work that is needed before they will fix my shoulder.

[peteski]

On 11/6/2025 at 12:22 AM, Ace-Garageguy said:

Maybe time to buy an actual emergency-frequency scanner.

Aren't emergency channels scrambled nowadays?

 

Is all the nasty stuff happening at the "new" supposedly serene place you moved to recently?  Or are you still ad the "old" location?

Edited Saturday at 02:07 PM by peteski

[Ace-Garageguy]

14 hours ago, peteski said:

1)  Aren't emergency channels scrambled nowadays?

 

2)  Is all the nasty stuff happening at the "new" supposedly serene place you moved to recently?  Or are you still ad the "old" location?

1) I don't know. I haven't looked hard into it yet.

2) My moving to the desert SW deal blew up, after doing everything right since 2018 to make it happen. Ugly legal action initiated.

So I'm still in the old location in the SE. I've been within a mile of my current house since 1990, in the same general area since the mid 1980s, when it was quiet.

More of the same BS last night. Woke up at about 2:45AM to the sound of lotsa angry people just down the street. Apparently whatever the problem was didn't escalate to requiring law enforcement intervention, but before I went back to sleep I could hear sirens not too far away in another direction.

Funny thing is, the area is yuppifying and deteriorating simultaneously. Many older houses in the neighborhood are now multi-family, while a few others are being restored and upgraded. Half-million+ dollar homes in midscale developments within a mile, some recently walled and gated.

Latest big change is a major-healthcare-provider billing facility in an ex Target store one block away now has 2 blue-light-topped portable 'observation' towers with motion-detector-controlled robo-voices that announce several times every night "you have entered a protected area illegally bla bla bla..." which I can clearly hear. Apparently in an effort to dissuade tuner cars doing donuts and drifting through the parking lot at all hours...which was getting to be pretty regular.

 

 

Edited Sunday at 04:59 AM by Ace-Garageguy
accuracy

[Volzfan59]

My blood pressure is irking me. I’ve taken b/p meds for years, but for some reason it’s up. Mind you it’s not stroke level high, it’s just high. Now I have to do a b/p log for two weeks plus my beautiful wife is a nurse and watching everything I eat. 

[rattle can man]

Not necessarily today. but over the last two weeks while traveling:

dual speed limits (1 for trucks, one for cars);

improperly aimed headlights/ people who don't dim their headlights;

people who can't drive faster than 20 under posted, side by side (until their exit is coming up);

xxxxx shipping company (non-working web site and their phone agents can only say use the website);

Mortgage company.

still no rain here.

And on top of all that, the creeping crud I caught while traveling.

[Ace-Garageguy]

1 hour ago, rattle can man said:

Not necessarily today. but over the last two weeks while traveling:

...And on top of all that, the creeping crud I caught while traveling.

There should be a "yeah, I hear ya, man" emoji.

[stavanzer]

10 hours ago, Ace-Garageguy said:

There should be a "yeah, I hear ya, man" emoji.

Indeed! That is needed.

[crazyjim]

Out in the yard to trim some bushes to prepare them for Christmas ligyhts - and it starts raining!  Bummer.

[Engine 51]

Snow

[GLMFAA1]

TEA! If you haven't notice but a certain large tea manufacturer has dropped the 'orange pekoe' and relabeled it 'black tea'.

The terms mean that orange pekoe: which is grade of black tea; uses whole tea leafs and a black tea uses leaf parts and tea dust. potooey

They even shrunk the tag.

greg

[espo]

Call me weird but I like a nice clean, oil-stained free driveway. So, a strange car pulls in the driveway all the way up to the garage and a disheveled looking man gets out and runs to the front door of our home and drops a package then gets back in his car and leaves just as I was getting ready to great him with one of our hand-held home defense items. Seems that there aren't enough brown trucks to go around and they're using temp-help using their own cars to do deliveries now. Problem is that his car has left its mark on our driveway much the way a dog marks its territory.  

[Rob Hall]

26 minutes ago, espo said:

Call me weird but I like a nice clean, oil-stained free driveway. So, a strange car pulls in the driveway all the way up to the garage and a disheveled looking man gets out and runs to the front door of our home and drops a package then gets back in his car and leaves just as I was getting ready to great him with one of our hand-held home defense items. Seems that there aren't enough brown trucks to go around and they're using temp-help using their own cars to do deliveries now. Problem is that his car has left its mark on our driveway much the way a dog marks its territory.  

Lots of drivers delivering for Amazon (and others like Temu) use their own cars to drop off packages, especially after hours.  Someone dropped off an Amazon package early this morning (before dawn, before I was up) and turned around in the driveway, getting off into the yard and leaving a muddy rut in the snow (and a set of footprints in the yard around the rut--maybe got out and pushed the car?)...annoying, because if they had gone 50 feet further down the driveway there is plenty of room to turn around without getting in the yard.  

Some of the delivery gig workers deliver for multiple vendors, I had an Uber Eats driver deliver me my Benihana dinner one evening along with a couple Amazon packages. 

Edited 18 hours ago by Rob Hall

[Rodent]

Ordered a jacket from Macy's and it was delivered by DoorDash. 

[TonyK]

I've watched all sorts of deliveries (food/packages) being done in our neighborhood and they always park in the street. Once in awhile they'll pull part way onto the driveway. I say part way because most everyone has their cars in the driveway since no one uses their garage for parking cars.

We had a couple of deliveries show up sometime in the night. I'd inform the wife in the morning that she got another one of those midnight deliveries. 😆

[rattle can man]

Still fighting the creeping crud. it's been over a week now!

[A modeler named mike]

4 hours ago, espo said:

Call me weird but I like a nice clean, oil-stained free driveway. So, a strange car pulls in the driveway all the way up to the garage and a disheveled looking man gets out and runs to the front door of our home and drops a package then gets back in his car and leaves just as I was getting ready to great him with one of our hand-held home defense items. Seems that there aren't enough brown trucks to go around and they're using temp-help using their own cars to do deliveries now. Problem is that his car has left its mark on our driveway much the way a dog marks its territory.  

If you're weird, then so an I. It's been a family rule ever since we had asphalt laid in our driveway and did away with the gravel back in the mid '70's. You drip anything, you're on the road and it's not up for discussion.