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Really minor annoyances


Select coaches said:
Microsoft office, that used to be free with your computer purchase, is now £104.99 a year.
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Any software subscription model these days. A complete rip off and very few people offer a lightweight option.

There used to be a really good free tool (with paid for upgrade for more features) for designing PCBs. I have designed two in my life, and being good software I would have either been happy to pay a reasonable amount for each single use, pay a low one off cost for the software or signed up for a monthly subscription where I could cancel at any time.

They switched to a model where you could only by annually, but pushed people for 3 years, at hundreds of pounds per year. Thousands of people who used it at a hobby level ditched it, as has many businesses. I'm not sure if their smaller but paying more user base builds more profit for them. Neither option was worth it for the very limited use cases I have.

Black Mirror did a really good episode about subscriptions and terms changing.
 
DaveH said:
Any software subscription model these days. A complete rip off and very few people offer a lightweight option.

There used to be a really good free tool (with paid for upgrade for more features) for designing PCBs. I have designed two in my life, and being good software I would have either been happy to pay a reasonable amount for each single use, pay a low one off cost for the software or signed up for a monthly subscription where I could cancel at any time.

They switched to a model where you could only by annually, but pushed people for 3 years, at hundreds of pounds per year. Thousands of people who used it at a hobby level ditched it, as has many businesses. I'm not sure if their smaller but paying more user base builds more profit for them. Neither option was worth it for the very limited use cases I have.

Black Mirror did a really good episode about subscriptions and terms changing.
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Autocads a con, i barely need the bastard either.
 
SPUFF said:
Autocads a con, i barely need the bastard either.
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You can sometimes get a key online quite cheap. Better off leaving it to the professionals though, it’s a nightmare putting self taught people’s drawings right. Normally just start from scratch as it’s quicker.
 
My porch motion sensor light keeps flicking on and off and can I bollocks figure out what's causing it. Hacked a bush back to bare bones and it's not that
 
One of my colleagues has no idea what the word 'ironic' actually means and uses it seemingly every other sentence. Latest example, "ironically, my brother is in town today so going to meet him for some food." It is not ironic that your brother who lives and works in Newcastle will be in Newcastle city centre at the same time as you, who also lives and works in Newcastle city centre.
 
PallionPeasant2 said:
One of my colleagues has no idea what the word 'ironic' actually means and uses it seemingly every other sentence. Latest example, "ironically, my brother is in town today so going to meet him for some food." It is not ironic that your brother who lives and works in Newcastle will be in Newcastle city centre at the same time as you, who also lives and works in Newcastle city centre.
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Should start calling him Alanis
 
When you’ve cancelled your holiday and you’ve managed to get a refund on everything but the Ryanair flights… then you get an email from them saying they’ve amended your flights… and you think “YES! Maybe I can tell them that they’ve disrupted my plans… and I can claim a refund!!!”

…and then you find out they’ve only changed it fifteen minutes.


It’s like ra-ain 🎵on you wedding day🎶

etc


(And yes I know it’s nit ironic and nothing in the song is either)
 
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