The Room 101 thread - for things you hate or just having a bloody good moan

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Re: The Room 101 thread - for things you hate or just having a bloody good moan

Post by Sly Boots » Wed Oct 08, 2025 7:28 am

Raid wrote:
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Yeah, that'd work. Honestly there are plenty of options for "carrying marginally awkward items", I was just too fed up last night to think of any. :P
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Post by Lenny Solidus » Wed Oct 08, 2025 10:52 am

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Post by Wrathbone » Wed Oct 08, 2025 12:38 pm

I'm assuming 4TB refers to 4 tidbits of data that it can store on the mini SD card hidden within.

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Post by Raid » Wed Oct 08, 2025 1:09 pm

The 32gb memory stick I own that gives me USB3 speeds for almost 30 seconds when transferring files to it, before dropping down to a crawl afterwards has made me realise just how pointless it is buying cheap storage devices. And that's from a reputable brand, so although I know it's going to be slow, I'd still like to imagine the data will be fine once it actually makes its way across. I wouldn't trust that thing to stick the contents of my recycling bin on.

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Post by Wrathbone » Wed Oct 08, 2025 1:38 pm

I mean it's clearly a scam. There's more chance of an Amiga 500 having 4TB of storage than that thing.

For comparison, I recently bought a 10TB external hard drive (mechanical, not SSD) for £200, so the equivalent price for 4TB would be £80. £13 for 4TB of SSD storage is hilarious.

My favourite detail is the "special feature" that it's backwards compatible. ....With what? From what? Maybe they mean you can turn it backwards when it's plugged in?

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Re: The Room 101 thread - for things you hate or just having a bloody good moan

Post by Raid » Wed Oct 08, 2025 1:52 pm

Wrathbone wrote:
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My favourite detail is the "special feature" that it's backwards compatible. ....With what? From what? Maybe they mean you can turn it backwards when it's plugged in?
What they mean is that it is capable of storing the Red Dwarf episode "Backwards". In glorious 240p! If you cut the file in half. And then half again.

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Post by eny » Wed Oct 08, 2025 4:34 pm

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Post by Snowy » Thu Oct 09, 2025 6:35 am

Now then you bunch of cynics, it is from PingDD for goodness sake, mentioned in the same breath as Western Digital. Well, by the guy in China running PingDD it is...
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Post by Wrathbone » Thu Oct 09, 2025 12:05 pm

I’ve been listening out for a parcel (value of about £90, so not insignificant) coming via Royal Mail. I checked the tracking just now to double check it was out for delivery and discovered it had apparently been delivered earlier this morning. No knock on the door, no note through the letterbox. I opened the door to find a recycling box plonked conspicuously on the doorstep, lid off, with the parcel sat in it. Bear in mind that this is about a metre away from a fairly busy public pavement, in full view, and anybody walking by would have noticed the box and the parcel placed right in front of the door.

I keep my recycling boxes behind a wall, out of view, so they could have just put the parcel there rather than moving a box into view. They could have put it behind the large general waste bin which is against the house. Or, you know, they could have tried knocking and actually delivering the bloody thing. What the fuck were they thinking? I’ve half a mind to report it stolen, except I don’t want to force the seller on eBay to have to make a claim. What a lazy, inconsiderate twat (the postie, that is).

On the plus side, nobody actually stole it, which gives me a more positive view on my neighbours.

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Post by Raid » Thu Oct 09, 2025 12:23 pm

On the plus side, the council will soon steal your recycling boxes and replace them with a massive wheelie bin that will keep your parcels much safer.

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Post by Maturin » Thu Oct 09, 2025 12:55 pm

It's why I only use Tracked 48 with signature for parcels, instead of regular tracked 48 when selling. Stops things getting nicked - it sometimes means a buyer has to arrange a redelivery or collect it if they're not in but it's worth it to ensure nothing happens to it.

Postage costs are higher though. It's up to £5.05 now.

The only thing I use regular Tracked 48 for are large letter size packets, because posties will just shove them through the letterbox and they seem to avoid getting pinched outside.

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Post by Mantis » Fri Oct 10, 2025 11:44 am

Well my Amazon saga continues. Sent an email off to a bunch of their email addresses that I found last week to give them one final shot at fixing things for me. Most of them bounced back as no longer being able to receive inbound emails. One responded from an Amazon India email basically just telling me to upload my ID again and then ring them to go through some verification questions. The phone number they gave me doesn't accept inbound calls. #-o

Funnily enough the regular customer service line had no idea what I was on about when I rang them about it.

I've just emailed their privacy team to threaten them with a DPA complaint with ICO and given them 30 days to fix it all. Let's see if that has any effect.

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Post by Rusty » Sat Oct 11, 2025 8:32 am

When my whole online identity was being hacked last year, Amazon where the first ones to sort it out. I was surprised.
Facebook are even shiitter as they have no paying customers as such and so can tell you to fuck off. Which they did. I lost all backed up photographic memories and posts for 20 odd years!
However, despite being an IT professional and should have done it as a matter of course, it did make me go and change every single login I had to anything and add in 2FA.
The problem is that I'm lazy and things have been working well for several decades you don't think about 'changing the locks' or 'adding a fence' to accounts.
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Re: The Room 101 thread - for things you hate or just having a bloody good moan

Post by Snowy » Sat Oct 11, 2025 11:19 am

Mantis wrote:
Fri Oct 10, 2025 11:44 am
Well my Amazon saga continues. Sent an email off to a bunch of their email addresses that I found last week to give them one final shot at fixing things for me. Most of them bounced back as no longer being able to receive inbound emails. One responded from an Amazon India email basically just telling me to upload my ID again and then ring them to go through some verification questions. The phone number they gave me doesn't accept inbound calls. #-o

Funnily enough the regular customer service line had no idea what I was on about when I rang them about it.

I've just emailed their privacy team to threaten them with a DPA complaint with ICO and given them 30 days to fix it all. Let's see if that has any effect.
I suspect they will fly into action. Firms live in genuine fear of GDPR findings being upheld, the fines can be immense.
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Re: The Room 101 thread - for things you hate or just having a bloody good moan

Post by Animalmother » Sat Oct 11, 2025 2:56 pm

To update my address at the small local credit union, I was required to get a proof of address, provide a picture of my passport and take several pictures of my face. Then wait a week for approval. My bank just let me type a new address into the app.

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