{"id":3550,"date":"2008-03-15T20:18:33","date_gmt":"2008-03-16T00:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/15\/most-annoying-thing-ever\/"},"modified":"2008-03-15T20:18:33","modified_gmt":"2008-03-16T00:18:33","slug":"most-annoying-thing-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/15\/most-annoying-thing-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"most annoying thing ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have an HP Photosmart C5180 scanner\/printer thingy. It works fairly well, except when the <a href=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/tag\/hp\/\">drivers are being stupid<\/a> under Windows. But it has one flaw so appalling that the first time it happened, I almost trashed the printer in a blind rage (yeah, I have some anger issues).<\/p>\n<p>The power supply brick has a three-prong connector; pretty much the same as the &#8220;kettle lead&#8221; you get on PCs. But this thing, whether through vibration, heating and cooling, or just plain evil, <em>slowly works itself loose<\/em>. So you go to turn the printer on one day, and &#8230; nothing. You check the cables; all are plugged in. Check the wall socket; it&#8217;s (<em>zap! ow!<\/em>) live. After tearing some hair out, you troubleshoot every cable \u00e2\u20ac\u201c all looks well until you notice that the plug is just a little farther out of the power supply than it might go. Snug it in a couple of millimetres, and a working printer is you.<\/p>\n<p>This happens every few months. Even when I know it&#8217;s likely to happen, it still jars me. Wouldn&#8217;t have happened in Bill &amp; Dave&#8217;s day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have an HP Photosmart C5180 scanner\/printer thingy. It works fairly well, except when the drivers are being stupid under Windows. But it has one flaw so appalling that the first time it happened, I almost trashed the printer in a blind rage (yeah, I have some anger issues). The power supply brick has a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[1194,921,922,62],"class_list":["post-3550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-suck","tag-c51x0","tag-hp","tag-printer","tag-rant"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-Vg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}