What's an innocent misconception about your hobby/profession that drives you up the wall?
Like for example, how someone thinks because you work in IT you can fix their TV, or how if you're into music you must be able to play any random instrument.
I just like hearing pros rant about about their very niche problems.
The most obvious one I've come across is when people learn fountain pens still exist their first assumption is you use it for art, specifically calligraphy.
They are literally just pens. You can use them for anything you would normally do with a pen, and in fact most nibs are not really tuned for any kind of calligraphy at all (and in most cases that would be better done digitally, with brushes, or with special markers these days).
Also my handwriting is shit so I'm just salty lmao.
I swear to God, everyone over the age of 60 or below the age of 26 thinks that WiFi and the Internet are the same thing. These people have no concept of a local network, and seemingly have never heard of network cables. They're usually tech illiterate in other ways too, but this one always gets under my skin.
I had to explain to my dad last week why his phone wasn't loading emails even though his phone was connected to the Wi-Fi.
We were stating at an Airbnb house when a power outage hit the neighborhood. The house had a backup generator, so it still had electricity. But whatever upstream switch that the modem connected to seem to go down with the power outage. It took me a bit to explain to my dad, "Yes. We have power and Wi-Fi, but the modem isn't able to connect anything. Because of that, we have no internet. That's why you can't load your email. Just turn off Wi-Fi on your phone for now and you can load emails using your phone's data." For some reason, his phone didn't switch to using his phone's data when it detected that the Wi-Fi had no internet.
his phone didn't switch to using his phone's data when it detected that the Wi-Fi had no internet.
I wish I could get my phone to do this.
Recently, I was trying to set up a device that broadcasts it's own Wi-Fi network for the web UI, and my phone kept disconnecting because it didn't have internet. I had to break out my laptop just to log in and set the thing up on my Wi-Fi network, just so my phone could talk to it.
As somebody that's involved in Linux and Software Development, being constantly asked to "look at my computer"
Look, I probably can? But I'm not going to, and certainly not for free. I haven't used Windows in years, and honestly, I mostly go out of my way to avoid knowing anything about what's going on in Windows-land. I'm going to be sitting there websearching for random stuff just like you are. Take to the geek squad, or something. I don't wanna.
As somebody that works on his own stuff, and has worked as a Professional Mechanic in a past life?
No, I don't really want to look at your grocery getter. No, I don't get any special deal on parts pricing. No, I'm not actually going to be cheaper than taking it to a shop, in many cases. No, the mechanics at the shops probably aren't giving you an unlubed and unwilling anal probing. They're expensive for a reason.
I am a user experience designer. There is a constant lack of knowledge around what a UX Designer does and even when I try to educate them it goes in one ear and out the other. Today, I had a product owner on one of my projects come to me and say "can you throw together a few screens based on this process flow" as if all I have to do is open up sketch and vomit out a few new screens. It's a constant battle to get non-UX people to understand that my job isn't to "make screens" but is to instead ask questions of the business and of the users to determine what will likely be the best way for users to interact with a certain feature (via research and ideation) and then perform usability testing to see if the solution will actually work.
But no, just ask me to "throw together a few screens".
It makes me livid.
On the flip side, I enjoy painting my nails as a hobby and I'm surprised at how few weird looks I get or how weirded out people are by it (I'm a guy). I always assumed people would give me snide remarks, or assume I was gay or trans (i'm not but I try to be an ally). The worst "misconception" is that i must clearly go see a nail technician. Everyone is surprised that I do it myself and I'm like "I just have practice and a good clean up brush".
I do modding for a game (Vintage Story). Always get rapid fire requests for all this stuff I could just quickly add related to the mod at hand or not.
Also the fact that I play Minecraft & Vintage Story - must be running around like in some meme. Nah, VS is much more chill and I guess mature maybe (not in an adult content sort of way). And in MC I'm usually doing like GregTech or some technical mod where i'm slowly torturing myself to assemble this and collect that.
I work in Public Relations. Most people seem to think we only sit down, draw some pictures, post some of them to Instagram and effortlessly write a couple paragraphs. Yeah, it ain't that easy. We actually plan weeks or even months ahead, precisely when to release what detail in which way on which channel to create a certain effect in the recipient.
I'm a linguistics enthusiast, which means people expect me to either know a lot of languages (which is, honestly, partly true) or be a grammar nazi (which is emphatically untrue).
I usually don't care about typos as long as the message gets across, but for some reason the too/to mix up really gets me riled up. I instinctively get cross and have to tell myself to chill tf out
Lol, agreed, some typos are not a problem. But other times, words like to/too, I read as completely different words. And often, that "typo" (I think people honestly are just using the wrong word, not mistyping) will require me to
There are 2 types of mines: open pit and underground (tunnels, etc). Open pit: they dynamite certain areas, then get big trucks to haul the rubble. They keep going until all of the minerals have been extracted. Example: nickel mines in Cuba. IMO, not very dangerous as long as safety precautions are followed. There is some risk that the walls of the open pit mine might collapse.
Underground: this is the type of mining with real danger. Anytime you hear of a mining incident, it's likely to be underground. They do take a LOT of precautions which is why modern mining is a lot safer compared to 80 years ago. The ever present danger is collapse of the tunnel or formation.
Sort of. Open Pit mining can be incredibly dangerous, the dangers are just different. I haven't ever seen any numbers from MSHA breaking down the incident rates (I haven't looked to see if they even publish them, in a broken down form like that), but you can really get your ass in trouble in an open pit mine, if you're not cognizant of the highwall, keep track of the very large equipment, Not paying attention to blast times or barricading, or not paying attention to the Shovel Cables, and where the approved crossings are.
I'd suspect that the numbers of overall incidents are probably higher underground, but I'm not sure about actual deaths. I spent about 20 years working in/around/as a vendor to both open pit and underground operations, and just completely anecdotally, I mostly remember most of the underground reportable incidents to be less serious than the ones I saw in the pits.
I know things are beginning to change a bit on this topic, but one of mine is that you can't just casually enjoy anime. Some people seem to think the moment you accidentally see a dragon ball episode that you suddenly turn into davido kun, or regularly glaze one of your 100 half naked figurines of characters that are obviously not meant to look like adults. There can definitely be weird stuff in some of them, but if you can accept the cultural differences in humor, some of the stories are genuinely great. I don't even watch it much anymore, but it's sad to me that so many people miss out on such great content just because they're a little closed minded.
It's like trying to casually enjoy Rick & Morty. Some people assume you must be obsessed with it, and of course there's the "only smrt people get this" crowd. So I just quietly watch it.
Yeah, this was the answer I got from my friend that watched family guy and american dad all day. Dude, you already like animated TV. Why not try a show made in Japan instead of re-watching family guy for the 14th time?
I've known so many people who are so into anime, and every now and then I give anime a shot bc they keep harping on about show x or y. 9/10 are just so full of cringy sexually repressed representations of women/girls and interactions with them that no quality of other storyline could make up for it. Other times, the 'fan service' is more manageable. This real, personal experience definitely taints how I initially perceive anyone who brings up anime.
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