• Frist (unregistered)

    Me speechesh Usa gooddith.

  • frist (unregistered)

    sorry, frist

  • Frist (unregistered) in reply to frist

    Select Color of fail.

  • Papa needs a new pair of shoes (unregistered)

    For the last one's submitter: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16818049/insufficient-storage-available-even-there-is-lot-of-free-space-in-device-memor/

  • PearOSY (unregistered)

    TRWTF is their only 32GB iPhone 5C being a pink one. As if the 5C wasn't enough of a WTF already.

  • Warren (unregistered)

    Shame I can see Ronny has an Android, otherwise I'd assume he was looking at the graph on an Apple DO NOT USE.

  • (cs) in reply to PearOSY
    PearOSY:
    TRWTF is their only 32GB iPhone 5C being a pink one. As if the 5C wasn't enough of a WTF already.
    Date: Some time ago. Place: a mobile phone shop in England.

    Me: I'm looking for a (some model or other by Motorola)

    Salesman: Ah, sorry, we don't have that in stock. This one {points to a (pink) RAZR} is also good.

    Me: Um, I'm not buying a pink phone.

    S: (...) No problem, we also have it in grey {a sort of steel/charcoal grey}. I'll bring one out so you can see it.

    Pink phones are a WTF (especially girly sorts of pink like the 5C comes in) whatever the brand.

    I liked my RAZR (the V3i version), but it eventually died of water damage under mysterious circumstances, which was a shame.

  • John (unregistered) in reply to Steve The Cynic
    Steve The Cynic:
    Me: Um, I'm not buying a pink phone.

    That reminds me of taking my elder son (some years ago) to buy his first proper bike. He must have been about seven.

    In the bike shop, the owner invited him sit on a pink bike to check his size, and he had to be dragged kicking and screaming towards it. No way was he going to sit on a pink bike.

    Once he'd chosen one, the man then said it would be ready in a couple of hours - they insisted on giving all bikes a thorough checking over before they left the shop. I thought he was going to explode at the idea of waiting two hours for his new bike.

    Captcha: Vulputate - what a small boy's heart does when asked to wait for a bicycle.

  • (cs)

    The Brother one is even better if you DO get more than one language show up... They're all 3 letters, like "Chn" or "Eng".

    At least the 2 different models I downloaded drivers for this week were.

  • (cs) in reply to Papa needs a new pair of shoes
    Papa needs a new pair of shoes:
    For the last one's submitter: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16818049/insufficient-storage-available-even-there-is-lot-of-free-space-in-device-memor/
    That's a joke. Right? Please tell me that's a joke. I mean, the solution
    1. Open the Phone app and switch to Keypad.
    2. Dial *#9900#
    3. On the screen that appears, click on the button labelled "Delete dumpstate/logcat".

    makes JCL look like a more sensible wat to control a phone.

  • eggbox (unregistered)

    TRWTF is that that "USA" is not a language; maybe it should be "English (US)". In England I speak English not "England".

  • John (unregistered) in reply to Frist
    Frist:
    Me speechesh Usa gooddith.
    What I noticed was that the comment said that "USA" was the only option, but in fact what it offered is "Usa". USA is a country in North America; while Usa is a city in Japan. So maybe it was offering Japanese as an alternative, in particular, the southern dialect spoken in Usa. Not that it's written any differently from standard Japanese, but if they have voice output it might sound a bit different. (I have a GPS gadget that's set to speak Australian, which is very similar to English, but even more charming. It mispronounces my street's name.)
  • Paratus (unregistered) in reply to eggbox

    Yeah, but they speak Czech in Czech.

  • evilspoons (unregistered) in reply to TGV
    TGV:
    Papa needs a new pair of shoes:
    For the last one's submitter: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16818049/insufficient-storage-available-even-there-is-lot-of-free-space-in-device-memor/
    That's a joke. Right? Please tell me that's a joke. I mean, the solution
    1. Open the Phone app and switch to Keypad.
    2. Dial *#9900#
    3. On the screen that appears, click on the button labelled "Delete dumpstate/logcat".

    makes JCL look like a more sensible wat to control a phone.

    Android devices that started out their lives with Gingerbread or older had a separate partition for applications that fills up way before the rest of the internal memory. For some reason, many Samsung devices also tend to fill this same partition with log files. The "solution" is to clear up the logjam (ha ha) by deleting all the excess useless log files... but the real solution is to repartition the memory into one big storage pool for Android 4.x+, which does not require the separate application partition.

    I'm not really sure why devices being upgraded from 2.x to 4.x don't repartition themselves automatically, but this design flaw has been fixed with new Android devices.

  • Jack Donaghy (unregistered)

    It's not hand-made in USA. It's pronounced Hand-made in Usa. The Hand people are a Vietnamese slave tribe and Usa is their island prison.

  • Pock Suppet (unregistered)

    Damn furriners goin' around talking all that Usa. They need to speak Murrican or go home, that's what I say!

  • emaN ruoY (unregistered)

    When installing a Brother printer drivers, I usually extract the compressed files (that's what the exe is, anyway and 7-zip handles it well). I then delete all language folders except for ENG. Having Usa there can be quite confusing for most non-tech computer users.

  • TRWTF Spotter (unregistered)

    Really? Everybody missed TRWTF on the Rocket Rebuildable Atomizer listing. It isn't the color selector, it's the order amount over which you get free shipping...

  • Andrew (unregistered)

    ... that guy really likes shelves.

  • (cs)

    Looks like we had our first comment from a Usa resident.

  • ShelfNotFound (unregistered)

    A nice reminder that TRWTF always was and always will be Akismet.

  • n_slash_a (unregistered) in reply to TGV
    TGV:
    Papa needs a new pair of shoes:
    For the last one's submitter: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16818049/insufficient-storage-available-even-there-is-lot-of-free-space-in-device-memor/
    That's a joke. Right? Please tell me that's a joke. I mean, the solution
    1. Open the Phone app and switch to Keypad.
    2. Dial *#9900#
    3. On the screen that appears, click on the button labelled "Delete dumpstate/logcat".

    makes JCL look like a more sensible wat to control a phone.

    He's Nick Burns, Your Company Computer Guy! - SNL

  • Madmanguruman (unregistered) in reply to TGV

    No, it's one of those phones with multiple internal storage banks. The top graph agrees with the breakdown, the second graph likely agrees with the second breakdown (not shown). Not a WTF at all.

  • (cs)

    Hey, my mother was born on April 0x2D, you insensitive clod!

  • Jake (unregistered) in reply to Papa needs a new pair of shoes
    Papa needs a new pair of shoes:
    For the last one's submitter: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16818049/insufficient-storage-available-even-there-is-lot-of-free-space-in-device-memor/

    I think he was referring to how the information put his available space at 210MB and his Apps space at 514MB, but the graph right above it seemed to have the "Open Space" bar at least twice the size of the Apps bar.

  • Jay (unregistered)

    I would like to personally welcome Nathan Friedly to Walnut Creek, CA.

  • OldCoder (unregistered) in reply to evilspoons
    evilspoons:
    TGV:
    Papa needs a new pair of shoes:
    For the last one's submitter: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16818049/insufficient-storage-available-even-there-is-lot-of-free-space-in-device-memor/
    That's a joke. Right? Please tell me that's a joke. I mean, the solution
    1. Open the Phone app and switch to Keypad.
    2. Dial *#9900#
    3. On the screen that appears, click on the button labelled "Delete dumpstate/logcat".

    makes JCL look like a more sensible wat to control a phone.

    Android devices that started out their lives with Gingerbread or older had a separate partition for applications that fills up way before the rest of the internal memory. For some reason, many Samsung devices also tend to fill this same partition with log files. The "solution" is to clear up the logjam (ha ha) by deleting all the excess useless log files... but the real solution is to repartition the memory into one big storage pool for Android 4.x+, which does not require the separate application partition.

    I'm not really sure why devices being upgraded from 2.x to 4.x don't repartition themselves automatically, but this design flaw has been fixed with new Android devices.

    Just tried that on my Samsung... I get "Run dumpstate/logcat" but no delete option :(

    Captcha: appellatio DO NOT USE

  • (cs)

    Lousy Smarch weather.

    Also, that's the laziest obfuscation attempt I've ever seen on the VSP image.

  • (cs)

    Just a small suggestion on the "Pick a color" one: perhaps the color dropdown is filled via javascript and the user has a script blocker turned on. I've experienced several similar situations since I started using one.

  • TechnocratiK (unregistered) in reply to TGV

    Tried it on my Galaxy S4. Sadly, not a joke. *#9900# brings up the 'SysDump' menu... WTF?

  • (cs) in reply to Pawprint
    Pawprint:
    Just a small suggestion on the "Pick a color" one: perhaps the color dropdown is filled via javascript and the user has a script blocker turned on. I've experienced several similar situations since I started using one.
    Javascript is TRWTF. Especially if you are using to do something that plain HTML can do as well (or better) like defining a color dropdown!
  • anonymous (unregistered)

    For some stupid reason I was under the impression that TDWTF doesn't reveal submitters' last names.

  • Me (unregistered) in reply to John
    John:
    Steve The Cynic:
    Me: Um, I'm not buying a pink phone.

    That reminds me of taking my elder son (some years ago) to buy his first proper bike. He must have been about seven.

    In the bike shop, the owner invited him sit on a pink bike to check his size, and he had to be dragged kicking and screaming towards it. No way was he going to sit on a pink bike.

    Once he'd chosen one, the man then said it would be ready in a couple of hours - they insisted on giving all bikes a thorough checking over before they left the shop. I thought he was going to explode at the idea of waiting two hours for his new bike.

    Captcha: Vulputate - what a small boy's heart does when asked to wait for a bicycle.

    Ahhh... I'm miss those days when my boys were young

  • Bill C. (unregistered) in reply to Steve The Cynic
    Steve The Cynic:
    Me: Um, I'm not buying a pink phone.
    Great! I'll buy it, and after Valentine's Day you'll have one less intern.
  • QJo (unregistered) in reply to John
    John:
    Steve The Cynic:
    Me: Um, I'm not buying a pink phone.

    That reminds me of taking my elder son (some years ago) to buy his first proper bike. He must have been about seven.

    In the bike shop, the owner invited him sit on a pink bike to check his size, and he had to be dragged kicking and screaming towards it. No way was he going to sit on a pink bike.

    Once he'd chosen one, the man then said it would be ready in a couple of hours - they insisted on giving all bikes a thorough checking over before they left the shop. I thought he was going to explode at the idea of waiting two hours for his new bike.

    Captcha: Vulputate - what a small boy's heart does when asked to wait for a bicycle.

    Dear me, how badly-behaved children are nowadays. I would have been firm with him and told him, okay, you don't want a bike, and taken him home there and then.

    I had to buy my own bike with my own money, and I wasn't given any choice over what bike I was going to buy. Kids of today, they're spoilt.

  • Robert (unregistered)

    ""My phone told me today there was 'insufficient storage available'," wrote Ronny B., "I'm not sure whether I should believe the graph or the numbers.""

    I had this happen on my phone recently. It turns out that system data isn't reported there at all (hence the graph vs usage discrepancy). It might be logs holding things up.

  • Gannishera (unregistered) in reply to Robert
    Robert:
    ""My phone told me today there was 'insufficient storage available'," wrote Ronny B., "I'm not sure whether I should believe the graph or the numbers.""

    I had this happen on my phone recently. It turns out that system data isn't reported there at all (hence the graph vs usage discrepancy). It might be logs holding things up.

    Sounds like another one of those "hidden/system files" problems, which is TRWTF.

  • Someone. (unregistered)

    The first entry looks like Unitus Credit Union (I get that message every now and then). I just sent them a message telling them to fix this. :)

  • (cs) in reply to QJo
    QJo:
    Dear me, how badly-behaved children are nowadays. I would have been firm with him and told him, okay, you don't want a bike, and taken him home there and then.

    I had to buy my own bike with my own money, and I wasn't given any choice over what bike I was going to buy. Kids of today, they're spoilt.

    You had enough money to buy your own bike? Feh. I got whichever hand-me-down bike the grownups had gotten tired of. And that's just because I was the eldest child; all the other kids got the bike discarded by the next older sibling.

  • How far is too far? (unregistered) in reply to John
    John:
    Frist:
    Me speechesh Usa gooddith.
    What I noticed was that the comment said that "USA" was the only option, but in fact what it offered is "Usa". USA is a country in North America; while Usa is a city in Japan. So maybe it was offering Japanese as an alternative, in particular, the southern dialect spoken in Usa. Not that it's written any differently from standard Japanese, but if they have voice output it might sound a bit different. (I have a GPS gadget that's set to speak Australian, which is very similar to English, but even more charming. It mispronounces my street's name.)
    "Turn left by the kangaroo"
  • Antony Aloysius St John Hancock (unregistered) in reply to Pock Suppet
    Pock Suppet:
    Damn furriners goin' around talking all that Usa. They need to speak Murrican or go home, that's what I say!
    Damn foreigners! Can't go anywhere in the world without meeting them.
  • Norman Diamond (unregistered) in reply to John
    John:
    Usa is a city in Japan. So maybe it was offering Japanese as an alternative, in particular, the southern dialect spoken in Usa. Not that it's written any differently from standard Japanese, but if they have voice output it might sound a bit different.
    But then it should display the options as 標準語 and 宇佐弁 instead of English phrases Standard Japanese and Usa Dialect. Brother is a Japanese company and knows how to display Kanji.
  • (cs)

    What has been overlooked is that the first item isn't really a WTF at all. Haven't we all been told not to answer security questions with the real answers, but with something made-up that we can remember later? Using real answers invites identity theft because things like your mother's date of birth are accessible online to anyone willing to pay the price for the database they're stored in.

    So I tell the site I'm registering at that Mom was born on the 46th day of the month, and when this question pops up for any wannabe crook, they immediately dismiss that option and pick something <= 31. Voila; security by smartassery.

  • QJo (unregistered) in reply to da Doctah
    da Doctah:
    QJo:
    Dear me, how badly-behaved children are nowadays. I would have been firm with him and told him, okay, you don't want a bike, and taken him home there and then.

    I had to buy my own bike with my own money, and I wasn't given any choice over what bike I was going to buy. Kids of today, they're spoilt.

    You had enough money to buy your own bike? Feh. I got whichever hand-me-down bike the grownups had gotten tired of. And that's just because I was the eldest child; all the other kids got the bike discarded by the next older sibling.

    (strokes chin sagely) Good point.

    My bike money, I will elaborate, was the result of accumulation of all the financial gifts provided for me at xmas over the years by various elderly relatives -- it was intercepted at source and placed in a deposit account to which the only access was via the bank book held in my mother's name. It wasn't much (elderly relatives in our family, while able to survive in relative comfort, were of strictly modest means) but the trickle eventually accumulated. And indeed, it was constantly laid four square in front of us the fact that we were Lucky and Privileged. Our bikes were now, of course, our source of transport (no more rides in the car, whatever the weather) and it was completely up to us to ensure that the appropriate maintenance was done (which included the oh-so-frequent uses of the puncture repair kit, the roads in the area of the country we lived in being frequently scattered with thorns and other sharp vegetation).

    Recreational cycling? The sight of a pushbike makes me shudder.

  • (cs) in reply to John
    John:
    Steve The Cynic:
    Me: Um, I'm not buying a pink phone.
    That reminds me of taking my elder son (some years ago) to buy his first proper bike. [...]Once he'd chosen one, the man then said it would be ready in a couple of hours - they insisted on giving all bikes a thorough checking over before they left the shop. I thought he was going to explode at the idea of waiting *two* *hours* for his new bike.
    I hate to be the bastard who criticizes parenting styles, but well, instant gratification is supposedly not so good, developmentally speaking. Yeah, my 3 year old sometimes wants things now when we're in the store, but he gets instant feedback that he's not going to have his way.
  • Pope (unregistered)

    I speak Usa and so should everyone else who lives here! 'Merica!

  • (cs)

    Android, or rather the gallery, loves to waste shitloads of space by caching all pictures ever and never deleting them automatically.

    Check out /sdcard/Android/data/com.cooliris.media/cache/hires-image-cache

    TuneIn Radio does that, too. It caches chunks and just overwrites them, however, if you listen to a two-hour-podcast, let's say it creates 1000 chunks (depending on your buffer size, it can be way more). If you then listen to a one-hour-podcast, it starts numbering the chunks at 0 again, overwriting the ones already there, however, the chunks from the second hour of the two-hour-podcast are kept. It never deletes anything. And those are a bit trickier to find: /data/data/radiotime.player (not on the card) There will be thousands of files called cache********.buffer.

    Anyway, the menu mentioned gives me the option to "run dumpstate/logcat". Does that do the same as delete?

  • anonymous (unregistered) in reply to da Doctah
    da Doctah:
    What has been overlooked is that the first item isn't really a WTF at all. Haven't we all been told not to answer security questions with the real answers, but with something made-up that we can remember later? Using real answers invites identity theft because things like your mother's date of birth are accessible online to anyone willing to pay the price for the database they're stored in.

    So I tell the site I'm registering at that Mom was born on the 46th day of the month, and when this question pops up for any wannabe crook, they immediately dismiss that option and pick something <= 31. Voila; security by smartassery.

    Or, wannabe crook can immediately assume that 46 was the answer you selected because all the other options will be selected from the range [0, 31].

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