Say, hypothetically, you have a MediMemo pill organiser. Say that one of your lids is cracking, and you've previously established that superglue doesn't work, but you'd prefer to replace a single lid than buy (another) whole new set, but using one of your spare lids won't work because you don't have a spare lid for the relevant day of the week and you're That Kind Of Person.

... erm.

Okay, so, you've measured up the lid, and you've established that it's 1.5mm thick all the way along, and other than that broadly a long thin rectangle: 92mm long, with three sections 17mm, HAHAHAHAmm, and 20mm wide.

The HAHAHAHA section is 17mm wide at the top surface and 18mm at the bottom, giving you a trapezoid cross-section.

I am poking at Blender (and goodness but this is Up There with complex but inadequately documented software I Have Known) but I suspect the 3D printers I have access to are not going to be very happy about the required resolution, even if I manage to coax Blender into giving me three rectangles of varying widths and then gently sand the middle section's edges down to triangles. I have limited patience for painstakingly cutting shapes out of plastic sheets and inevitably getting them wrong because my hands aren't steady enough.

Anyone fancy suggesting alternative approaches to solutions? Back of a postcard, etc etc. <3

As it is I have improved it with Pimms, Lashings, and an imminent Lashings performance.

Most of the details are tedious and involve buses and racists and ableism. The following, however, is what actually spilled the day over into FLAMETHROWER.

... as per all of my previous e-mails - see the reference number - I was unable to pay online because of the obligatory title field which *does not list my title* (which every other member of customer support has managed to use: "Mx" is NOT a typo).

When I phoned up I should NOT have been unable to pay for the item: it is a customs item NOT tracked, so should have been held for 21 days, not 18 days.

I am really, really unhappy with the service I have received from you collectively. I appreciate this is not your fault but I do think you should do something to make up for the fact that:
* the delivery card was originally misdelivered to X [Name] Mews rather than X [Name] Street
* the tracking number was illegible
* I was unable to pay online because of your appallingly bad (and transphobic!) form implementation required me to use a title but did not offer my preferred title
* I was unable to collect in person because I am disabled
* I was unable to phone immediately because my combined disabilities
make phonecalls incredibly stressful for me, even without all of the above
* when I DID phone, I was unable to pay *even though I was calling
within 21 days* because your phone structure doesn't take account of the fact that I was calling about a Customs item, with no option to talk to a human who might have been able to sort things out
* I immediately e-mailed you and have spent over a week waiting for
responses, during which time you have returned my item to sender.

I have given you ALL of this information SEVERAL times.

I am really, really unhappy.

-a.

... a dev environment for C/C++ under Windows.

On start-up, you get greeted with the following:

Tip of the day

Did you know...

... you shouldn't disable these tips? The tips presented here will give you undocumented information not found anywhere else. If you disable them and want to view them at a later time, select "Help / Tip of the day"...

I then scrolled through some of the tips of the day... and the ones I saw were largely about enabling or disabling features.

I am SO unimpressed. I am probably not unimpressed enough to scrounge up something else, given that I don't want to do much with C++ this week, but WOW.