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Baku@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

This, along with hotels that hide their only PowerPoint behind the bed but have 50 bloody phone jacks, are my pet peeves. But it kinda makes sense when you consider they were mostly built before the days of having a ton of devices in the bedroom. A lamp and alarm clock, maybe a TV if you’re well off, would’ve been perfectly fine for a lot of people

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glimse@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
The absolute worst is when the Word Documents are stashed away in some random drawer. Or when you find an Excel spreadsheet under the mattress!

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- kungen@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Not so awful, but it’s disappointing when you open the drawer expecting a Bible, but there’s only OneNote there.
  
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- Baku@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I really wish my autocorrect would stop doing that. I can count on one hand the amount of times I’ve actually wanted to write “PowerPoint”. I couldn’t even count on 10 hands the amount of times it’s assumed I’m some kind of idiot that doesn’t know “PowerPoint” is a single word when I type “power point”
  
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  - glimse@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I like when it only autocorrects the second word. “I’m going to home Depot”
    
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litchralee@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I once read a theory on an electricians forum about how the USA electrical code’s mandated maximum distance between adjacent outlets on a wall, coupled with the typical bedroom layout, as well as home builders trying to be as cheap as possible, led to only a single outlet being placed directly in the middle of the longest wall. This is also the most logical position for a bed, so the theory is that the bed pressing against the outlet over time was a contributing factor to electrical-related house fires.

I cannot find where I read that originally, and certainly the granularity of nationally-reported fire data is not sufficient to prove that theory. And while the electrical code’s distance requirements haven’t changed, more homes will now put enough outlets so the only one isn’t behind the bed.

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