My frustration is the dynamic incompatibility between songs in my music library. I swear, there must be 50 decibels between the average volume of my quietest songs versus that of my loudest. It's always a hassle to have to fiddle with the volume controls in the utility, and it's even worse when I get caught unawares and almost go deaf and/or blow out all the glass in my apartment. But what's really maddening are those songs that are too quiet to be properly heard without turning up the master volume at the speakers, which of course will immediately have to be turned down after the song is over. In my old, two-speaker setup, that was fine, because the volume control was very responsive and it was right within reach. On my newer setup, the volume control is overly sensitive, and it's not easily within reach.
That's a completely different frustration: Knobs that have shitty middle ranges. I notice this sometimes on things like shower temperature knobs, or speaker volume knobs. You gotta turn, turn, turn to get to that sweet spot, but then, for the fine tuning, it's bullshit. A fraction of a splinter of a twist, and you jump right through the sweet range onto the other side. Golly, I hate that.
That's why old radios had fine tuning knobs. Why don't we have those anymore? Dammit. Frustration number three: Technology whose functionality is increasingly out of the user's control because, despite more controls than ever, basic controls are falling by the wayside! The people behind this need to be drug out into the street and sternly spoken to.
Frustration number four: Realizing it's 1:30 in the morning and I needed to get something done today that I didn't.
