u/Difficult-Revenue556

35 to 40 years ago, my mum bought a new *electric fan oven. It had a great feature. Door closed, fan on. Door open, fan stopped.

So, opening the door to check the food and you don't get blasted with scolding air. Oh, and the oven temperature didn't dip by about 20c.

Haven't seen that feature in the last 7 or 8 ovens I've had.

Why didn't this great feature became mainstream?

I'm sure a fair percentage of people reading this have never seen anything but electric ovens 🤣

This jumped out when I first started using vSphere. The task list has some useful information - Task Name (type of action), target, status - all good.

But - Queued For.... Seriously? In internal tooling, I have a habit of adding in more statistical/debug info than is absolutely necessary, but this data in vSphere is just a waste of pixels.

I've never seen any value more than a few dozen milliseconds. And to be honest, I couldn't care less. If I'm importing a 100GB OVF, or migrating a 500GB live VM between storage arrays, the only thing I'm interested in is the start time and status. It makes zero difference to me if the command initiator got queued for 5ms or 200ms - I just want the action to complete without hanging.

<sigh>