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This was recorded at the Chancery Hotel in Dublin, where certain rooms have these sensor-based controls for all the amenities in inside: the lights, air conditioning, and even the bathroom door. While they lack the tactile feel of the real buttons, most of them are still ok to use. But the ones for the bathroom door are not.

The problem is that these are not capacitive touch sensors that react to the physical touch. Instead, they seem to work more like proximity sensors, activated when you bring your hand close enough to the button. In fact, I've seen it respond to my hand been 2-3 cm away from the sensor, which makes it easy to accidentally activate it by simply passing near it. This happened to me at least once, and I've heard the same complaint from several other guests staying at the hotel.

This is particularly annoying in the situation when you're wet, exiting from the shower, and accidentally open the door by simply walking too close to the wall. It brings the cold air from the room inside, and exposes you naked, which might not be exactly what you want if you're sharing a room with someone.

On top of that, the door itself has no handle or groove to be used as a backup option for manually opening it. So if the sensor breaks or electricity interruption, the door becomes unsuable.

This is the bathroom in the Dublin Airport with a row of water sinks and only two hand-dryers on the opposite sides of the bathroom, one of which is shown in the photo.

The hand-dryer is so close to the last sink and to the mirror that it can only be reached when standing right in front of that sink. As a result, if anyone is washing their hands there, nobody else can use the dryer in the meantime. This means that just one person using that sink in the corner will create congestion for no reason, with people waiting in the queue or walking away with their wet hands.

And in a reverse situation, the sink can't be used if someone is drying their hands, leading to inefficient use of facilities.

In the mirror reflection you can see that there is plenty of space on the wall to move the hand-dryer to the right, so that it doesn't interfere with anyone washing their hands. The current placement leads to bad user experience.

The image in this poster by Calvin Klein features a clearly retouched image of a woman with her nipple completely removed. This makes it look fake, deforming the natural appearance of the human body for no reason.

What I find particularly absurd about this specific case is that they have intentionally amplified this aspect by showing the model in a wet top, which normally would make it impossible for her breast to look so smooth. As a result, it brings even more attention to the fact that her natural appearance has been deformed.

If someone in the creative team was too conservative to accept the natural aspect of female anatomy, then the most obvious way around it is to show the model from a different angle or simply wearing dry clothes, that naturally would make the nipple less visible.

But this way it looks more like a statement that female nipples are vulgar and should be hidden, which is quite misogynistic, especially in 2026.

The photo was taken at Corfu International Airport in Greece.

This is a screenshot from the very 1st step of the online check-in process on the Wizzair website. Under my name it has the COUNTRY/REGION field, which is ambiguous and possibly redundant.

It's not clear what exactly is meant by this field, because it could be the country of my nationality, or my residence, or my physical location. Especially considering that at the very end there is the Documents step, where I would expect my nationality to be asked.

As my country of residence is different from my nationality, I only saw a warning at the last Documents step saying that the issuing country of my passport doesn't match the country specified earlier, for which I'd picked my country of residence.

Obviously, after going back to the 1st step and changing my choice of country, the whole progress was lost, forcing me to go through all the steps once again.

CONCLUSION
Whenever this kind of sensitive information is asked, it has to be explicitly mentioned what exactly is the meaning of it. Besides, I still don't understand what is the point of asking it in the first place, if the issuing country of the passport is anyway requested at the Documents step, which is the only thing needed to board the plane.

Montini Signum 600 captured along Via Madama Cristina in Torino

Some motivation from a nuclear physicist to not always search for easy ways while studying

I've this many times in restaurants – a knife and a fork wrapped inside a paper package with an opening on one side, for easy extraction of the clean cutlery.

And I've never seen the opening to be on the side of the handles. Instead, it's always on the sharp side of the cutlery, the one that touches the food or goes into the mouth. I find this convention counterintuitive, because it goes against the rules of hygiene, which I would expect the cutlery wrapped like this to promote.

Having the sharp side of the cutlery exposed forces customers to touch them with their hands when extracting them from the package. It also increases the chance of it being touched by the personnel of the restaurant between the moment it was wrapped or sealed and the moment it was put on the table.

I think the opening should always be on the opposite side, with only the handles sticking out for easy extraction. This would reduce the risk of contamination by germs passed from hands to the mouth, improving overall hygiene in restaurants.

The photos are showing the flight-schedule screens at the Milan Bergamo Airport (BGY).

Only the bottom half of these screen is reserved for the actual schedule, while the top half shows other kinds of information about the airport services. This little area reserved for the schedule doesn't fit all the flights, so they are spread over several pages (2 in this case) that periodically replace each other.

This means that at least half of the time the passengers will see the page that doesn't show their flight, so they stop and wait for the next page to appear. While standing and waiting, they block the traffic, forcing other people to either stop or find a way around them, which creates unnecessary obstacles.

The 2nd photo was taken during a moment when the airport wasn't busy at all, which is not the case most of the time. This behavior would disrupt the flow of people even more during rush hours.

In reality the 2nd page would be irrelevant for more than half of the people passing by, because most of the passengers are only interested in the 1st page, looking for flights departing sooner rather than later.

CONCLUSION
Screens should utilise the whole area to show all the flights on a single page, potentially with larger font, to be as readable as possible. The objective is to make it very easy for people to easily identify their flight and the gate number without having to stop. This is especially important for screens facing pathway corners, like on the 2nd photo, where people are more likely to stop.

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Shown is the video of the Insights page of my r/fruxtration subreddit.

When I try to scroll the page up and down, it sometimes doesn't work because there are several areas around the main column that are not responsive to the scroll gesture. This behavior is not something I would expect, since the part of the element under the cursor should always scroll.

To demonstrate it in the video, I first click and then scroll up/down in different points across the page width, using the two-finger gesture on the trackpad. When the cursor is in those dead areas, nothing is happening when I scroll.

This looks like a bug , which surprisingly only appears in Chrome, while in Safari the page scrolling works as expected.

I'm using the latest Chrome version: 147.0.7727.56 (Official Build) (arm64)
running on: macOS Sonoma 14.8.3 (23J220)

In the video is a pager that is used by the La Piadineria chain of restaurants in Italy, and apparently manufactured by TMC S.R.L.

When your order is ready for pick up the pager starts flashing, vibrating and beeping quite loudly. The combination of all these sounds is very annoying, especially outside of rush hours, when the quiet and relaxed atmosphere gets interrupted by this sudden acoustic mess.

First of all, there is no need for the beeping sound to be so loud, since the flashing lights and the vibration already attract more than enough attention. Besides, it doesn’t need to be heard by anyone except for the customer, who stays within 50cm radius from it.

Secondly, based on my observations, its timeout is set to at least one minute, which is way too long for everyone in the restaurant to be listening to this annoying sound, until it turns off by itself. It is enough to beep for just 10-15 seconds, which any customer will notice for sure, and for the rest of the time it can simply keep flashing, as a confirmation for the employees that it’s the right customer to be served. But the sound this loud should not go on for such a long time.

Finally, the pager has a silence button on one side , which turns off the vibration and beeping sound when pressed. But that button is barely ever visible, since it’s tiny and hidden under the manufacturer’s sticker. I always press it immediately to stop the sound, but I’ve never seen other customers doing it because they probably don’t even know about it. And the restaurant workers, who should know about it and ideally silence them, don’t press the button either, because they are either busy serving orders or don’t bother about the sound.

So what happens in practice, is that every pager keeps beeping and vibrating for a whole minute, first on the customer’s table and then in a box with other pagers, sometimes even 2 or 3 at the same time.

For any person sensitive to sounds, or with sensory processing disorder, or even a tourist coming from a more quiet culture than Italian, this can be a torture, ruining the otherwise good experience.

Italian speed-train operator Italo provides free WiFi access on their trains, but you only get access to it after registering your device through the pop-up form that appears once you join the network.

This is a standard practice in most places nowadays, but it requires both Email and Phone number, after which you receive an SMS with the verification code.

The form can't be submitted with just Email or just Phone number – both are required, which doesn't seem to make any sense. There is no option to create an account with your email for easier login in the future, or anything like that.

So given that phone is the only verification option actually used, obliging people to type in their email is creating bad user experience for absolutely no reason. Or am I missing something?

If I remember well, Trenitalia – the other speed-train operator in Italy, only asks for email if anything at all, without sending any verification codes.

This was recorded on a rainy day in Turin at the crossing of Via Ormea and Via Michelangelo.

Some issue with or complete absence of the drainage system on the roof of this building makes the water drip at the sidewalk right next to a parking machine, which is the only one in the radius of one block at least. This forces people who have parked their cars to stand there under the shower of water, trying to type in their car plate number.

This is a terrible user experience, especially because the shower is quite wide and its epicenter is slightly to the side, making it impossible to completely shield yourself with an umbrella. No matter where you stand, the splashes will cover your shoes and legs.

Properly functioning drainage systems are very important, especially around places where people don't just walk but have to stand for extended periods of time.