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I just tried to get a copy of a government letter (I'm after applying for a Blue Badge for Herself, and need a letter they sent some ten years ago for proof of entitlement) and it's a free phone number 0800 ...
But it's a Friday arvo, so after a 5 level "press 0 for this, 1 for that" automated rejection redirection system I get the engaged tone and they cut me off.
"Sod it!" I think. "I'll try Monday morning."
So I put a reminder in google calendar: "Phone DWP re [Herself] PIP decision letter 0800 121 4433 @09:00" for Monday. And it goes in for 08:00 and throws away the rest of the message because it ignores the "@" part and assumes the phone number is a time ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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So, no Blue Badge but at least you got the Blues 
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But see, if that had been what you were trying to do, it would've saved you time by, ummm...
...not doing anything with the rest of what you typed in?
I don't know, let them justify it.
Every time software is trying to be too smart for its own good leads to undesired results. And companies like Google insist on trying too hard.
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Just noting a Postit note won't throw away that last bit unless you write really large.
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This is true, but it also won't send me an email half an hour before it's due ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Rearranged each, made silent. (8)
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Permuted or permuter ?
Edit
I'll go with permuted
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Permuted is the answer I'm looking for. You are up on Monday!
Definition: Rearranged
Each: PER
Made silent: MUTED
PERMUTED
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Rearranged each made threw me for while because of the anagram inference - nice little clue 
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Thank you. That, of course, was the intention. I got the idea from one of Griff's clues a while back that caught me the same way. 
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I fell for it and never strayed from the incorrect path. Nice bait.
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Message Closed
modified 15-May-23 19:06pm.
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Member 14968771 wrote: Any suggestions for "alternative action" ?
Give up; you have been on this for more years than I can remember, and seem to have got nowhere. Meanwhile the rest of the world is happily implementing their Bluetooth systems.
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Dear Microsoft ... I don't like your operating system. Please fix it. Thank you.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Member 14968771 wrote: Any suggestions for "alternative action" ?
Go outside, face into the wind, and start to pee. It will accomplish roughly the same thing.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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This is the fundamental problem with FOSS. You get what you pay for. While open source is great to ensure trustworthiness of a product, using something you don't pay for means costs will always be cut. And it's usually on the support side of things.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: And it's usually on the support side of things.
Friend of mine, decades ago:
"But that's the beauty of open source: if it doesn't do what you want it to do, you can fix it yourself!!!"
Me: I already have my plate full, maintaining my own software; why should I take it upon myself to fix other people's broken software on top of that?"
Him: You just don't get it...You could, if you wanted to.
Me: That's not much of an argument, I wouldn't, whether it's closed source or open source. Fix your sh*t.
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dandy72 wrote: I already have my plate full, maintaining my own software; why should I take it upon myself to fix other people's broken software on top of that?
Err...except of course you don't need to write it from scratch in the first place. You know the same condition that follows from the "plate full".
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That's not the point I'm making. The discussion was centered around support. Now, to the point you're making not related to my point... Some people want to tinker. Some people value their time. I didn't say being able to tinker is bad. I said FOSS generally has no real support.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: I didn't say being able to tinker is bad. I said FOSS generally has no real support.
Agreed, on both accounts.
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: While open source is great to ensure trustworthiness of a product
Is it? Sure, it sounds great in theory, and sure, anyone can examine the code for bugs and security issues, but how many actually do? And of those few people how many have the knowledge and skills to recognize an obscure security issue if they saw one? Do they also go through the code of all the FOSS npm packages the product incorporates? I'm skeptical.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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It's pretty obvious I mean in comparison to closed source. 
Jeremy Falcon
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If you read the section headed About this item, then I would say, very little.
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