What first world problem did you have today?

[pete6032]

Those costs are one time though. Say you put in a system and it cost 30 grand now. After that it costs little to nothing to run it. You would think the city water would be cheaper as a bigger system should in theory be more efficient than multiple small systems but it just goes up every year anyway. It should actually be going down as time goes on since it should be paid off.

Every year the pipes and equipment are 1 year older and that much more liable to break. That's why the cost goes up.

 

[pmv]

Do you have private water companies there?

That system is a complete racket. There's no competition whatsoever, because of the very nature of the industry. And water companies have spent decades taking all the money out (and they have essentially captive customers) in CEO salaries and payoffs to (mostly foreign) 'shareholders' instead of spending it fixing the leaks or building more storage or supply capacity. Now they are on the brink of going bust and guess who has to bail them out?

Privatizing the water supply was another idiotic right-wing idea in an increasingly long list of them.

Thames Water says it can't pay back £190m loan

Thames Water boss tells MPs it doesn't have enough money to pay back a loan due in April next year.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Red Squirrel]

$30K over 30 years (360 months) is $83 per month and that's ONLY the drilling and installation costs (if they were to run that high). That doesn't include any of the other costs I mentioned which could easily add another $10-15 month or more.

My water bill is under $30 for the first 1,000 gallons and about $10 for each additional 1,000 gallons.

Mine is $115ish and keeps going up each year so at this rate in 30 years I'll be paying over $300.

 

[sdifox]

Ordered 48 LED light bulbs from Costco website on SAT. It said estimated delivery date was today. It just shipped

 

[sdifox]

Mine is $115ish and keeps going up each year so at this rate in 30 years I'll be paying over $300.

You are one person and you don't want to switch to metered. That's your own fault.

 

[Red Squirrel]

You are one person and you don't want to switch to metered. That's your own fault.

I looked into it, it doesn't make sense, you still have to prepay a flat rate anyway, but then you pay more if you go over an allocated amount. You also need to pay like $500 for the meter and they only allow licensed plumbers to do it, so you can't do it yourself. So that's probably another $500+.

It goes by the number of habitable rooms in the house so only way to lower my bill would be to just combine all bedrooms as one. But even then I don't think the savings are much. The city is running a pretty solid scam, there is no way around it.

 

[JEDI]

booked a flight for jan on United.

I want an asile seat because i hate asking people to move to go to the bathroom.
but all the free aisle seats were taken.
had to pay $30 extra for a preferred aisle seat.

original round trip price $210.
15% more just because i want an aisle seat
(Lots of free middle and window seats available.)

 

[lxskllr]

A box of Depends would've been cheaper.

 

[pete6032]

I hate local news websites that require a subscription to read even one article. I understand requiring someone who reads multiple articles per day to get a subscription, but so often I want to read one article from one newspaper in one community and I go to the site only to get paywalled.

 

[IronWing]

If there were only a way one could select all the articles one wanted to read and have a copy of the text pasted somewhere on a notepad. A subscription might not be needed. Depends on the specific website, I suppose. We can dream.

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[waffleironhead]

I hate local news websites that require a subscription to read even one article. I understand requiring someone who reads multiple articles per day to get a subscription, but so often I want to read one article from one newspaper in one community and I go to the site only to get paywalled.

https://txtify.it/ does a good job of pulling the text.

 

[MrSquished]

I am over vendors emailing you that your order has shipped when they just print a goddamn label, and then don't ship it out for days. This should be illegal.

 

[pete6032]

Consulting is such a fucking slog sometimes. Sometimes your client is amazing and trusting, collaborative, transparent, and really wants to create positive change. Other times your client is a little whiny bitch who makes you wonder why they hired an outside consultant in the first place if all they're going to do is whine about and criticize what you tell them. I'm up late working on a project with the latter. Merry Christmas to them!

 

[IronWing]

Consulting is such a fucking slog sometimes. Sometimes your client is amazing and trusting, collaborative, transparent, and really wants to create positive change. Other times your client is a little whiny bitch who makes you wonder why they hired an outside consultant in the first place if all they're going to do is whine about and criticize what you tell them. I'm up late working on a project with the latter. Merry Christmas to them!

The best schadenfreude in the world is when the client ignores your advice and later ends up in court over the matter. A few years ago we had a client fire us and the client ended up meeting the judge down at injunction junction after they acted against the advice they fired us for giving them.

 

[MrSquished]

The best schadenfreude in the world is when the client ignores your advice and later ends up in court over the matter. A few years ago we had a client fire us and the client ended up meeting the judge down at injunction junction after they acted against the advice they fired us for giving them.

This is such absolutely beautiful and amazing schadenfreude

 

[pete6032]

The best schadenfreude in the world is when the client ignores your advice and later ends up in court over the matter. A few years ago we had a client fire us and the client ended up meeting the judge down at injunction junction after they acted against the advice they fired us for giving them.

Client: Help me!
Consultant: OK, here, let me help. *helps*
Client: No! Not like that!

 

[Red Squirrel]

My cat just laid down a massive dump in the litter box and now it smells horrible, even with the air scrubber running right next to the litter box. I might have to go turn the setting up to turbo mode.

 

[lxskllr]

Your cat a boy? Seems like boys have bigger stinkier turds, and they're less inclined to cover them well.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Yeah they're both boys, and now that you mention it they sometimes just forget to cover them altogether lol. One of them seems to have diarrhea issues though so working on sorting that out. When I clean the litter it's basically just chunks. That's what it was this time. He's on a pill now that I'm suppose to put him on for 2 months. Once I start to run low on the current food I want to switch them to a digestive food to see if it helps as well.

 

[ElFenix]

why do windows updates take so long to install? they're already downloaded, i have a fast processor, lots of ram, and an SSD. stuck at 44% with everything idling. 10 minutes go by and suddenly at 100%. wtf.

edit: ok this one has been going 45 minutes now, was stuck at 44% now 73% wtf

 

[Red Squirrel]

It's always been a mystery to me. Can do a fresh install of Linux in less time than it takes for Windows update to do one round of updates. You can throw fast hardware, SSD, and fast internet at it, and it's still slow. What is it even doing?! It's like if someone added a bunch of sleep() statements for debugging purposes back when they were working on Windows 95 and that person quit so to this day they never removed that code because they figure it's there for a reason.

 

[highland145]

Because you want to use the machine. It's giving you the big FU.

 

[QueBert]

I never liked how updates sometimes would go for Windows, I remember waiting longer for an XP service pack to install than the actual XP install took. That makes total sense.

Also just a % with not even an estimate of how long it'll take., And it getting stuck at 30% or some random number for half an hour then jumping to 88% out of nowhere. Microsoft has a long storied history of doing some annoying shit. Who here remembers Win 95 all the way to I think Vista? When you do a clean install it would stop 2/3rds into the install until you set the time zone. And at least on my computers, there was always another 15 minutes of the install left. Why couldn't they ask this at the beginning? Or at least at the very very end. I can't count how many times I'd walk in from doing my bi weekly reinstall of 98 due to a BSOD from my video card. Expecting it to be done but I forgot it can't possibly work until it knows my time zone. and BOOM I still gotta wait 20 damn more minutes to use it lol.

I laugh at Windows 11 estimating "about 4 minutes" "about 8 minutes" when I have updates. It's never been accurate, but I guess at least now they're telling you a number. At least BSOD's and forced reinstalls are gone, I had to reinstall Windows 95, 98 & 98 SE so many times I'd memorized my product key.

 

[highland145]

The boss doesn't use her laptop much. So she signs up/pays for continuing ed hours. Boots up 2 minutes before the live stream...oops...win update...

 

[Ajay]

https://txtify.it/ does a good job of pulling the text.

There is an extension for Firefox that does a good job with several options:

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