What first world problem did you have today?

[Imp]

Was going to buy a USB cable online and almost did until I started reading the overwhelmingly positive 4 and 5 star reviews...

Dafuq? So many 4 and 5 star reviews say their piece of shit cable broke within a few months, but the company replaced it, so all was well. Some even said that the replacement broke and still 4 or 5 stars. No, if it's a defective piece of shit, it should be 1 star, even if they replace it every time until you die.

 

[Charmonium]

New problem... Local channel bought the rights to American Crime Story. It doesn't premiere until tomorrow on FX, I think, but now I have to watch it a day earlier and think about rewatching it tomorrow.

That's happened to me recently with UK series. I had started watching both War and Peace and Beowulf only to find out that they were going to air a couple weeks later on different US channels.

 

[JEDI]

oh wow.. I've been eating so much ribeye cap @ $17/lb that I no longer have a 6pack.

see here to how much extra calories I'm putting in my body due to my spending $17/lb:
http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=38003593&postcount=7715

yeah, it could be the $250/bottle alcohol

 

[Charmonium]

Latest update on my 3rd world problem in the 1st world. It seems I have 2 kinds of fruit flies. One that loves vinegar and will die for it. The other that will die for alcohol.

I found this out completely by accident. I was drinking my coffee with Bailey's (or at least the Kirkland version of Bailey's, Kirkley's? Bailand?). I was almost finished when I see a fruit fly has died in my glass. If the glass hadn't been almost empty, I probably would have tried to fish it out using the capillary effect (???) of a piece of tissue paper. As the tissue sucks in the fluid, the bug goes along with it.

But since there was less than an inch left, I said screw it. But it gave me the idea to see if it was any good as bait. So I set the cup down next to the glass of vinegar and within less than an hour, it seemed like all of the remaining fruit flies were either drowned in the coffee or perched on the rim waiting their turn to drown. For insects, I have to say that they are very polite.

At first I didn't realize that it was the alcohol until I remembered that rotten fruit produce alcohol so that must be the attractant.

 

[CZroe]

Latest update on my 3rd world problem in the 1st world. It seems I have 2 kinds of fruit flies. One that loves vinegar and will die for it. The other that will die for alcohol.

I found this out completely by accident. I was drinking my coffee with Bailey's (or at least the Kirkland version of Bailey's, Kirkley's? Bailand?). I was almost finished when I see a fruit fly has died in my glass. If the glass hadn't been almost empty, I probably would have tried to fish it out using the capillary effect (???) of a piece of tissue paper. As the tissue sucks in the fluid, the bug goes along with it.

But since there was less than an inch left, I said screw it. But it gave me the idea to see if it was any good as bait. So I set the cup down next to the glass of vinegar and within less than an hour, it seemed like all of the remaining fruit flies were either drowned in the coffee or perched on the rim waiting their turn to drown. For insects, I have to say that they are very polite.

At first I didn't realize that it was the alcohol until I remembered that rotten fruit produce alcohol so that must be the attractant.

Yeast produces alcohol too so I bet that's why yeast is so effective.

 

[Imp]

But since there was less than an inch left, I said screw it. But it gave me the idea to see if it was any good as bait. So I set the cup down next to the glass of vinegar and within less than an hour, it seemed like all of the remaining fruit flies were either drowned in the coffee or perched on the rim waiting their turn to drown. For insects, I have to say that they are very polite.

My lamps seem to do most of the work for me.

 

[MrSquished]

i ordered a Schiit DAC called the Bifrost. instead of opting for the base $399 model i went for the upgraded $599 model called the Bifrost Multibit. i looked around the unit after i set it up to see if it said 'Multibit' anywhere. Didn't see anything and was thinking i got screwed by accident so posted in the forums. Someone politely posted where the sticker was. Indeed, there it was right on my DAC. Oye.

 

[MongGrel]

I spent 4 or 5 days casually messing with the last Windows 10 install and got the latest insider one (14275) today and the 47" still wouldn't work as an extended screen.

Then as a last resort I unplugged the power all together to the 47" and the AVR for about 30 seconds, and they rebooted and worked just fine in extended mode. The TV worked fine with the cable box before then on the AVR in pass thru, I guess Win10 updated the software maybe, as it has some NVidia hardware built in

Live and learn I guess. Odd it would work with one and not the other.

 

[Puppies04]

Just won £1000 on a lottery scratch card I bought on an impulse (maybe buy 1-2 a month sometimes less).

Now I have to call up the lottery to get a "claim form" and fill out some BS paperwork.

Just give me my money!

Edit.

Pic attached.

 

[Ichinisan]

Just won £1000 on a lottery scratch card I bought on an impulse (maybe buy 1-2 a month sometimes less).

Now I have to call up the lottery to get a "claim form" and fill out some BS paperwork.

Just give me my money!

Edit.

Pic attached.

Quit while you're ahead...?

Have you spent more than £1,000 on lotto?

 

[Puppies04]

No chance, sometimes go months without buying one. Had a couple of £100 and £50 wins in the past so if anything I'm up.

Won't be buying any for a while, gotta store some luck back up

Only bought it because the woman in front bought one and it is the same game I won £100 about a year ago and it was in slot number 4 in the stand which is my lucky number.

 

[Imp]

Made some more no-knead bread. It came out great and very crispy.

Unfortunately, large toasted breads destroy the roof of my mouth. Unsure of how to make my bread softer other than microwaving... which I will do anyway to make margarine melt into it.

 

[IronWing]

My cat is sundowning again. He's nearly blind but can see a bit in bright daylight. Now, everyday as the sun sets, he freaks out and dives under the furniture. He calms down about an hour after sunset.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Got an email at work that I'm getting a new PC. Problem is, we just finished dealing with upgrading to windows 7 only a few months ago. Now I'm going to have to go through all of that again. Because we have a rather specialized setup and most of us have worked in IT before, we're usually on our own when it comes to this stuff and it's just tedius getting all the apps to work due to how specialized they are. Downside is the new PC is not even much better than our current one. Still only has 4GB of ram, which is borderline enough for win7. Also it will be a struggle getting 4 monitors to work on the new machine. I was not here when the existing ones were commissioned but apparently it was a huge pain getting enough video outputs on those due to them being small form factor. Now is going to be even harder because all newer video cards require 2 full size slots. Even if we were to jury rig a new card in the new machine I doubt the PSU would handle it.

So I really don't know what's going to happen but I have a feeling it's going to be a mess. If they gave us 2 4k monitors it would solve the need for needing 4 monitors but I don't see that happening.

The biggest bummer to all this is that we don't even get more ram out of it. I mean, what's the point? It amazes me that OEMs still ship computers with such a small amount of ram. 8GB should be the bare minimum.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Happened last week. I spent some time at a hospital (long story). The cafeteria had $1 small salad special all week. I saw a guy load up a small salad bowl with tuna then topped it with a couple of tomatoes and leafs of lettuce. He sat down across from me. I watched him open at least 10 packages if mayo (the small cafeteria kind) mixed it with the dry tuna then fish out 8 slices of bread and he made 4 sandwiches moments later his wife and two kids sit down and everyone had a sandwich. These were not people who were short on cash. I'm still irritated & baffled at that amazingly cheap mofo.

 

[JamesV]

Happened last week. I spent some time at a hospital (long story). The cafeteria had $1 small salad special all week. I saw a guy load up a small salad bowl with tuna then topped it with a couple of tomatoes and leafs of lettuce. He sat down across from me. I watched him open at least 10 packages if mayo (the small cafeteria kind) mixed it with the dry tuna then fish out 8 slices of bread and he made 4 sandwiches moments later his wife and two kids sit down and everyone had a sandwich. These were not people who were short on cash. I'm still irritated & baffled at that amazingly cheap mofo.

I'd say you are jealous and not irritated, unless you are mad you didn't think to do that yourself.

My first world problem was caring about pretentious people's gripes today.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

I'd say you are jealous and not irritated, unless you are mad you didn't think to do that yourself.

My first world problem was caring about pretentious people's gripes today.

No I wanted some of that tuna for my salad.

 

[Imp]

I just read some "literature" from the education business that I attended twice because someone I knew was featured... It was one of those "alumni magazines" (i.e. please send us money because the $50k on tuition wasn't enough).

The fuq is this garbage? It's like they took a two paragraph summary and ran it through a dictator's propaganda machine. Instead of "the glorious leader," they filled it with "used his engineering skills" and "analysed the problem like an engineer."

 

[lxskllr]

Got an email at work that I'm getting a new PC. Problem is, we just finished dealing with upgrading to windows 7 only a few months ago. Now I'm going to have to go through all of that again. Because we have a rather specialized setup and most of us have worked in IT before, we're usually on our own when it comes to this stuff and it's just tedius getting all the apps to work due to how specialized they are. Downside is the new PC is not even much better than our current one. Still only has 4GB of ram, which is borderline enough for win7. Also it will be a struggle getting 4 monitors to work on the new machine. I was not here when the existing ones were commissioned but apparently it was a huge pain getting enough video outputs on those due to them being small form factor. Now is going to be even harder because all newer video cards require 2 full size slots. Even if we were to jury rig a new card in the new machine I doubt the PSU would handle it.

So I really don't know what's going to happen but I have a feeling it's going to be a mess. If they gave us 2 4k monitors it would solve the need for needing 4 monitors but I don't see that happening.

The biggest bummer to all this is that we don't even get more ram out of it. I mean, what's the point? It amazes me that OEMs still ship computers with such a small amount of ram. 8GB should be the bare minimum.

Can't you stick it under the desk, and keep using the old one? If it isn't really an upgrade, why bother?

 

[Red Squirrel]

Can't you stick it under the desk, and keep using the old one? If it isn't really an upgrade, why bother?

Not my choice, they will take the old one back. I'll talk to my colleagues though to see what is their thoughts on this thing, the biggest issue I see is potentially losing ability to have 4 monitors. That is a complete show stopper here and can't happen.

We used to be able to just order stuff on our corporate cards so at one point we were even going to get more ram for our current machines, but that rule changed and it just never happened. I'm glad we did manage to buy SSDs though, oh man that's the other thing I hope they don't insist on making us use whatever spindle drive the new machines come with. OEM drives that come with machines are always the slowest models you can get too.

I think in the end it will work out. There was lot of ridiculous policies durring the win7 rollout, such as not being able to execute pretty much any exe file, which broke every single one of our programs, and they fixed that.

It's going to be a pain going through all that again though but we'll get through it eh. I hope they fixed the forced reboots though, THAT freaking pisses me off the most since we did the switch to 7. They do updates willy nilly and push them and force the reboot. You can be in the middle of your shift and the PC just reboots on you. Some of our programs lock us out of the account if you don't log out of the program properly.

 

[JEDI]

had a coupon for $1.50 off 3 tv dinners.
supermarket had a sale for that brand 4 for $10.

bought 3 but didn't get the sale price.
you had to buy 4 to get the $2.50/each sale price. arrgg...

not worth my time to goto the freezer section to get a 4th one, then goto customer service and wait in line for price adjustment.

it would have been cheaper to buy 4 than use coupon and only buy 3.

Grand nagis would be disappoint.
/wrists

 

[JEDI]

on another note:
this month my fico score dropped from a perfect 850 to 847.

 

[FeuerFrei]

A new t-shirt I ordered online arrived with the graphics askew.
Just shows how you can give people the tools to succeed at business, but you can't make them care about the quality of the product. They shoot themselves in the foot one customer at a time.
(e.g. China)

 

[AznAnarchy99]

I thought yesterday was Friday. Today is Friday. I'm ready to leave and its 10:35am.

 

[KMFJD]

Not my choice, they will take the old one back. I'll talk to my colleagues though to see what is their thoughts on this thing, the biggest issue I see is potentially losing ability to have 4 monitors. That is a complete show stopper here and can't happen.

We used to be able to just order stuff on our corporate cards so at one point we were even going to get more ram for our current machines, but that rule changed and it just never happened. I'm glad we did manage to buy SSDs though, oh man that's the other thing I hope they don't insist on making us use whatever spindle drive the new machines come with. OEM drives that come with machines are always the slowest models you can get too.

I think in the end it will work out. There was lot of ridiculous policies durring the win7 rollout, such as not being able to execute pretty much any exe file, which broke every single one of our programs, and they fixed that.

It's going to be a pain going through all that again though but we'll get through it eh. I hope they fixed the forced reboots though, THAT freaking pisses me off the most since we did the switch to 7. They do updates willy nilly and push them and force the reboot. You can be in the middle of your shift and the PC just reboots on you. Some of our programs lock us out of the account if you don't log out of the program properly.

Definitely first world problems....