What first world problem did you have today?

[highland145]

I have too much crap on a daily basis and the DeWalt was just sitting in my shop.

 

[BoomerD]

@CZroe Ma's samsung has been a POS. Better since I added the whole house and socket surge protector.

LG at my house...whatever that's worth.

your wife says there ain't nothing LG in your house...except her ass.

 

[IronWing]

I had a performance review at work today. I did fine and wasn't worried about it. But during the review there was this headache forming in the back of my brain, a wrongness about it. This evening I figured out what it was. The way the performance measures are assessed, if I work more efficiently, I get penalized. Killing two birds with one stone nets me one bird instead of two as far as management is concerned and I am therefore down one bird. I developed and conducted training for a couple different sections within the company. Since the material was the same for both divisions, I prepared a single class to cover both divisions. That counted as one class so, in my manager's mind, I only accomplished half the number of classes I was supposed to even though everyone who was supposed to be trained was trained. If I had prepared two different lesson plans to cover the same material, that would have been better for my review. This is not improving my morale.

 

[highland145]

That sucks. Any room for discussion?

Probably drive my wife crazy with time efficiency. "No sense in us doing X and coming back to do Y when I could just fix Z now and save a trip later."

 

[lxskllr]

What's a performance review? I assume money is tied to it. Demand what you think you're worth. If money isn't tied to it, who cares? Just another checkbox to make paper handlers feel like they're doing something.

I got my meh instant regret kit today. All lame shit. I got a twin size synthetic comforter, a bag of Ricola coughdrops, and a pair of fugly earrings. It would be embarrassing even giving the earrings away. The maker should have been embarrassed creating them.

 

[highland145]

Pics of earrings. Xmas, you know.

 

[lxskllr]

With a bill for scale to show how big they are...



The dangles are purple tassles covered in plastic for shipping.

 

[highland145]

Is the clip for sale?

 

[lxskllr]

That's my special clip. One of them anyway. I'll lose it for awhile, then find another one, lose that, the original shows back up, and on, and on... I use them for cat food and chip bags and stuff. I don't know why I have such a hard time keeping track of them, but they're gold when you need a clip, It would be a better gift than those earrings for sure. Who the hell would even wear them?! A cheap ass "diamond", and long tassels. Even a little girl would look ridiculous with those huge things on, and they're way too cheap for an adult.

 

[IronWing]

Still waiting...

 

[Red Squirrel]

My GPU keeps getting delayed. Package was in North Bay several days ago and has not moved since. It's only 4 hours from here!

I need it so I can get my 2nd monitor actually working in 4k since my current GPU only has 1 HDMI port and my DP to HDMI adapters don't work for some reason.

 

[highland145]

That's my special clip. One of them anyway. I'll lose it for awhile, then find another one, lose that, the original shows back up, and on, and on... I use them for cat food and chip bags and stuff. I don't know why I have such a hard time keeping track of them, but they're gold when you need a clip, It would be a better gift than those earrings for sure. Who the hell would even wear them?! A cheap ass "diamond", and long tassels. Even a little girl would look ridiculous with those huge things on, and they're way too cheap for an adult.

lol...you just stated why you lose them....cats.

Still waiting...

You're already know this but being indespinsable means eff them.



Even if it means moving to the South.

😀

 

[IronWing]

lol...you just stated why you lose them....cats.

You're already know this but being indespinsable means eff them.



Even if it means moving to the South.

😀

No, I’m waiting for lxskllr to model the earrings.

 

[lxskllr]

I don't have holes in my ears. I tried an earring once, and got a little knot in my ear within a week. Wasn't worth fooling with, so that ended my earring experiment. For the right amount of money I'd pierce my ears to model the earrings.

 

[BoomerD]

I don't have holes in my ears. I tried an earring once, and got a little knot in my ear within a week. Wasn't worth fooling with, so that ended my earring experiment. For the right amount of money I'd pierce my ears to model the earrings.

I'll chip in $.05

 

[Perknose]

I'll chip in $.05

I'll DOUBLE that.

 

[highland145]

I'll chip in $.05

Hate to take your bingo winnings.

And wth are you doing up at 5am? That prostate must be a bitch.

 

[BoomerD]

Hate to take your bingo winnings.

And wth are you doing up at 5am? That prostate must be a bitch.

No prostrate issues here, mac...but, hey...you wanna come...massage it for me?

Have to be somewhere early (for me) today, so when one of the little rat dogs woke me up at 0415, I just stayed up.(I'll kill him later for waking me up)

 

[snoopy7548]

Hate to take your bingo winnings.

And wth are you doing up at 5am? That prostate must be a bitch.

Made me LOL!

 

[lxskllr]

No more xubuntu updates for my work machine. i386 was dropped. I'll have to do a fresh install of amd64. Now I have to decide if I'm sticking with xubuntu, or switching to debian. I also want to get a bigger ssd. That way I can keep my old install as a backup til I get settled, and it might go to the boss. His computer's hosed. I did a fresh install of lubuntu, and it still isn't working right. Lots of ata errors on startup, and sloooow performance. I tried a different drive, and got the same errors, so I'm guessing it's the controller on the mb. I'll see what I have at the house, and try building him a new machine over the weekend.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Funny I'm kind of in a delima myself. My current machine for whatever reason hates external GPUs. I totally forgot about that fact... so needless to say the new GPU I bought just came in today and it won't work. It just does this stupid thing where it's a blank black screen, and reboots, and does weird crap. Sometimes see some bios messages and even got as far as being able to see the derypt box but that's as far as I got. Now I need to decide if I just return everything and forget all of this and go back to single monitor, or do I dismantle my mining rig and move components to new machine and just start using that as my main machine. That would require a clean install though, but I am also due for an OS upgrade anyway.... so yeah need to decide if I want to open that can of worms or write all this off while I'm ahead. I don't normally like dealing with clean installs since there's just so much stuff to setup and configure and weird problems that I need to try to remember what I did last time etc. But it would be an opportunity to go on a newer distro. I'm on Mint 18 now and they're at 19. Either go with newest Mint or go to Ubuntu or straight Debian. I want to go back to KDE as well, Cinnamon has some odd quircks like dialog box sizes in some programs require to always be manually resized to see all the buttons. There's some programs like Kicad I want to start using but the versions on my distro are ancient so a newer distro will hopefully have newer versions of all that.

So yeah need to figure out what I want to do. Bummed out the new GPU won't work as is though, I really don't feel like going through a clean install right now. I have too many projects on the go that I want to wrap up first.

 

[ponyo]

Because Neiman Marcus sent my wife an used Salvatore Ferragamo handbag, I had to buy her more expensive Hermes bag direct from Hermes. But because of COVID-19, all Hermes stores and warehouses are closed so the bag won't ship until the stores and warehouses reopen. So who knows when that will be. And because of the virus, we can't fly to Paris to shop and buy the Hermes bag there. Hermes is cheaper in Europe than in the US. If I spend about $10,000 at Hermes store in Paris, I would save enough that airfare for us along with hotel stay could be free. It's like buying new BMW or Porsche and taking European delivery. You save enough on the Euro delivery that you can drive your new BMW or Porsche during the vacation in Europe and the savings would more than pay for your European vacation.

Bring on the handbag haters. Wife also wants the Hermes Evelyne 29 bag but she hasn't made up her mind on the color for me to order. But I would rather wait until our shopping trip to Paris than pay inflated US prices. Euro is cheap vs US dollar so we're getting ripped off buying in the US.

 

[lxskllr]

No more xubuntu updates for my work machine. i386 was dropped. I'll have to do a fresh install of amd64. Now I have to decide if I'm sticking with xubuntu, or switching to debian. I also want to get a bigger ssd. That way I can keep my old install as a backup til I get settled, and it might go to the boss. His computer's hosed. I did a fresh install of lubuntu, and it still isn't working right. Lots of ata errors on startup, and sloooow performance. I tried a different drive, and got the same errors, so I'm guessing it's the controller on the mb. I'll see what I have at the house, and try building him a new machine over the weekend.

Apparently I already scavenged all the ram out my old box, so no ram as of yet. I had a choice of three cpu coolers. My old good one that's heavy as shit, and kind of a PITA to put on. A big, but fairly light aluminum and copper cooler, and a stock intel cooler. I was missing a nut from the big cooler, so I went with stock intel. I just used the little preapplied thermal strips. I didn't feel like digging up some thermal compound. We'll see how it goes. Should be fine for an office machine. Can't remember which PSUs are good. Guess I'll throw my smallest in, and see what happens assuming I can dig some working ram up at work.

I don't enjoy this stuff like I used to. That's why my last machine was a refurbed dell. Plug it in, and use it. No hassle.

 

[Ajay]

Apparently I already scavenged all the ram out my old box, so no ram as of yet. I had a choice of three cpu coolers. My old good one that's heavy as shit, and kind of a PITA to put on. A big, but fairly light aluminum and copper cooler, and a stock intel cooler. I was missing a nut from the big cooler, so I went with stock intel. I just used the little preapplied thermal strips. I didn't feel like digging up some thermal compound. We'll see how it goes. Should be fine for an office machine. Can't remember which PSUs are good. Guess I'll throw my smallest in, and see what happens assuming I can dig some working ram up at work.

I don't enjoy this stuff like I used to. That's why my last machine was a refurbed dell. Plug it in, and use it. No hassle.

Man, you lost a nut! That must of hurt

 

[lxskllr]

Man, you lost a nut! That must of hurt

It's just a flesh wound.