What first world problem did you have today?

[pmv]

i don't get how certain websites have limits on password length or restrictions on which characters you can use. let me use my 20+ character jumbled nonsense from lastpass, damnit!

Rules on what you can use in passwords are a constant source of annoyance. Most of all when they don't tell you them in advance, requiring you to discover them through trial-and-error attempts at creating passwords. And when they impose a length restriction yet allow you to enter more characters than that length, only to _then_ tell you it's too long.

I can't remember which site it was, but I once had a site change their rules on allowable login names, thus invalidating my existing one (on the grounds under their new rules it was now too short) - but not allowing me to change it. Nor could I create a new account because it told me there was already an account with that email address - the one I could no longer use.

 

[QueBert]

Make a Hackintosh last week and for some unknown reason it randomly locks up and I have to reboot. Experts on the Hackintosh forums looked at my files and config and don't see a problem so they don't have any suggestion for things to try to fix it. Some days I've had to reboot four times, FOUR TIMES.

 

[Red Squirrel]

What should have been a half hour plumbing job turned into a disaster and several hour ordeal. My humidifier is on a hot water line, did that by accident when I originally installed it. Figured it's not like the flow rate is very high so I figured whatever, just leave it like that.

Well the drain line for it seems to be clogged and only partially draining so wanted to just leave the valve for the drain open so I can let it self flush but did not want to waste hot water. So I decided to just move it to the cold line which is copper. Well none of my joints were working out, everything was just terrible and in the end it did not work out. Had to post on FB hoping someone had some shark bites I can buy off em otherwise I would have no water until I can order some parts from HD to undo my disaster. Someone posted and had parts so was able to go get them and get everything back up and running again.

At least I got my humidifier on the cold water line now. It was something that bothered me for long and I just never fixed it until now.

I guess that teaches me to not do plumbing in middle of lock down lol. That or to simply have more spare parts on hand. At very least terminators.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Rules on what you can use in passwords are a constant source of annoyance. Most of all when they don't tell you them in advance, requiring you to discover them through trial-and-error attempts at creating passwords. And when they impose a length restriction yet allow you to enter more characters than that length, only to _then_ tell you it's too long.

I can't remember which site it was, but I once had a site change their rules on allowable login names, thus invalidating my existing one (on the grounds under their new rules it was now too short) - but not allowing me to change it. Nor could I create a new account because it told me there was already an account with that email address - the one I could no longer use.

I hate that crap so much, especially because there is no consistency. Some want special characters, some won't even allow special characters, some want it to be a specific length etc. I can understand having MINIMUM requirements, but it's ridiculous having restrictions. The whole thing should be getting hashed anyway so even special characters that could potentially used for SQL injection should not even be a concern.

 

[pmv]

Bought an mp3 track for 99p then found I could buy the entire album that it's from on cd from ebay for £2.

Another small reason why I should have stuck to my 'never pay money for mp3s' principle.

I resisted doing so for a very long time, but have slowly relented over the years as so many things seem to be only available in that format - which, incidentally, makes it much harder to legally get hold of tracks that are only released in foreign countries...lots of stuiff can only be bought from US iTunes or US Amazon, and require US bank accounts to be allowed to buy them...and even when we were still in the EU for some reason I never understood, the so-called 'single market' didn't seem to be applied to digital music sales, as some such things were only purchasable in particular member states. Pre-digital-distribution you could find imported physical media like cds for items that were only released in certain countries, now it's just impossible to get them legally.

 

[Stiff Clamp]

Parked car in my garage rolled backward out the open garage door and smote my car parked outside, 10 feet away. Oy vey. Could have ended up in the street if my other car hadn't blocked the driveway. Downhill all the way.

Bumper scrapes, cracked paint, and broken tail lamp.

* F i R s T P o sT*

 

[highland145]

Smote. Hell, yeah.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Well this blows. My computer locked up forcing me to do a reset and I lost everything I was working on. Now I have to reopen everything. I was hoping to at least finish the night before rebooting. I was running very low on ram and was due for a reboot but I just had too much stuff open to deal with that. I have more ram on the way, it was suppose to arrive Monday, then today, but it keeps being pushed. I only have 8GB in this machine as it was originally a mining rig so it does not take long for it to be eaten up as Firefox has a memory leak issue since like forever. I had too many things open to restart it.

That is one thing Linux really needs to work on though, is managing low memory situations. The way it handles it is basically the same as Windows 98. it just gets really slow and sluggish, and then eventually locks up. If you are lucky you can get to a console and do a killall on Firefox (that's usually what's killing all the memory) but it's hard to get to one when it starts to get slow.

 

[snoopy7548]

Well this blows. My computer locked up forcing me to do a reset and I lost everything I was working on. Now I have to reopen everything. I was hoping to at least finish the night before rebooting. I was running very low on ram and was due for a reboot but I just had too much stuff open to deal with that. I have more ram on the way, it was suppose to arrive Monday, then today, but it keeps being pushed. I only have 8GB in this machine as it was originally a mining rig so it does not take long for it to be eaten up as Firefox has a memory leak issue since like forever. I had too many things open to restart it.

That is one thing Linux really needs to work on though, is managing low memory situations. The way it handles it is basically the same as Windows 98. it just gets really slow and sluggish, and then eventually locks up. If you are lucky you can get to a console and do a killall on Firefox (that's usually what's killing all the memory) but it's hard to get to one when it starts to get slow.

Linux is stupid. Just get Windows.

 

[pmv]

Smote. Hell, yeah.

Verily!

 

[pmv]

Linux is stupid. Just get Windows.

Ooh, fighting talk!

 

[BarkingGhostar]

Linux is stupid. Just get Windows.

This is what Apple people say about Windows.

 

[snoopy7548]

Attending a virtual career fair. It's really stupid. My first career fair ever and it's simply a waste of time. These people want jobs in sectors we simply don't do work in, but are more than happy to give us their resume.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Linux is stupid. Just get Windows.

There is no currently viable version of windows on the market right now that is still supported unfortunately. I do have windows 7 for my gaming machine but there is no real upgrade path from there. I'm not putting windows 8 garbage, or 10 spyware on any of my machines.

Linux has come a long way, but they still need more work. Memory management, and GUIs are the two biggest weaknesses of Linux. GUIs in Linux are a mess right now for devs and just in general. That's why most programs have a half assed feel to them. There's too many different libraries and crap and it's super fragmented. What Linux needs is something similar to MFC like In Windows.

 

[snoopy7548]

There is no currently viable version of windows on the market right now that is still supported unfortunately. I do have windows 7 for my gaming machine but there is no real upgrade path from there. I'm not putting windows 8 garbage, or 10 spyware on any of my machines.

Linux has come a long way, but they still need more work. Memory management, and GUIs are the two biggest weaknesses of Linux. GUIs in Linux are a mess right now for devs and just in general. That's why most programs have a half assed feel to them. There's too many different libraries and crap and it's super fragmented. What Linux needs is something similar to MFC like In Windows.

Nothing wrong wtih 10. Most stable version I've used so far, and you can disable all that telemetry stuff.

 

[Red Squirrel]

And it just re-enables itself each time. It's an OS that you always have to fight against. I don't want that. Not to mention the forced updates where it will reboot at will. That alone is enough for me not to want it. I also can't stand it's GUI, everything is so big and blocky and yet so minimalistic that stuff is missing. You have to hunt for everything. It almost defeats having 4k when everything takes up so much space without actual usability to back it up. For example take the display properties dialog (where you set multi monitor, resolution etc) for example, there's barely no options yet it takes up more than the height of a HD monitor. Meanwhile back in windows 98 the dialog was WAY smaller yet had more options. They've gone backwards in lot of respects. Some things can be fixed with Classic Shell, like the terrible start menu, but lot of stuff you're just stuck with. I would never use that as my main OS. It might be stable but it's still a crappy user experience. I also hate how there's no consistency throughout the GUI. Some stuff is going to be more normal while some stuff is that white blocky rubbish. Oddly enough a problem Linux suffers from is inconsistency between program GUIs, and they brought it to Windows lol.

 

[VirtualLarry]

WTF? T-Mobile was down all morning, couldn't make calls, Newegg was having site issues (Site not found), now Walmart won't let me access the login screen, I have to clear cookies just to see their homepage?

Having a not-so-happy-online day.

Or is this way of Biden ushering in China's Social Credit Score system here in the USA, as many have claimed that he will do.

 

[sdifox]

WTF? T-Mobile was down all morning, couldn't make calls, Newegg was having site issues (Site not found), now Walmart won't let me access the login screen, I have to clear cookies just to see their homepage?

Having a not-so-happy-online day.

Or is this way of Biden ushering in China's Social Credit Score system here in the USA, as many have claimed that he will do.

You have been 5Ged.

 

[Red Squirrel]

My package got delayed again. Well sort of, they are using time traveling so it should get delivered by some time yesterday.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Hmm, Mom said that she got a call from Missasauga, ON this afternoon. Coincedence?

 

[Red Squirrel]

Does she have my ram?

 

[BoomerD]

Does she have my ram?

You want to ram his mom?

 

[Red Squirrel]

Freaking annoying, one of the sites I use to look at real estate listings has a retarded amount of javascript bullshit and it just randomly decided to stop working in Firefox now. It just refuses to load. Had to use Chromium, but Chromium is annoying to use because it constantly prompts for some password that I have no idea what it's for. It seems to do that on every distro I've used. Why can't web devs just use normal basic html/css code that works in every browser instead of putting so much bullshit in their code. Pisses me off. There's no reason for a real estate site to be that complicated. I just need to see text and pictures, that's it.

 

[Spacehead]

I'm on loan to another department. They have an internet connection back there but what do they listen to all day??? The local radio station!!! The local radio re-pet-a-tive station!!! Same songs every day

 

[sdifox]

I'm on loan to another department. They have an internet connection back there but what do they listen to all day??? The local radio station!!! The local radio re-pet-a-tive station!!! Same songs every day

I got you babe?