What first world problem did you have today?

[shortylickens]

I sometimes regret not getting into trades like plumbing or electrical, tons of job security in that.

Hard to get into after the fact though, because you need special credentials and stuff and it's hard to get when you already have a job and have to work. Electrical for example requires that you put in a crazy amount of hours as an apprentice. Basically comes up to working full time for like 5 years. I sometimes think of getting into drywalling or painting though... don't need any special license for that. I should probably do more of those projects at home and make sure I can do a decent job before I decide to do it professionally though.

Looking back I wish I'd skipped the Navy and gone to some sort of trade school or begged until I got a job with some earning potential. I could have been an electrician or something else instead of perpetually unemployed.

 

[jpiniero]

So I did my taxes on the old laptop a couple weeks ago after "upgrading" it to Windows 10. Haven't actually submitted it yet. Last night I noticed that the laptop looked a bit strange and decided it to turn on. It turned on, but then would shut off after a minute or so. Turns out that the power brick is dying now and later turned completely dead. I then looked at possibly fixing the dual boot on my new laptop but it appears that the SATA cable is busted too.

I decided to waste 12 bucks on a new? power brick from a random Amazon vendor for a 10+ year old laptop. Good luck I know.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Just remember Chinese watts are 10x what real watts are. If it says 30 watts, it's probably 3.

 

[Leymenaide]

Looking back I wish I'd skipped the Navy and gone to some sort of trade school or begged until I got a job with some earning potential. I could have been an electrician or something else instead of perpetually unemployed.

I had a three month substitute gig teaching 15 year old future electricians at a trade school in Delaware. I had the circuits background so I was fine with them. They were building basic household circuits on 4x8 plywood sheets I would approve and then they connect hot 220. I loved the job. The killer was the seniors going out 20 hours a week into the real world making more than full time fully qualified teachers. In this program after getting their full qualifications about 4 years on the job they were granted 2 years university credit and were on their way to an electrical engineering degree.

This is how education in this country should work!

 

[MrSquished]

Gonna have to I suppose.

Do what Ponyo said. I have had really good experience at the Rutgers school of dentistry in NJ having had two different students work with me for cleanings, repairing some fillings, and one implant in the back. I saved a ton of money when you consider the implant.

 

[pete6032]

A board game app I play on my phone got updated automatically through Google Play. Everything has changed - menu screens, interface, graphics, etc. It's basically a new app, and it runs at about 50% of the speed due to all the animations they put into it, which are totally unnecessary. It's also extremely hard to read the text in the app now because its so small.

 

[IronWing]

Running updates on my Lenovo X220 always causes problems. Sure enough, been through 10+ lockups so far. It eventually works but it is a pain getting there. Lenovo's own crapware is the problem. I had it all uninstalled then one of the Win 10 updates gave Lenovo an in to reload the crap.

 

[Svnla]

I was planning to ship a package about 50 lbs to Asia and I was planning to have it as a third check in bag for my flight and it would cost me about $200 (the first two bags would be free).

I thought I would try to see if it would be cheaper to ship that box via UPS or FedEx and holly smoke, both of them would charge over 5x the cost, about $1,100 for the box. About the same cost of economy flight trip from US to Asia and back.

I also checked USPS and it would be better, about 1/2 the cost for about $500.

Guess I will pay $200 then.

 

[nutxo]

took a spill yesterday and kinda hurt my wrist. It hurt like hell all night and this morning it was all swollen. Ice and heat made the swelling go down. Im debating a trip to the ER.

 

[highland145]

took a spill yesterday and kinda hurt my wrist. It hurt like hell all night and this morning it was all swollen. Ice and heat made the swelling go down. Im debating a trip to the ER.

No heat. RICE.

 

[Captante]

so I ordered a table on amazon, came home and found the table leaning against my door. The shippers must have dropped the table or something, I saw on tracking it said package shows damage... Bastards just wrapped one end and dropped it off anyway. I returned it of course.

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The SINGLE positive here is that I've found receiving and then returning items tends to go more smoothly and promptly then refusing delivery.

Every time I've cancelled prior to actually receiving a package that has shipped (from Amazon) its taken far more time plus contacting CS to actually get my refund.

Conversely if a return is picked up (or dropped at Kohls for example) I usually get fully credited within minutes once they get a notification it shipped.

 

[Captante]

was she cute?
does she like you?

More importantly .... PICS ?!?

 

[snoopy7548]

No heat. RICE.

White or brown?

 

[highland145]

White or brown?

Flied.

 

[sdifox]

Flied.

Fried Rice you plick.

 

[highland145]

Fried Rice you plick.

Plick? Can you translate that?

 

[sdifox]

Plick? Can you translate that?

My brain is full of useless info like this.

 

[IronWing]

My hotel room has no frig or microwave, bastards.

 

[pete6032]

My hotel room has no frig or microwave, bastards.

Does it have the covid-19?

 

[JEDI]

i found the softest luxury bath towel at Walmart B&M, made by Better Home and Gardens.
but they dont have wash cloths in the same pattern. Only hand towels. (their website doesnt even list wash cloths.)

wtf 3rd world country is a manufacturer that doesnt make matching wash cloths?

i hate mis-matched sets.

 

[snoopy7548]

i found the softest luxury bath towel at Walmart B&M, made by Better Home and Gardens.
but they dont have wash cloths in the same pattern. Only hand towels. (their website doesnt even list wash cloths.)

wtf 3rd world country is a manufacturer that doesnt make matching wash cloths?

i hate mis-matched sets.

Who says bath towels can't be wash cloths?

 

[highland145]

Who says bath towels can't be wash cloths?

Wal mart shopper found.


ALERT: Jenny Craig is missing

 

[Red Squirrel]

One of our unmanaged switches at work died and in that event, it caused the uplink port on the managed switch we don't control to shut down. Spent all day with my boss trying to convince the network admin to re-enable the port, but he just keeps sending us the same prefabricated answer that unauthorized devices are not permitted on the network. We need the PCs behind this switch for our department. One of them is for the security cameras so we can watch our vehicle because crime is very bad here. Had zero visibility of my truck all day. Also lost access to a bunch of other stuff we need for work.

2nd switch that does that too... I have a feeling one of the PCs has a bad NIC or something and it's killing our switches.

This is what the last one did:

This time it was similar, except even more weird, because one of the ports was still flashing even with nothing plugged in. It was VERY pooched. I think it basically ended up generating a packet storm which is why the port got shutdown. That's fine and all, but the network admin being an ass about it is making things 10x harder than it has to be.

Ended up escalating it to upper management, so we'll probably hear back tomorrow.

I'm also trying to convince them to give me a dedicated Linux box since using a VM is a pain because I have to do weird NAT port forwarding stuff. (they don't just hand out IPs willy nilly so can't do bridge mode). If I can get a dedicated box it will make stuff so much easier for some of the projects I'm on. One of them will involve interfacing with a dialup modem to automate some terminal stuff... that's going to be hell to try to do from a VM. Need to somehow pass the modem through to it. I don't even know if that's going to be possible, since the host claims it first.

I guess at the end of the day... as long as I'm getting paid lol.

 

[sdifox]

Time to bring the vt terminal out of cold storage.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Lol we have those but they are getting hard to find. The screens die after a while. We have 4 of them in the DMS100 room.

This is something I need to automate via coding so a USR modem connected to a PC is the way to go. We have the good modems too:

That's the cat's meow right there in getting connected to the information superhighway.