What first world problem did you have today?

[JPS35]

I don't often go there, but wanted a meatball sub with cheddar at Subway the other day. I was informed they no longer have cheddar, but rather, grated cheddar and jack. F-that! Subway, at $10 a sandwich, can no longer provide sliced cheddar? Who puts grated cheese, other than parmesan, on a sandwhich?

 

[Red Squirrel]

I think that might be related to one of Trump's last executive orders of banning sliced cheese at fast food establishments. Make America Grate Again.

 

[pmv]

I think that might be related to one of Trump's last executive orders of banning sliced cheese at fast food establishments. Make America Grate Again.

Where's the "groan" reaction emoji when you need it?

 

[RearAdmiral]

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.

How is it that you work in the past but somehow post in the present? Can we get the manufacturing date on that switch?

 

[Nobece]

Where's the "groan" reaction emoji when you need it?

I'd be interested to see what that would even look like haha

 

[Red Squirrel]

How is it that you work in the past but somehow post in the present? Can we get the manufacturing date on that switch?

Hahaha yeah so much old stuff here. Even our PCs have specs that are lower than machines I built 10 years ago, it's pretty bad.

Not sure the age of the switch but it's old enough that it has an actual mains transformer and not a SMPS one. Big heavy wall wart.

I got approved to order a replacement though, but we are still fighting to get IT to turn the port back up so we can reconnect all our stuff.

 

[shortylickens]

Couldnt fix my electric snowblower. Took it to the repair shop. They keep it three weeks. Finally call me up saying they cant fix it either. Looks like I may have to junk it and buy another one.

OR, I just pay somebody to do my snow blowing, which frankly solves more problems than any other option.

 

[Red Squirrel]

What's wrong with it? Electric can't be too complicated I imagine.

I wanted to buy one but HD cancelled the order on me. :/ My gas one died so I just wanted a backup until I can get around to fixing it. Need a warm day since my garage is not heated or insulated. (summer project to do that) Today would have been a good day but I'm at work...

 

[Captante]

EA Sucks

Big-time .... sometime in late 2019 some part of that crap Origin software started refusing to shut down and would hold up any reboot.

After awhile it got annoying and since the last time I actually USED Origin to game was the steaming pile Mass Effect Andromeda I dumped it.

Briefly considered re-installing to play the latest remaster Need for Speed game but thought better of it. Now many EA games are on Steam anyway which just works better.

 

[ultimatebob]

Big-time .... sometime in late 2019 some part of that crap Origin software started refusing to shut down and would hold up any reboot.

After awhile it got annoying and since the last time I actually USED Origin to game was the steaming pile Mass Effect Andromeda I dumped it.

Briefly considered re-installing to play the latest remaster Need for Speed game but thought better of it. Now many EA games are on Steam anyway which just works better.

What's weird is that EA games are also available on the Epic game store, but you need Origin to install them. Grr.

 

[VashHT]

Big-time .... sometime in late 2019 some part of that crap Origin software started refusing to shut down and would hold up any reboot.

After awhile it got annoying and since the last time I actually USED Origin to game was the steaming pile Mass Effect Andromeda I dumped it.

Briefly considered re-installing to play the latest remaster Need for Speed game but thought better of it. Now many EA games are on Steam anyway which just works better.

A while back EA let some Russian guy who called them reset my origin password, they even admitted he should not have been able to do that when I called them to find out wtf happened.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Got forced rebooted at work with like 1 hour left in my shift. This is freaking bullshit. Pisses me off so much that they do this shit. At least give a grace period like a 12 hours or something.

Was in the middle of dealing with a bunch of outages though which makes it worse. By the time I open everything again my shift will be over, so what's even the point.

 

[Captante]

Got forced rebooted at work with like 1 hour left in my shift. This is freaking bullshit. Pisses me off so much that they do this shit. At least give a grace period like a 12 hours or something.

Was in the middle of dealing with a bunch of outages though which makes it worse. By the time I open everything again my shift will be over, so what's even the point.

Hmmmm.... sounds like a potential REAL problem to me no?

What sort of "outages" are you responsible for again?

What's weird is that EA games are also available on the Epic game store, but you need Origin to install them. Grr.

The Steam store versions all launch on Steam. (selection is limited)

Bethesda's client was slightly annoying to have to install as was GOG but BOTH can be easily setup to launch games via Steam so once configured you don't need to deal with their clunky GUI's.

 

[Stiff Clamp]

Tried to upgrade Firefox 78 to ver. 86, but 86 wouldn't load any web pages. WTF.
So I downgraded to FF 79, but it insisted on creating a new user profile so I lost my bookmarks.
Not deterred, I set about copying the bookmarks from the old user profile directory to the new one - then reopened FF 79. But ... it opened with an error message announcing that the bookmarks were unavailable due to being in use by another program. So I futzed around with the copying files and reopening the browser. Finally it worked, and my old bookmarks were loaded.
Soon afterward I was messing with settings and noticed I was now running FF 86 (zut alors!) - the very version that wouldn't load any webpages earlier, forcing my downgrade. Whhaaaa ....???

Must have autoupdated itself to ver. 86 without notifying me. Erg. At least it works now. Oy vey.

 

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[highland145]

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Pre used TP?

 

[ultimatebob]

Pre used TP?

Something expensive like a pair of brand new Geforce 3090 video cards... at least that's what you tell the shipping insurance company

 

[Red Squirrel]

Hmmmm.... sounds like a potential REAL problem to me no?

What sort of "outages" are you responsible for again?

Oh just a big chunk of Quebec was isolated from the rest of the world due to a fibre cut, and then a bunch of power outages in another region too. Then BAM PC reboots in middle of that. Fun fun.

 

[Red Squirrel]

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Lol that sucks. hope you got the insurance. (I usually don't bother myself...)

 

[Captante]

Pre used TP?

Refurbished condoms ??

 

[highland145]

Refurbished condoms ??

So, fun facts, flush condoms in a septic system. Methane fills them up so when you take the tank lid off, dicks galore. Many years ago, my new girlfriend was "explaining" them to her daddy.

😀😀

 

[Wreckem]

I was told my pool tile and coping is now 8-10 weeks out. The pool build was originally going to be 10-12 weeks quickly turned into 16 and now longer. Could have been worse had they not shot my gunite shell the day they did it probably would have collapsed the next day from flooding and they would have had to re-dig. I’m only 6 weeks in and I’m ready for this project to be over...

 

[highland145]

I was told my pool tile and coping is now 8-10 weeks out. The pool build was originally going to be 10-12 weeks quickly turned into 16 and now longer. Could have been worse had they not shot my gunite shell the day they did it probably would have collapsed the next day from flooding and they would have had to re-dig. I’m only 6 weeks in and I’m ready for this project to be over...

Try planning a kitchen redo,with covid. Ours was a miracle at 7 weeks. Friend is still a few months out with appliances and all.

 

[Captante]

So, fun facts, flush condoms in a septic system. Methane fills them up so when you take the tank lid off, dicks galore. Many years ago, my new girlfriend was "explaining" them to her daddy.

😀😀

I was thinking more along the lines of rinse em out with the garden hose then grab the Saran-wrap!

 

[highland145]

I was thinking more along the lines of rinse em out with the garden hose then grab the Saran-wrap!

Poor people do what they do.


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