What first world problem did you have today?

[Red Squirrel]

odds are, your Win7 machine will...have issues with Win11.

Why would win11 care what the previous OS was? Is there any left over data that stays in the UEFI or something after the format?

Though I keep forgetting about the TPM requirement, I doubt my machine even has that, but think there is a way to bypass that requirement during the install.

 

[BarkingGhostar]

Tuesday afternoon I'm in Costco and on the way out I finally decide to have my first meal of the day. Stopped at the food court and used the kiosk to order two hot dogs. Then I stood there waiting, and waiting ... and waiting, and waiting some more. About twenty minutes pass and in that time the dogs still had not heated up (this was about 4PM) and now seven other customers were also waiting on the dogs. Finally the worker bee say "Getting someone to figure out why the boiler isn't heating up". I roll my eyes but quietly turn to leave. As I pass the customer service desk that could refund my three bucks, there is a long line. 'Nope, not waiting another 20 minutes for three bucks.' So, at the exit door I hand the checker the receipt and said, "Here, I didn't get the dogs I paid for because Costco had no 'hot' dogs to give me." and then continued my pace out the door. So, Costco you rat bastards owe me $3! or Two Hot Dogs!

Tonight, haven eaten only once today, I and the wife find ourselves at Public around 7PM. I figured I'd get their 8-peice fried chicken and take it home for 2-3 meals for myself for a whopping $9. Nope, no fried chicken and this location is open until 10PM. Last weekend they had no one working the deli counter. We leave empty-handed and drive to Wendy's for another disappointment. Tried to order a Baconator combo which rang up to a whopping $12!?! Christ, talk about inflation. "Please sub out the fried for a small chili," I asked and am told, No Chili. This is the third time since summer this Wendy's location is always out of chili. So, I take the drive-through order home and discovered the Diet Coke is clear, carbonated water. The fries have more salt than the oceans, and the Baconator was dumped in the bag with its wrapper on top. I have since emailed Wendy's informing them that this was my first visit in three months after placing a three month ban and now they are permanently banned. Not just this location, but all Wendy's restaurants.

I think I am going to stick with the Greek salads I've been making and eating at home. Fuck retail! Oh, and speaking of retail ...

This evening the wife and I go to Best Buy. We've not been in one since 2019 and mostly for the reasons you can imagine. I wanted to take a look at the Canon EOS RP and the Nikon Zfc in terms of ergonomics. The Nikon has its tiny kit lens on it so I get an idea of the weight of it, but the RP has this monster 300mm lens on it. I ask the Bad Buy employee if he could remove the lens so I can get a feel for the RP's weight and he says, "No, sorry." Wow, there wasn't even a security thing on the lens and I was only being polite, but maybe they friggen glue the lenses to the demo bodies or something!?! No problem, I now know the feel in wieght of the Nikon Zfc and I can just go look up the RP's weight and get a mental concept of the weight difference. But since I'm doing that, guess what? Fuck retail again and I'll just buy online AGAIN.

This week has been fan-fucking-tastic. LOL

 

[highland145]

tl;dr;

 

[BarkingGhostar]

tl;dr;

ADHD

 

[sdifox]

ADHD

That is like the least of his problems.

 

[pete6032]

Ask an honest question on reddit about a non controversial issue. Downvoted within 30 seconds of posting.

 

[highland145]

That is like the least of his problems.

Said you wouldn't tell.😞

 

[sdifox]

Said you wouldn't tell.😞

I didn't tell lol

 

[shortylickens]

I just paid 811 dollars for health insurance.

Thats one month.

 

[IronWing]

I just paid 811 dollars for health insurance.

Thats one month.

That's cheap and welcome to America! Oh, and don't get sick; premiums are just the start of a beautiful friendship.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I just paid 811 dollars for health insurance.

Thats one month.

Holy crap that's a bit more than my mortgage payment. I could not afford that, I don't even have that much left over at the end of the month with all the bills that come out.

 

[balloonshark]

So I was just offered a $50 Amazon gift card if I change or delete my negative product review. It's the first review you see when you look at reviews of the product. On one hand I spent too much this month and could use the money on the other hand their Oeko-Tex Certified claim is BS as far as I can tell and they should be dinged for the deception. Screw them. I see they already have a link to an "upgraded" version of the product. That's how much my review hurt their sales.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Delete the review, take the card, then make another review. Then they'll ask you to remove it again.

UNLIMITED MONEY!!!11

 

[shortylickens]

Holy crap that's a bit more than my mortgage payment. I could not afford that, I don't even have that much left over at the end of the month with all the bills that come out.

theres a great meme about how paying 20 bucks a month for health insurance is patriotic, but paying 4 bucks a month in taxes to be used for universal health care is communist bullshit.
I cant find it now.

 

[pmv]

Had a telephone consultation with a specialist medic, and came away still not certain whether they really knew what they were talking about.

Honestly, everyone sneers these days at those who 'do their own research', but when you have a condition that's extremely rare, you pretty-much have to. And what this specialist said seemed to directly contradict what I've read in medical journals (and my own experience of symptoms). I'm not talking youtube videos, I'm talking lecture materials on teaching hospitals' websites, and medical journals. Obviously I'm not really qualified to understand the articles I've found and read. But the trouble is you can't question professionals very forcefully, because experts (of whatever field) invariably get annoyed if you question them too much, especially if you mention that 'own research' (they really hate that).

 

[lxskllr]

Had a telephone consultation with a specialist medic, and came away still not certain whether they really knew what they were talking about.

Honestly, everyone sneers these days at those who 'do their own research', but when you have a condition that's extremely rare, you pretty-much have to. And what this specialist said seemed to directly contradict what I've read in medical journals (and my own experience of symptoms). I'm not talking youtube videos, I'm talking lecture materials on teaching hospitals' websites, and medical journals. Obviously I'm not really qualified to understand the articles I've found and read. But the trouble is you can't question professionals very forcefully, because experts (of whatever field) invariably get annoyed if you question them too much, especially if you mention that 'own research' (they really hate that).

The problem is retards "research" from other retards creating a retarded feedback loop. When highly educated people that specialize in $research_topic mostly agree on something, it's probably close enough to being right given current understanding, and some dumbass on facebook didn't "discover" anything everyone else doesn't already know. An *individual* highly educated person can still be a dumbass or retard, and if there isn't much to compare it to, it's worth taking their opinion with a grain of salt.

 

[pmv]

The problem is retards "research" from other retards creating a retarded feedback loop. When highly educated people that specialize in $research_topic mostly agree on something, it's probably close enough to being right given current understanding, and some dumbass on facebook didn't "discover" anything everyone else doesn't already know. An *individual* highly educated person can still be a dumbass or retard, and if there isn't much to compare it to, it's worth taking their opinion with a grain of salt.

Yeah, but, again, I'm not talking Facebook, I'm talking academic journals, and the Mayo Clinic and suchlike. I don't know how to judge between what I read there and what I hear from what was probably a junior member of the team at the hospital I was treated at. I know I really don't have the background knowledge to understand specialist journal articles, but I just want to reconcile the symptoms I've had with the condition they found.

And most sources seem to stress how ultra-rare the condition is (and it seems as if it was only definitively identified as a real condition 5 years ago) - so would a random specialist necessarily be familiar with it?

I just felt throughout the conversation that I couldn't dare mention that what I'd read in such journals seemed to contradict what they were telling me. Pretty sure that would have just alienated them and got them unhelpfully tetchy.

 

[Torn Mind]

The problem is * "research" from other * creating a * feedback loop. When highly educated people that specialize in $research_topic mostly agree on something, it's probably close enough to being right given current understanding, and some dumbass on facebook didn't "discover" anything everyone else doesn't already know. An *individual* highly educated person can still be a dumbass or *, and if there isn't much to compare it to, it's worth taking their opinion with a grain of salt.

Um, you should edit out that word before the banhammer drops.

Regarding rare conditions. Yes, there are many cases in which an individual is suffering from a particular disease or condition but the system is blocking them from getting the right treatment for their needs.

I came down with something respiratory in August but the urgent care doc stated it was allergies. I've never had issue with pollen or the like in my entire life.

In the matter of Herman Conner, the likely racist doc insisted he had HIV instead of kidney cancer. Then there's general incompetence, inexperience, etc. I believe the next wave of shifting opinion will be regarding low-carb diets of various varieties. When the likes of Susan Wolver are getting real results with patients, the approach can no longer be dismissed.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Got my Truck tires looked at since they all seem to have slow leaks. One rim is cracked, and can't buy that exact rim anymore, and overall they're all on their last legs anyway. The salt they put on the roads is a real killer of vehicles.

Looking at a new set of tires and it's going to cost me over 2 grand. I knew truck tires were expensive but did not realize they were THAT expensive. Right now I'm running on repaired tires and the spare rim, but I probably should not try to run this for very long and since I have a bush property now I probably should get good new wheels anyway. So yeah think I'll have to cave and pay the price.

Funny thing is I'm due for a water heater and I was looking into a heat pump style one for about 2 grand... but looks like I'll be spending that on tires instead.

It seems every time I manage to lower my credit line something comes up.

 

[Torn Mind]

Got my Truck tires looked at since they all seem to have slow leaks. One rim is cracked, and can't buy that exact rim anymore, and overall they're all on their last legs anyway. The salt they put on the roads is a real killer of vehicles.

Looking at a new set of tires and it's going to cost me over 2 grand. I knew truck tires were expensive but did not realize they were THAT expensive. Right now I'm running on repaired tires and the spare rim, but I probably should not try to run this for very long and since I have a bush property now I probably should get good new wheels anyway. So yeah think I'll have to cave and pay the price.

Funny thing is I'm due for a water heater and I was looking into a heat pump style one for about 2 grand... but looks like I'll be spending that on tires instead.

It seems every time I manage to lower my credit line something comes up.

So, I think it's only rational that your next vehicle is a Toyota Sienna.

 

[Red Squirrel]

So my web server has been down since around 9am and I had no idea about it because I never got the alert on my phone, because the alerts rely on the email server being up... huge oversight in my monitoring setup.

Just put in a ticket with OVH.... I hope it's nothing bad I really don't feel like rebuilding everything from backups.

 

[Captante]

Why would win11 care what the previous OS was? Is there any left over data that stays in the UEFI or something after the format?

Though I keep forgetting about the TPM requirement, I doubt my machine even has that, but think there is a way to bypass that requirement during the install.

Pretty sure if you go this route you will not receive any security updates from M$.

Considering how paranoid you are about a lot of silly things I find it very amusing that you still use Windows 7 at all. If it's touching the internet in any way (even indirectly) THAT is a REAL security risk as opposed to some of the stuff you seem to be concerned with.

 

[sdifox]

Got my Truck tires looked at since they all seem to have slow leaks. One rim is cracked, and can't buy that exact rim anymore, and overall they're all on their last legs anyway. The salt they put on the roads is a real killer of vehicles.

Looking at a new set of tires and it's going to cost me over 2 grand. I knew truck tires were expensive but did not realize they were THAT expensive. Right now I'm running on repaired tires and the spare rim, but I probably should not try to run this for very long and since I have a bush property now I probably should get good new wheels anyway. So yeah think I'll have to cave and pay the price.

Funny thing is I'm due for a water heater and I was looking into a heat pump style one for about 2 grand... but looks like I'll be spending that on tires instead.

It seems every time I manage to lower my credit line something comes up.

It's a F150, you can get whole set of used rims from scrap yard.

 

[Captante]

Got my Truck tires looked at since they all seem to have slow leaks. One rim is cracked, and can't buy that exact rim anymore, and overall they're all on their last legs anyway. The salt they put on the roads is a real killer of vehicles.

Looking at a new set of tires and it's going to cost me over 2 grand. I knew truck tires were expensive but did not realize they were THAT expensive. Right now I'm running on repaired tires and the spare rim, but I probably should not try to run this for very long and since I have a bush property now I probably should get good new wheels anyway. So yeah think I'll have to cave and pay the price.

Funny thing is I'm due for a water heater and I was looking into a heat pump style one for about 2 grand... but looks like I'll be spending that on tires instead.

It seems every time I manage to lower my credit line something comes up.

To the best of my knowledge they ARE NOT even close to that much.....

That's $500+ PER TIRE ?!?!?!

I just looked at tire prices for tires for a 2010 F-250 for about 30 seconds. Even if you have the 20 inch wheel option a set of 4 Michelins INSTALLED/including sales tax is less then $1200.

Might want to shop around a little.... whomever gave you that $2k estimate must have seen you coming!

 

[Red Squirrel]

Pretty sure if you go this route you will not receive any security updates from M$.

Considering how paranoid you are about a lot of silly things I find it very amusing that you still use Windows 7 at all. If it's touching the internet in any way (even indirectly) THAT is a REAL security risk as opposed to some of the stuff you seem to be concerned with.

All that stuff is behind a firewall, not serving anything to the internet, it's also isolated from the rest of my network via a separate vlan. Win10 is a bigger security issue with all the spying it does. Of course I would be blocking all of MS IPs if I had to put windows 10 or 11 on a system. This is only really used for gaming so it's not exactly an actively used machine.