What first world problem did you have today?

[IronWing]

Add the folks who hug the right side of the dedicated left turn lane. If y’all’s would hug the left side instead, you and the oncoming left turning folks could both see better.

 

[MrSquished]

German guy I'm working for grew up in germany, then lived in London for like 10 years, and then New York City for like also 10 years, and also has a condo in Florida he just bought. So he has little experience driving in the US.

We've been going to different places in my car from Long Island to New Jersey and he is blown away by the amount of idiots that stay in the left lane without passing anybody. Which makes it dangerous when people now have to change to middle or right lanes to pass.

He said that would never fly in Germany. The vast majority of people follow those rules of the road.

 

[lxskllr]

Re: my alarm problem on the new phone...
Looked at it before it went off, said the alarm was going to go off in 10-15 minutes, it don't remember exactly when i looked. So i'm thinking cool. Time comes & goes, no alarm. I look at the setting & it says the alarm is set to go off in -1 hour & 1 minute 😵

I had someone else set it to see if i'm doing something wrong.

Might be one of those 'watched pot doesn't boil' things. Every time you look at it, the alarm advances.

 

[pmv]

My (newly developed) tinnitus keeps interacting with the subtle noises produced by my PC (mostly the case fans) to create endless loops of repetitive little melodies.
Currently going: dit-dit-diddle-id-dit-ta-da, dit-dit-diddle-id-dit-ta-da (repeat ad nauseum). The other day it was a bit of the tune from the Elephant's march out of The Jungle Book, only apparently being sung by what sounded like a crowd of football hooligans. In the far distance.

 

[IronWing]

My (newly developed) tinnitus keeps interacting with the subtle noises produced by my PC (mostly the case fans) to create endless loops of repetitive little melodies.
Currently going: dit-dit-diddle-id-dit-ta-da, dit-dit-diddle-id-dit-ta-da (repeat ad nauseum). The other day it was a bit of the tune from the Elephant's march out of The Jungle Book, only apparently being sung by what sounded like a crowd of football hooligans. In the far distance.

You can be the next Philip Glass. 🙂

 

[pmv]

You can be the next Philip Glass. 🙂

Now it's gone all 'ambient soundscapes' on me. Underlying whirring noise with a periodic soft "wah-dit" quasi-industrial overtone. I far prefer the ambient new-age tinnitus-loops to the annoying cheesy tune ones. The latter are maddening.

 

[Leymenaide]

German guy I'm working for grew up in germany, then lived in London for like 10 years, and then New York City for like also 10 years, and also has a condo in Florida he just bought. So he has little experience driving in the US.

We've been going to different places in my car from Long Island to New Jersey and he is blown away by the amount of idiots that stay in the left lane without passing anybody. Which makes it dangerous when people now have to change to middle or right lanes to pass.

He said that would never fly in Germany. The vast majority of people follow those rules of the road.

Works fine on the autobahn until someone drives a Swatch or a small Fix it again tony. I had a 1.6 diesel Passat when I lived there, and it was barely Autobahn safe. My wife's golf plus had a 1.8 and I had it over 200 k outside of Dresden. I was hardly Autobahn safe at that speed.

 

[IronWing]

We are fostering kittens and I woke up this morning to find a kitten chewing on sand paper.

Both foster kittens have been adopted. 🙂

 

[Stiff Clamp]

time has come to replace my radiator - car is overheating now and engine quits when I slow to near stop.
got a new radiator in the box, some radiator hoses, a thermostat, and a water pump if need be.
I just don't have any antifreeze.

 

[BoomerD]

time has come to replace my radiator - car is overheating now and engine quits when I slow to near stop.
got a new radiator in the box, some radiator hoses, a thermostat, and a water pump if need be.
I just don't have any antifreeze.

check your fan clutch.

 

[Stiff Clamp]

check your fan clutch.

ok. But I have a leaky radiator, FYI. The plastic tank up top is cracked. I've been living with it for a while because I drive short trips that don't heat the engine for long. Been adding fluid occasionally as needed. But I burned a lot of fluid last night, driving 13 miles, so leak maybe more catastrophic now. I just pulled up at work and went inside without checking my fluid situation. But the coolant temp gauge was maxed.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Could be a faulty thermostat.

When my old Dodge was leaking coolant, eventually it didn't give much of a coolant temp reading. So perhaps your problem is not losing coolant. Besides, that tank is just the overflow tank.

If you put cardboard under the card, and drive up on it and idle, is it leaking coolant?

 

[UsandThem]

Freaking TV / Internet service with AT&T went up in price again this month, to the point where I had to call in and do the "what can you do for me before I cancel" song and dance.

After being with them on the phone for what seemed like forever with their various proposals, they really ended up not offering anything remotely enticing. I mean if they even offered a $30 discount, I would have likely stayed with them because I hate having to switch services.

Now we're going back to Spectrum (which we switched from because of crazy price increases back in 2017).

In the end, $120/month all in for TV / Internet bundle guaranteed for 2 years compared to the $230 month we pay with AT&T as of February.

 

[Captante]

German guy I'm working for grew up in germany, then lived in London for like 10 years, and then New York City for like also 10 years, and also has a condo in Florida he just bought. So he has little experience driving in the US.

We've been going to different places in my car from Long Island to New Jersey and he is blown away by the amount of idiots that stay in the left lane without passing anybody. Which makes it dangerous when people now have to change to middle or right lanes to pass.

He said that would never fly in Germany. The vast majority of people follow those rules of the road.

Failure to yield the left lane on the Autobahn (including the "limited" parts) will almost certainly result in a very expensive moving violation and MIGHT get you run off the road.

Get caught doing it a few times and you can kiss your drivers license goodbye. In Germany they strictly enforce driving laws.

 

[Stiff Clamp]

Could be a faulty thermostat.

When my old Dodge was leaking coolant, eventually it didn't give much of a coolant temp reading. So perhaps your problem is not losing coolant. Besides, that tank is just the overflow tank.

If you put cardboard under the card, and drive up on it and idle, is it leaking coolant?

Well the radiator is plastic and aluminum so I meant radiator when I used the term "tank" - not the separate overflow tank. Sorry for confusion.

I'm having a coworker take me out to pick up coolant.
I do hope to replace the thermostat while I'm wrenching - it's somewhere around the house.

 

[shortylickens]

Freaking TV / Internet service with AT&T went up in price again this month, to the point where I had to call in and do the "what can you do for me before I cancel" song and dance.

After being with them on the phone for what seemed like forever with their various proposals, they really ended up not offering anything remotely enticing. I mean if they even offered a $30 discount, I would have likely stayed with them because I hate having to switch services.

Now we're going back to Spectrum (which we switched from because of crazy price increases back in 2017).

In the end, $120/month all in for TV / Internet bundle guaranteed for 2 years compared to the $230 month we pay with AT&T as of February.

We're getting fiber optic in the neighborhood. That should force Comcast to be competitive with their prices soon.

 

[pete6032]

Trying to play SW:KOTOR on a tablet and its damn near impossible to get pas the gun battles on the Ebon Hawk using a tablet touch screen. I wish they just edited them out of the game.

 

[highland145]

Got fiber last year. $55/mo, with fees, after the 1st year intro. 1st is on the phone. 2nd on the PC.

 

[UsandThem]

We're getting fiber optic in the neighborhood. That should force Comcast to be competitive with their prices soon.

Definitely.

Our only choice for internet (at the time) was Time Warner Cable. However, they kept increasing their prices, so once AT&T finished installing their new fiber optic cable in our area, they offered some really good prices.

Soon Time Warner became Spectrum, and they began to offer things like faster internet speeds. However, they bled customers who were all jumping ship to AT&T down here. I liked what I had with AT&T (which began in 2017) but my same TV / Internet package increased from $119/month to $230/month this month.

I can handle some price increases, but close to 2x the original amount was enough for me to jump ship.

 

[shortylickens]

Trying to play SW:KOTOR on a tablet and its damn near impossible to get pas the gun battles on the Ebon Hawk using a tablet touch screen. I wish they just edited them out of the game.

you need to pause frequently and re-evaluate your targets. And group heal if you have it.

 

[pete6032]

you need to pause frequently and re-evaluate your targets. And group heal if you have it.

The turret mini game, not the actual game. Actual game play is great on my $200 Samsung tablet.

 

[UsandThem]

Double first world problems for me today.

The computer monitor I just bought began flaking out on 3rd day I had it. When I was using my PC, it kept going to a black screen and a few times the only way to get it working again was to unplug it and plug it back in. I was in the middle of typing a document, so the sudden black screen really didn't happen at a great time.

The first 4k computer monitor I've ever owned, so that's kind of disappointing. I decided to go with another brand as the replacement that I was considering (my 2nd choice LG). I'm trying to remember the last time I returned something to Amazon, but it has definitely been a long time as I guess I have been really lucky with my purchases.

 

[VirtualLarry]

When I was using my PC, it kept going to a black screen and a few times the only way to get it working again was to unplug it and plug it back in.

The first 4k computer monitor I've ever owned,

May be losing HDMI sync due to a poor-quality cable. Quality of cable matters at 4K, I hope that you did not just re-use a 1080P HDMI cable from the old monitor. You want an 18Gbit/sec spec HDMI cable.

 

[UsandThem]

May be losing HDMI sync due to a poor-quality cable. Quality of cable matters at 4K, I hope that you did not just re-use a 1080P HDMI cable from the old monitor. You want an 18Gbit/sec spec HDMI cable.

I was using the included DisplayPort cable, and it worked great for the first 3 days (up until a few hours ago).

I ended up hooking my old monitor back up to the same DisplayPort on the GPU, and it's working perfectly. I think I just got a dud unit.

 

[MrSquished]

Switched from a Ring Video Doorbell 2 to a new Nest Doorbell Battery (using wires) - first of all the mounting system using the wedge is a terrible fucking design. You can't screw the wedge in all the way to the mount because then there is not enough room for the bottom 'button' to lock into the wedge, and the doorbell won't work. I mean it's terrible design.

Anyway I got it installed and apparently the Nest's wifi receiving capabilities were just slightly worse than the Ring. I'm on the third floor and my router/modem is in my office facing the front of the building. The Ring could get pretty reliable service but with some spottiness. The Nest was mostly spotty. So I had to move the router/modem to right by the window. The problem was a lot of the wires I needed to move were bundled up with velcro cable ties I used 4 years ago to use for cable management under my desk. The kind of velcro ties you thread through themselves and then wrap a couple times. I had to hunch under there fishing wires and undoing velcro ties and it was a PITA. Finally I just got some scissors and started cutting them off. That was my first world problem.

Anyways, now that the router/modem is about 4 feet closer to the window with no electronics in its sightline to the window, the Nest doorbell gets very good reception.