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What first world problem did you have today?

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After a long day at work, it's cold in my home. Too lazy to get up and adjust the thermostat so I fired up a GPU intensive game on my desktop but my GPU is too power efficient to heat up the room.
 
That sounds like a 3rd world problem to me, I can adjust my heat from any network device. :biggrin:

I even VPN from work to adjust it if I go home at a different time for lunch so that the house is warm when I get there. :awe:
 
My new wireless AP/router came with a POS Cat 5 cord. What is this poverty shit... I mean, I will never use even 100 Mbps but it's a gigabit router, gimme a Cat 5e at least.
 
Imp said:
My new wireless AP/router came with a POS Cat 5 cord. What is this poverty shit... I mean, I will never use even 100 Mbps but it's a gigabit router, gimme a Cat 5e at least.
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1000BT Gigabit was engineered to work at Gigabit speeds over standard CAT5. CAT5e was always a needless distinction. Any standard-length CAT5 cable that supports 100BT but fails to support 1000BT is defective.
 
I ordered a thing with expedited shipping.

It'll arrive a few hours after I need it, and I don't think there's any good way of having it redirected. :\

The distribution center is several hundred feet from where I work.


...and evidently My UPS and UPS My Choice are different things.


...and as a society we still haven't come up with a decent way of identifying people on websites, and are still using an antiquated system of "Speak the pass-phrase, stranger!"


...and some websites don't tell you "You have 3 attempts to log in before we completely lock you out, and require you to call customer service to unlock your account," versus "You have a crapton of attempts and it'll result in a 5-minute lockout," versus "We don't care, try 10 times per second. Security is an afterthought."

(Every time I have to travel for work, it's a fresh reminder of how much the lead-up&planning stage sucks. Prep supplies, book a flight, rent a car...logistics.)


....UPS: Create account and password.
Copy/paste username and password from Notepad.
Login using clipboard data.
Do something else, account times out.
Go to log back in.
Username/password combo is now invalid.
😵
 
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My friend's OCD nightmare from earlier today:
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I didn't realize just how much XP I'd get from a certain quest line in Witcher 3, and it left me over-leveled for a bunch of quests I'd already started, so virtually every quest I'm taking on now gives 2 XP at most. I could just skip them, but the completionist in me can't handle a bunch of outstanding quests in my log.
 
Atomic Playboy said:
I didn't realize just how much XP I'd get from a certain quest line in Witcher 3, and it left me over-leveled for a bunch of quests I'd already started, so virtually every quest I'm taking on now gives 2 XP at most. I could just skip them, but the completionist in me can't handle a bunch of outstanding quests in my log.
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delete them, they are't in your log any more.
 
Imp said:
...41.8 liters for US$ 21.99. That's US$ 0.53/liter or about CA$ 0.69/liter. Last I checked, gas was CA$ 1.05 where I am in Canada.
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That's what makes it a first world problem: Affording it is irrelevant so we have a mini crisis over something as trivial as which number to even out while you 3rd-world Canadians struggle to afford it in the first place. 😛
 
I got some dipshit committing a felony on camera -- idiot did it many times before in the past, even did it a few times before I got it on camera -- and now have to look for a secure, off-site place to back it up. As far as I know, indictable/felony charges don't have a statute of limitations in Canada, so it's gotta be a longer term thing.
 
Imp said:
I got some dipshit committing a felony on camera -- idiot did it many times before in the past, even did it a few times before I got it on camera -- and now have to look for a secure, off-site place to back it up. As far as I know, indictable/felony charges don't have a statute of limitations in Canada, so it's gotta be a longer term thing.
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This sounds thread worthy....
 
Imp said:
...41.8 liters for US$ 21.99. That's US$ 0.53/liter or about CA$ 0.69/liter. Last I checked, gas was CA$ 1.05 where I am in Canada.
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Probably had some reward points on a card or something?

Last time I got gas, I paid 20 cents for 20 gallons at Hyvee because of the reward points on the card.
 
slag said:
Probably had some reward points on a card or something?

Last time I got gas, I paid 20 cents for 20 gallons at Hyvee because of the reward points on the card.
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Kroger Rewards Fuel Points. $2.09 a gallon minus $0.10 a gallon Fuel Points discount good for up to 35 gallons in one transaction. The discount is really only $0.07 a gallon because you already get $0.03 a gallon off just for putting in your phone number without using any of your Fuel Points. I saw gas for $2.04 at a place that probably was not the cheapest in Duluth yesterday with no rewards required so the discount isn't significant ($0.05 less than that place).

Edit: just talked to him (he's my roommate) and he says that was a fill up and it just happened to stop there. 😵
 
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