What first world problem did you have today?

[brianmanahan]

i stepped barefoot on a yellow jacket an hour ago

i still feel like i want to die

 

[Captante]

i stepped barefoot on a yellow jacket an hour ago

i still feel like i want to die

Put a small compress of damp baking soda over the sting on a piece of gauze .... it will help neutralize the acidity of the venom plus draw some out of the actual sting.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Pooch ate a good part of a jalapeño. He was cool for a few seconds then spit up some liquid. Kept hacking, I gave him some cream cheese to help out but sort of forced him at first because he was looking at me like “Human! I’m dying here”
Happened a few years ago with a different pepper. I remember him being hesitant to poop.
I predict tonight’s walk taking a loooooong time.

lol

Well it happened.
Different than last time, went out walked a bit, saw a neighbor and talked about a tree....
Pooch decides now is the time.
Hooooooooowwwwlllllllllllll!
Yelp!
Neighbor “is he okay”
Me “he ate a jalapeño”
Hooooooooooowwwwsllllllll!
Neighbor “dogs eat jalapeños?”
Me “this one does when they fall on the floor”
Hoooooooooowwwwllllll!
Neighbor “you don’t feed them to him on purpose”
Me “no but we do give him some veggies a few times per week”
Pooch now panting even though it is cool outside.

Boys good now.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Screwing with the cat. He’s good.

 

[sdifox]

i stepped barefoot on a yellow jacket an hour ago

i still feel like i want to die

did you take some antihistamine?

 

[brianmanahan]

did you take some antihistamine?

i'm not supposed to take any of those, but i did anyway. it seems like it helped a little and unlike normal it didn't knock me into an almost coma of sleep.

 

[IronWing]

A couple years ago I bought a used tripod off Craigslist. I’m planning a trip by air and wanted to remove the head so that the tripod would fit in my luggage. There is a set screw and captive nut that holds the head on. I get out my trusty hex key and try to loosen the set screw. Striiiip! That screw wasn’t turning for nothing. I figured out that I could free the captive nut by loosening collar holding the legs. Upon liberating the set screw and nut I found that the previous owner had epoxied them in place. I was pleasantly shocked to find that my local hardware store had the correct metric set screw to replace the glued one.

 

[sdifox]

Pretty sure they are just putting random time... it's not 9PM PDT yet ..

 

[Red Squirrel]

lmao that's still going?

 

[pete6032]

i'm not supposed to take any of those, but i did anyway. it seems like it helped a little and unlike normal it didn't knock me into an almost coma of sleep.

Dang I just realized you changed your avatar. I usually only read posts where i recognize the avatar lol.

 

[brianmanahan]

Dang I just realized you changed your avatar. I usually only read posts where i recognize the avatar lol.

wiz had a good run, i figured i'd give him a break. maybe i'll bring him back, since i'm still undecided about edgar

 

[sdifox]

lmao that's still going?

Yeap. I think they are playing Rocket League with my meat grinder as the ball.

 

[Red Squirrel]

So I think my phone somehow got hacked. No idea how or where, but every time I use the texting app it starts to eat all the battery. I think it's bitcoin mining or something. I used packet capture on PFsense and every time that app is open there's lot of weird traffic going to Ireland, some of it to Facebook and some of it to just random IPs with no real owner (just a regular ISP). Not good... really don't know HTL this happened, or what to even do. No idea how to do a reload of a phone OS and not finding that much on Google, especially not for Linux. Worse case I'll have to load whatever software I need on my game machine, hopefully it will work in Windows 7 because I really don't want to deal with having to install windows 10. A VM won't work for this as I will need to actually physically connect the phone to it I presume.

 

[sdifox]

Adb. You just need your phone to be on LAN.

 

[CZroe]

I prefer recovery mode with a factory ROM. XDADevelopers forum can probably help if it's a popular model.

 

[Red Squirrel]

That's basically what I want to do, just not sure how. Need to look more into it tomorrow and go on that forum. I turned it off and put it in the microwave for now in case it can still do stuff while "off" depends how advanced the virus is. I think it was sending the virus via text to random numbers, that's probably why the texting app was using the battery so much. Or it's mining bitcoin or something. Oddly enough its not generating lot of traffic but it is generating some. Unless it's smart enough to bypass wifi and my firewall where I'm sniffing from and use data... but I would have went over my cap by now.

But yeah tomorrow I will start looking into a new phone I guess. Really don't want to spend money on that, but it turns out I have not been getting security updates since 2018.... which is nuts considering the selling point of this phone was security. It's not even that old. It's a DTEK50.

My alarm clock broke so been using my phone as an alarm and just never bothered to replace the alarm. Clearly this is an issue if I want to get up tomorrow... but I found this old "candle" brand alarm clock that my mom almost threw out once when I was for a visit and I told her I'd keep it. Glad I did... It's kind of a classic design. Hopefully it does not set my house on fire though. I should probably open it up some time and make sure there are no tantelum capacitors and if yes I could swap em out. They were known for failing as a short circuit.

 

[sdifox]

The marathon ping pong game is ongoing. This is to ship a meat grinder from NJ to NY, no idea why it is circling these two FedEx locations in PA. Shipped Oct 6...

 

[Red Squirrel]

lmao. I wonder if it's some kind of label error on the package where when they scan it, it tells them to leave it on the truck, and it's on a route that goes between the two facilities only so it never ends up coming off. I wonder how long this could go on for until it gets flagged in their system that something is wrong.

 

[Spacehead]

The marathon ping pong game is ongoing. This is to ship a meat grinder from NJ to NY, no idea why it is circling these two FedEx locations in PA. Shipped Oct 6...

lmao. I wonder if it's some kind of label error on the package where when they scan it, it tells them to leave it on the truck, and it's on a route that goes between the two facilities only so it never ends up coming off. I wonder how long this could go on for until it gets flagged in their system that something is wrong.

Unless you really, really need it, i'd be tempted at this point to see how long it does go on.

Have you contacted anyone about this?

 

[sdifox]

Unless you really, really need it, i'd be tempted at this point to see how long it does go on.

Have you contacted anyone about this?

Not in a hurry. Just find it ludicrous.

 

[Spacehead]

Breinigsville to Lewisberry is 88 miles (141.62 kilometers) by car, following the I-78 W and US-22 W route.


Gas Consumption and Emissions

A car with a fuel efficiency of 24.9 MPG will need 3.53 gallons of gas to cover the route between Breinigsville, PA and Lewisberry, PA.

The estimated cost of gas to go from Breinigsville to Lewisberry is $7.68.

During the route, an average car will release 69.06 pounds of CO2 to the atmosphere. The carbon footprint would be 0.79 pounds of CO2 per mile.

That meat grinder will have a lot of miles on it by the time you get it. Might be considered "used" by that time

 

[sdifox]

That meat grinder will have a lot of miles on it by the time you get it. Might be considered "used" by that time

Dilapidated by time of delivery.

 

[Red Squirrel]

So wiping my phone now... I could not find info on how to do it in Linux so just fired up the gaming machine to do it from there. Only downside is I will lose my authenticator app that is used for some work stuff but it's not used very often, I'll deal with it when I'm at work. I could not find any info on how to back that up. I hate two factor auth apps for that reason, they are basically a black box that you have no control over and you don't have something like a file that you can back up. Would make more sense of two factor auth systems just use SSH keys or something. At least it's something you have more control over and it's not tied to a phone. You can put it on anything you want.

 

[sdifox]

So wiping my phone now... I could not find info on how to do it in Linux so just fired up the gaming machine to do it from there. Only downside is I will lose my authenticator app that is used for some work stuff but it's not used very often, I'll deal with it when I'm at work. I could not find any info on how to back that up. I hate two factor auth apps for that reason, they are basically a black box that you have no control over and you don't have something like a file that you can back up. Would make more sense of two factor auth systems just use SSH keys or something. At least it's something you have more control over and it's not tied to a phone. You can put it on anything you want.

2FA usually have a QR code you scan.

 

[Red Squirrel]

2FA usually have a QR code you scan.

But only to add the entry in the app. I doubt it would let you just reuse the same code, if you even thought of taking a screenshot of it at the time. Though now that you mention it, I wonder if it actually would work... Probably depends on the app/site though.