What first world problem did you have today?

[highland145]

Woke up 2 days ago with a runny nose. Worked through the day just fine, it wasn't that bad. Yesterday I went to work and couldn't go 3 minutes without blowing my nose or sneezing. I wear a mask or respirator all day so it made it impossible to work. I was either sneezing or trying to get a mask off so snot wasn't running into my mouth. I left after 3.5 hours. I was sick today.

Today was a holiday so if I chose to work it was double time. I usually work 48 hours a week so I get 8 hours of time and a half..

If I'm sick tomorrow I basically lost my rent.

Sounds like a personal finance question.

 

[MrSquished]

Overall just general quest to find a good mechanical gaming keyboard.

First started with a Corsair K75 or K70 a few years ago. Keys started breaking off after a year. Not even the most used ones like WASD or even the most typed letters. Corsair sent a replacement key, then another. And more kept breaking off. So cheaply made. Other people online said the same thing happened to them so I said fuck that company and got a Steelseries Apex 7 Pro. Now that keyboard started exhibiting another issue, it would blink, then no keys would respond until you unplugged the keyboard from the PC and plugged it right back in, then it would work. This would happen like 3 times a day or more. I tried using stock Windows drivers, did troubleshooting with Steelseries, they finally gave me credit to buy a new one from them. The new one did the exact same shit. A known issue by folks online as well.

Both the Corsair and Steelseries I got the Cherry Reds.

I dealt with the Steelseries blinking in and out of working for over a year, and did a lot of research and got the Roccat Vulcan 121. Custom in-house developed keys. Pretty unique design. It was a nice keyboard, the in-house keys looked good but weren't amazing to type on, just ok, but it didn't have dedicated media keys, and turns out the F-media keys didn't work very well with many media apps. Roccat said they hoped to fix this with an update. Also, when their software wasn't running, your lighting profile would not save, even though it had onboard memory for macros. Since I use this with my console, it was terrible. Returning to Amazon. They had no plans to add that feature. Both the Corsair and Steelseries had good media controls that worked flawlessly and you could save lighting profiles to memory.

So I got the Razer Huntsman Elite. The feel of their in-house optical/mechanical purple tactile/clicky keys is freaking amazing. Best typing experience I've had ever. Again the saving the lighting profile thing no workie with Razer, even though it has onboard memory to store key assignments and macros. Also the dedicated media keys were finicky with some apps like Tidal. Like Jesus H Christ can anybody make a goddamn quality keyboard with a few basic features a shit ton of people want? If you look online tons of people just want their lighting to work even when the keyboard software isn't running, for whatever reason. And media controls. Switching from app to app on a computer to just skip a track is dumb in this day and age.

I did find a thread on how to fix the media key issues by changing a folder name in the Razer program data. I think part of the problem is Tidal, but yet Steelseries and Corsair figured them out. Just Roccat and Razer did not. Then I downloaded OpenRGB to create a lighting profile that way, and it saved to the device and now works when I don't have the Razer software running. You lose out on super fancy lighting profiles, which is fine for me, I just want it blue with the WASD keys being white. So it works for me, but not for the kiddies that want lots of special lighting effects, sucks for them The typing feel is just too good on this Razer to continue the search.

Razer also cheaped out by using the cheaper material keys, to get double shot PBT keys you need to drop another $30 bucks from them. I didn't pay full price but it's ridiculous they couldn't include them. But whatever. The logitech offerings were even more overpriced and had mediocre reviews for the style I wanted. No TKL for me. Asus was the only other major player I haven't tried, but this Razer will have to do.

I threw out the Corsair and will keep one of the Apex 7 pros I have as backup just in case this Razer starts to break sooner than later. It's ridiculous how much money these companies charge and make half-assed products. Disgusting. It's not like I keep giving one of them my money, I move on, but they all suck somehow.

 

[BoomerD]

Sounds like a personal finance question.

If only we knew a guy...

 

[BoomerD]

Overall just general quest to find a good mechanical gaming keyboard.

First started with a Corsair K75 or K70 a few years ago. Keys started breaking off after a year. Not even the most used ones like WASD or even the most typed letters. Corsair sent a replacement key, then another. And more kept breaking off. So cheaply made. Other people online said the same thing happened to them so I said fuck that company and got a Steelseries Apex 7 Pro. Now that keyboard started exhibiting another issue, it would blink, then no keys would respond until you unplugged the keyboard from the PC and plugged it right back in, then it would work. This would happen like 3 times a day or more. I tried using stock Windows drivers, did troubleshooting with Steelseries, they finally gave me credit to buy a new one from them. The new one did the exact same shit. A known issue by folks online as well.

Both the Corsair and Steelseries I got the Cherry Reds.

I dealt with the Steelseries blinking in and out of working for over a year, and did a lot of research and got the Roccat Vulcan 121. Custom in-house developed keys. Pretty unique design. It was a nice keyboard, the in-house keys looked good but weren't amazing to type on, just ok, but it didn't have dedicated media keys, and turns out the F-media keys didn't work very well with many media apps. Roccat said they hoped to fix this with an update. Also, when their software wasn't running, your lighting profile would not save, even though it had onboard memory for macros. Since I use this with my console, it was terrible. Returning to Amazon. They had no plans to add that feature. Both the Corsair and Steelseries had good media controls that worked flawlessly and you could save lighting profiles to memory.

So I got the Razer Huntsman Elite. The feel of their in-house optical/mechanical purple tactile/clicky keys is freaking amazing. Best typing experience I've had ever. Again the saving the lighting profile thing no workie with Razer, even though it has onboard memory to store key assignments and macros. Also the dedicated media keys were finicky with some apps like Tidal. Like Jesus H Christ can anybody make a goddamn quality keyboard with a few basic features a shit ton of people want? If you look online tons of people just want their lighting to work even when the keyboard software isn't running, for whatever reason. And media controls. Switching from app to app on a computer to just skip a track is dumb in this day and age.

I did find a thread on how to fix the media key issues by changing a folder name in the Razer program data. I think part of the problem is Tidal, but yet Steelseries and Corsair figured them out. Just Roccat and Razer did not. Then I downloaded OpenRGB to create a lighting profile that way, and it saved to the device and now works when I don't have the Razer software running. You lose out on super fancy lighting profiles, which is fine for me, I just want it blue with the WASD keys being white. So it works for me, but not for the kiddies that want lots of special lighting effects, sucks for them The typing feel is just too good on this Razer to continue the search.

Razer also cheaped out by using the cheaper material keys, to get double shot PBT keys you need to drop another $30 bucks from them. I didn't pay full price but it's ridiculous they couldn't include them. But whatever. The logitech offerings were even more overpriced and had mediocre reviews for the style I wanted. No TKL for me. Asus was the only other major player I haven't tried, but this Razer will have to do.

I threw out the Corsair and will keep one of the Apex 7 pros I have as backup just in case this Razer starts to break sooner than later. It's ridiculous how much money these companies charge and make half-assed products. Disgusting. It's not like I keep giving one of them my money, I move on, but they all suck somehow.

I got the Corsair Strafe RGB with Cherry Silent keys. I love it. I've had it 6 (?) years with zero problems.

 

[sdifox]

Overall just general quest to find a good mechanical gaming keyboard.

First started with a Corsair K75 or K70 a few years ago. Keys started breaking off after a year. Not even the most used ones like WASD or even the most typed letters. Corsair sent a replacement key, then another. And more kept breaking off. So cheaply made. Other people online said the same thing happened to them so I said fuck that company and got a Steelseries Apex 7 Pro. Now that keyboard started exhibiting another issue, it would blink, then no keys would respond until you unplugged the keyboard from the PC and plugged it right back in, then it would work. This would happen like 3 times a day or more. I tried using stock Windows drivers, did troubleshooting with Steelseries, they finally gave me credit to buy a new one from them. The new one did the exact same shit. A known issue by folks online as well.

Both the Corsair and Steelseries I got the Cherry Reds.

I dealt with the Steelseries blinking in and out of working for over a year, and did a lot of research and got the Roccat Vulcan 121. Custom in-house developed keys. Pretty unique design. It was a nice keyboard, the in-house keys looked good but weren't amazing to type on, just ok, but it didn't have dedicated media keys, and turns out the F-media keys didn't work very well with many media apps. Roccat said they hoped to fix this with an update. Also, when their software wasn't running, your lighting profile would not save, even though it had onboard memory for macros. Since I use this with my console, it was terrible. Returning to Amazon. They had no plans to add that feature. Both the Corsair and Steelseries had good media controls that worked flawlessly and you could save lighting profiles to memory.

So I got the Razer Huntsman Elite. The feel of their in-house optical/mechanical purple tactile/clicky keys is freaking amazing. Best typing experience I've had ever. Again the saving the lighting profile thing no workie with Razer, even though it has onboard memory to store key assignments and macros. Also the dedicated media keys were finicky with some apps like Tidal. Like Jesus H Christ can anybody make a goddamn quality keyboard with a few basic features a shit ton of people want? If you look online tons of people just want their lighting to work even when the keyboard software isn't running, for whatever reason. And media controls. Switching from app to app on a computer to just skip a track is dumb in this day and age.

I did find a thread on how to fix the media key issues by changing a folder name in the Razer program data. I think part of the problem is Tidal, but yet Steelseries and Corsair figured them out. Just Roccat and Razer did not. Then I downloaded OpenRGB to create a lighting profile that way, and it saved to the device and now works when I don't have the Razer software running. You lose out on super fancy lighting profiles, which is fine for me, I just want it blue with the WASD keys being white. So it works for me, but not for the kiddies that want lots of special lighting effects, sucks for them The typing feel is just too good on this Razer to continue the search.

Razer also cheaped out by using the cheaper material keys, to get double shot PBT keys you need to drop another $30 bucks from them. I didn't pay full price but it's ridiculous they couldn't include them. But whatever. The logitech offerings were even more overpriced and had mediocre reviews for the style I wanted. No TKL for me. Asus was the only other major player I haven't tried, but this Razer will have to do.

I threw out the Corsair and will keep one of the Apex 7 pros I have as backup just in case this Razer starts to break sooner than later. It's ridiculous how much money these companies charge and make half-assed products. Disgusting. It's not like I keep giving one of them my money, I move on, but they all suck somehow.

Unicomp GA LLC: New Model M

 

[MrSquished]

Unicomp GA LLC: New Model M

I saw those. But no lights and no media keys

 

[Red Squirrel]

Trying to order from a local burger place but their stupid site is badly designed and not letting me enter the verification code that they send to my phone. Instead of having a single text box to enter the code, for some weird reason there's 2 boxes, and when you start to type it just enters the first 2 digits then nothing else happens, and there's no way to submit it.

I don't get why so many site are so badly designed now days. How hard is it to make a freaking text box that works across all browsers? Too many people trying to be fancy with excessive Javascript these days and it just breaks everything.

So they just lost my business because of shitty coding. Guess I'll try the poutine place I usually order from.

 

[lxskllr]

I had to pay my cell bill yesterday. Enter my #(user name) to login, hit enter to javascript my way to the password field, and it does nothing. Didn't work on firefox, midori, or epiphany. Worked on my phone using duckduckgo. Guess how I know they only tested it on chrome... Assholes...

 

[Red Squirrel]

Some company called Storyful just took ownership of one of my videos I posted on FB in like 2016 due to a "match" yet the video was 100% filmed by me. Now they are taking credit for the video. I'm just going to delete it, it was nothing special, just a telescope view of the moon, but it's the principle that pisses me off, how big companies can just take ownership of other people's work because they are bigger and more powerful. Copyright law pisses me off so much.

Sometimes I wish I had tons of money since I would actually involve a lawyer with stuff like this just to be petty, even if I lose it ties up their resources too.

 

[pete6032]

Trying to order from a local burger place but their stupid site is badly designed and not letting me enter the verification code that they send to my phone. Instead of having a single text box to enter the code, for some weird reason there's 2 boxes, and when you start to type it just enters the first 2 digits then nothing else happens, and there's no way to submit it.

I don't get why so many site are so badly designed now days. How hard is it to make a freaking text box that works across all browsers? Too many people trying to be fancy with excessive Javascript these days and it just breaks everything.

So they just lost my business because of shitty coding. Guess I'll try the poutine place I usually order from.

You should email them and let them know about the problem. I bet others are having the same problem and they're losing business from others too and have no idea why. They will probably give you free food.

 

[BoomerD]

You should email them and let them know about the problem. I bet others are having the same problem and they're losing business from others too and have no idea why. They will probably give you free food.

Never feed the squirrels...

 

[pete6032]

Never feed the squirrels...

A nice dried corn cobb for his troubles.

But seriously though I have found that emailing a restaurant about a problem nearly always results in some kind of free food. They would much rather have you complain to them in an email than leave a 1 star review on Google. I have gotten a free meal once, a $50 gift card at another place, and free drinks at another.

 

[highland145]

Dr calls in a perscription to CVS for me last Monday. Call CVS when I don't hear from them. "We don't have the prescription." Call Dr back and they say they'll call again. Call CVS when I don't hear from them. "We don't have the prescription." Yesterday, the same. I go by today for something else and ask again, trying to find out what the problem is. Out of stock....that is not the same thing as not having the order. Idiots.

 

[pete6032]

Someone from another house has been throwing their recyclables in our recycling bin. This is actually a big problem because if the boxes contain styrofoam or plastic, we get charged $175 for having "contaminated recyclables." We also get charged extra if our bin is overflowing. This person must be shit stupid because she threw a bunch of online order boxes in there that had her address on them. She didn't even throw them in the bin, just in the alleyway next to our recycling bin on the ground. I took all the boxes with her address on them and walked them to her address and threw them in her front yard. Her problem now.

 

[Captante]

Never feed the squirrels...

 

[BoomerD]

Dr calls in a perscription to CVS for me last Monday. Call CVS when I don't hear from them. "We don't have the prescription." Call Dr back and they say they'll call again. Call CVS when I don't hear from them. "We don't have the prescription." Yesterday, the same. I go by today for something else and ask again, trying to find out what the problem is. Out of stock....that is not the same thing as not having the order. Idiots.

They're out of stock for your Ma's "morning after pills?

 

[highland145]

They're out of stock for your Ma's "morning after pills?

If she gets knocked up, going to put her on Jerry.

 

[BoomerD]

If she gets knocked up, going to put her on Jerry.

Oh shit...not again.

She's getting to be quite a regular on the show.

 

[IronWing]

Ordered some stuff that the merchant claimed will arrive tomorrow. The merchant claimed they printed shipping labels last week and thus declared the order filled, shipped, and completed. UPS acknowledged that the labels were printed this morning. As of this evening, UPS has not received the goods.

 

[Ajay]

Ajay goes on useless rant.
Deleted.

 

[ponyo]

Just finished updating my MacBook Pro to the new Monterey OS and I get this email from IB. About 20 minutes too late.

 

[Captante]

Just finished updating my MacBook Pro to the new Monterey OS and I get this email from IB. About 20 minutes too late.

Nice of them to tell you AFTER the fact!

Hopefully you have another computer available till its fixed.


EDIT: Apparently it is possible to "downgrade" to Big Sur but its kind of a PITA since you have to wipe and do a clean install.

How to downgrade Mac OS back to Big Sur

 

[BarkingGhostar]

Ordered some stuff that the merchant claimed will arrive tomorrow. The merchant claimed they printed shipping labels last week and thus declared the order filled, shipped, and completed. UPS acknowledged that the labels were printed this morning. As of this evening, UPS has not received the goods.

Which merchant is this?

 

[Ajay]

Just finished updating my MacBook Pro to the new Monterey OS and I get this email from IB. About 20 minutes too late.

Always, always have a backup. Especially for new OS upgrades. Sorry for your troubles - guess you'll have to stuff some money under the mattress /jk

 

[Red Squirrel]

We're getting a mix of freezing rain/snow which caked my solar panels in a nasty crust that can't be removed. Had to turn off my inverter for the year. The little power that does get through should be enough to keep the batteries topped up without any parasitic loads.

I had bought more Unistrut and other hardware so I can retilt the panels so they are at a steeper angle, but got side tracked and never ended up doing it this summer. I was actually going to try to get that done soon but waited too long.