What first world problem did you have today?

[QueBert]

That bike is probably going to catch on fire the first time you go to charge it lol. You'd be better off building your own than to buy direct from China.

You might be right, but this is just an unbranded US "made" Super 73 bike with a $2,150 price difference. So it should burn up at the same rate as the expensive one that's built here would. And I'd rather have a $1,150 one burn up than a $3,300 one. But I don't think I'm going to order it though, I lack the confidence I'll actually the bike I'm asking for. Due to their very limited English, it feels like I'm chatting with an AI bot lol. My last message to them asked them to please show me a picture of the bike I was asking for and they sent me the same pic I sent them when they wanted to see it. Doesn't exactly instill hope in me that they even know what bike I want.

I found a scooter that goes 44mph, which would be a death-defying speed for me but it sounds like it would be loads of fun until I inevitably crash.

 

[MrSquished]

Well this happened the other week. I made room in a kitchen drawer for my Kirkland saran wrap. I used to keep it right in the front of a cabinet above that drawer. Well, I use the sliding cutter thingy instead of the sharp teeth edge to slice my sleek saran wrap pieces. With that little blue cutter slider on, the drawer won't close all the way, and if you close it with a bit more than a super light touch it knocks off the blue slider cutter thingie! WTF inhumanity is this? Who makes these kinds of dastardly measured drawers?

I'm actually seriously thinking of cutting into the wood that the drawer slides into on top. Take out a nice even rectangular cut so the side I put the saran wrap on can take it in it's most proper form. I'll probably do it I just need someone with the right tool. Which is probably my brother in law.

Maybe I'll go measure the height of some other boxes of saran wrap at the grocery store first though.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Yeah true everything is made in China anyway even if you buy it local. 44mph on a scooter sounds fun, and terrifying lol.

 

[waffleironhead]

Was changing a password in one of my microsoft accounts and i accidently deactivated my home PC from the trusted device list. Now I cant reactivate it without contacting an admin at my school.
Ive been out of college forever and dont want to alert them that my edu email is still active just so they can whitelist my device.
Now i cant check one of my email accounts from this pc anymore.

 

[snoopy7548]

Ordered a Sapphire Pulse RX 6800 XT for $520 from Newegg Sunday morning (expected stock on 2/7), but it's been on backorder since then. Really hope I get it...

It shipped! But the delivery date is Monday. I was hoping to get it before the long weekend since I have everything else to build my new PC. sigh

 

[igor_kavinski]

I have everything else to build my new PC. sigh

So why not just build the PC? You just have to put the card in when you get it.

Unless, your build does not have an iGPU.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I suck at cooking. I tried to make brownies, ended up making sponges. Not edible at all and tasteless.

 

[igor_kavinski]

I suck at cooking. I tried to make brownies, ended up making sponges. Not edible at all and tasteless.

So you are bad at following instructions. You are a true born leader!

 

[igor_kavinski]

I made lava cake when I was a kid. It was rubbery but other than that, I think it wasn't too bad.

 

[Red Squirrel]

It was super simple too, the only thing I can think of is that it said to use a wood spoon which I don't have so I used a mixer, but can't see why that would make a difference. Maybe metal reacts weirdly with the ingredients?

I think I'll stick to making cookies, I have better luck with those lol.

 

[igor_kavinski]

It was super simple too, the only thing I can think of is that it said to use a wood spoon which I don't have so I used a mixer, but can't see why that would make a difference.

Maybe you measured too much of something. Too many eggs? Or oil? Or butter?

 

[Red Squirrel]

Maybe you measured too much of something. Too many eggs? Or oil? Or butter?

Nope it was dead simple, you put 1 egg, the mix, water and oil and that's it lol. But any time I try brownies they never work out. Other stuff like cake or cookies turns out ok. There must be a step that is implied that they don't tell you. I see that a lot with cooking, where they leave stuff out and assume you already know something.

 

[igor_kavinski]

There must be a step that is implied that they don't tell you.

Ask Kaido.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Over $100 from the Baba?





NNnnnope.

 

[pete6032]

I suck at cooking. I tried to make brownies, ended up making sponges. Not edible at all and tasteless.

They can get that way if you over mix the batter. Remember you're going for batter, not dough.

 

[MrSquished]

I suck at cooking. I tried to make brownies, ended up making sponges. Not edible at all and tasteless.

How are you to make all your food in the dead of winter at your little house on the prairie?

 

[snoopy7548]

So why not just build the PC? You just have to put the card in when you get it.

Unless, your build does not have an iGPU.

That was my plan (i5-13600K), but the RAM which should have been here yesterday is now going to be here tomorrow (hopefully).

 

[waffleironhead]

I suck at cooking. I tried to make brownies, ended up making sponges. Not edible at all and tasteless.

The key to chewy more dense brownies is to not overmix. You just want a thorough blend of ingredients. The more you keep mixing the more cakelike they get, which is fine if you like it that way.
EDITread your other post about using a mixer, definitely a no go for dense chewy brownies. Hand mix all the way)

 

[Red Squirrel]

The key to chewy more dense brownies is to not overmix. You just want a thorough blend of ingredients. The more you keep mixing the more cakelike they get, which is fine if you like it that way.
EDITread your other post about using a mixer, definitely a no go for dense chewy brownies. Hand mix all the way)

Maybe that may have very well been my mistake then. I thought I didn't mix enough last time so I ended up going 2x this time. Can you still mix the egg though? I don't really want the yolk to be all in one spot in the brownies lol.

 

[Red Squirrel]

My alarm system glitched out AGAIN so now I have to deal with a false alarm call. I'm about ready to just cancel this whole service at this point. Basically what happens is every now and then when I leave the house it will go off like 5 minutes later and trigger for no reason. I was at an appointment so in no position to deal with that until later so by the time I got home to confirm everything was fine the police had already shown up. They will bill the alarm company which will then bill me.

Going to look into a DIYable wired system at some point so I can drop the proprietary system. My older system was better, this one has been giving me trouble pretty much since the start. They insisted on upgrading it in 2020 because it uses 4G and the old one was 3G. We still get 3G service here so imo the upgrade was unnecessary.

 

[pete6032]

Maybe that may have very well been my mistake then. I thought I didn't mix enough last time so I ended up going 2x this time. Can you still mix the egg though? I don't really want the yolk to be all in one spot in the brownies lol.

It should be mixed the minimum amount required so that the ingredients are all together.

 

[MrSquished]

Even though it was an open house my clients wanted me to go for my opinions. So I did.

Started at 1:00 p.m. when we got there, already four groups inside and we got right in. And a line started forming behind us. As we were leaving I took this photo.

This is just a small sampling of how many buyers we are going to have to compete with on this bid, listed at 799 k.

It's great when you have buyers but not when there's not enough inventory.

 

[Red Squirrel]

My hvac control system locked up while the furnace was on and it was starting to get too hot in here. It does that ever now and then but first time it happens with the relays on. I have a watchdog script that will force the relays off if it happens but it didn't catch it this time.

I'd have to figure out why it does this, but it happens like maybe once a year so it's a really hard thing to troubleshoot.

 

[QueBert]

Was reading thru the PDF manual for the electric bike I just ordered to find some information. They didn't do shit correctly when they converted it to a PDF so it's not searchable because they didn't enable OCR or something. So it's basically 22 pages of images. And I'm going to have to actually read from the 1st page until I find the 1 thing I want to know.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Was reading thru the PDF manual for the electric bike I just ordered to find some information. They didn't do shit correctly when they converted it to a PDF so it's not searchable because they didn't enable OCR or something. So it's basically 22 pages of images. And I'm going to have to actually read from the 1st page until I find the 1 thing I want to know.

You can upload the PDF to some free online service to convert the images to searchable text.

Try this: https://www.pdf2go.com/create-searchable-pdf