What first world problem did you have today?

[highland145]

2am and I can't find WA/TX highlights.

 

[QueBert]

Could have sworn I dropped my keys in a rats nest of shit in the garage yesterday, decided I'd use Siri to find them, thumbs up for airtags right? Wrong, I could hear the shit beeping but couldn't pinpoint it. Took me about 15 minutes of continually asking Siri before I realized they were in my pocket :-|

I HATE how Apple made it so Airtags only do 3 short sets of beeps then you have to ask Siri again or press the button in find my, it's so damn annoying.

 

[PlanetJosh]

All the cardboard boxes I get from Amazon delivering food and supplies for living and entertainment have to get folded up. So I have to carefully, sometimes with difficulty, fold them, tape them together so it's easier for recyclers to do a pick up of them.

Or I could rough it and actually take some of them outside to the condo complex recycle containers. Which just about approaches third world activity.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I find a circular saw goes well to break down cardboard. Instead of breaking them down I just cut them up in smaller pieces, makes very quick work. Just watch for staples in bigger boxes. Chainsaw actually works well too but it's harder to do one handed so you can hold the box at same time.

 

[pmv]

Or I could rough it and actually take some of them outside to the condo complex recycle containers. Which just about approaches third world activity.

I have to do that regularly. It's a bit annoying that back when this building was constructed nobody thought about recycling, so there's one single rubbish chute you can drop rubbish down, but recycling has to be carried down multiple flights of stairs and across the car park.

And, as they are out on the street, the recycling bins are often full of random rubbish that non-residents have dumped in them.

Doesn't surprise me at all that inner-city areas are the worst performers when it comes to recycling rates. It's so much easier to do it in low-density areas where people have the space for the bins. But it's also yet another of those cases where one gets annoyed with The Olden Days People for failing to think ahead and constructing infrastructure ready for future needs.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

I recycle boxes to ash and smoke.

And I made sure not to live anywhere that multiple flights of stairs would be involved.

 

[IBMJunkman]

Having to replace my swollen nuts.

On my Ford Edge. Seems Ford uses clad nuts and the cladding gets damaged using air guns and then swells so a 21mm no longer fits. Pain in the butt.

 

[jmagg]

My favorite bread (Heidelburg), is late for delivery. NOW WHAT

 

[IBMJunkman]

My favorite bread (Heidelburg), is late for delivery. NOW WHAT

There is always Wonder Bread.
Helps build strong bodies 12 ways.

 

[nOOky]

Having to replace my swollen nuts.

On my Ford Edge. Seems Ford uses clad nuts and the cladding gets damaged using air guns and then swells so a 21mm no longer fits. Pain in the butt.

I replaced my swollen nuts with matte black swollen nuts. Much better looking than stock swollen nuts too.

 

[sdifox]

Having to replace my swollen nuts.

On my Ford Edge. Seems Ford uses clad nuts and the cladding gets damaged using air guns and then swells so a 21mm no longer fits. Pain in the butt.

Use a 22 or 23mm?

 

[jmagg]

There is always Wonder Bread.
Helps build strong bodies 12 ways.

Its no wonder i walked out.

 

[Fenixgoon]

My work is paying for me to go on a trip that I proposed.
Now I have to deliver on my proposal.

 

[lxskllr]

An ongoing problem... Last three years, aldi has had frozen fish & chips during the cold weather months. It was excellent for something that came out of a freezer, and was baked in an oven. $5. Comes in cod and haddock varieties. The previous two years, they were made in the UK. This year, it's from the Netherlands, and it isn't as good. It's not bad enough that I won't buy it, but I'd rather pay an extra $1 or something, and get the one from the UK. The batter is cakier on this year's, and chips don't crisp up as well. The fish also tastes a little different.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Those chips places in UK are closing, cause the fish are getting too expensive.

I'm just an armchair American, I've never actually been to a UK fish and chips places, though they've got them round here (Boston says hello!) too.

 

[lxskllr]

The fish monger <¼ mile away has pretty good fish & chips, but it's ~$15, and I have to leave my house. Aldi's UK version was very good for $5, and not having to go anywhere.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Shouldn't NetherFish be better that UKFish? Further north, cleaner, fresher, colder water?

 

[lxskllr]

Shouldn't NetherFish be better that UKFish? Further north, cleaner, fresher, colder water?

Pretty sure it's the preparation. Cod comes from the north atlantic exclusively afaik.

 

[IBMJunkman]

Use a 22 or 23mm?

I used a 22mm. Each nut had slight slippage until the clad lock up. Had to use a YT hole saw trick on the 20th nut.

 

[spacejamz]

Definitely a first world problem here...

I have my Ecobee thermostat on my Alexa named as Upstairs (have a two zone unit with the thermostats called Upstairs and Downstairs - the downstairs one is a Honeyell thermostat)...

At some point last night, it was magically renamed Ecobee. I asked Alexa to tell me the Upstair temperature but she replied there is no device with that name (which was working yesterday)...After looking on the app, I saw that the name was changed somehow...

 

[igor_kavinski]

After several hours of messing around, got my $120 HTC Vive Flow working (clearance sale). Now it's stuck on a screen saying that it needs a VR controller which wasn't included coz originally the phone was supposed to be used as a controller. Seems HTC nuked that option in some update. So I'm out another $81.5 for the HTC Vive Flow controller.

 

[IronWing]

My Documents directory is gone. I’m running Windows file recovery now but don’t have much hope. Last full backup was late November so mostly lost my tax calcs for the year. File recovery is worthless so far.

 

[highland145]

My Documents directory is gone. I’m running Windows file recovery now but don’t have much hope. Last full backup was late November so mostly lost my tax calcs for the year. File recovery is worthless so far.

Win update? Sister wife just had her MS office suite vanish.

 

[IronWing]

Win update? Sister wife just had her MS office suite vanish.

Butter fingers, I suspect. When file recovery wasn't coming up with a single recent file, I figured that the Documents directory wasn't really deleted. I found it in the Downloads directory. I ran a file search on a specific file instead of the folder and found the folder that way. Since Microsoft uses a custom icon for the Documents folder instead of, you know, a folder icon, I didn't recognize it earlier. Lesson to me, backup more frequently. I had just done backups of the music and photos two days ago but not the C: drive stuff.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Spare, old, rarely used PC won't start.

It did just fine a few weeks ago, but not now.

Get a DOS type error screen about the .cfg being corrupt and wanting an original CD to try a repair. I have a few original CDs, but when inserted, I'm not sure the D drive is reading them. It blinks and whirrs a bit like it's spinning something, but nothing happens on screen. Never get any prompt to try anything. Optics might be bad, or maybe just dirty I guess.

Found a few different rescue 3.5 diskettes. Some do something, others do nothing at all. None boot the system.

Not sure I'll bother much more unless I can find something simple. Might just pull the drive and slave it into something else to copy the files.

Wouldn't mind trying to reinstall an OS onto another drive, but can't do that if the optical drive won't work.