What first world problem did you have today?

[highland145]

readfrom.net didn't have a book I wanted. I had to Amazon it.

The good, I have an ATT debit refund card with $9 on it so while not technically free, close enough.

 

[BoomerD]

I encountered a Gizmo J thread in the wild...fortunately, I escaped without any serious brain damage.

 

[highland145]

I encountered a Gizmo J thread in the wild...fortunately, I escaped without any more serious brain damage.

ftfy

 

[Red Squirrel]

Someone wanted me to transfer data from a hard drive to a SD card, I bought two just so I can get free shipping. Well BOTH cards appear to be defective. Once the file transfer starts it just stalls after a while and get tons of IO errors in dmesg. Talk about shitty luck. Worse part is I ordered from Best Buy, I could have just went in person but was working so ordered it. Now I have to go through the RMA process which is always a hassle.

 

[sdifox]

Someone wanted me to transfer data from a hard drive to a SD card, I bought two just so I can get free shipping. Well BOTH cards appear to be defective. Once the file transfer starts it just stalls after a while and get tons of IO errors in dmesg. Talk about shitty luck. Worse part is I ordered from Best Buy, I could have just went in person but was working so ordered it. Now I have to go through the RMA process which is always a hassle.

You cannot take your order to the store and replace? Pretty sure I have done that. Unless you ordered from some shady third party seller.

 

[Red Squirrel]

You cannot take your order to the store and replace? Pretty sure I have done that. Unless you ordered from some shady third party seller.

Just went through the process and that appears to be an option, so went with that. I didn't figure I could since on the return policy page it said you couldn't. Apparently I just have to show up with the receipt so I'll try that.

 

[sdifox]

Just went through the process and that appears to be an option, so went with that. I didn't figure I could since on the return policy page it said you couldn't. Apparently I just have to show up with the receipt so I'll try that.

You can always return them at the store and rebuy.

 

[highland145]

You can always return them at the store and rebuy.

Years back, like 90's, friend bought a ceiling fan from Lowes. It was missing parts, maybe a restock. He returned it and bought a new one. I was like...wut...you should return it to the manufacturer. Him, eff that, it's Lowes problem. Me, dayum, that works.

 

[BoomerD]

ftfy

Well...duh.

 

[BoomerD]

Years back, like 90's, friend bought a ceiling fan from Lowes. It was missing parts, maybe a restock. He returned it and bought a new one. I was like...wut...you should return it to the manufacturer. Him, eff that, it's Lowes problem. Me, dayum, that works.

I see you found a Gizmo J thread as well...

 

[highland145]

Well...duh.

Just helping the newbies here....wait....fuck....get off my lawn.

 

[BoomerD]

Just helping the newbies here....wait....fuck....get off my lawn.

Just a minit...gotta finish taking a dump.

 

[highland145]

Just a minit...gotta finish taking a dump.

Lucy Lu can handle that depends or does she need a truck?

 

[Red Squirrel]

You can always return them at the store and rebuy.

Their return policy said you couldn't but I tried anyway and they let me exchange it, but the 2 new ones do the exact same thing. I don't get it. Their either got a super bad batch or there is something about this particular brand/model that any of my computers don't like. Windows won't even recognize it.

 

[BoomerD]

Lucy Lu can handle that depends or does she need a truck?

Ax yo momma.

 

[Red Squirrel]

So the other more expensive brand SD card I decided to buy seems to be fine... What's weird though is the ones failing on the PC are working fine in the cameras. Going to leave my camcorder on record and just let it sit to make sure but so far so good. This is so weird. I still don't know if I'll want to trust those cards though.

 

[sdifox]

Their return policy said you couldn't but I tried anyway and they let me exchange it, but the 2 new ones do the exact same thing. I don't get it. Their either got a super bad batch or there is something about this particular brand/model that any of my computers don't like. Windows won't even recognize it.

Try rufus. What brand did you buy lol

 

[highland145]

Ax yo momma.

Ma hired an excavator for your bum. PrepH left the country.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Isin't Rufus for making Windows USB boot sticks, not sure how it applies here.

... and I just got IO errors again on the new one but this time the whole rsync job crapped out instead of just seeing dmesg errors. I wonder if it's because my sudo expired so I lost permission... this might just be a fluke. If this happens again I'll just su - as root. That's usually what I do when doing file operations anyway...

 

[Red Squirrel]

Nevermind getting errors again in dmesg. Different ones though. Not IO but "access beyond end of device" errors.

 

[sdifox]

https://www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/help/returns-and-exchanges/best-buy-return-and-exchange-policies

They were lying to you about not being able to exchange.

But if four different sd cards are failing, it points to you no?

 

[Red Squirrel]

Already did that, I have 2 new cards now and a higher end one, doing it to all 3, no idea WTF is going on.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I guess SD cards don't do well with mass data transfers maybe? But then why would it work with the smaller cards. I pulled the cards out of my camera and I can do mass copy to those fine, it's just that they're too small for what I'm copying so I can't use those.

 

[sdifox]

Err file size limit perhaps? What is the file system you format it to? Rufus can format a sd card fine.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I just kept it as what it comes preformatted as, vfat I think? What's weird is Windows won't recognize any of these cards, but my cameras do, I was thinking maybe it's something to do with my machine but clearly not.