What first world problem did you have today?

[sdifox]

Just be sure to line the inside of the microwave with foil, otherwise it won't work.

eh? microwave comes as a Faraday Cage.

 

[sdifox]

I made Bacon tonight, I have the worst baking trays ever made. Somehow even Bacon will stick to them. So I smartly thought I'd put something underneath so the bacon wouldn't stick, and cleaning would be easy. I STUPIDLY used Parchment Paper instead of foil. And when I took it out, all the beautiful Bacon grease had soaked into the paper. So now I have no Bacon grease to make my omelet with tomorrow.

I even tried to wring it out like sweat from a towel. But that doesn't work here lol :|

no silicon bake mat?

 

[lxskllr]

I've never been able to crack 80% more efficient. If I couldn't do it in this cold ass weather we've had, I never will. I think the best I've done is 77%. There's still some hope for Feb, but I doubt it'll be better than Jan.

 

[Chaotic42]

Roads are a disaster. My usual 40 minute drive home was 90.

 

[IronWing]

My coworkers pitched a new project and took an entirely wrong approach to the presentation. I could watch the project die in the womb, helpless to intervene and redirect the discussion to where management is going. Management is savvy enough to direct more work on the project rather than stab it but it sure was awkward. One is expecting a technical feasibility study and gets a Napoleon Dynamite dance number.

 

[stargazr]

Doing tax return for my SO. HR Block software is telling me she owes a penalty that doesn't make sense. A search found people posting on tax forums with similar issues; probably software glitch. I'm just going to wait a few days for an update, hopefully they will figure it out.

 

[NuclearNed]

I learned today that in addition to nonexempt salaried employees, we also now pay some exempt salaried employees overtime. It's beginning to feel like my company will give more money to anyone & everyone, just so long as it's not NuclearNed.

 

[igor_kavinski]

I learned today that in addition to nonexempt salaried employees, we also now pay some exempt salaried employees overtime. It's beginning to feel like my company will give more money to anyone & everyone, just so long as it's not NuclearNed.

Trust me, I know the feeling. My company's management's thinking has switched to "Old employees are a burden and they are still with us because they won't be able to get a job elsewhere. Why bother promoting them or giving them even more than they are already making? But NEW EMPLOYEES. THEY ARE THE FUTURE! Must meet their demands even if we have to bend over!".

I've seen multiple newly hired idiots clock in and out everyday with perfect serenity and peace of mind because management thought they were professionals and doing what they were supposed to do so those employees pocketed $3000 a month and got fired after 24 months once their contract was over due to poor performance. Yes, HR or management only wakes up to appraise their accomplishments (or lack of) once their contract is up for renewal. In the mean time, they got richer at the expense of older employees like me who have contributed far more over our years and years of hard, consistent and stressful work. Stressful because we have multiple responsibilities on our shoulders.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Redid my gaming machine a while back, new SSD and put Windows 10, since I accidentally bricked Windows 7 while trying to update drivers.

Was working fine and now I can't seem to get any display out of it. Turns on but I get nothing. Really not in the mood to deal with this BS. I have a feeling it's hardware related because I can't even get to the bios screen.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Was working fine and now I can't seem to get any display out of it. Turns on but I get nothing. Really not in the mood to deal with this BS. I have a feeling it's hardware related because I can't even get to the bios screen.

Sometimes even something as simple as taking a memory stick out or blowing on the DIMM socket and putting the DIMM back in can work. My Epyc has this issue (not sure if it's recent or was always there) where when I try to go into BIOS, the screen will black out. Turn the monitor off and back on again and it works and then works consistently fine in subsequent boots, until I shutdown. Rinse. Repeat. At least, it's a minor thing.

 

[pmv]

LoL nothing wrong with wifi, as long as you don't put it into a Faraday Cage and expect it to work.

Unless you count "it doesn't bloody work for its intended purpose" as something wrong. In the week since they installed the new phone line (that enters the property in a different plce from before) the wifi has worked for two evenings, every time the wifi signal would then disappear again, requiring hours-and-hours of repeatedly turning things off-and-on-again (that they pompously call 'power cycling') before it would mysteriously reappear.

It might be that the walls of this place act as a damn Faraday cage, but then how come I can see all my neighbours' networks (and that of at least one nearby business) but not the one in the room next door?

Finally got a 10m ethernet cable and now things work again. Now need to figure out how to turn the wifi off entirely as I don't need it and it's an unnecessary security risk.

Seems that this particular router can only be controlled via a phone 'app' (damn I hate this modern world - full of unnecessary, and generally harmful, yet weirdly compulsory, crap technology - from the internal combustion engine - Satan's own invention - through to self-service checkouts by way of mobile phones and CFCs).

 

[sdifox]

Unless you count "it doesn't bloody work for its intended purpose" as something wrong. In the week since they installed the new phone line (that enters the property in a different plce from before) the wifi has worked for two evenings, every time the wifi signal would then disappear again, requiring hours-and-hours of repeatedly turning things off-and-on-again (that they pompously call 'power cycling') before it would mysteriously reappear.

It might be that the walls of this place act as a damn Faraday cage, but then how come I can see all my neighbours' networks (and that of at least one nearby business) but not the one in the room next door?

Finally got a 10m ethernet cable and now things work again. Now need to figure out how to turn the wifi off entirely as I don't need it and it's an unnecessary security risk.

Seems that this particular router can only be controlled via a phone 'app' (damn I hate this modern world - full of unnecessary, and generally harmful, yet weirdly compulsory, crap technology - from the internal combustion engine - Satan's own invention - through to self-service checkouts by way of mobile phones and CFCs).

Can't move it? Placement is important

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

I ask a question.

Somebody answers with fakebrain.


Fakebrain is bad enough.

Fascist Fakebrain is too much.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Sometimes even something as simple as taking a memory stick out or blowing on the DIMM socket and putting the DIMM back in can work. My Epyc has this issue (not sure if it's recent or was always there) where when I try to go into BIOS, the screen will black out. Turn the monitor off and back on again and it works and then works consistently fine in subsequent boots, until I shutdown. Rinse. Repeat. At least, it's a minor thing.

Managed to get it going, usually with my luck it's not this simple. I pulled the system out of the rack, pushed down on the ram sticks, removed GPU, redid the front header connections, then reinserted the GPU and now it works. Also disconnected a HDD that was for extra storage, but I probably won't need that any time soon now that I put a bigger SSD in there. Fingers crossed it's good now.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Managed to get it going, usually with my luck it's not this simple. I pulled the system out of the rack, pushed down on the ram sticks, removed GPU, redid the front header connections, then reinserted the GPU and now it works. Also disconnected a HDD that was for extra storage, but I probably won't need that any time soon now that I put a bigger SSD in there. Fingers crossed it's good now.

Do you have an air filter? Maybe it's all dead skin cells and microscopic cat fur floating in the recycled air that is getting into tiny spaces and causing problems?

 

[lxskllr]

I bought 40oz of Starbucks French roast beans cause the price was cheap. I had grave reservations, but I like a good French roast, and a good price. Fucking over roasted of course :^S How the hell does a professional coffee shop fuck up every coffee it makes?! French roast should be rich and roasty, it should have no burnt notes. It's like a very slightly lightened Italian roast. If I bought this as an Italian from any other maker, I'd say "Yea, that's about right". Starbuck's baseline is two trips through the air fryer, and it increases from there. Their Italian roast is probably a bag of ashes :^S

 

[Red Squirrel]

Do you have an air filter? Maybe it's all dead skin cells and microscopic cat fur floating in the recycled air that is getting into tiny spaces and causing problems?

Yeah it's a rack mount case with 3 fans up front and it has a filter. It's in the server room too which is not as dusty as the upstairs.

Although there is still lot of dust in that room from before I enclosed it. Once I'm fully done with the hvac it will be better as it will have positive air pressure and that air will be going through a hepa filter.

 

[Chaotic42]

I bought 40oz of Starbucks French roast beans cause the price was cheap. I had grave reservations, but I like a good French roast, and a good price. Fucking over roasted of course :^S How the hell does a professional coffee shop fuck up every coffee it makes?! French roast should be rich and roasty, it should have no burnt notes. It's like a very slightly lightened Italian roast. If I bought this as an Italian from any other maker, I'd say "Yea, that's about right". Starbuck's baseline is two trips through the air fryer, and it increases from there. Their Italian roast is probably a bag of ashes :^S

I like a good light to medium roast and their light roast is darker than anything I'd ever buy on my own. It's brutal.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I tried Starbucks once, and it tastes burnt. I normally like my coffee dark roast but theirs is darker than Klaus Schwab's soul.

 

[igor_kavinski]

I tried Starbucks once, and it tastes burnt.

I also tried it once and burnt my tongue and so I can't tell you what it tasted like.

 

[Stopsignhank]

N/M Wrong thread

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

Ran out of Mozza, so my midnight snack french bread pizzas are made with cheddar.

 

[lxskllr]

Is that a problem? Sounds like an upgrade to me.

 

[Stopsignhank]

Ordered a new car today so had to unfreeze my credit. One agency went OK. Transunion said they had a problem and to call. I did. They asked security questions that had nothing to do with me. I of course failed and now I have to try and fix my credit account.

Last time I did this they lumped 3 of us with the same name and different social security numbers into the same account.

 

[KLin]

Ordered a new car today so had to unfreeze my credit. One agency went OK. Transunion said they had a problem and to call. I did. They asked security questions that had nothing to do with me. I of course failed and now I have to try and fix my credit account.

Last time I did this they lumped 3 of us with the same name and different social security numbers into the same account.

Was "none of the above" one of the options in the security questions? Or do you think they had the wrong SSN and you got someone else's security questions?