What first world problem did you have today?

[sdifox]

Yar

 

[Chaotic42]

Had some bark juice leak in my fume hood a while back and today I'm cleaning it up. It is unpleasant.

 

[sdifox]

Bought a hammer drill bit to install a motion solar light. Promptly drop hammer drill and lands on drill bit bending it. Had to drive to store and the one I bought was the last name brand one. Had to get a store brand one.

 

[sdifox]

Had some bark juice leak in my fume hood a while back and today I'm cleaning it up. It is unpleasant.

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You were supposed to give your gf bathroom breaks.

 

[Chaotic42]

You were supposed to give your gf bathroom breaks.

But that's my f... I mean, yeah, good point...

 

[igor_kavinski]

Trying to figure out how I can own a digital copy of tv series without hassle.

Get the Bluray edition. Then download from somewhere. That's fair use. One should be allowed to have a digital copy obtained from any source as long as one has the legally acquired physical copy. These media companies will always act like jerks. There's simply no reasoning with them. Some douche executive will always come in and try to create profit for shareholders with the sole purpose of self enrichment first and foremost.

At this point, I fail to see why they can't sell USB drives with the full Bluray rips in highest quality possible instead of still pushing optical media that is cumbersome to handle and store.

 

[pete6032]

Bought a hammer drill bit to install a motion solar light. Promptly drop hammer drill and lands on drill bit bending it. Had to drive to store and the one I bought was the last name brand one. Had to get a store brand one.

Time to return the broken bit in the name brand package.

 

[sdifox]

Time to return the broken bit in the name brand package.

Eh? I broke it, why would I return it?

 

[lxskllr]

Get the Bluray edition. Then download from somewhere. That's fair use. One should be allowed to have a digital copy obtained from any source as long as one has the legally acquired physical copy. These media companies will always act like jerks. There's simply no reasoning with them. Some douche executive will always come in and try to create profit for shareholders with the sole purpose of self enrichment first and foremost.

At this point, I fail to see why they can't sell USB drives with the full Bluray rips in highest quality possible instead of still pushing optical media that is cumbersome to handle and store.

I don't have a br player. Sides, it's still illegal, and will get me nastygrams if I don't use a vpn, which I don't have. If I torrent, I do it over i2p, but the series isn't on there.

I found an http source. Resolution isn't great, but I can watch it, and that's all that matters. My grand home theater is a 23" monitor, and some 5.1 speakers that have had the rear channels removed :^D Also, I grew up with shit tv. If there wasn't a bunch of snow and other nasties on the screen, I was at someone else's house. I think I prefer lo res anyway. I've watched some tv at my daughter's place, and it looks weird. Everything's too sharp and hard edged. It makes it feel unreal, and hard to get lost in the world.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Everything's too sharp and hard edged. It makes it feel unreal, and hard to get lost in the world.

That's the hardware image and motion processing turned on. Looks crap on most TVs and needs to be turned off or the intensity of it minimized. Sony's processing engine is the only natural looking one I've seen but they are too pricey.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Trying to figure out how I can own a digital copy of tv series without hassle. Legal digital files appear to be unobtanium. I don't do streaming. My darknet sources are blank. That leaves buying dvds. The money isn't a problem, but I don't feel like handling discs, and ripping 110 episodes is VERY unappealing. Why does everything have to suck?

I would actually pay for a service that lets me legally download TV shows and movies. Make it basically a torrent site. You pay a base fee like $40/mo to have access to practically any content, but you can drop it down to $10/mo if you seed enough. Idea being that the more people seed the less strain it puts on their own infrastructure. The service would actually have very little overhead to run compared to streaming services too as most people would just choose to seed. Yeah you'd have people that would reseed those on illegal sites, but people do find ways to do that with DVDs, Netflix etc anyway. If something can be displayed on a screen it can be pirated.

I'm not a fan of streaming either, I want to have a file that I can access through Jellyfin or any other method, locally, on my own network.

 

[lxskllr]

Yea, I like digital files. It's the 21st century, and shipping plastic discs around the world is about the dumbest way to deliver media. They figured it out with music. I've bought A LOT of albums off bandcamp. Fairly priced, no drm, and no physical presence to take up room and collect dust.

 

[KLin]

I'm getting very tired of hearing the bad blend door actuator in my 2013 impala click at me for the first 30 seconds whenever I start it up.

Of course I'm still being a lazy ass about replacing it.

 

[lxskllr]

Fix it with the volume knob.

 

[lxskllr]

I made one of my world famous raw vegetable bowls which includes jalapeño. I rubbed my eye :'^(

 

[Chaotic42]

My neighborhood decided we each owe $200 for some road work. Not sure what they're doing with my regular $480 per year, but I guess it's not enough. To their credit, the roads are pretty decent.

 

[igor_kavinski]

My neighborhood decided we each owe $200 for some road work. Not sure what they're doing with my regular $480 per year, but I guess it's not enough. To their credit, the roads are pretty decent.

Just think of it as charity.

 

[pete6032]

Have some yard waste to get rid of. Nearest site is a 10 minute drive an charges $20 for everything. There is also a site 20 minutes away that charges $1 for everything. Having decision paralysis on where to go.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Have some yard waste to get rid of.

What does it consist of? Cartons? Boxes? Broken tables or stools?

 

[pete6032]

What does it consist of? Cartons? Boxes? Broken tables or stools?

Yard waste = tree branches, leaves, grass clippings, dirt, etc.

 

[IronWing]

Have some yard waste to get rid of. Nearest site is a 10 minute drive a charges $20 for everything. There is also a site 20 minutes away that charges $1 for everything. Having decision paralysis on where to go.

Spreadsheet time, you’re going to need to compare vehicle costs and decide if you want to apply a cost for your own time. Short answer: pay the extra $19.

Edit: we live in an exurb and deal with distance vs price decisions all the time. Last week we determined that it is cheaper to get Thai takeout from the closest restaurant than to drive to the nearest market selling the ingredients and making the meal ourselves.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Yard waste = tree branches, leaves, grass clippings, dirt, etc.

Pay someone to haul it away.

 

[IronWing]

We had a contractor inspect a site for us a couple weeks ago. The site is a pain in the ass, literally, to get to with a hour drive on rocky two tracks plus a significant hike up steep terrain. The inspection report included pictures of the site. The pictures show nice desert vegetation. The only problem is that the area was burned over in a wildfire in July. Someone has some explaining to do.

 

[lxskllr]

I can buy used steel barrels from the consignment shop for $15. Ten boxes of matches from the $1.25 store is... umm... $1.25. So, $16.25 + tax to get rid of the yard waste. Or you can buy a used chipper for ~$10k. I've done it both ways. The chipper's more fun.

 

[Indus]

I don't have a br player. Sides, it's still illegal, and will get me nastygrams if I don't use a vpn, which I don't have. If I torrent, I do it over i2p, but the series isn't on there.

I found an http source. Resolution isn't great, but I can watch it, and that's all that matters. My grand home theater is a 23" monitor, and some 5.1 speakers that have had the rear channels removed :^D Also, I grew up with shit tv. If there wasn't a bunch of snow and other nasties on the screen, I was at someone else's house. I think I prefer lo res anyway. I've watched some tv at my daughter's place, and it looks weird. Everything's too sharp and hard edged. It makes it feel unreal, and hard to get lost in the world.

Windscribe is your friend.

Limited to 15 GB free/ month.. but that's like 5 1080p blurays.