What first world problem did you have today?

[Red Squirrel]

The corporate network took a shit and now I have to load and login to everything again. Seems to happen at least once a week.

 

[stargazr]

I have to return a drum head to Amazon, doesn't fit my Tama 16" drum hoop. I'm trying to get a better sound out of my floor tom, and tried this kind of simulated calf skin alternative.

 

[WelshBloke]

I got put on the "nice" list at work! I WANT TO BE ON THE NAUGHTY LIST GOD DAMMIT!

 

[sdifox]

I got put on the "nice" list at work! I WANT TO BE ON THE NAUGHTY LIST GOD DAMMIT!

You are so working the Christmas shift.

 

[WelshBloke]

You are so working the Christmas shift.

I did that last year! My technique is to start drinking early on days I'm not rostered to be in then when they call for sick cover I'm "well I'd love to but... well... drunk innit!"

 

[sdifox]

I did that last year! My technique is to start drinking early on days I'm not rostered to be in then when they call for sick cover I'm "well I'd love to but... well... drunk innit!"

And that is why you are on the "nice" list sucker.

 

[KLin]

day drinking FTW

 

[WelshBloke]

day drinking FTW

Luckily I work nights so when they ring at 1900 and say they are desperate for staff I can pop one open on the phone!

 

[Red Squirrel]

I was working Christmas shift once and decided to order Chinese food. Fortune cookie said "you are the most dependable person in the company". Probably because I'm the only sucker working here right now.

The Christmas shift used to be so busy too because of the snow storms, but we've dodged that in the past few years. They "upgraded" lot of our alarm systems and half of them don't work so shit is still down we just don't know about it and nobody seems to care.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I noticed my fridge is leaking what I assume is condensate water when I left for my night shift today, didn't have time to really look at it but I hope it's nothing too serious and that it won't leak too much more than what it already did. I'm off tomorrow but it's Christmas eve then Christmas, then Boxing Day, so won't exactly have any chance to look at it during that time either.

 

[KLin]

I woke up at 5:30am, checked my phone and saw a data processing job failed overnight for work. Had to start work then. Least I was able to knock off early.

 

[lxskllr]

I noticed my fridge is leaking what I assume is condensate water when I left for my night shift today, didn't have time to really look at it but I hope it's nothing too serious and that it won't leak too much more than what it already did. I'm off tomorrow but it's Christmas eve then Christmas, then Boxing Day, so won't exactly have any chance to look at it during that time either.

Might be a plugged drain where the water goes to... wherever the hell it goes. An evaporator I guess. Mine got crud in it once, and dripped water on the floor.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Might be a plugged drain where the water goes to... wherever the hell it goes. An evaporator I guess. Mine got crud in it once, and dripped water on the floor.

That's what I'm thinking, either that or maybe the fact that it's been cold in the house, whatever makes it evaporate is not working as it should. I don't bother heating much past 12 degrees if I'm not home and I usually don't make a fire if I'm on night shift either, since I go to bed then just need heat for like an hour to warm up the house to shower then I'm out the door again.

Will see if it clears up on it's own when I keep the house warmer if not I'll have to try to pull it out and start exploring.

 

[Chaotic42]

Even Firefox is nagging me about upgrading to Windows 11 now.

 

[BoomerD]

After several years, I subscribed to Netflix today to watch the two NFL games. During BOTH games, I had to pause the game (once to run down and pick up a used miter saw, once to have lunch), and during BOTH games, while I was watching after being paused, the game stopped and "This content is no longer available." popped up on the screen.
I got into a chat with Netflix customer support. Apparently it was a common problem...lots of complaints about it. They cancelled my subscription and refunded my money.

 

[Chaotic42]

This is sure to be a nice day

 

[lxskllr]

Aldi had their jul treats at cutrate prices, and the shelves were almost stripped bare. The problem? They weren't completely stripped, and I got a bunch of sugary stuff I really shouldn't be buying. At least I didn't pay much for my upcoming new fat layer...

 

[IronWing]

My webmail program uses a power button icon for logging out. One would expect it to turn the phone off.

 

[lxskllr]

Eww, webmail. I don't know how people use email without a proper client.

 

[WelshBloke]

My webmail program uses a power button icon for logging out. One would expect it to turn the phone off.

Is it just Samsung phones that have made it difficult to turn the phone off now?
Press the "power" button; screen turns off, phone stays on.
Long press the "power" button; useless AI assistant pops up.
Swipe down once on the he home screen; no "turn off" option.
Swipe down twice on the home screen; Ah Ha! A turn off button!
Press "turn off" button; get to another "turn off" button!
Press this "turn off" button; are you sure you want to turn this off? Press again if you do!

YES I'M FUCKING SURE! IT WOULD HAVE BEEN LESS EFFORT TO GET A TEAM OF HOBBITS TO CARRY IT TO MOUNT DOOM AND THROW THE FECKING THING IN!

 

[WelshBloke]

Also what the fucking fuck is going on with volume controls on phones! JUST TURN THE FUCKING VOLUME UP OR DOWN! DONT TURN THE VOLUME DOWN FOR ONE OBSCURE FUCKING THING THAT I DON'T USE! MAKE EVERYTHING FUCKING QUIETER!

 

[Red Squirrel]

Eww, webmail. I don't know how people use email without a proper client.

I would love a self hosted web mail client so it's one less thing to configure on my local machine when I reinstall or upgrade OS, but have yet to find anything that's good. Most of them are only designed for one account and you have to do some weird hacks to try to get multiple accounts to work. Roundcube is the closest one I tried but couldn't get SMTP to work properly with it. Wanted to tell it to use an external SMTP server with authentication and it didn't seem to work.

So been sticking with Thunderbird and I just port over the profile when I set it up on a new machine.

 

[IronWing]

I used to run my own Perl webmail client but my ISP declared the underlying Perl module to be a security risk and removed it from their stack.

 

[KLin]

Also what the fucking fuck is going on with volume controls on phones! JUST TURN THE FUCKING VOLUME UP OR DOWN! DONT TURN THE VOLUME DOWN FOR ONE OBSCURE FUCKING THING THAT I DON'T USE! MAKE EVERYTHING FUCKING QUIETER!

You don't like the volume mix option?

 

[lxskllr]

Is it just Samsung phones that have made it difficult to turn the phone off now?
Press the "power" button; screen turns off, phone stays on.
Long press the "power" button; useless AI assistant pops up.
Swipe down once on the he home screen; no "turn off" option.
Swipe down twice on the home screen; Ah Ha! A turn off button!
Press "turn off" button; get to another "turn off" button!
Press this "turn off" button; are you sure you want to turn this off? Press again if you do!

YES I'M FUCKING SURE! IT WOULD HAVE BEEN LESS EFFORT TO GET A TEAM OF HOBBITS TO CARRY IT TO MOUNT DOOM AND THROW THE FECKING THING IN!

No, it's motorola also, and probably a bunch more. I was bitching about it somewhere around here. Pisses me off. My regular phone is out of updates afaik(yay motorola mediocrity!), so I didn't get the full bullshit package, but my newer motorola updated to the latest android, and the power button is permanently fucked. They took something easy, and made it a huge pita. Someone needs a good kick in the balls...