The most first world problem I ever experienced was years ago, some games show tips and info during load screens, well my new computer was loading the games faster than I was able to read the tips, the moment I voiced my complaint about it I knew it was the most first world problem I would ever experience.
Variants on that problem have been around for quite some time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_button
On some older IBM PC–compatible computers, the turbo button selects one of two run states: the default “turbo” speed or a reduced speed closer to the Intel 8086 CPU. It was relatively common on computers using the Intel 80286,[1] 80386 and 80486 processors,[2] from the mid 1980s to mid 1990s. The name is inspired by turbocharger, a device which increases an engine’s power and efficiency. When pressed, the “turbo” button is intended to let a computer run at the highest speed for which it had been designed.[3]
With the introduction of CPUs which ran faster than the original 4.77 MHz Intel 8088 used in the IBM Personal Computer, programs which relied on the CPU’s frequency for timing were executing faster than intended. Games in particular were often rendered unplayable, due to the reduced time allowed to react to the faster game events. To restore compatibility, the “turbo” button was added.[4] Disengaging turbo mode slows the system down to a state compatible with original 8086/8088 chips.
Every time I wonder why they decided to call a button ‘Turbo’ if fast was the default mode
I now have a motorized desk at work and unlike the one we have at home, you cannot single-tap the memory setting and just watch it adjust. I need to hold it until my desired height is reached.
I’m sorry you have to live this way
I’m trying to hang in there.
Can you still call that living
Savagery.
Pretty sure the ones at my work (only by the higher-ups and the people responsible for ordering stuff) don’t have presets. So since my desk was just outside my boss’ boss’ door, whenever he was out I would pop in and move his desk halfway up. That way, every single time he walked in to use his desk, he’d had to move it whether he wanted to stand or sit.
I didn’t dislike him or anything. I (and every person I told to do it when they went into his office) just thought it was funny.
The thing is, the desk in the office does have presets. You still have to hold the button until it stops at the saved height.
There is no quickfix for the Mercedes auto engine shut off when you stop in traffic so I have to manually turn it off everytime I start the car or else the .5 second delay when I release the brake to press the accelerater gives me anxiety
I also started to disable start-stop every time I drive after it once fucked me. I came to an uphill stop just when the light turned green so the car decided to shut itself off. After that I stalled the engine in my confusion when trying to move. Long line of cars behind me of course.
I want to find whoever or whatever team decided that was a good idea and kick them so hard that their grandkid’s grandkids feel the pain.
This exists solely to game fuel efficiency tests, because the tests were/are designed with long periods of idling.
They basically added a feature that uses more fuel in 99% of real world scenarios, to beat fuel efficiency tests in a controlled environment, then greenwashed it as a fuel efficiency “feature”. Isn’t capitalism fun?
They knew the structure of the tests beforehand, and regulators haven’t changed the tests, because we live in corporate dictatorships masquerading as “democracy”.
Same with large trucks. Were made to avoid EPA regulations of smaller trucks, so just build bigger so the laws don’t apply.
Well that does make capitalist sense I guess
Greed is good bra. Ask the devil.
Dear Mr. Orange,
Can you tell me more about why greed is a good tiddy support?
Love you,
Reanu
Kick them so hard they’re kids fall sleep when they stop moving too long.
That time, you were “That Guy”.
I was able to do this to my VW by using a OBD2 dongle to set the auto-start-stop battery voltage threshold higher so that it always thinks the battery is low and the engine needs to keep running.
Where did you find this dongle?
It’s an OBDEleven. It only works for VW, Audi group cars though.
The dongle getting place
Anxiety is no laughing matter. Please try to take care of yourself. I’m sure I’m not the only one who would be willing to throw a few bucks your way, if there’s somewhere we can donate…? Hang in there, it gets better!
My psychiatrist and 3rd therapist suggested I hire a shaman to take me on a guided ayahuasca trip so that I can fully process the mental damage that it has caused. I’ll probably wait until after I receive my new shipment of Travis Barker matcha latte labubus though.
yes poor soul… I will also donate if you have a link. I’m sorry you’re going through this OP
What. The. Fuck.
Not only is that comment insane, but not a single person here seems to be opposed to the idea of disabling a feature that is trying to reduce pollution. I know the corpos are doing most of it but come on, just get used to the auto stop so you don’t idle poison into the air.
Having to wait an entire weekend for next day delivery because it doesn’t include the weekend.
I wish there was a “deliver ONLY during the weekend” option so you don’t have to have things delivered to your workplace because no-one’s home.
My job is like 8 miles away from my house, so during the winter, I don’t get to have the car cranked long enough for it to fully warm up by the time I have made it to work, so if I forget to use my remote start then I have to drive a cold car to work.
There is a pixel out on my monitor and I debated getting a new monitor.
That’s one of the first checks I do when I unbox a new monitor. Red, green, blue, white, black; scan each one very carefully. Then, does it suffer from edge bleed? After a color calibration, is it as accurate as described?
I went through 3 panels on my gaming laptop, and literally… 8, I believe, on my desktop the last time I upgraded monitors. Laptop was the same panel of course but I kept getting bad edge bleed. Different screens and panels for the desktop but same issue. And once you notice it, it will drive you crazy. I returned a second-hand laptop because of a single stuck pixel, too, a few years ago.
I game regularly in a pitch-black room and these things are so obvious, I don’t understand how they pass quality control. Next one will be oled though, I’m tired of this bullshit.
Though then you get into crushing blacks and dark grays (on the phones I’ve had anyway)… Can’t catch a break.
If it was brand new, id probably return it, but it was 5 years old when the pixel went out. Yeah, the pixels are failry obvious, shouldn’t pass qa/qc id be suprised if a new display had 8 stucks pixels. Thankfully color bleeding and sruff doesn’t bother me,but im color deficient, id probably be ocd about that too.
When the DS came out, I walked 20 minutes to the mall, picked one up, walked home, and started playing.
I noticed it had one red stuck pixel.
I had my dad drive me back when he came home and got a new one.
My PSP has one white pixel but the pixels are so small, I kept it… especially because it was a Christmas present.
That would annoy me and I’d spend too much time looking at it and thinking about it. I can’t live under those conditions.
Not mine, but two collages of mine.
Over lunch we were discussing what we cook for dinner most nights etc.
The two of them live together and said that they don’t cook they have a food delivery service that delivers nutritious hot home cooked meals to their door every night at 7pm
They complained that on Wednesdays the food isn’t as good as other days.
My robot lawnmower keeps getting stuck on my garden beds and I have to walk out at least once a day to restart it.
They’re called bed because the put the robot to sleep.
Does the map not have a way to block the beds area? I block the bathrooms from my vacuum.
Not with my dumb free bouncing worx robot. Next robot will solve that problem though. No wires and use GPS (well… RTX, VSLAM, and cameras/sensors). What a time to be alive.
Oh yeah. I upgraded my dumb bouncy robot vacuum for one with lidar and a base station it vacuums into. It’s amazing and I love it. I even got shorter doggy gates to block bedrooms but I elevated them about 5 inches off the floor so the vacuum could still go under and clean the room.
My friend is a multi-multi-multi-millionaire. Her father started a retail giant in my country. She has her own pool building with (i think it’s called) a free span roof. It is big enough to contain 6 copies of the house I used to own, exterior, roof, chimney and all. She spends more money per month heating the building and pool (which has not been used in 3 years) and paying maintenance and upkeep, than most people pay on their mortgage per year. She complained that the cost of natural gas went up 1.2%. She was spitting mad, tearing up the bill, balling it up and throwing it down in a huff. She also has a 30 car single span roof garage with row after row of industrial racking which contains mostly packrat stuff. She keeps that “Quonset” as she calls it, a balmy 20C all year through our -25C winters. And also complains about that cost.
I mean, if I was that wasteful and then got the bill I’d cry too
So in your mind she wasn’t aware of what she was paying to heat it until it went up 1%
Or at least didn’t think about how much she was using
You don’t realize she pays her bill every month?
Like, how hard is this to figure out
Someone that rich and disconnected clearly doesn’trealizes. Might not even be paying her own bills
The ac in my chem class was a bit too cold and I forgot my sweater.
Funny story, in my biol class the ac is too cold…so the prof brought in 4 electric space heaters to warm up the room. Cant hear him over the sound of the A/C and heaters fighting.
Set up a wireless microphone by him at the front of the room. Hook the receiver up to headphones with active noise cancellation — those do a really good job of filtering out fan noise.
https://www.amazon.com/Phenyx-Pro-Wireless-Microphone-Transmitter/dp/B0CRRH28H7
https://www.amazon.com/Bose-QuietComfort-45-Bluetooth-Canceling-Headphones/dp/B098FKXT8L
https://www.amazon.com/Extension-Auxiliary-Headphones-Tablets-Players/dp/B07XF8XG45
I’ve always felt that humanity can overcome, or at least mitigate, any hurdles opposing it via use of money and technology.
Are you okay!?
I’m fine. Tomorrow again though, once more into the fray. 😔
Don’t forget your sweater! Though wearing a sweater into the fray seems ill-advised.
I have a weird relationship with numbers. I like some more than others.
I don’t like # 9.
My current phone is a Pixel Pro 9. I’m seriously considering trying to sell it and get the Pixel Pro 10. 🙄
Ack!
When I lived with my grandparents for a while I had to use the bathroom without heated floors whenever the maid was cleaning the other one. My current bathroom straight up doesn’t have heating.
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My backlog of Steam games that I haven’t played through is kind of overwhelming.
Some highly-replayable games, like roguelikes, make it worse, because they soak up time that isn’t going towards finishing the finishable ones.
My backlog:
- CP2077 (a few hours in but didn’t enjoy the gameplay)
- Mass Effect 3 (I loved ME1 and ME2, but many people say ME3 is not as good)
- Horizon Zero Dawn
- Fallout 4
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake (I might just give up, didn’t enjoy the combat and the padding)
- Hellblade
- Dying Light
- Tomb Raider the recent trilogy
- Baldur’s Gate 3 (got stuck because combat is too confusing/difficult to me)
- Divinity Original Sin 2
- The Witcher 3 (not enjoying the combat)
- GTA 4 and 5
- Dragon Quest Builders
That short list brings me much shame.
How far along are you in the witcher? Combat is basic and kinda boring but what is stellar for me are the characters you encounter, their stories and your interactions with them; Random ones and the ones that have history with Geralt, people in this game feel incredibly real and the writing, voice acting and characterization are great. Also the world, so grand and beautiful inspite of the horrors in it, man made or otherwise.
The game made me emotional so mamy times, there are some great moments in it… In short, there is a lot that makes up for the meh combat. I struggled initially as well when I first played it, but one I left the first area I started to enjoy myself. think it’s worth sticking to it.
Only around 1 hour I think. Part of the problem is the confusing UI and the not so helpful tutorial. I have lowered the difficulty but the tutorial tries to teach me everything at the same time.
I have similar issues with CP2077. I think CDPR is good at characters/stories, but not so good at introducing game mechanics.
Can’t argue with that. White Orchad suuuckss, but once you leave the area (thankfully is short) and the world starts opening up to you it’s so worth it, trust.
I do like narrative games, and I prefer games with full voice acting with W3 seems to have. I will try it again eventually. Thanks for the suggestion.
Combat feels clunky and slow until you’ve got some levels and abilities. I don’t usually uae consumables a lot in games because I don’t want my playstyle to be hampered by not having a potion on me, so I leaned heavily into the magic and it really made a world of difference for me.
Lately?
Dealing with UPS (and I don’t mean backup power, although I did also buy one of those recently.)I ordered a laptop from a foreign country (I’m in the US), and UPS didn’t tell me I needed to tell them my ‘Tax ID’ and there was no way to input it online. So I had to call (and be on hold) a bunch before I could finally supply it, while my package was on hold.
Then they didn’t tell me I had to pay the outrageous tariffs (thank you voters) until I noticed it wasn’t moving and called them again.
Then most nights it said it was ‘on the way’ and would be delivered the next business day, until it reverted to ‘In Warehouse’ (code for held by customs) 4-5 hours later. So far it’s done this for over a week: Each day sending out alerts that I’d get it the next day, then silently taking that back. I’ve been on the phone with them a lot.
Tonight it finally actually said that it cleared customs. I’ll believe that when I see that it’s left Kentucky. Still says it will be delivered tomorrow (technically today) which seems unlikely regardless.
Update: Tracking still says it will be delivered today, and it’s actually nearby now, but that I owe the tariffs again!
Phone support says they see the earlier payment, so I don’t owe, and the website just hasn’t updated… From over a week ago. She also said it won’t be delivered today anyway. Why do they have separate systems that apparently don’t talk to each other‽Update 2: Sure enough, the driver arrives and asks for a check. My new laptop is right there. I told him I paid, I show him a screenshot from my credit card, he calls his office, they don’t see it. I call customer support on my own phone while the driver is talking to his office, support gives me a confirmation code! Driver’s office doesn’t accept it. Their system has to be given notice of payment through some internal channel or something, and that should have happened automatically, but didn’t. I’m given a number to call and told what number to press.
That department is closed now (Friday evening). Opens Monday.
The driver offered to accept a check and said they would refund the part already paid.
Absolutely no way I’m trusting them after what I’ve already seen. Trying again on Monday it is.Update 3: Besides ruining my mental health, now they also ruined the plans my wife and I made for today (…Saturday.) I got a notification this morning while out and about around 40 minutes away by freeway that the package was out for delivery. So I called again, and the phone system even said it was out for delivery today, Monday. Today is not Monday. And once again customer service could see that I paid. She did say she’d call ‘the facility’ and give them the authorization. She also said she would call me back, but my phone didn’t ring while I was rushing home. I called back when I got there and miraculously got the same agent, who said that she did get ahold of them, and gave them the code. But couldn’t reach the driver or something.
I got home and waited. And waited. Eventually the UPS truck did arrive, and of course the driver asked for payment, and I said I paid and asked her to call in.
Then the miracle happened.
Apparently the support agent had actually managed what none of the others could do, and and got the left hand to know what the right was doing. The driver’s manager (handler? Whoever) actually was able to confirm to her that I paid.
The little scanner thing she had however still wouldn’t let her actually take my signature* and close out the delivery. Even with her contact trying to walk her through it. Thankfully she decided to leave the package with me and deal with it later. I really hope she doesn’t get in trouble for that, but her contact didn’t seem to mind that plan, and many hours later it’s showing as delivered.
The laptop seems fine after all that. I expected it to be all kinds of mangled by this malfunctioning machine called UPS.
*Side note: the entire time, the tracking site said
"At the request of the shipper, pre-signing your package is not available.Signature Required Sign Now
Not going to be home? Pre-sign for your package so your signature isn’t required…" - I didn’t test if it would let me. I knew I’d have to talk to the driver anyway.
Ah, yes. UPS. In the Netherlands they suck too. We had something delivered from the US 3 or so years ago. It was quite expensive and we knew import tax would be required. Though we weren’t sure if it had been pre-paid by the seller or not. When we heard that the delivery was on its way to our door we thought all was good. Nope. Dude showed up and before we even got a word in he announced in the most snobbish “I’m not paid enough to deal with your bullshit” way that we better pay up in cash on the spot right then, or he’d send the package back. The amount had to be exact as he had no change. We didn’t have cash on hand and supposedly there was no other way to pay.
Called customer service after the guy left. They agreed that there was no other way to pay. They did agree to send the guy back later that day. It was a weird amount that neither the seller nor UPS had communicated with us. So not only did we have to head to an ATM but then had to go to a shop to split things out into specific coins.
When we paid the UPS guy with too many coins he cursed us out loudly and kept on cursing all the way to his delivery truck where he got in, slammed the door and then sped down the road, cutting another car off in the process.
Complained to customer service again. They basically said they would ignore my complaint.
So… how do other delivery companies tackle the same taxes? They send you an email with a payment link. If you don’t pay within x time they send you a letter with a request to pay. With some of them you can even pay using your card at the door. Never have I ever before or since encountered the way UPS dealt with this. When I see that UPS is the only delivery option a store has I won’t order from them.
Sometimes my 3D printer nozzle gets clogged and if I don’t have a new one I have to order one and use my other two 3D printers until the new nozzle comes
