The Official First World Problems Thread™
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http://davidthompson.typepad.com/davidthompson/2014/12/new-injustice-discovered.html
"Should I spend a pound or two on checking my coat at the bar, or another Jagerbomb?"
If you have to even ask, you should fucking stay home.
Testing to see if Discosearch™ is culture-sensitive.
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Testing to see if Discosearch™ is culture-sensitive.
If you have to ask, the answer is probably "no."
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But being Discourse, the answer is probably "sometimes yes, sometimes no".
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The answer ended up being, "Discosearch™ won't even load any results", so I just gave up.
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We have this Nespresso™ for our coffee at the office. It's the first generation, four years or so. Anyway, if you put a new cartridge and when you press the button, if there's no water left, you can't fill it and try again. I tried in every way to rescue the cartridge but no cigar. The only way to get coffee is to place a new one.
Filed under: how to spend 5€ of company time on a 30¢ loss.
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Anyway, if you put a new cartridge and when you press the button, if there's no water left, you can't fill it and try again.
When it's done with it fish the half used capsule from the waist container. You'll know you have the right capsule because it will the only hot one. Just dunk it in again, fiddle with the buttons, if you feel like it, to get a the right amount of water/coffee in your cup.
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I think I just had a visit of @accalia 's Speller Devil
But Engrish is indeed her first language.
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nah.binary was. engrish was my second language! ;-)
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I double clicked on a video I made and this popped up:
Thanks Windows, that's very helpful to set the default program to open MP4 files as something that can't read MP4 files.
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Maybe it realised it was a DF video and thought it'd do you a favour by not playing it?
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Trying to transfer all the pictures off my wife's old phone, onto the new one (Samsung -> LG). I tried using BT on my own, but 1 folder of 200 pictures and videos took almost 3 hours! But then I find out that both phones have "Wi-Fi Direct" and that seems like a faster thing.
Oh, except that both makers have their own proprietary "beam" technology or whatever, so you can't transfer from one to the other. The destination phone sits there waiting to receive a file, and never notices that the source phone is trying to send it.
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Thanks Windows, that's very helpful to set the default program to open MP4 files as something that can't read MP4 files.
Maybe you used some coded Windows doesn't natively support. I've had that happen. "I'm a Linux user and I only encode my videos with free-range encoders."
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Trying to transfer all the pictures off my wife's old phone, onto the new one (Samsung -> LG). I tried using BT on my own, but 1 folder of 200 pictures and videos took almost 3 hours! But then I find out that both phones have "Wi-Fi Direct" and that seems like a faster thing.
Oh, except that both makers have their own proprietary "beam" technology or whatever, so you can't transfer from one to the other. The destination phone sits there waiting to receive a file, and never notices that the source phone is trying to send it.
Wife went through something similar (Samsung->Motorola). Took her a while to find any good way to do it.
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For God's sake, don't bother telling me what it was!
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She used the built-in Motorola app, but she's still missing half her contacts. Turns out that it wasn't exactly a good way.
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Thanks Windows, that's very helpful to set the default program to open MP4 files as something that can't read MP4 files
I just happen to be watching a mp4 file with media player. So it most likely is a codec issue in and that is something mediaplayer can hardly tell by the file extension.
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... so it makes total sense to have Windows Media Player be the default handler for mp4 files.
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She used the built-in Motorola app, but she's still missing half her contacts.
My contacts are all Google contacts, so they get backed up automatically.
It's pretty stupid that Android phones default to making phone contacts instead of Google ones.
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I usually find phone > PC > phone the easiest/fastest way when having to work around different manufacturers' implementations of shit that should be standard.
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It's h264, which is apparently not supported by Windows Media Player, but is apparently supported by Internet Explorer except that when I try to open it in Internet Explorer, it opens Windows Media Player and says it can't be opened.
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free-range encoders
So these encoders are not locked up in cages but can walk outside?
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It's pretty stupid that Android phones default to making phone contacts instead of Google ones.
Mine defaults to Google. As does my Nexus 5 and IIRC did my S3.
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She used the built-in Motorola app, but she's still missing half her contacts. Turns out that it wasn't exactly a good way.
That I don't get. Data and pictures is one thing but contacts?. Just put your contacts on your gmail or even frikking outlook.com or something. Add account to new phone. No contacts lost. EVER.
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So these encoders are not locked up in cages but can walk outside?
Yeah, and that's the problem: it walked out of Ben's Windows installation.
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Mine defaults to Google. As does my Nexus 5 and IIRC did my S3.
I'm almost positive my Note II and wife's S3 didn't, and my coworker just got a Note 4, and it didn't, because I showed her how to change it.
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Just tried making a contact on the G3:
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Mine defaults to Google. Not uploading a screenshot as it's got my email in it.
Maybe I set it once and each time I get a new phone and restore the settings etc it restores that setting.
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Mine defaults to Google. Not uploading a screenshot as it's got my email in it.Maybe I set it once and each time I get a new phone and restore the settings etc it restores that setting.
If I make a contact and make it a Google one, the phone will remember that and future contacts will default to phone ones. However, this is my third Google phone (6th device, 4 models across 3 manufacturers and 2 carriers if you count my son and wife) so I'm pretty confident I know how it works, at least in the US. (Oh, a second co-worker got an LG from an MVNO and it defaults to phone contacts too, so that's 8 models across three carriers.) The setting does NOT get carried across phones, as every one I've tried initially wants to be a phone contact.
BTW the New Contact screen as I've screen-shotted it should not show your email address, but I am willing to believe your phone behaves differently.
Edit: I was wrong--my son's M8 defaulted to Google, I just checked.
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it walked out of Ben's Windows installation.
Did he leave that dwarven door open again? Ben you should know by now to close that door with some magic spell that is only visible in moon light.
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BTW the New Contact screen as I've screen-shotted it should not show your email address
Shouldn't? Maybe. Does? Definitely.
The setting does NOT get carried across phones, as every one I've tried initially wants to be a phone contact.
Maybe I've set it without thinking/realising then.
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They're not exactly mutually exclusive....
That's an interesting application for an Eaton M90. Is that a Shitsubishi Astron? Why would anyone bother?More importantly, why do I recognize either of those things?
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it should not show your email address,
It should show the account name and mail adress of that account where it is going to store the contact. Before you know it you would be storing that phone sex line as an exchange contact.
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Looks like an I5.
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you would be storing that phone sex line as an exchange contact.
That's cool, it'd sync to my BlackBerry then.
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Looks like an I5.
Nah, definitely 4. Note the front 'lobe' on the valve cover overhangs the open timing cover area.
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That's cool, it'd sync to my BlackBerry then
Just ask if you are in need of some euh .. conversation
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Nah, definitely 4. Note the front 'lobe' on the valve cover overhangs the open timing cover area.
Yeah, hence why I said "looks like", I do like how they continued the design in the valve cover.
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The sauna is too cold but, the hot tub is too hot.
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I don't like my wife's Xmas gift.
And no, it wasn't that either.
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IIRc, it remembers your last choice and used that as the default next time for example, from my G3:
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IIRc, it remembers your last choice and used that as the default next time
Yeah, that seems to be the case. The question was which way was the default. You would think Google would make more sense, but it isn't set up that way (most of the time) in my experience.
Also I'll mention here that my phone shows the email address when you have "Google contact" selected; I didn't realize that when I posted above, but after the redacted screenshots showed up I realized mine does that too.
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I don't like my wife's Xmas gift.
I like my gift, but it's the wrong size.And no, it wasn't that either.
Feel free to hypothesize what the gift may have been.
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Was it purple?
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I wish @dhromed was still here.
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FWP: The smart watch/activity tracker I bought my wife for xmas has a screwed up display. Samsung Gear Fit, basically DOA.