The Official First World Problems Thread™
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I can't get a game that's being given away on the Windows Store for (stupid) black Friday because my current computer doesn't support DirectX 11.
Apparently you can't "buy" a Windows Store app if it's not compatible with your current system. I just want to add it to my account now to play it later on a different device.
Trying to buy it via the website just redirects you to to the store app if it detects you're on Windows 10, or tells you that your platform is not supported if it detects any other OS.
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@anonymous234 that's actually retarded :(
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@Arantor I run into that with regular websites too.
I see you're on Windows, here's your MSI
But I want the Mac DMG because I can't connect it to the net right now.
YOU'RE ON WINDOWS. YOU GET THE MSI.
<Clicks thru 29 various links to finally find the download link> I hate you.
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@anonymous234 At least it shows it to you. The Google Play store likes to hide programs that it decides aren't compatible with the current device.
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@dcon said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
But I want the Mac DMG
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@dcon That's when changing the user agent comes in handy.
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@Arantor said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@Lorne-Kates You know that's not going to work forever, right? There is going to come a point where too much of the web has gone all fucktarded and demands a more recent browser.
I'm genuinely shocked you can even use NodeBB on FF22 given websockets.
I believe @ben_lubar made and suggested several FF22 compatibility fixes on Lorne's behalf. I don't think Lorne's NodeBB experience would've been as good without those.
TRWTF, of course, is that UI misdecisions have to be in any way tied to browser features.
Lorne - just get the latest firefox and install Classic Theme Restorer & maybe Status-4-Evar - they allow you to configure FF's UI the way it used to be while allowing more modern sites to still work. (Up until Chrome completes its transition into the One True Browser All of Faith Must Use)
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@anonymous234 said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
I can't get a game that's being given away on the Windows Store for (stupid) black Friday because my current computer doesn't support DirectX 11.
Apparently you can't "buy" a Windows Store app if it's not compatible with your current system. I just want to add it to my account now to play it later on a different device.
Trying to buy it via the website just redirects you to to the store app if it detects you're on Windows 10, or tells you that your platform is not supported if it detects any other OS.
I ran into something like this while attempting to pay my cable Internet bill last week. Obviously I was not at home, and the website geolocated my IP address and then refused login because they don't provide service in my area.
Filed Under: Clever features that should result in someone being fired
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@mott555 said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
Filed Under: Clever features that should result in someone being fired
...but sadly rarely do.
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@Arantor said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@Lorne-Kates You know that's not going to work forever, right? There is going to come a point where too much of the web has gone all fucktarded and demands a more recent browser.
I'm well known for demanding that.
I'm genuinely shocked you can even use NodeBB on FF22 given websockets.
I'm genuinely shocked any site works with websockets, since they don't work.
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@CreatedToDislikeThis said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
Lorne - just get the latest firefox and install Classic Theme Restorer & maybe Status-4-Evar
No.
I COULD upgrade and spend all my time putting lipstick on a turd to make it look like a pig, but it'd still be a turd. Completely with whatever anti-features and spyware Firefox has decided to include under the hood. Plus whatever else they decided to break. Like Extensions/Plug-ins. Which would be the only thing I'd use Firefox for.
Oooor... I can stick with my working browser, and continue to point out shitty web development practices that get exposed by it. Especially since every time I point one out, someone else chimes in with "I tried it on FF latest / Edge / Chrome / mobile and it doesn't work because {insert shitty web development practice here}".
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@Lorne-Kates I know you are, I'm just saying the argument won't work forever. FF22 is the new IE6.
As for websockets, no, they don't work - as I've tried to explain to people here. Every time I mention its foibles, it's not websockets but the person implementing the websockets that has done it wrong.
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@Arantor said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@Lorne-Kates I know you are, I'm just saying the argument won't work forever. FF22 is the new IE6.
Close. People stuck with IE6 because there was broken shit that was written brokenly that would only work in that broken piece of shit browser.
Not everything that works in IE6 would work in other browser.
I'm sticking with FF22 because it does work to spec. Everything that works in FF22 will work in other browsers.
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@Lorne-Kates Except for the stuff that is vendor prefixed.
I get your argument, I just think it's going to bite you in the end - I do the web dev thing myself and I get to work with big corporations so I get to see all kinds of shitty old browsers.
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@Arantor said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
As for websockets, no, they don't work - as I've tried to explain to people here. Every time I mention its foibles, it's not websockets but the person implementing the websockets that has done it wrong.
Toby Fair, it's also because you have the gall to let your internet connection drop for even a half a second. Why would you do that? Don't you know not having 100% uptime is ?!?!
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@Arantor said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@Lorne-Kates Except for the stuff that is vendor prefixed.
What's been added since FF22 that:
- is vendor prefixed
- I give a shit about
- will break the entire site?
Oh no, some transition effects might not work and my page will be less flashy.
If someone manages to put something that critical into css where it can break an entire site by not working 100% correct, then I refer them back to my original statement of "you are doing web development wrong"
I get your argument, I just think it's going to bite you in the end - I do the web dev thing myself and I get to work with big corporations so I get to see all kinds of shitty old browsers.
Well, we all know how difficult it is for an end user to upgrade their browser. All that paperwork and forms to fill out, dozens of levels of approval to get, hundreds of hours of internal testing prior to rollout...
The one and only thing that MAY eventually get me to update even a few versions is that many sites are going TLS1.2 only. It's about the only thing I can't work around. At least not without a janky proxy solution.
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@Arantor said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
As for websockets, no, they don't work - as I've tried to explain to people here.
And that is why I use SignalR: it uses whatever it needs to to maintain a connection.
Yes, I'm a .NET webdev
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@Lorne-Kates I was thinking more of 'stuff that is vendor prefixed in FF22 but isn't in later versions' but given the shit that is going on in the designer end of the web where they have to have their specific snowflake font and pixel perfect layout AND NOTHING ELSE and it has to be perfect in the CSS or it will simply not load for you.
No disagreement that they're doing it wrong but this shit is only going to get worse.
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@Lorne-Kates I get disconnects on my ethernet + cable internets, using it on actual mobile is hilarious fun. I'd love to understand how to get the perfect connection whilst travelling across the country by train.
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@Arantor said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@Lorne-Kates I get disconnects on my ethernet + cable internets, using it on actual mobile is hilarious fun. I'd love to understand how to get the perfect connection whilst travelling across the country by train.
Mobile? etc
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@Arantor said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
No disagreement that they're doing it wrong but this shit is only going to get worse.
I take it from that you're one for
em
sizes?
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@RaceProUK I'm one for em sizes on the rare occasions I ever get a design sufficiently malleable that this could be a thing.
All too often I get designs that are expected to be implemented to the image I get - and often without any guidance on what should be done with 'responsive'.
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@Arantor said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
and often without any guidance on what should be done with 'responsive'.
The company I worked for got around that. The base product is sold explicitly with a responsive design.
But any custom work is done on a per-viewport basis, and is billed as such.
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@Lorne-Kates oh, our product is sold with a responsive design (and the base platform is something that could be called responsive), except we then redesign it per customer as a white label product.
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@Arantor said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@Lorne-Kates I was thinking more of 'stuff that is vendor prefixed in FF22 but isn't in later versions' but given the shit that is going on in the designer end of the web where they have to have their specific snowflake font and pixel perfect layout AND NOTHING ELSE and it has to be perfect in the CSS or it will simply not load for you.
No disagreement that they're doing it wrong but this shit is only going to get worse.
Red boob was fixed by using a vendor-specific CSS property that was added as a non-vendor-specific property in Firefox 29.
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@Arantor said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
I'd love to understand how to get the perfect connection whilst travelling across the country by train.
If it is on my commuting route, the answer is “you don't”. Something to do with deep cuttings and tunnels blocking electromagnetic radiation…
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@Arantor said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
without any guidance on what should be done with 'responsive'.
“Make the user have a screen the same size as my iFondleslab.” —
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@dkf said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@Arantor said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
I'd love to understand how to get the perfect connection whilst travelling across the country by train.
If it is on my commuting route, the answer is “you don't”. Something to do with deep cuttings and tunnels blocking electromagnetic radiation…
Funny that, I have the same problem.
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@dkf said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@Arantor said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
without any guidance on what should be done with 'responsive'.
“Make the user have a screen the same size as my iFondleslab.” —
What usually happens is that get told to make it responsive and then get complaints of "it doesn't look very good", only to reply that the design guarantees it can't look good at anything except the size it was made at. As in, make the designer do some work.
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@PJH I got paywalled
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@Yamikuronue said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@PJH I got paywalled
So did I. The title is sufficient.
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FWP: I feel dirty quoting Atwood in my teatime presentation despite that fact that he's very relevant to any discussion about software development theory and workplace conditions >.>
(I'm quoting his Programmer Bill of Rights as part of a discussion of alternatives to the Joel Test)
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@Yamikuronue said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
Programmer Bill of Rights
it's hard to separate the ideas from the man. he's an asshole, but some of the things he wrote are good.
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@Jarry We have that particular FWP a lot in the software industry. It tends to attract brilliant douchebags.
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@Yamikuronue said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
The honey I've kept at my desk since last year's flu season crystallized, meaning it's harder to get it into the lemon tea for this year's flu season.
Eh, I'm not sure that qualifies as a FWP. Though honey may have been a luxury for most of the world's history, you don't have to be in the FW, or even in modern times, to have this problem.
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@chozang The fact that I'm worried about it means:
- I can afford honey
- I can afford to buy a jar of honey I only use once a year at most
- I work at a desk job where I can keep a jar of honey
- I work at a desk job that allows me to make tea at my desk
- Yet I'm bitching about a situation I entirely caused for myself :D
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@Yamikuronue said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
FWP: I feel dirty quoting Atwood in my teatime presentation despite that fact that he's very relevant to any discussion about software development theory and workplace conditions >.>
YKYBSTMTOTDWTFW ...
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@Jarry said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@Yamikuronue said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
Programmer Bill of Rights
it's hard to separate the ideas from the man. he's an asshole, but some of the things he wrote are good.
But so many of them are pants on head retarded.
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I just bought a Dell and the website would only let me split the payment on two credit cards, when I wanted to use three.
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@boomzilla said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
But so many of them are pants on head retarded.
Toby Faire, that's hardly a problem that is unique to him.
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FWP: I have put too much water in my kettle. If I boil it, I feel guilty for wasting electricity. If I tip it out, I feel guilty for wasting water. Eco-friendliness is clearly the new Catholicism.
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@dangeRuss said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
I just bought a Dell and the website would only let me split the payment on two credit cards, when I wanted to use three.
This sounds more like a Ukrainian cyber criminal problem to me.
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@boomzilla said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@dangeRuss said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
I just bought a Dell and the website would only let me split the payment on two credit cards, when I wanted to use three.
This sounds more like a Ukrainian cyber criminal problem to me.
Nope, they were all my cards.... I just have $100 off $300 for Dell on my cards and was trying to get a $900 laptop split on three cards, but had to settle for a $600 one.
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@clatter said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
FWP: I have put too much water in my kettle. If I boil it, I feel guilty for wasting electricity. If I tip it out, I feel guilty for wasting water. Eco-friendliness is clearly the new Catholicism.
Pour some out into the bird plants.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@clatter said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
FWP: I have put too much water in my kettle. If I boil it, I feel guilty for wasting electricity. If I tip it out, I feel guilty for wasting water. Eco-friendliness is clearly the new Catholicism.
Pour some out into the bird plants.
WTF is a bird plant?
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@dangeRuss said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@clatter said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
FWP: I have put too much water in my kettle. If I boil it, I feel guilty for wasting electricity. If I tip it out, I feel guilty for wasting water. Eco-friendliness is clearly the new Catholicism.
Pour some out into the bird plants.
WTF is a bird plant?
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NBC has aired two commercials in the middle of sentences during SNL tonight and it's 10:35. SNL starts at 10:30.
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@chozang said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@ben_lubar said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
NBC has aired two commercials in the middle of sentences during SNL tonight and it's 10:35. SNL starts at 10:30.
One more time!We'll make it to the fourth world yet!