The Official First World Problems Thread™
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It isn't that kind of forum.
The one with the bear
/me hangs his head in shame for not reading the posts properly
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This happened.
Ah. That's what caused me to be late for work that morning. Was backed up on the Quayside as well (unsurprisingly, to anyone who knows the area.)
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Was backed up on the Quayside as well
Well even blocking just Skinnerburn will do that in rush hour. The first day it was shut in January (you may remember that - actually they still have one of the temporary 'use alternative route' signs up from that), Quayside was almost as bad. Although they did have the roadworks up the hill exacerbating it.
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Well even blocking just Skinnerburn will do that in rush hour
Temporary traffic lights on Forth Banks is always fun as well. First the police station that took 10 years to build caused them at random times - now there's that complex they're building opposite it.
Happily, the latter appears to have a shorter timeframe in mind for its completion...
Although they did have the roadworks up the hill exacerbating it.
And that hole, yes.
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Strangely, we do get physical holes as well as metaphorical ones.
Fuck knows (if I can remember) what they were digging for. It didn't seem like the usual water or gas maintenance from what I remember.
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Fuck knows (if I can remember) what they were digging for
Hidden treasure? Dead Kings? Left over budget to use?
At least it's a deliberate hole, not a sinkhole.
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Temporary traffic lights on Forth Banks is always fun as well ... that complex they're building.
That was what I meant by 'the roadworks up the hill'. Well I think they were doing something to the road in front of it as well, but I assumed it was connected, I guess. And now I know the name of that road. I don't remember the police station being built, I've only owned a car (and only been living/working so as to have to traverse that part of Newcastle regularly by any means) for a few months.
Dead Kings?
You dig in carparks for those, not roads.
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That was what I meant by 'the roadworks up the hill'. Well I think they were doing something to the road in front of it as well, but I assumed it was connected, I guess
Causes of temporary traffic lights on that road over the past few years:
- The police station on the left as you go up the bank. Because they needed part of the road at time to extend their scaffolding for whatever reason or just because.
- Someone unrelated to either #1 or #3 digging holes in the road for a month or so. Both sides at different times.
- Stephenson Quarter on the right as you go up the road. For the same reason as #1. They - however - seem to be more mindful of people actually wanting to use that road than the cowboys clearly employed to do the police station.
and only been living/working so as to have to traverse that part of Newcastle regularly by any means) for a few months.
7 years for me. And I'm certain they were on with that police station back then.
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My laptop's off for repairs.
Actually it's off for re-repairs, the original 'repair' (from last week) having stopped working the same evening I got it back. Except for a brief few minutes when I took it back to the shop to demonstrate the problem, of course.
Dropped it off Monday night - the shop opens too late for me to take it in before work, so in the best scenario I have to put up with an extra evening without a computer - and as it's a fix to a repair that didn't work, it's supposed to be at the very top of the list, so I was kind of hoping it'd be done yesterday, but certainly today.
The guy who runs this shop has absolutely no concept of keeping a customer informed (even if he's promised he will), so if there's any sort of delay I just have to wait until I think I ought to have heard by now and then ring him, and there's always some sort of delay. This time his boss is ill.
I should explain that the guy I've been dealing with single-handedly runs a small branch of a larger business. As far as I can tell, everything has to be relayed through the main branch - ordering parts and so forth, and now apparently this particular kind of repair (replacement charger port) which gets farmed out to a specific guy who, I'm told, does nothing but charger port replacements all day long. Unless of course his boss is the charger port guy, but I don't think so.
So the guy who I'm dealing with is around, the guy who's fixing my computer is around as far as I know. There is not actual impediment to it being fixed. But they don't even have the ability to communicate, let alone actually get my laptop back to me if it is fixed - which it may well be, but I can't have it. An idea of whether I should get it back tomorrow, or whether it might be next week would be nice, or even just some sign that he realises that taking twice as long as you said you would and not even having any information to give your customer is a problem. It just doesn't even seem to register.
Not to mention, I'm finding it hard to be confident that it will actually work this time, and if I finally do get it back and this second round of shamoblics was also all for naught, I think I will just run out of cope. I wasn't too far from either tears or screaming or possibly both after the most recent phone call as it is - this is a highly condensed version of my dealings with this person: it's been going on for well over three months and involves a second thing I wanted repaired, that came to naught.
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So, to me, it sounds like the real FWP is that you don't have a backup laptop. Not even a shitty $250 Acer Win8 tablet with only 2GB of un-upgradable RAM.
Filed under: you need a backup PC so you can ask how to fix your broken PC, seriously, have you even tried using Google from a broken computer? It doesn't work!
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you need a backup PC so you can ask how to fix your broken PC, seriously, have you even tried using Google from a broken computer? It doesn't work!
I have a blackberry and a work computer, one of the two will usually get me somewhere.
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I have a blackberry and a work computer, one of the two will usually get me somewhere.
Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day.
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My FWP is that I have to get up early today to see an endocrinologist. I hope they want to take some of my blood, that's always fun!
Although it's possible I have conflated endocrinologists and vampires...
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And most digital clocks just don't display anything if they're stopped...
In my experience, they often display 88:88888
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I hope they want to take some of my blood, that's always fun!
If you haven't had blood work done in a while, probably.
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In my experience, they often display 88:88888
Your digital clocks display deciseconds? Why?
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On the way to the e-check place:
FML.
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Go to an auto parts store first and ask 'em to pull the codes.
If it's just an emissions issue you can ignore it until the next inspection is due.
Or do what I have been doing for 4 years now, which is "unplug the battery, drive 45 miles, get the car inspected."
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Go to an auto parts store first and ask 'em to pull the codes.
Oh my old Chrysler, you could turn the key on-and-off quickly 3 times and it'd flash the code on the odometer.
I think my Ford can just display them on the computer, but it's too new to get codes yet.
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Go to an auto parts store first and ask 'em to pull the codes.
That's the plan :)
If it's just an emissions issue you can ignore it until the next inspection is due.
Tomorrow. Which is why I wasOn the way to the e-check place:
I left it a bit late to renew my registration >.>
Chrysler
Ford
I drive a cheap little Kia, I doubt it has any of these features
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I drive a cheap little Kia, I doubt it has any of these features
Quick Googling, I think you're right.
It's not like my PT Cruiser was particularly expensive.
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Oh my old Chrysler, you could turn the key on-and-off quickly 3 times and it'd flash the code on the odometer.
I've heard sometimes you can do that, but I believe that's not an option on my car.
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I left it a bit late to renew my registration
tsk, tsk.
Well, what're the cops like where you are? A couple of years ago, I "forgot" to get my inspection done for about 3 months, until a cop pulled me over. Fortunately, I have a believable face, so I got just a warning.
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I drive a cheap little Kia, I doubt it has any of these features
My Kia (2004 Sedona) certainly doesn't.
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what're the cops like where you are?
I'll be fine :) I was just so proud of myself remembering to get the echeck before it stopped being April and then bam.
2004 Sedona
2009 Spectra.
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I drive a cheap little Kia, I doubt it has any of these features
How old is it? If it's not too old, it should have an OBDII port somewhere, accessible from the driver's seat. You can pick up a Bluetooth OBDII reader for less than $20; pair that with a cheap app on your phone, and you can get the codes that way ;)
@Yamikuronue said:2009 Spectra
That answers that then
It should have an OBDII port; the garage will use it to run diagnostics.
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a Bluetooth OBDII reader
That intrigues me. It'd save me driving to Autozone to use theirs (a free service, since they hope you'll buy the parts to fix it from them while you're there) :)
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This one looks very similar to the one I have:
http://www.amazon.com/Version-Bluetooth-Diagnostic-Interface-Scanner/dp/B008UR7J6I/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&qid=1430345152&sr=8-16&keywords=obdii
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I'll be fine
I just meant "do they pull people over the month after the inspection is due or do they not bother for a few months?"
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Sorry, that's what I meant: they won't pull me over for a while. I usually forget for 3-6 months and have only been pulled over for it once.
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Or just spend the $0.40 in gas and drive to the near chain auto-parts store once every 3 years when the need comes up.
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True, but with my own OBDII reader, I can also get telemetry and stuff if I want.
Plus it's a neat bit of kit to play with
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FWP: I was buying groceries at the robot (ro-BUTT) checkout counter. My bill was $10.06. I had a $10 bill, a $5 bill, and a goddamn nickel.
It was @mikeTheLiar-level worst of the worst bad.
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So Chrome apparently just added some kind of desktop notifications or something, right? Just now I went to some TV channel's web site for a story, and "kfor.com wants to use your notifications". Ugh.
Is there a way to turn them off everywhere so every goddamn news site won't ask me? or is this the new full-page-ad-for-a-shitty-"app"-that's-just-a-wrapper-around-the-browser-on-mobile-web-site assholery?
ETA: Also, goddamn, but ABP says it blocked 49 things on that page.
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So Chrome apparently just added some kind of desktop notifications or something, right?
Been there for ages.
And we're getting it here in the next version. Rejoice!
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Your digital clocks display deciseconds? Why?
I have no idea, I don't even have a digital clock that displays seconds, I just have a vague recollection of ones I've seen in the past having three digits on the end. Actually I'm probably thinking of a certain kind of stopwatch that we used to have at school, if I'm not imagining it entirely.
Edit: thinking about it, I think they were more like 88:88888 than what I said before.
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Is there a way to turn them off everywhere so every goddamn news site won't ask me?
Apparently so. Searching for “chrome notification settings” took me straight to those instructions. Ranting is a barrier to fixing.
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Is there a way to turn them off everywhere so every goddamn news site won't ask me?
yes.
1. Open Chrome. 2. In the upper right corner of the browser window, click the Chrome menu Chrome menu. 3. Click Settings > Show advanced settings. 4. In the "Privacy" section, click Content settings. 5. In the dialog that appears, go to "Notifications" and choose one of the following: * Allow all sites to show notifications: You’ll automatically see notifications from all websites. * Ask when a site wants to show notifications: You’ll get an alert from Chrome whenever a site wants to show you notifications. This is the default setting. * Do not allow any site to show notifications: You won’t see any notifications from websites.
You can also block any sites, apps, and extensions that already have permission to send you notifications. Just click Manage exceptions.
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I left it a bit late to renew my registration >.>
I was in the middle of getting my clutch master cylinder repaired when my emissions came due... they'd fixed that, but busted the switch that forces you to push in the clutch while starting...oh, wait there's two, and it took them three tries to realize you can't order just the one, they're a set...
Annnnd... if those switches aren't enabled.... Check Engine light... no emissions testing for me!
TLDR: went to the MVA website to get an extension, and it completely ignored the fact that I was late already... and extended me without penalty.
I honestly don't know how I feel about that....
with my own OBDII reader, I can also get telemetry
Do tell...
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@RaceProUK said:
with my own OBDII reader, I can also get telemetry
Do tell...
I haven't really played with that part of the app I have yet, so I don't know exactly what I can get, but some of the stuff will be things like throttle position, fuel flow, stuff like that
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My bill was $10.06. I had a $10 bill, a $5 bill, and a goddamn nickel.
You would have been OK here in Australia as we don't have 1c or 2c pieces so the bill would have been rounded down to $10.05.
But then you would have stepped out of the shop and been attacked by something horrifying like a funnel-web spider, a brown snake, Christopher Pyne or a box jellyfish.
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Why no mention of the drop bear? I thought that was the main fear of all Australians
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Why no mention of the ____ ____? I thought that was the main fear of all Australians
I'm too scared to even mention them
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You'll be ok as long as you wear a pointy hat. With or without corks around the brim.
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Just now I went to some TV channel's web site for a story, and "kfor.com wants to use your notifications".
Ugh...got that one, too.
Filed Under: Morons unite
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Been there for ages.
Desktop Chrome? First I heard of it was a couple of days ago, and first I'd seen a site try to use them was yesterday.
Irritating.
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You would have been OK here in Australia as we don't have 1c or 2c pieces so the bill would have been rounded down to $10.05.
I actually almost asked the person next to me if she had a penny. But then I pretended I was English and too embarrassed to ask.
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If by "just" you mean "years ago", then yes.