The Official First World Problems Thread™
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@JBert said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
airline meals
The "nope, you eat that" thread is .
I've had a few decent meals on planes, but never with a US airline or a flight originating in the US.
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Makes sense: they probably serve meals tailored for US people
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@Zerosquare said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
Makes sense: they probably serve meals tailored for what the US people are willing to take before they switch airlines
FTFY
Best meals so far have happened to me on a Japanese airline.
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@acrow said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
Best meals so far have happened to me on a Japanese airline.
Korean airlines also do decent food (assuming you like the cuisine; I do) and the premium meals on both KLM and BA are entirely acceptable. Flying business in the US in my experience meant getting the same rubbish snacks as everyone else, but at least not having to buy them on the plane.
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We were on vacation for the last two weeks. My daughter was at home for about the first week, then joined us. Last weekend, I'd asked her to record Saturday's UFC fights on ESPN. She set it up.
But she didn't realize that she'd used the SD channel instead of the HD channel.
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@boomzilla said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
We were on vacation for the last two weeks. My daughter was at home for about the first week, then joined us. Last weekend, I'd asked her to record Saturday's UFC fights on ESPN. She set it up.
But she didn't realize that she'd used the SD channel instead of the HD channel.
Just sprinkle some tomato juice on your TV for the realistic blood splatter
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@boomzilla said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
used the SD channel instead of the HD channel.
There was this one blood spray man, like a damn shower of rubies...
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@boomzilla said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
But she didn't realize that she'd used the SD channel instead of the HD channel.
I used to not care about that until I bought a new "slightly" larger TV. Also, suddenly picture-in-picture suddenly made sense.
OTOH, this year might be the year of the Linux desktop, but it's definitely not yet the year of the Linux 4k TV, judging by how poorly the DPI scaling options work.
Filed under: FWP thread is... oh wait...
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@remi said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
OTOH, this year might be the year of the Linux desktop, but it's definitely not yet the year of the Linux 4k TV, judging by how poorly the DPI scaling options work.
A few years ago when I was setting up my current laptop, for a bit I was running the pidgin instant messenger on windows as well as on linux in a virtualbox window. The monitor was set to 125% DPI on the windows side.
One pidgin window was rendered natively at the higher resolution, so everything looked smooth. The other was rendered low-resolution and post-scaled, and generally looked horrible. I'll let you guess which was which.
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@boomzilla said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
How hard are the vaccine cards to fake?
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@Carnage said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@boomzilla said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
How hard are the vaccine cards to fake?
Extremely. I was given a blank and told to write down some numbers.
Ain't nobody going to check that closely! Well...
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Wait a minute... this isn't the funny stuff thread!
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@Watson said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
Russian film crew beats Tom Cruise
... would have been good enough
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@Watson said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
Russian film crew beats Tom Cruise
... would have been good enough
This is the First World Problems thread....
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I can't figure out how to turn off the stopwatch so I can't tell the time on my smartwatch.
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@DogsB Did you try "Reset"? That (and only that) dismisses the notification on my Samsung phone.
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@DogsB said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
I can't figure out how to turn off the stopwatch so I can't tell the time on my smartwatch.
Easiest solution: wear a second watch to tell the time.
I had a similar issue yesterday. My music (played from my watch to my bluetooth headset) just stopped midway my run. The only way to resume the music that I knew of, required to stop the run (stopwatch and gps track) to access the music controls.
Took me quite some time googling this morning, to find out that it is possible to control the music during a run. Garmin appears to be big on "long presses" of button.
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@nerd4sale said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
Took me quite some time googling this morning, to find out that it is possible to control the music during a run. Garmin appears to be big on "long presses" of button.
Ah, discoverability...
We all have to learn Morse code to use a smart watch.
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@Carnage said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@boomzilla said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
How hard are the vaccine cards to fake?
But faking a vaccine card is a big no-no! Unlike faking the government ID to go around the underage drinking laws.
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@nerd4sale said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@DogsB said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
I can't figure out how to turn off the stopwatch so I can't tell the time on my smartwatch.
Easiest solution: wear a second watch to tell the time.
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@nerd4sale said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
my bluetooth headset
Pressing the primary button on most headphones is equivalent to play/pause. Maybe that will work too?
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@Gąska said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@nerd4sale said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@DogsB said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
I can't figure out how to turn off the stopwatch so I can't tell the time on my smartwatch.
Easiest solution: wear a second watch to tell the time.
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@dcon said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
We all have to learn Morse code to use a smart watch.
No problem. Although it's been so long since I used it that I'm no longer fluent — not that I was ever great; I barely passed the 5 word/minute test and never quite made it to 13 words/minute. (The US standards for Ham Radio licenses used to be 5 words/minute for Novice and Technician, 13 words/minute for General and Advanced, and 20 words/minute for Amateur Extra class licenses, which shows my , because those haven't been true for quite a few years.)
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@Gąska said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@nerd4sale said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@DogsB said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
I can't figure out how to turn off the stopwatch so I can't tell the time on my smartwatch.
Easiest solution: wear a second watch to tell the time.
Dude is quite photogenic. I've been fooled by male models before, hot in the picture but meh IRL.
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@Gąska said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@nerd4sale said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@DogsB said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
I can't figure out how to turn off the stopwatch so I can't tell the time on my smartwatch.
Easiest solution: wear a second watch to tell the time.
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@GuyWhoKilledBear said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@Gąska said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@nerd4sale said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@DogsB said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
I can't figure out how to turn off the stopwatch so I can't tell the time on my smartwatch.
Easiest solution: wear a second watch to tell the time.
Fuck, why would I want time to pull me down?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@nerd4sale said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
my bluetooth headset
Pressing the primary button on most headphones is equivalent to play/pause. Maybe that will work too?
Nope, tried it but no go.
I guess the music player app on the watch crashed or something.
Maybe I should just dig up my old Walkman and take that on a run... Except, I think I don't have any tapes any more.
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I spent a minute looking at my webcam wondering why I wasn't being logged in. I was using the wrong laptop.
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Could also have gone in the "parenting" thread, but
Alt text:
My plan for getting rid of our leftover candy is to start handing it out when I go to drivethroughs.
From The Devil's Panties
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I accidentally hit the picture in picture button and it took me five minutes to find the tab and close it.
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My new headphones has buttons instead of a brainless touch panel but no easy way to rewind or fast forward.
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@DogsB said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
My new headphones has buttons instead of a brainless touch panel but no easy way to rewind or fast forward.
I can't remember the last time I had that. Skip track, maybe. Possibly even skip back, but ffw/rew? Never seen it personally.
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@JBert on the other end of the scale I present https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/05/something_for_the_weekend/
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@Arantor The Internet Of Shit thread is over yonder.
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@JBert no, that particular one was apparently on a timer, no Internet of Shit solution for once.
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@Arantor said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@JBert on the other end of the scale I present https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/05/something_for_the_weekend/
This strikes me a being a bit like a grocery shop claiming "We're located just around the corner!" when in fact you have to drive the first 27 miles to get to that particular corner they're just around.
Modern computing described in two simple steps
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First world problem: when I fill out the Starbucks order on the local delivery service, it tells me the total is £0.50 (because everything is priced at £0.00 and I added an extra to a thing), that I should add £9.50 for free delivery, and that I will be charged £2.00 for handling and £2.99 for small delivery.
For about £25 worth of order.
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@Arantor said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
I should add £9.50 for free delivery, and that I will be charged [...] £2.99 for small delivery.
Reminds me of when I ordered a few boxes of bottles of wine recently. The delivery cost was more expensive than the cost of the cheapest boxes, so it was cheaper to add a few more boxes to my order and get the free delivery, than pay for delivery.
And now I've got about a dozen more bottles of wine than I intended to buy.
Truly a First World Problem, though probably not one that would bother a lot of people, especially on this forum.
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@remi truly a first world problem. Salut!
In my case I’d really have to try to hit the £10 threshold for delivery seeing how someone fucked up and there’s literally nothing on the main menu for any value other than £0.00… the £0.50 I managed was by putting an extra shot of espresso into a mocha I was ordering.
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@Arantor Well you can add twenty shots of expresso to that mocha. Though at that point, it's probably going to cause for both people preparing it, and you if you try and drink it. Also I don't think you could call that a mocha anymore.
(also you probably wanted to say santé rather than salut)
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@remi I think you’re right about my miswording, I’d just been told at some point that that was the word for cheers in French and never questioned it - but then again I’ve never been to France as an adult where it would ever have come up…
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@Arantor You might have been thinking of Spanish "Salud".
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@Zecc very possibly. I’m British so naturally I only speak the one language, insist everyone speaks it and everyone else has to fit around me.
But I did two years of Spanish at the time I did French so it’s very possible I just blurred the lines… one day I might even go to Spain…
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@Arantor said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
one day I might even go to Spain
I like it there. Well, except for the Madrid ring road.
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@Arantor said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@Zecc very possibly. I’m British so naturally I only speak the one language, insist everyone speaks it and everyone else has to fit around me.
As opposed to Americans who can't speak the one language they claim they want and fuck every other language in a internalized attempt to feel inclusive... Wait, this isn't the garage.
Hey fwip: not having a truly single language society for the whole world!
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@Arantor said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@remi I think you’re right about my miswording, I’d just been told at some point that that was the word for cheers in French and never questioned it - but then again I’ve never been to France as an adult where it would ever have come up…
A quick Google search says this is apparently a common misconception (due to the similarity to Spanish "salud", as @Zecc said, and a few other).
I'd never heard of it but of course whenever a English native speaker has an occasion to try and speak French, they butcher it so much that they could equally well be saying one or the other, for all that I understand
(yes, I know the reverse is also true)
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@Tsaukpaetra
you could try and start your own language ...