The Official First World Problems Thread™
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2 - 3 months ago was all back to school stuff here. I don't remember when the kid costume aisles showed up near the entrance. Probably mid to late September, so almost 2 months ago. The Christmas stuff that's there right now is where they put other outside / garden / lawn stuff, which is most definitely out of season, so I guess they gotta put something there now.
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2 - 3 months ago was all back to school stuff here.
I saw that shit appear this year in the first week of July. School let out at the end of the last week of June.
Dear Walmst. On behalf of my wife, who is a teacher:
#FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuCK YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU!
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FWP: I can't have a kitten on my lap and use a tablet at the same time, because any time I scroll anything on screen she tries to catch it.
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I was talking to a friend recently who said he has a resident spider on his desk1, which also likes to chase the cursor on his laptop; when he's not gaming he has a fly cursor, which apparently gets it really motivated :)
1 This is Australia, after all.
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First world problem: CD packaging.
I enjoy having physical CDs. Maybe it's because I don't want to sell my soul to Apple or Google, maybe it's because it's sometimes hard to find the music I want online, maybe it's because I enjoy having a physical token of my ownership that looks good on a shelf. Either way, I have a nice collection of about a hundred CDs sitting in a dedicated cupboard.
Now here's the thing. Back when CDs were still new and you could still drive your Dodge without Al Gore screaming at you, the first form of CD packaging was invented - a jewel case:
And it was - and still is - good. Not perfect - the plastic is brittle and prone to scratches, the hinges are notoriously unreliable, and liner tabs and CD tray teeth are pretty much guaranteed to fall off - but still, it provides a good amount of protection to the CD itself, most of the time it's replaceable if it breaks, and most importantly it looks well on the shelf.
Then the record industry apparently thought "why are we spending a bunch of pennies on plastic when we can spend a slightly smaller bunch of pennies and just make the boxes out of cardboard"? And the Digipak was born:
Now, it's still okay - it keps the jewel case's shape, so it doesn't look too out of place when put next to one, and there's still a plastic tray glued inside so you can pull the CD out easily. But when the cardboard on the front wears down or gets bent - well tough shit, buy a new CD or live with it.
But nowadays, apparently, the new trend is to just spend as little money as possible:
This thing holds 2 CDs in the simplest fucking cardboard sleeves available joined back to back. The corner is already bent, even though I just bought the album, because they wound the shrink wrap so tightly that they damaged the packaging. And the only thing that held the lyric sheet in place was said shrink wrap - there isn't even an additional sleeve for it, much less a proper set of tabs. It just fell out of the album when I unwrapped it.
I mean, for fuck's sake. I'd understand if those were some $1 bargain bin CDs that nobody cares about - but they pull this shit on new releases! They released reeditions of fucking Pink Floyd albums in those cardboard abominations! Every single album re-released, just begging for some exclusive packaging to make for a nice collection - nope, a shrink-wrapped cardboard sleeve that's damaged before you take it out of the store, and then damages your CD even further by forcing you to pull it out of those sleeves.
Literally the one thing that drives people to still bother to go to the music store and pick up the CDs instead of getting their fix on Spotify is that either they're making a collection, or a gift. For both purposes, if you want them to pick up your CDs, you should invest in making them look presentable - but nope, better save those two or three cents!
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Every single album re-released, just begging for some exclusive packaging to make for a nice collection - nope, a shrink-wrapped cardboard sleeve that's damaged before you take it out of the store, and then damages your CD even further by forcing you to pull it out of those sleeves.
Well, the 2015 re-issue of Sonic Youth's EVOL came in a jewel case at least.
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A legit cd should look better than a pirate one sold in the streets.
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A legit cd should look better than a pirate one sold in the streets.
A legit CD has more of a chance of containing malware than a pirate one sold in the streets.
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Not everyone buys CDs from Sony…
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FWP: I can't run Fallout Pip-Boy and Discourse on my phone at the same time or terrible things happen.
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Maybe I'm being dense, but, um... What is FWiP?
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FWP: Not knowing what a “FWiP” is.
Fine then! Automatically generated acronym picked!
FWiP is now known to @Tsaukpaetra asFlame War in Progress
, with the corollary "FWP" beingFlame War Progress
Filed under: Just enough to produce a thought, not enough to vocalize it.
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FWP: I can't run
Fallout Pip-Boy andDiscourse on my phoneat the same timeor terrible things happen.FTFY, HTH, HAND.
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FWP: every time I use Discourse on my phone, I find myself engaged in a toxic community of pedantic dickweeds.
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Desktop? That's different.
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FWiP
It's a long fart, does not exclude a sharting possibility. Better check your pants!
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What year is this again?
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Not related to Android, but just a couple of days ago I was using a large, well known FOSS program that handles spaces in file names just fine, but refuses to create them. If you tell it to save to a new file with a space, it changes the space to an underscore. Probably not a bad thing for cross-platform compatibility, but mildly surprising when I noticed it.
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I had to buy the cheaper store brand Waitrose pate today instead of my favorite luxury Waitrose pate. I feel like such a commoner.
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I had to buy the cheaper store brand Waitrose pate today instead of my favorite luxury Waitrose pate. I feel like such a commoner.
It amuses me that Waitrose has the "budget" section - who's after the budget range and shopping at Waitrose?!
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The Waitrose essentials collection includes balsamic vinegar. It's a rather strange market they're going for there
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Probably not a bad thing for cross-platform compatibility, but mildly surprising when I noticed it.
Back in the late 80s, long before Linux was around, regular Unixen could handle files with spaces in 'em, and it worked basically the same way you do it in Windows: wrap the file name in quotes. Or you could escape the space in any of the usual ways.
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Also the toughest decision at Waitrose...
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Supermarket for the 1%? Huh.
I don't think we have something quite like that in Germany.
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regular Unixen could handle files with spaces in 'em
Sure, but *nix depends a lot more on dividing tasks into multiple processes, and a lot of programs don't bother escaping metacharacters when they hand file names to other programs. Of course, sloppy programming is hardly unique to a particular OS.
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I regret having updated Android Studio to 1.5 today.
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updated
You should update your Graphics Drivers. 95% sure that's the problem.
Also, don't scroll with the touchpad in that window. The event loop can't handle so many events and ends up missing some of them due to buffer overflow.
Also, Recommend setting the per-program DPI back to 96 points.
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What year is this again?
Hey, if Oracle doesn't have to accept the existence of spaces, why should Android have to?
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Supermarket for the 1%? Huh.
Only the plebby end of the 1%. There are more exclusive places.
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How do you reply to one person, while quoting another? That's a neat trick, probably not available on mobile...
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The Waitrose essentials collection includes balsamic vinegar. It's a rather strange market they're going for there
I don't get it?
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Oh, great...
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Quote, then click another post's reply button.
Even works on mobile.
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It's only essential to the kind of people who shop at Waitrose. The kind of people who shop at Waitrose and buy balsamic vinegar probably wouldn't want the cheapest possible balsamic vinegar. Essentials ranges are generally staples like baked beans and sliced bread
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It's only essential to the kind of people who shop at Waitrose. The kind of people who shop at Waitrose and buy balsamic vinegar probably wouldn't want the cheapest possible balsamic vinegar. Essentials ranges are generally staples like baked beans and sliced bread
I must be a Waitrose sort of person. Balsamic vinegar may not be "essential", but pretty damned close. At least in our house.
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FWP: Apps on your phone that don't uninstall correctly, instead leaving around a cache directory full of shit. Especially when that directory is hidden from normal inspection.
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rights. they need to do way instain mother, who killed their chrilden.
WTF? And not written by @accalia either…
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WTF? And not written by @accalia either…
No, I mangled a meme. Dost thou not recognize the "How is Babby formed" meme?
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@Tsaukpaetra said:
rights. they need to do way instain mother, who killed their chrilden.
WTF? And not written by @accalia either…
can't help you there. i get a parse error on that text too.
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Only the plebby end of the 1%. There are more exclusive places.
Yeah, Waitrose is more like a supermarket for the 25% plus people who aren't the 25% but think they are or are just simply closer to a Waitrose than anywhere else.
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