The Official First World Problems Thread™
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@DoctorJones said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
Mercedes doesn't have a "memory" on their seat positions? My Ford has that. If someone moves it (usually me, by accident), you just push the button and it moves it back.
That's a pretty cool feature
Yes. Useful too if 5 people are driving same car.
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@Nagesh said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
Useful too if 5 people are driving same car.
Put a trigger warning on that! You've just reminded me of the obscene amounts of money I'll be spending on car insurance in 13 years when I have 3 driving age daughters at home.
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@abarker Should move over here then. Round here, people complain about the cost of driving lessons instead of of insurance. Unless the instructor accepts... alternative payment methods, of course.
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@PleegWat
I'm sure his daughters seeking alternative payment methods would be a 5 fire for @abarker to contemplate
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@izzion Hm, you might have a point there.
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@Nagesh said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
5 people are driving same car.
Sounds like a good use case for autonomous emergency braking. If the guy who can see where they're going has to verbally relay instructions to the guy sitting on the floor working the brake pedal, the reaction time isn't going to be good.
Filed under: This is not a first world problem.
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@abarker said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@Nagesh said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
Useful too if 5 people are driving same car.
Put a trigger warning on that! You've just reminded me of the obscene amounts of money I'll be spending on car insurance in 13 years when I have 3 driving age daughters at home.
If they want to drive, they should pay for their own insurance.
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@anotherusername said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@abarker said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@Nagesh said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
Useful too if 5 people are driving same car.
Put a trigger warning on that! You've just reminded me of the obscene amounts of money I'll be spending on car insurance in 13 years when I have 3 driving age daughters at home.
If they want to drive, they should pay for their own insurance.
That's the main reason my 20 and 22 year-old kids don't drive.
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@HardwareGeek That's a lot of babies!
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@coldandtired 42, by my count.
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@anotherusername said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@coldandtired 42, by my count.
That was a busy week!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
Quick google suggest slathering it with mayonnaise () and wiping it up.
Not surprising. My grandmother recommended mayonnaise to remove stains from wooden tables.
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@tharpa said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
My grandmother recommended mayonnaise to remove stains from wooden tables.
Why mayonnaise and not simply vegetable oil?
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@asdf said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@tharpa said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
My grandmother recommended mayonnaise to remove stains from wooden tables.
Why mayonnaise and not simply vegetable oil?
My guess? In those days people saved the bacon grease instead of buying vegetable oil.
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@asdf said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@tharpa said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
My grandmother recommended mayonnaise to remove stains from wooden tables.
Why mayonnaise and not simply vegetable oil?
I believe that oil stains the wood.
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@chozang said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
I believe that oil stains the wood.
Mayonnaise contains oil.
It is a stable emulsion of oil, egg yolk, and either vinegar or lemon juice
Thus spake Wikipedia. My guess is that the cleaning properties of the oil (to dissolve oily or waxy dirt) and lemon juice or vinegar (both traditional general-purpose cleaning agents), combine with the emulsifying action of the egg yolk to do, um, something. I dunno; 'cuz mayo will stain other stuff.
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@chozang said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
I believe that oil stains the wood.
Oil does slightly change the color of "raw" wood, but most wooden objects around you have already been treated with some kind of oil, wax, (artificial) resin or glaze.
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So here I am minding my own business when all of a sudden I start hearing unexpected noises coming out of dontknowwhere.
I follow my mental backstack of open browser tabs back to where I last had media playing in the background, and there it was.Stupid Vimeo has copied YouTube's inane "by default, find another video to play after this one and autoplay it" route.
No, Vimeo! Bad Vimeo!
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@Zecc do you have FF22? Most modern browsers (not sure if Edge has caught up yet) add a little speaker icon to the tab(s) currently creating sound.
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@Arantor Firefox 49.0.2 (up to date at current time).
The speaker icon helped locate the tab among the 10+ open in that window, but that was only one Firefox window out of 6.
Filed under: Tab hoarding
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@Zecc said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
Filed under: Tab hoarding
True FWP detected.
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@Zecc said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
The speaker icon helped locate the tab among the 10+ open in that window, but that was only one Firefox window out of 6.
Filed under: Tab hoarding
Hmph, piker. 26 Chrome windows, one of which has 72 tabs. Probably a dozen of which, across various windows, are YouTube, plus 3 music streaming sites. Fun when restarting Chrome and it's lagging so badly that the userscript that kills autoplay hasn't had a chance to run.
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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.
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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.
Put the honey in its jar in hot water (probably no hotter than simmering) to remelt it. Other sources of heat work too, provided they're not too hot; don't want to caramelise the honey. It takes a while.
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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.
Heat it gently until it un-crystallises. This can be repeated as many times as necessary, but as long as you get rid of every bit of crystal it should stay clear for a while.
If you have radiators, sit it on top of one until there's no crystal left. If not, standing it in a container of hot water, replaced when it gets to room temperature until the crystal is all gone, should do the trick. If that's not practical you can try a microwave on low power: if it's a jar with a metal lid, be sure to remove it (and I've got sparks in the past when the jar had a foiled label) and if it's a squeezy bottle for goodness sake take the lid off that too. If you have to resort to the microwave you'll want to do it for short bursts on low power and let it stand for a bit in between.
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@dkf said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
Put the honey in its jar in hot water
Hot water's in the kitchen, and that's like... far >.>
@CarrieVS said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
If you have radiators
pfft, nope, I work in a basement
@CarrieVS said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
microwave
Also like, far >.>
It was soft enough to scrape out clumps with a coffee stirrer I had at my desk. I just wanted to whine about it.
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@Yamikuronue said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
I just wanted to whine about it.
women
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@CarrieVS said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@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.
Heat it gently until it un-crystallises. This can be repeated as many times as necessary, but as long as you get rid of every bit of crystal it should stay clear for a while.
If you have radiators, sit it on top of one until there's no crystal left.
Before everyone had flat-screen displays, we used to put things like this on top of the monitor to warm them.
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@da-Doctah said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@CarrieVS said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@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.
Heat it gently until it un-crystallises. This can be repeated as many times as necessary, but as long as you get rid of every bit of crystal it should stay clear for a while.
If you have radiators, sit it on top of one until there's no crystal left.
Before everyone had flat-screen displays, we used to put things like this on top of the monitor to warm them.
i miss CRT warmed meat pies for lunch.......
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@accalia said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@ i miss CRT warmed meat pies for lunch.......
If only you worked on a nuclear submarine, you could cook baked potatoes on the reactor. I am (relatively) reliably informed that that's a real thing they really do.
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@CarrieVS said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
If only you worked on a nuclear submarine, you could cook baked potatoes on the reactor.
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@Yamikuronue said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@dkf said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
Put the honey in its jar in hot water
Hot water's in the kitchen, and that's like... far >.>
@CarrieVS said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
If you have radiators
pfft, nope, I work in a basement
@CarrieVS said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
microwave
Also like, far >.>
- Sit on it and cluck?
- Put it on your computer and visit meta.discourse?
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@accalia said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
i miss CRT warmed meat pies for lunch.......
We upgraded that to GPU-fried egg and bacon.
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@da-Doctah said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
Before everyone had flat-screen displays, we used to put things like this on top of the monitor to warm them.
My cat used to LOVE laying on top of the CRT monitor while we used the computer.
I miss CRT monitors now. And my cat.
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@anonymous234 My cat likes to sit beside a laptop, on the side with the exhaust vent.
She'll also walk round or jump right over it rather than walk across the keyboard, thanks to intensive training. I miss her a lot - she lives with my parents and I no longer do.
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FWP: my mouse's left button is starting to fail.
In most applications this results in me thinking I clicked, then clicking again after I've realized I haven't.
In NodeBB it results in me seeing there are notifications, clicking the notifications icon, it not opening immediately, me clicking again, then me realizing the first click did go through and now the two clicks were considered a double-click and marked 10 unseen notifications as read.
I have another mouse. It produces multiple clicks when I click once.
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@Zecc said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
FWP: my mouse's left button is starting to fail.
In most applications this results in me thinking I clicked, then clicking again after I've realized I haven't.
In NodeBB it results in me seeing there are notifications, clicking the notifications icon, it not opening immediately, me clicking again, then me realizing the first click did go through and now the two clicks were considered a double-click and marked 10 unseen notifications as read.
I have another mouse. It produces multiple clicks when I click once.
With Hololens, your finger is the mouse, so when that breaks...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
your finger is the mouse,
So you can finger a mouse and pretend to finger a mouse?
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FWP: Returning from a long sabbatical and opening a thread, only to realise you're reading posts about 6 months old.
FWR: Hit 'End' key, then post about it.
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@Zecc said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
In NodeBB it results in me seeing there are notifications, clicking the notifications icon, it not opening immediately, me clicking again, then me realizing the first click did go through and now the two clicks were considered a double-click and marked 10 unseen notifications as read.
I get that problem when I have multiple tabs open for WTDWTF, regardless of whether I use the touchpad or a mouse or a different computer, so I think it's more of an issue with NodeBB than your mouse. It also happens when I try to upvote/reply to/quote posts.
Unless of course that you can replicate the issue on other programs.
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@RaceProUK said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
FWP: Returning from a long sabbatical and opening a thread, only to realise you're reading posts about 6 months old.
Welcome back! I've read
muchsome about you. Have you actually returned, or are you just checking in?FWR: Hit 'End' key, then post about it.
But you didn't reply so you could go back to your actual last read post? ;)
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@djls45 said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
Welcome back! I've read muchsome about you. Have you actually returned, or are you just checking in?
Back for good :D
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@RaceProUK said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
Back for good
Does that have anything to do with somebody else apparently having rage-quit, again?
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@HardwareGeek Actually, no. A few days before I returned, I had decided I'd never come back, and that was a good few weeks, if not a couple of months, after Magus told me on Steam he'd quit.
Obviously I changed my mind ;)
I'll be honest, the real reason I didn't want to return is… well, it's rather personal, and not something I want to discuss.
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@RaceProUK said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
Magus told me on Steam he'd quit.
Was wondering about that guy. TBH I think he was thinking about Blakeyrat...
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@Arantor said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@Zecc do you have FF22? Most modern browsers (not sure if Edge has caught up yet) add a little speaker icon to the tab(s) currently creating sound.
If he had FF22, most sites wouldn't even be able to play their shitty HTML noisemakers.
Bliss.
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@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.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
Was wondering about that guy. TBH I think he was thinking about Blakeyrat...
Magus was talking about Blakey
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@RaceProUK said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
Was wondering about that guy. TBH I think he was thinking about Blakeyrat...
Magus was talking about Blakey
Wow. Like, I feel really dumb now. I have no idea who I thought....
Well, marking that one down for background analysis.......