I now have a motorized desk at work and unlike the one we have at home, you cannot single-tap the memory setting and just watch it adjust. I need to hold it until my desired height is reached.
I’m sorry you have to live this way
I’m trying to hang in there.
Can you still call that living
Pretty sure the ones at my work (only by the higher-ups and the people responsible for ordering stuff) don’t have presets. So since my desk was just outside my boss’ boss’ door, whenever he was out I would pop in and move his desk halfway up. That way, every single time he walked in to use his desk, he’d had to move it whether he wanted to stand or sit.
I didn’t dislike him or anything. I (and every person I told to do it when they went into his office) just thought it was funny.
The thing is, the desk in the office does have presets. You still have to hold the button until it stops at the saved height.
Savagery.
My friend is a multi-multi-multi-millionaire. Her father started a retail giant in my country. She has her own pool building with (i think it’s called) a free span roof. It is big enough to contain 6 copies of the house I used to own, exterior, roof, chimney and all. She spends more money per month heating the building and pool (which has not been used in 3 years) and paying maintenance and upkeep, than most people pay on their mortgage per year. She complained that the cost of natural gas went up 1.2%. She was spitting mad, tearing up the bill, balling it up and throwing it down in a huff. She also has a 30 car single span roof garage with row after row of industrial racking which contains mostly packrat stuff. She keeps that “Quonset” as she calls it, a balmy 20C all year through our -25C winters. And also complains about that cost.
I mean, if I was that wasteful and then got the bill I’d cry too
So in your mind she wasn’t aware of what she was paying to heat it until it went up 1%
Or at least didn’t think about how much she was using
You don’t realize she pays her bill every month?
Like, how hard is this to figure out
Someone that rich and disconnected clearly doesn’trealizes. Might not even be paying her own bills
The most first world problem I ever experienced was years ago, some games show tips and info during load screens, well my new computer was loading the games faster than I was able to read the tips, the moment I voiced my complaint about it I knew it was the most first world problem I would ever experience.
Variants on that problem have been around for quite some time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_button
On some older IBM PC–compatible computers, the turbo button selects one of two run states: the default “turbo” speed or a reduced speed closer to the Intel 8086 CPU. It was relatively common on computers using the Intel 80286,[1] 80386 and 80486 processors,[2] from the mid 1980s to mid 1990s. The name is inspired by turbocharger, a device which increases an engine’s power and efficiency. When pressed, the “turbo” button is intended to let a computer run at the highest speed for which it had been designed.[3]
With the introduction of CPUs which ran faster than the original 4.77 MHz Intel 8088 used in the IBM Personal Computer, programs which relied on the CPU’s frequency for timing were executing faster than intended. Games in particular were often rendered unplayable, due to the reduced time allowed to react to the faster game events. To restore compatibility, the “turbo” button was added.[4] Disengaging turbo mode slows the system down to a state compatible with original 8086/8088 chips.
Its all true, I was there. Its all coming back to me.
The beige. Computers were all beige.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beige_box
IBM’s early desktop computers (e.g. IBM Personal Computer, IBM PC/AT) were beige, and box-shaped, and most manufacturers of clones followed suit.[citation needed] As IBM and its imitators came to dominate the industry, these features became standards of desktop computer design.
Every time I wonder why they decided to call a button ‘Turbo’ if fast was the default mode
When I lived with my grandparents for a while I had to use the bathroom without heated floors whenever the maid was cleaning the other one. My current bathroom straight up doesn’t have heating.
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There is no quickfix for the Mercedes auto engine shut off when you stop in traffic so I have to manually turn it off everytime I start the car or else the .5 second delay when I release the break to press the accelerater gives me anxiety
I also started to disable start-stop every time I drive after it once fucked me. I came to an uphill stop just when the light turned green so the car decided to shut itself off. After that I stalled the engine in my confusion when trying to move. Long line of cars behind me of course.
I want to find whoever or whatever team decided that was a good idea and kick them so hard that their grandkid’s grandkids feel the pain.
This exists solely to game fuel efficiency tests, because the tests were/are designed with long periods of idling.
They basically added a feature that uses more fuel in 99% of real world scenarios, to beat fuel efficiency tests in a controlled environment, then greenwashed it as a fuel efficiency “feature”. Isn’t capitalism fun?
They knew the structure of the tests beforehand, and regulators haven’t changed the tests, because we live in corporate dictatorships masquerading as “democracy”.
Same with large trucks. Were made to avoid EPA regulations of smaller trucks, so just build bigger so the laws don’t apply.
Well that does make capitalist sense I guess
Greed is good bra. Ask the devil.
Dear Mr. Orange,
Can you tell me more about why greed is a good tiddy support?
Love you,
Reanu
I was able to do this to my VW by using a OBD2 dongle to set the auto-start-stop battery voltage threshold higher so that it always thinks the battery is low and the engine needs to keep running.
Where did you find this dongle?
The dongle getting place
Heads up, most car models that have auto stop/start also have available aftermarket harnesses that can plug into the button and “press” it on each startup, effectively permanently disabling them. See if there’s one available for your model
Anxiety is no laughing matter. Please try to take care of yourself. I’m sure I’m not the only one who would be willing to throw a few bucks your way, if there’s somewhere we can donate…? Hang in there, it gets better!
My psychiatrist and 3rd therapist suggested I hire a shaman to take me on a guided ayahuasca trip so that I can fully process the mental damage that it has caused. I’ll probably wait until after I receive my new shipment of Travis Barker matcha latte labubus though.
What. The. Fuck.
Not only is that comment insane, but not a single person here seems to be opposed to the idea of disabling a feature that is trying to reduce pollution. I know the corpos are doing most of it but come on, just get used to the auto stop so you don’t idle poison into the air.
I dated a girl who’s family never kept leftovers from meals even thanksgiving dinner they would throw out anything not eaten after dinner.
Would they at least make less food to avoid the leftovers!!! 😢
Nope they were very wasteful. And they all thought they were so much better than anyone else.
bet they white and Christian.
White yes, but Mormon.
I know nothing about mormonism except for surface-level info and memes, but I would have assumed they’d be more frugal types.
Wtf leftovers are like half the fun
Thanksgiving sandwiches are amazing.
I’ve been to a fancy restaurant before. We were given dirty looks for leaving with a bag of leftovers.
Wow. To me, Thanksgiving leftovers > the actual meal.
This hurts my soul.
Having to wait an entire weekend for next day delivery because it doesn’t include the weekend.
I wish there was a “deliver ONLY during the weekend” option so you don’t have to have things delivered to your workplace because no-one’s home.
Get those little pressure lines on your fingers carrying bags of groceries into the house.
Woah, look at Money Bags over here.
The motorcycle I bought to zip around and have fun on is broken, so I have to drive my car instead while I wait for the part to arrive.
F
Couldn’t hear the TV over my crunchy snacks
This is my daily. I am harder of hearing than my wife so I have to turn the TV up, but then it is disrupting her sleep.
So then I sometimes use headphones, but sometimes the odd quietness of the room at that point causes her to wake up.
🤷♂️
I have a weird relationship with numbers. I like some more than others.
I don’t like # 9.
My current phone is a Pixel Pro 9. I’m seriously considering trying to sell it and get the Pixel Pro 10. 🙄
I don’t like odd numbers, so I get it.
Right?!
There is a pixel out on my monitor and I debated getting a new monitor.
That’s one of the first checks I do when I unbox a new monitor. Red, green, blue, white, black; scan each one very carefully. Then, does it suffer from edge bleed? After a color calibration, is it as accurate as described?
I went through 3 panels on my gaming laptop, and literally… 8, I believe, on my desktop the last time I upgraded monitors. Laptop was the same panel of course but I kept getting bad edge bleed. Different screens and panels for the desktop but same issue. And once you notice it, it will drive you crazy. I returned a second-hand laptop because of a single stuck pixel, too, a few years ago.
I game regularly in a pitch-black room and these things are so obvious, I don’t understand how they pass quality control. Next one will be oled though, I’m tired of this bullshit.
Though then you get into crushing blacks and dark grays (on the phones I’ve had anyway)… Can’t catch a break.
If it was brand new, id probably return it, but it was 5 years old when the pixel went out. Yeah, the pixels are failry obvious, shouldn’t pass qa/qc id be suprised if a new display had 8 stucks pixels. Thankfully color bleeding and sruff doesn’t bother me,but im color deficient, id probably be ocd about that too.
When the DS came out, I walked 20 minutes to the mall, picked one up, walked home, and started playing.
I noticed it had one red stuck pixel.
I had my dad drive me back when he came home and got a new one.
My PSP has one white pixel but the pixels are so small, I kept it… especially because it was a Christmas present.
The ac in my chem class was a bit too cold and I forgot my sweater.
Funny story, in my biol class the ac is too cold…so the prof brought in 4 electric space heaters to warm up the room. Cant hear him over the sound of the A/C and heaters fighting.
Set up a wireless microphone by him at the front of the room. Hook the receiver up to headphones with active noise cancellation — those do a really good job of filtering out fan noise.
https://www.amazon.com/Phenyx-Pro-Wireless-Microphone-Transmitter/dp/B0CRRH28H7
https://www.amazon.com/Bose-QuietComfort-45-Bluetooth-Canceling-Headphones/dp/B098FKXT8L
https://www.amazon.com/Extension-Auxiliary-Headphones-Tablets-Players/dp/B07XF8XG45
I’ve always felt that humanity can overcome, or at least mitigate, any hurdles opposing it via use of money and technology.
Are you okay!?
I’m fine. Tomorrow again though, once more into the fray. 😔
Don’t forget your sweater! Though wearing a sweater into the fray seems ill-advised.
I don’t know what’s the most first world problem I’ve experienced, but the most recent was when I tried to use my roasting pan on my relatively new stove today and found that the roasting pan is not induction compatible.
So I put it in the Goodwill pile and ordered a fancy brand pan to replace it.
You could always try one of those adapter plates
I don’t really have a lot of space for more stuff and I did already order another one. Thank you for the suggestion, though.
The firstest world problem ever: Bored horny teen boys memed us into fascism through social media manipulation and no one is willing to face facts about it
and no one is willing to face facts about it
What do you mean by this? I think a lot of people can see that things aren’t right with many teen boys.
Yes but they stop at that instead of seeing them as the cultural mine canary they are, and the proof of it is still the fact no one is doing anything about it
And you are proof yourself not realizing that the teenage boys during Gamergate are about to hit their 30s soon and they didn’t stop being easily swayed misogynistic tools
And their indoctrinating a whole new generation through tate and rogan and the like
While everyone seems to just tut tut and say 'wow teen bois amirite
You really have no fucking clue how bad or deep this problem is and it’s so well known that Chinese aristocrats wrote about it a thousand years ago, they called it ‘The Bare Brances problem’, and it resulted in numerous bandit uprisings resulting in entire villages getting raped and pillaged
And it all started with socially disenfranchised young men who had no future
Just like now
You really, really don’t know how bad it’s going to get. I’ve spent the last year prepping a remote cabin because our family has survived two dictators and they passed down their tips
If you aren’t doing something to secure your family’s safety now, it is likely too late unless you are wealthy enough to drop and go at a moments notice.
and the proof of it is still the fact no one is doing anything about it
I don’t think that’s accurate, there are many truths people acknowledge without taking any action to improve things.
And you are proof yourself not realizing that the teenage boys during Gamergate are about to hit their 30s soon and they didn’t stop being easily swayed misogynistic tools
Oh we’re just making things up now? Okay buddy
What interest do you have in so eagerly denying the obvious? I’m pretty sure if I check your post history I’ll find some interesting things
Oh god I took a look at your comment history and it reads like a bot. You made like 100 posts in the last 24 hours and they’re all practically the same thing.
Did teenage boys drive us to fascism, or are the canary? The canary can’t be the cause of the disaster.
Did you ever think that it’s loud judgemental people like you which open the door to rightwing charlatans to sell a bag full of pleasant lies to teens?If you’re a real human, you’re insufferable 👋
that’s so cool dude
Yes but they stop at that instead of seeing them as the cultural mine canary they are, and the proof of it is still the fact no one is doing anything about it
and what do you expect me to do about it? I’m a 52 year old fat dude, and I’m not going to jerk off a bunch of horny simps.
I’m pretty sure from your post history that you wouldn’t bother to do anything even if you could.
you huwrt my feewings senpai!
