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 guess being unable to lose weight?
It is ridiculous how privileged it is in the context of human history to actually struggle with too much calories.
My wife is technically obese. She’s not bedridden fat like you see on TV, just nicely rounded. She complains about wanting to lose weight and finding it hard.
I suffered pretty serious poverty before meeting her and turning my life round, and also the brexit-covid combo basically emptied our supermarket shelves and scared the shit out of us all.
My mouth agrees with her that we should both do more to lose weight, but my mind says “bitch finish that sandwich let’s get a bit more famine resistance in us.”
I think this is also a big part of the issue.
Many countries are only recently in the phase of over consumption, meaning that parents and grandparents are often teaching kids early on to not waste food in a extremely unhealthy manner once you are in the context of over consumption.
For some people their parents grew up in a time where wasting the last few bites of a meal, or letting food go bad, or not eating food that in front of you would actually be bad. Like, if you didn’t eat the last few bites you are wasting a valuable resource that you might not get the privilege of eating tomorrow.
But for example in many parts of the US right now, you are much better off learning to throw food away than to learn to force feed yourself.
It is a shame that the world is like that, but the reality is that for many people today, being okay with throwing away food is an actually important part of staying healthy.
I got a Rx for zepbound and lost a bunch of weight.
I dated a girl who’s family never kept leftovers from meals even thanksgiving dinner they would throw out anything not eaten after dinner.
Wtf leftovers are like half the fun
Thanksgiving sandwiches are amazing.
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.
Yes they run the gamut of how they live their lives. I know some in the Mormon community who are very frugal and save and what not. And there are many people i have known in the Mormon community who act like they are Hollywood celebrities and are just wasteful with everything. Always buying a new car or truck, selling and moving into bigger houses, buying expensive name brands clothes etc.
Even worse
Extra worst! As another example her dad who is no longer alive was close friends with that Bundy family from southern Nevada that had that stand off with the government.
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.
My 65" oled tv is pretty laggy, and there’s supposed to be an Optimize section in the menu, but there isn’t, and the firmware is up to date.
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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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
A couple of weeks ago, my favorite coffeeshop was closed. And, to make matters worse, my backup coffeeshop was closed. I was very lucky that my second backup was open. Otherwise, I would have been forced to go to the fucking Starbucks.
I’d rather eat a spoonful of dry instant coffee than set foot into this establishment.
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
Can you still call that living
I’m trying to hang in there.
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.
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 brake 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
Kick them so hard they’re kids fall sleep when they stop moving too long.
That time, you were “That Guy”.
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
It’s an OBDEleven. It only works for VW, Audi group cars though.
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
Could you link an example? My google-fu is only turning up with aftermarket replacements for the push to start harness.
An example looks something like this
(It shows an one adapter in the first image but it shows an actual harness further down)
I didn’t see one for Mercedes on that site, but it sounds like it mentions the existence of them here under method 3
Installation usually involves:
• Accessing the wiring behind your start/stop button
• Installing the module inline with the existing harness
• Securing the module in a hidden location
That page also suggests that you may be able to disable it with a programming tool on some models. Depending on what you have I’d give that a try first
Thanks boss. I’ll see if my car guy can do the OBD2 setting next time I’m in. Wild that there is a viable market for a component to disable this baby puncher of a feature.
Good luck! Report back it you find something that works! I’ve had the privilege of never having a car new enough to include this “feature”
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.
yes poor soul… I will also donate if you have a link. I’m sorry you’re going through this OP
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.
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
My job is like 8 miles away from my house, so during the winter, I don’t get to have the car cranked long enough for it to fully warm up by the time I have made it to work, so if I forget to use my remote start then I have to drive a cold car to work.
my first world problem is that my commute is too short to finish a full podcast 😩😭
My coworker’s commute is almost an hour on the train, so she can read a new book every week! My commute is only 5 minutes on the train, so I just listen to one or two songs. I wish I could read as many books as she does.
There’s decent odds that whatever device you are playing the podcast on is capable of running software that does audio time stretching. This will speed up playback, but without making the audio sound high-pitched.
Piggybacking on this, I once moved from a 1hr commute to a 5m commute and my first world problem was I could no longer keep up on all my podcasts.
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.
That would annoy me and I’d spend too much time looking at it and thinking about it. I can’t live under those conditions.
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.
