First World Problems

[lisarea]

Originally Posted by erimir

That might just be a glitch, because I haven't noticed that behavior on my computer or my roommate's Apple TV.

No, it's consistent. It may be some soft rollout or something, and the UI on the website doesn't use fullscreen for the detail the way it does on the Roku app.

Oh, here: I found some people talking about it on Reddit.

Additional first world problem: Stupid little undocumented partial rollouts like that, where if you describe what's happening, people think you're just doing something wrong.

Pinterest did the same kind of thing, too. Did some secret partial rollout of a feature where they'd add shit to your stream based on some super-shitty metric, but they didn't do it to everyone, so nobody believed me that it was happening. And that is why I stopped using Pinterest.

[Ensign Steve]

It does it on our Roku, too, and I'm way smrter than reddit so it must be ture.

[Corona688]

Originally Posted by lisarea

Additional first world problem: Stupid little undocumented partial rollouts like that, where if you describe what's happening, people think you're just doing something wrong.

They do that because beta testers never like beta testing new adware. So you just don't tell people they're the lucky beta testers.

[curses]

I bought two new games for PC without checking the system requirements and none of my machines are up to par to play them.

[Sock Puppet]

There are some really old albums that I want to get, but iTunes wants a stupid amount of money for them (like 5.99 or some shit), and the only used-CD bin that's conveniently nearby doesn't have them. So I have to either find another used record place or order off Amazon like a fucking refugee.

[Janet]

Try discogs. They replaced Gemm and are dangerously superior from what I've found.

In somewhat related news, The Man from O.R.G.A.N. by Dick Hyman is a real album and not a porn parody. That's even the guy's real name. What a planet!

[curses]

I heartily endorse discogs. Some great stuff there and I've had nothing but good experiences with the sellers there.

Woe to me for I cannot edge the lawn in a straight line.

[One for Sorrow]

My robutt vacuum keeps going over the same area of clean floor, and avoiding the dirty spots. I think it's lazy.

[JoeP]

The robots have learned laziness! Humanity's last differentiator gone!

[Ensign Steve]

bey's taking the car to Sacramento for the weekend so I have to ride my fucking bike to yoga.

[Angakuk]

Originally Posted by Ensign Steve

I have to ride my fucking bike

That sounds like fun. Where do you get a bike that will do that?

[JoeP]

Ang ... there's a web site for that ... the church probably blocks it and you probably do too ...

I am convinced that it's been mentioned on this very forum with a joke about it being where Bey and ES had their wedding gift list. But I can't find it. The search feature must not have access to the same alternate realities as my brain does.

[Dingfod]

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[Janet]

I was complaining to my best friend last night that ever since I dropped my remote control and broke the bit that keeps the battery compartment tightly shut I have to hit the buttons two or three times to get it to work. She thinks that it the epitome of a first world problem.

[Sock Puppet]

Geez, does she expect you to just replace it with a store-bought universal remote like a fucking refugee?

[Ensign Steve]

You think that's bad. The remote for the bedroom tv has been dropped so many times that something in it has broken off and is rattling around in there. I took out the batteries and shook it out, cuz that worked for the cable remote, but for this one it's rattling around in the main compartment. It still works fine, but it rattles. So fucking annoying.

[Miisa]

I went to the service station today to order, well, service, and decided to avail myself of their free facilities to check the pressure of my car tyres. But instead of the usual long hose that goes from the air/gas/whatever outlet directly to the tyres, they had a small hand-held container that was refilled by being placed on that outlet, and then could be picked up and taken - whole - to whatever tyre needed air.

But I had to keep going back and standing there like a clueless dweeb while this contraption refilled as it hardly held any air at all.

[JoeP]

Do they also supply petrol in 1 decilitre cups?

[Miisa]

Don't be silly. A whole litre cups.

BTW, I walked past there with the dogs before my work shift started just now and the proper hose was back. TOO LATE!

[JoeP]

They hide it when you approach with your car.

[Janet]

Originally Posted by Sock Puppet

Geez, does she expect you to just replace it with a store-bought universal remote like a fucking refugee?

The Comcast people told me that won't work because it's a TV/VCR/DVD combo. Not that I ever use the other bits. The VCR is busted and I prefer my separate, region free DVD player. But this was $25 from a coworker moving out of town and hasn't broken down yet, so I suffer with it.

[Sock Puppet]

I wouldn't trust the Comcast people. Especially since you're not even using 2/3 of the combo, I betcha a dollar to a donut that a universal remote would operate the TV part at very least.

[Crumb]

I agree with Sock.

[Ensign Steve]

Oh, me too.

[Janet]

He was specifically talking about their remote. I might try another, if I weren't so damned lazy. When I accidentally threw my VCR remote in the trash I was stuck. I could program it to a universal remote, but those were missing the buttons for TV/VCR and Program Record, which were the two I needed. So I could play, or record, but I couldn't switch my TV over to the VCR to actually see anything. So I decided I could live without it. The only thing I used it for was recording Coronation Street and I was getting pretty sick of it anyway.