minor inconveniences that are not struggles

[Madrun Badrun]

I think his expertise is limited to his own filth. 

[Tasty]

I keep trying to avoid The Verge cause I intensely dislike EiC Nilay Patel and those YouTube strikes against people making fun of their PC building video were the last straw, but they keep getting scoops and exclusives and I actually like some of the writers on the site.

[bork]

So you could clearly hear them, but didn't shout "hold on a sec, be right there" or something...?

bork's kryptonite:

- deliveries
- hotels

- shoes

- answering the door for potentially very important things

I did, but it went unheard.    I ran downstairs and opened the door, too, but they were already driving off.  No Reeeeeeeeeeeeee here.

They came back.  Gave the kid $30 as a reward- the dad came back, said he was really surprised I gave him so much, and wanted to give the cash back to me...but I told him to keep it.  Feels good man, etc. etc.  We then proceeded to destroy the license since it had already been replaced.

[Bebpo]

As a condo owner in an HoA community (I assume all condos are in HoAs?), got hit by my first special assessment today. They found some cracks by the common area dinky pool no one ever actually uses and suddenly there's a $1,300 bill/per unit outta nowhere for emergency repairs. Seems like a lot but I asked around and apparently it's not strange to have $3,000 or $5,000 special assessments out of nowhere in an HoA, so $1,300 is supposedly pretty reasonable. Still sucks, and HoAs are lame af, but if I don't want to deal with an HoA I'd need to buy an actual house, which is way more work and expenses so w/e I guess 

My brother  bought a house about a half year ago with a pool and then found out he needed $30,000 in repairs or $20,000 to fill it with cement. I'm never buying a place with a pool lol

[nachobro]

love to start the day hearing "so i got an email that said i had a voicemail waiting, so i put my login into the site" when we don't do emailed voicemails here. especially when its from the exec admin who basically runs most of our shit and has about a million logins for various sites.

[ToxicAdam]

I've become addicted to hummus. I go through a container in about 2 days now.

[BisMarckie]

I have a Lebanese takeaway place in walking distance that sells just the best homemade hummus.

And Tabbouleh

[Bebpo]

CC # got stolen. Been a while since that happened to any of my cards. Was a backup card I only used for gas stations, markets, steam and PSN. I assume mostly likely culprit is gas stations, I always hear people can copy your card when you put it in the machine or something. Otherwise would have to be a PSN breach or something cause I doubt it's steam or the supermarket.

Edit, actually looking at my last statements, I guess I also had this linked with some other recurring billing stuff. Dunno where it got stolen from. Oh well, annoying but this stuff happens in modern day society every couple years if you have a few cards.

[chronovore]

My wife has been pretty tense about money lately, and I really, REALLY hate talking about money. I don't spend much overall, I'm pretty thrifty, but a single person's living expenses in Tokyo are sizable, so I've not been able to save as much as I'd like, as there's little in excess of making my Osaka mortgage payment and paying for my rent and food. It's frustrating enough as-is, but having it be an issue with my spouse, as well as not living nearby enough to communicate about it regularly, has been a thorn in our sides.

Then out of the blue last night she's telling me that, instead of a one-time government-mandated 車検 "upkeep tax" on the car, she'd like to buy a new car.

 

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[bork]

As a condo owner in an HoA community (I assume all condos are in HoAs?), got hit by my first special assessment today. They found some cracks by the common area dinky pool no one ever actually uses and suddenly there's a $1,300 bill/per unit outta nowhere for emergency repairs. Seems like a lot but I asked around and apparently it's not strange to have $3,000 or $5,000 special assessments out of nowhere in an HoA, so $1,300 is supposedly pretty reasonable. Still sucks, and HoAs are lame af, but if I don't want to deal with an HoA I'd need to buy an actual house, which is way more work and expenses so w/e I guess 

$1300...per unit?  For a pool?


How many units are in your HOA?  I think mine is like 80-something and we get special assessments pretty much every year, but they want like $200 from everyone for stuff (including pool repairs).  Doesn't seem so bad now, holy shit.  But this reminds me that part of last year's "special assessment fee" was supposed to go towards adding a phone to the pool area (WHY) and they never did this. 

Saw a really nice condo for sale the other day a price that seemed too good to be true.  The catch?  $900 a month for HOA fees alone.   I LOL'd.

CC # got stolen. Been a while since that happened to any of my cards. Was a backup card I only used for gas stations, markets, steam and PSN. I assume mostly likely culprit is gas stations, I always hear people can copy your card when you put it in the machine or something. Otherwise would have to be a PSN breach or something cause I doubt it's steam or the supermarket.

Edit, actually looking at my last statements, I guess I also had this linked with some other recurring billing stuff. Dunno where it got stolen from. Oh well, annoying but this stuff happens in modern day society every couple years if you have a few cards.

That sucks.     Always annoying to have to go and change auto-pay stuff and wherever else the card is on file.

[Brehvolution]

[chronovore]

What's it going to take to get you guys back in the same area again?

It won't take much. To be honest, I'm already talking to several more places and entertaining a sizable commute just so I can be back with my family, sleep in my own bed, and cut back on these expenses.

My current job is really good, I am feeling incredibly grateful for it. I just need to be closer to my family.

[Kara]

chrono is a really inspiring family guy.

[bork]

What's it going to take to get you guys back in the same area again?

It won't take much. To be honest, I'm already talking to several more places and entertaining a sizable commute just so I can be back with my family, sleep in my own bed, and cut back on these expenses.

My current job is really good, I am feeling incredibly grateful for it. I just need to be closer to my family.

I think I asked about this before, but is a permanent move to Tokyo out of the question? 

[Raist]

My wife has been pretty tense about money lately, and I really, REALLY hate talking about money. I don't spend much overall, I'm pretty thrifty, but a single person's living expenses in Tokyo are sizable, so I've not been able to save as much as I'd like, as there's little in excess of making my Osaka mortgage payment and paying for my rent and food. It's frustrating enough as-is, but having it be an issue with my spouse, as well as not living nearby enough to communicate about it regularly, has been a thorn in our sides.

Then out of the blue last night she's telling me that, instead of a one-time government-mandated 車検 "upkeep tax" on the car, she'd like to buy a new car.

 

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Tell your kids to get a job

[chronovore]

(snip)
I think I asked about this before, but is a permanent move to Tokyo out of the question?

Yeah, I have a mortgage in Osaka, and my home is right next to the rest of my wife's family. In 2011, I determined that if we were going to move, it'd be to another country, because there's no reason for me to be in Japan other than my wife being close to her family.

Another monetary "inconvenience": the power company contract on my solar was for 10 years, and now that it's run up, they're setting the new rate at ¥11/kW rather than ¥40/kW. We're about to be paid much, much less for the power we generate, and we can't afford the ¥2,000,000 for a home battery that would allow us to use ALL our own generated energy instead of selling it back to the grid for 25% of what we'd been getting.
 

[Madrun Badrun]

Waiting to see if I got a paper accepted today - I really hope I do, I could really use a win. 

[Madrun Badrun]

And rejected

[Madrun Badrun]

It got a 2/5, 3.5/5 and 3.5/5 basic complaint was that it wasn't novel enough however it was a short paper which is not meant to be significantly novel. 

[Raist]

Marks?

wtf

[chronovore]

My wife has been pretty tense about money lately, and I really, REALLY hate talking about money. I don't spend much overall, I'm pretty thrifty, but a single person's living expenses in Tokyo are sizable, so I've not been able to save as much as I'd like, as there's little in excess of making my Osaka mortgage payment and paying for my rent and food. It's frustrating enough as-is, but having it be an issue with my spouse, as well as not living nearby enough to communicate about it regularly, has been a thorn in our sides.

Then out of the blue last night she's telling me that, instead of a one-time government-mandated 車検 "upkeep tax" on the car, she'd like to buy a new car.

 

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[bork]

Got the car back.  The lady was actually genuinely nice this time and went pretty quickly to pull the car around.  Asked again what this recall was about and she goes "oh no, it's nothing dangerous!  See the physical OnStar button on the top there?"  (the one I'm never going to use) "Well they want to change it out.  I guess they changed the design of the image on the front of it or something." 

...



HOW THE HELL IS THAT A "RECALL!?"
She was going on and on about how this was super-important on Monday. 

Fuck. 

So here we are, almost four months later.  Since that time I've changed my preferred dealer/service center to a different place, but these guys just don't let up.  Just got a call from a local number I didn't recognize, so I used the Google call screening service to check it.  The caller's responses just come in as "uh yeah uh...yeah...uh...Chevrolet" so I answered:

Her: So the reason I'm calling is to tell you about a SAFETY RECALL on your vehicle.  Now, this is a recall so you just need to bring the car in to us and we'll take care of it all for free.
Me: What's the recall for?
Her: The Onstar button graphic has changed, so we need to change it out for you as soon as possible.
 


Me: (Decided to not say that I've already had this conversation with them and that I don't pay for Onstar, so I don't care) So...it's not a safety issue, then?  Can I get this taken care of later on when I need to bring the car in for maintenance?
Her: ....Oh.  I guess so, yeah.  When's the next time you will bring it in?  How many miles are on it?
Me: I just got the car a few months ago, so whenever it needs an oil change.  It has maybe 1700 miles right now.
Her: Oh, that should be just fine then!  Just call this number back when you need to make an appointment~

Thanks, will make sure not to do that.   Also gotta say- I expected to get lots of junk mail from these guys, but the amount of Onstar and Sirius XM crap I got for a month or two was absolutely INSANE.  Every day there were at least 1-2 pieces of mail with "SUPER URGENT!!!!!" stamped on them, trying to get me to sign up.  Onstar is supposedly a nightmare to deal with if you don't want service anymore.  Not that I would know because fuck if I'm ever using that shit.

[samir]

Indian?

[CatsCatsCats]

We converted all our logistics and inventory software recently and the new suite is a pile of shit. Nothing works right and it’s crashed twice today. Just wanna quit

[Raist]

So you could clearly hear them, but didn't shout "hold on a sec, be right there" or something...?

bork's kryptonite:

- deliveries
- hotels

- shoes

- answering the door for potentially very important things

- cars

[team filler]

So you could clearly hear them, but didn't shout "hold on a sec, be right there" or something...?

bork's kryptonite:

- deliveries
- hotels

- shoes

- answering the door for potentially very important things

- cars

moderating messageboards for free

[Kara]

The Japanese communard I live with has taken to no longer wearing pants or shorts around the joint, opting instead to wear what I would describe as panties that visually resemble the briefs you might have worn as a small child (white with colored edges and some kind of cartoon (anime?) characters in the white spaces).

I already feel ashamed eating junk food late at night and this isn't helping when I skulk into the kitchen.

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[Kara]

  these deep cuts are killing me

[Madrun Badrun]

Got a bunch of bad experiment results which means I can't submit to a conference tomorrow. 

[BisMarckie]

The guy who had all these balkan propaganda videos closed his account.

Youtube’s anti-Serbian agenda has gone too far.

[BisMarckie]

RIP Komandante Doga and the guy who had hundreds of videos like this.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

My client decided to put up posters everywhere celebrating and reinforcing our organizational goals - basically a bunch of slogans about how workers need to be brave, be bold, be committed to the organizations ''''''mission'''''''. This shit is everywhere I walk now. I'm in a prison of corporate agitprop

Just wait until you’re in senior management where you’re expected to memorize all of the agitprop and can be quizzed on it at random.

[Kara]

Most of my clientele is Catholic because I'm ambiguously Catholic (via private school education, cac name). Tonight at dinner one of them (while extremely drunk) said that I should become a priest in part because I've been single awhile and because I'm "worldly". There were a lot of other clients present and they all thought this was hilarious. Going to be living this one down for months, possibly years.

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[Raist]

Just tell him you're 14, he will never text you again.

It's not like you'd be lying anyway.

[skullstorm]

Is he hot?

[Kara]

While doing laundry I noticed an unopened bottle of mouthwash next to one of the bottles of detergent in the laundry room. My first thought upon seeing this was, "Why is there an unopened bottle of mouthwash in the laundry room?" Then I internally responded to my question with another question, "Why shouldn't there be an unopened bottle of mouthwash in the laundry room?" I had no response to this rhetorical question because the logic was unassailable.

They've finally broken my brain. No gods, no masters y'all. ✊

[toku]

That was god talking back to you. You're still a slave.

[Crash Dummy]

While doing laundry I noticed an unopened bottle of mouthwash next to one of the bottles of detergent in the laundry room. My first thought upon seeing this was, "Why is there an unopened bottle of mouthwash in the laundry room?" Then I internally responded to my question with another question, "Why shouldn't there be an unopened bottle of mouthwash in the laundry room?" I had no response to this rhetorical question because the logic was unassailable.

They've finally broken my brain. No gods, no masters y'all. ✊

i had a similar experience except with unopened shampoo, and i thought it makes more sense for it to be somewhere in the bathroom so moved it

[El Babua]

Turned on computer after coming home last night. Everything was super choppy. Laptop CPU speed is capped at 380 mhz.

It's a 2.3 ghz dual core processor. Too drunk to figure this shit out lol

[El Babua]

I have hwmonitor installed so I'll check it out after I'm back home.

Might also be an issue with the battery sensor being fucked up.

[Madrun Badrun]

Sorry you broke your penis twice

[Madrun Badrun]

I withdraw my sorry

[chronovore]

My gay haircutter got my phone number out of the corporate database to text me 

That's, like, crazily inappropriate.

[Crash Dummy]

why don't you say barber instead of haircutter?

[skullstorm]

Go for the dad bod instead and it's all good

I've actually been eating a lot of ice cream lately too even though the past few years I'd only eaten ice cream a handful of times. Now in a couple of months I've eaten as much as I did probably all last year and maybe the year before combined.

The ice cream industry is trying to enslave us 

[Don Rumata]

My HDD died.  :'(
It was the one with games on it, so all i've lost is saves and the games/mods themselves.

The fact that i have to buy a new drive is the worst part of it, tbh, but i'm thinking of going with an SSD this time.

[Don Rumata]

Yeah i was looking on Amazon, and SSD prices aren't all that tragic anymore.
A 500GB one is around 70€ (the one that broke was 1TB, but i had a lot of pointless bullshit installed, so 500 should be enough for the amount i actually play).

[El Babua]

Using an SSD for the boot and a 4TB HDD for games on my desktop.

As far as the laptop situation goes, I initially assumed it was a Zombieload update on Windows fucking up my cpu speed since everything else looked fine. Did a system restore that took forever, but seemed to reset fine, but the CPU throttle persisted. Shut it down, and when I turned it on again, I got the "Preparing Automatic Repair" boot up screen.

On the recovery options, an Admin account wasn't detected so I couldn't reset or even start windows in safe mode. Shit sucks, so I bought a new laptop :/

[El Babua]

I was thinking about a fresh windows install, but I have no idea if the CPU issue is related to hardware, BIOS, or something else. Unfortunately Acer has a shitty UEFI that doesn't say shit.

Why wouldn’t you install the games on the SSD?

Massively increases load times.

Load times for me aren't too bad honestly. Only have 500GB of space, so if a couple modern games do get installed on it, it's not gonna have room for much else. Obviously, I can delete them, but I'm paranoid about limited SSD rewrite cycles.

[toku]

some games flat out perform better on SSDs too, a lot of modern games are designed with them in mind so you run into weird problems

[Don Rumata]

I was thinking about a fresh windows install, but I have no idea if the CPU issue is related to hardware, BIOS, or something else. Unfortunately Acer has a shitty UEFI that doesn't say shit.

Why wouldn’t you install the games on the SSD?

Massively increases load times.

Load times for me aren't too bad honestly. Only have 500GB of space, so if a couple modern games do get installed on it, it's not gonna have room for much else. Obviously, I can delete them, but I'm paranoid about limited SSD rewrite cycles.

Doesn't seem that terrible:
https://techreport.com/review/26058/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-data-retention-after-600tb

[Rufus]

You don't have to worry about SSD endurance that much. TBW (terabytes written) and DWPD (drive writes per day, i.e. overwriting the entire drive) over the warranty period will let you figure out how much it will take for the NAND to clap out. It takes a bit, even for cheap drives.

[Crash Dummy]

Having the craziest insomnia this week;  I'm a caffeine drinker but haven't been overdoing it or anything.  Last night was the worst;  I was so fucking tired, but my brain was wired as hell.  Tried everything but taking sleeping meds since I needed to get up early for work but I wish I'd just taken something.   I have vague memories of being awake or half awake all night with my mind buzzing, my eyes moving, etc.   "Woke up" at 4 AM (I am unsure if I was actually asleep) and was almost in a panic'd state.  Could not stop my mind from spinning with this sort of paranoia that my brain will never sleep again.  Did not go back to "sleep" or whatever you want to call laying in bed tired and dazed but still partially awake.

Work is brutal today.

i had a similar experience pulling an nighter and drinking some no-name energy drink that was incredibly salty and had something like 300% of rda of vitamin b, the following night i was fucked just like how you described

[HardcoreRetro]

Made homemade sambal with madame jeanette peppers. Might be too hot? I'll serve it at a party and tell people it's the mild one I made last time.

[BisMarckie]

Heatwave is killing me.
Might have to buy a kiddy pool. 

[BisMarckie]

Why don’t you just buy it at a store? 

[BisMarckie]

What do you need?

[BisMarckie]

Hardware stores in your area don‘t carry them?
A quick google search shows me that every hardware store has multiple soldering irons in stock.

[BisMarckie]

I bet the cheap ones don‘t even have bluetooth.

[BisMarckie]

A car is just a steel cage with wheels, literally any will do.

The soldering iron I have was made when the GDR was still a thing. It was „Made in West Germany“. I never thought about getting a new or better one.