first world problems
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- nb4
The Instagram algorithm is shit now.
Instagram is dead.
- it's been dead for ageshans_glib
- No really?utopian
- Mine is pretty goog because I'm able to strip out the ads entirely from my feed, on my phone and desktop.face_melter
- My “Discover” section is about 25% porn stars twerking and sex workers. Borrrringnb
- And instastories is basically the Politics and BLM thread. I want to see people’s lives, not the same 12 links reshared a hundred timesnb
- Silence is violence, nb. Gotta play alongGnash
- Instagram is pure shitei_was
- Use the desktop version, no adsgrafician
- yeah you look at one hot babe and then that's all they give you is more hot babessarahfailin
- tik tokapi
- Krassy5
- bottom. also, not first world.sarahfailin
- pff, obviously top is 9am at work and bottom is after work drinks_niko
- ^Krassy
- At the bottom it's more punki_was
- moldero2
just got back from surfing, its so god damn hot it felt like paddling in a Jacuzzi.
Now I want to play VR, but if my hair is wet while playing the vr goggles fog up.
So now i have to wait like an hour because I have long hair.
- don't tie it back and go for a walk outside, occasionally billowing your locks in whatever wind is mustered, like some advert for hair conditionerNairn
- its hot and humid as fuck outside then ill have to take a shower again because of sweat.moldero
- hair dryer on cold, mines at the point if i dont dry it it's always a bit wet. the ginola effect only works until its past your shoulders then it's like havingkingsteven
- a fucking sail attached to your head in strong windkingsteven
- futurefood2
Plasma TV burnt out. Fuuuuuuuuck
I’m actually fine with this as I spent the night without some display light in my face. I noticed it shut down some hours earlier and when troubleshooting I heard that vsst-pop! sound with the trailing burnt smell of a blown capacitor.
It's been running great for more than 10 years so it has served its purpose, but the image is so beautiful and displays everything with an interesting film-look I feel like I just need to open it up and inspect the boards. I’m pretty decent with a soldering iron and I'm sure I could find parts, the real problem is the fucker weighs over 75lbs and is so awkward to hold it can take up to 3 people to lift it off the wall.
The gf has convinced me to find a new tv. With so many options now, 4k..8k..QLED..OLED...it should be an easy pick, right?
Any recommendssss?
- If it's just a blown cap, fix it or get someone who's comfortable doing so to?Nairn
- Jesus, spot who entriely skimmed over the latter half of your second paragraph :\Nairn
- Wait for a saleformed
- @Narin haha, sorry, I meant it was having a shutdown issue and then the cap blew. So now it's two problems for sure.futurefood
- But maybe the cap blew on the same sc board, if I'm lucky, which I'm not :(
A holiday sale is coming up. We'll seefuturefood - I’ve replaced entire boards on TVs before. Check ebay for your modelscarabin
- oey_oey1
Just spent two hours trying to properly convert CMYK to RGB to match the right color...
C=49, M=0, K=23, K=0
On the screen...fucking hell!
Wondering how the flyers and book cover will look like.
Flyers will be printed in one print shop...the book by the publisher.Even if I could use Pantone, there would still be an issue.
I already had forgotten about issues like this after 5 years without client printing jobs.
- Web designer wanted the HEX codes, I was like "whatever"LOL!...oey_oey
- CMYK always fucks up blues the most when converting from RGBCyBrainX
- the first design was made in RGB because it was for screen only but client liked it so much it opted to have me design the flyers and book cover.oey_oey
- so I had to redo the colors as I used Aqua (or RGB Cyan) first and there's no CMYK match. So I opted for this turquoise like Pantone 3252 but...damn!oey_oey
- Point50
this thread = .5's problem now
- moldero4
Beaches are closed country-wide in Mexico, I live on the beach, and I'm not allowed to go on it, from my home office window I see some pretty decent waves too.
- whatthefunk2
I spent over an hour in VR with the Vive for my first time and I experienced simulation sickness. A half hour after taking the headset off I got sick and threw up. It takes awhile to get adjusted to the real world after you disconnect...
- Were you "walking"? Do VR stuff where you're sitting in a virtual seat and you won't get sick.nb
- was doing this for an hour and it effed me up but was first time https://virtualart.c…whatthefunk
- Most VR instructions say to never use more than 5 mins at a time.Hayoth
- you get used to it, I blew chunks playing the new halflife after only 3 hours, now i can be in VR for 6-8, me and my daughters been playing a lotmoldero
- i_monk1
Window washers are non-essential so we've had to live with construction dirt splattered over our penthouse windows since autumn.
- drgs0
Unripe pears, hard as rock
- Continuity0
I watched a few episodes of Spongebob Squarepants last night, because I'd never seen the show before in my life and I got curious.
Now my Netflix recommendations are all fucked.
- Spongebob? Youuuu?SimonFFM
- I know, right?
FML.Continuity - I've never seen it either. Any good?Nairn
- You watched The Midnight Gospel yet?
I've only seen 2 episodes, and it's honestly the closest I've ever felt to tripping justfrom watching TVNairn - Well, 'good' ... it's mildly entertaining, let's say. It's loud, frantic, and weird, and the visual jokes are more often than not better than the spoken ones.Continuity
- The Midnight Gospel I've not heard of, but I'll check it out!Continuity
- ^it's good, i attestsarahfailin
- shapesalad0
Very few blind people join nudist colonies.
- This is a problem for you?
They're probably just a bit too touchy-feely.Nairn - *begins planning blind-only nudist colonyimbecile
- https://youtu.be/_yD…shapesalad
- This is a problem for you?
- spl33nidoru2
Just because I find myself twice in the same aisle as you in the supermarket doesn't mean I want to get in your pants, chill woman!
- Khurram3
FML!
Just got an email from my Canadian phone company (Fido) 6 days after arriving in Japan that they are cancelling all roaming talk, text & data charges to customers travelling abroad until April 30th.
That's after I shelled out $115 (canadian dollars) on an unlimited data plan SIM card with Japanese company Sakura Mobile. What a rip off!
Serious, FML FML FML!!!
- Softened the pill by cancelling all my Airbnb thanks to their corona virus full refund policy and rebooked bargains with Booking.com *sigh*Khurram
- digital quarantinehotroddy
- Fucking fido. I remember being with them when I lived in Hfx ... fucking gougers.Continuity
- I'm going to swap out my Japanese SIM and fucking RAPE their free international roaming data. I know it's petty of me but I'm very cross!Khurram
- helloeatbreathedrive4
Oh boy, doesn't get any first world than this. I've actually yelled 'Oh no' to my screen :(
- The lights are still working at least.PhanLo
- Yes that small water squirt is gonna do shit.NBQ00
- But the casino is right around the corner, go win a new one.NBQ00
- Good thing Captain Toupee is on it.aslip
- plot twist, that's lighter fluid he's sqirting_niko
- Is he squirting lighter fluid?Gardener
- that would literally win the first world problems thread lolll @_niko @Gardenerhelloeatbreathedrive
- Is that an f40? It's like a million dollar car.wagshaft
- A straight piped F40, Monaco plates. Blasting around all day in the heat in heavy traffic, bound to happen.helloeatbreathedrive
- That's lighter fluidstoplying
- That's a feature, not a bug.zarkonite
- OBBTKN0
Bought a brand new shinny expensive bike a week ago, toooo busy at work and barely had free time to do 200 meters to test the brakes and gears.
- Khurram1
So things went from bad to worse. I arrived at the airport on the 31st and tried to checkin for my flight to Taiwan and I was denied a boarding pass.
Turns out, and I sort of knew this, that my passport needs to be valid 6 months for entry into Taiwan the day I arrive. My passport WOULD have been valid, as I had timed to arrive there on 31 January. Unfortunately, because of the corona virus situation, I was now arriving on Feb 2nd - which meant my passport would now only be valid 5 months from date of arrival.
And so I was refused at the airport. The edibles I had taken just hit me as I stood at the checkout counter, mouth aghast, wondering what the fuck i do now - my apartment rented out to someone else, my stuff in storage, big suitcases by my side - nowhere to go.
In the end, i managed to get the last flight from Montreal to Manchester, at the cost of over $1,000 - add to that the 1000s i'd blown on my ticket to Taiwan, no longer valid, and the acomodation I'd booked there i couldn't refund.
So now I'm staying at my mum's house in England for a couple of weeks until I regroup. Which I guess saves me $1000 in terms of what i would have spent in Taiwan on fun and entertainment.
I have onward tickets from Taipei to Philippines then to Tokyo and accomodation already booked - so i need to get to Manila on Feb 13th - and shell out for another flight - but now i'm reading corona just killed someone in Philippines and i don't know what's going to happen with that.
But i'm going to persevere with the 3 months of travelling I had planned no matter what. Even though I'm out $2000+ now for nothing. Thankfully im' prettty affluent and have a thriving business so i can take the hit.
Anyway, FML right now.
- I'm going to hire a car and drive around Japan and see the cherry blossoms blooming and possibly spend a week at a Zen retreat. Planning itinerary now.Khurram
- Whoa.
Intense @Khurram, BUT consider you're alive AND living life in a non -traditional way. #Godspeed
: )ideaist - Thanks ideaist! Definitely a first world problems situation. But like my Murphy's, i'm not bitter :))Khurram
- Was really excited about Taiwan though. Been watching new Taiwanese cinema for months in excitement. Next year after I renew my passport!Khurram
- And I just been reading how racist Japanese society is - people don't even sit next to you on the bus if you're black/brown. Probably more to come in this storyKhurram
- Sounds like you’re your own worst enemy. Earlier passport renewal. And ingesting local drugs after you land. May be a better move next time. ;)BH26
- Yeah I was a bit blase about the whole situation. Esp regarding passport. But the edibles, my plan was to go "clean" for 3 months so i took them for the plane..Khurram
- so to be sober when i land. Then i don't do any drugs (even alcohol) for the duration of the trip. Not that being high made any difference in this situation.Khurram
- Where you plan to go in Philippines? Manila is kind of a polluted mess but some of the smaller islands are amazing.yuekit
- Japan > Taiwan all day.stoplying
- @yuekit - Siargao - small surfer island in the south. Those islands look amazing for sure. 4 weeks there, signed up to an MMA gym and plans to surfKhurram
- @stoplying! ;) I was waaay more excited to go to Taiwan. And now i'm determined to do it next winter. From the traveller forum i've been on Taiwan is an...Khurram
- extremely liveable and affordable developed country. Plus it has none of the racism Japan, S Korea and CHina have. Very tolerant society. And, as mentioned..Khurram
- I've been obsessed with Taiwanese new wave cinema for the last two months so i was looking forward to it the most. Plus they have better beaches/surfingKhurram
- And it's not an either or situation, right? I spent time in Singapore, Hong Kong winter 2019 so Tokyo was a bucket list thing that was going to happen anyway.Khurram
- Ah nice...that's actually where I went last time I was in Philippines (Siargao). Amazing place, really breathtaking.yuekit
- I'm not a surfer but it's a great island to ride around on a motorbike and explore. The landscape is mind-blowing, like you were dropped into a simulationyuekit
- where someone cloned too many palm trees :) You'll see what I mean when you get there.yuekit
- yeah man, so pumped. Was deciding between that or Boracay. I should have been there in beginning of January but seems like everything was against meKhurram
- Beeswax2
I find Spotify's suggestion algorithm pretty dumb. I listened 2 songs of Tinariwen (north african, touareg band) my whole Discover weekly list got filled by African Music.
I marked each one as not liked, next week, still a bunch of African groups show up.
I want you to read my mind and my emotions Spotify. It shouldn't be that easy to label me as "afro music lover"- It fucking sucks, it's been trying to pawn shitty french music since I joined... I've NEVER listened to anything in french, ever. And it still can't figure outzarkonite
- I like DJs. It's always trying to pitch some random artists in my suggestions. I guess it must be good if you're into top 40?zarkonite
- Tinariwen is good. Spotify is right.BK
- think you misread that BK, spotify suggestions suck balls. Wish you could turn that feature off.kingsteven
