What's the most "First world problem" you've experienced?
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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 brake to press the accelerater gives me anxiety
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
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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.
Savagery.
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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.
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My backlog of Steam games that I haven't played through is kind of overwhelming.
Some highly-replayable games, like roguelikes, make it worse, because they soak up time that isn't going towards finishing the finishable ones.
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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 brake to press the accelerater gives me anxiety
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.
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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
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We have got so much stuff that we have trouble fitting everything into the new house we bought.
I mean, there is this spare room available, but it can only be reached by ladder, so putting stuff there is inconvenient.
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not me but i would imagine people who lived in a gas-attendant place would wonder where the helpers are if they visited a place where there's no gas attendant.
for my own experience, lost the tv remote, tv is now unusable.
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not me but i would imagine people who lived in a gas-attendant place would wonder where the helpers are if they visited a place where there's no gas attendant.
for my own experience, lost the tv remote, tv is now unusable.
I come from South Africa, I've driven at least 200,000km in my life, the first time I put Fuel in a car was at the age of 30 after temporarily moving to Europe.
'Petrol Attendants' often also wash your windscreen while you fuel up
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I come from South Africa, I've driven at least 200,000km in my life, the first time I put Fuel in a car was at the age of 30 after temporarily moving to Europe.
'Petrol Attendants' often also wash your windscreen while you fuel up
when i see it in the movies, i feel like having the attendants is a different experience altogether -- like a drive-thru type gas station.
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I'm sorry you have to live this way
I'm trying to hang in there.
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There is a pixel out on my monitor and I debated getting a new monitor.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]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.
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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.
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My robot lawnmower keeps getting stuck on my garden beds and I have to walk out at least once a day to restart it.
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There is a pixel out on my monitor and I debated getting a new monitor.
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.
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My backlog of Steam games that I haven't played through is kind of overwhelming.
Some highly-replayable games, like roguelikes, make it worse, because they soak up time that isn't going towards finishing the finishable ones.
My backlog:
- CP2077 (a few hours in but didn't enjoy the gameplay)
- Mass Effect 3 (I loved ME1 and ME2, but many people say ME3 is not as good)
- Horizon Zero Dawn
- Fallout 4
- Final Fantasy 7 Remake (I might just give up, didn't enjoy the combat and the padding)
- Hellblade
- Dying Light
- Tomb Raider the recent trilogy
- Baldur's Gate 3 (got stuck because combat is too confusing/difficult to me)
- Divinity Original Sin 2
- The Witcher 3 (not enjoying the combat)
- GTA 4 and 5
- Dragon Quest Builders
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My robot lawnmower keeps getting stuck on my garden beds and I have to walk out at least once a day to restart it.
They're called bed because the put the robot to sleep.
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I'm sorry you have to live this way
Can you still call that living
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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.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]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".
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not me but i would imagine people who lived in a gas-attendant place would wonder where the helpers are if they visited a place where there's no gas attendant.
for my own experience, lost the tv remote, tv is now unusable.
I was at a gas station one day, pumping my gas like normal when this lady came up to me. She was from New Jersey and visiting my state and had no idea how to pump her own gas. New Jersey doesn't allow you to pump your own gas BTW. I talked her through it and she seemed genuinely freaked out by the whole experience, like she was afraid her car would just burst into flames as she pumped. She was an older lady too (maybe 50-60), but i guess she never traveled alone before and just hadn't had to do it for herself. Nice lady though, she gave me 5 bucks for helping her out.
