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What's something annoying that happened to you this week?
Yesterday my phone completely broke its SIM card settings and I had to do a factory reset. I thought the backups that my phone did to my Google Drive backed up everything I needed, but apparently they don't! So now I get the pleasure of remembering every little configuration change I've done over the past three years. Maybe it's time for a new phone...
What about you? What do you want to complain about? Please, complain with me.
This probably exceeds the boundaries of "annoying": Found out my team is definitely going to move under the most disliked-with-cause director in corporate IT.
I burnt my hand on a bowl of oatmeal, threw it, and coated the kitchen with oats. I made it with milk, too, so it was even more of a pain to clean up.
Shit hurt and took forever.
This is one of the biggest perks of owning a dog.
Ouch. You have my sympathy. A few months back I spilled some boiling hot soup on my fingers at work (I can't even begin to tell you how much willpower it took to not scream obscenities that would make a sailor blush). Over the next few days, it turned out that the top layer of my skin had "cooked" because of the heat. First time I've ever had that happen instead of blistering. I don't plan on having a repeat experience :)
See the little box to the left?
Close that if you wanted to feel happy today.
Seriously, close it. I don't have a spoiler tag to hide the below.
CPS has removed my kid from my custody, at least she can stay with mum.
They accused me of abusing mum, despite mum protesting I never had.
They're requiring I get a psych-eval, despite already getting one, because the last one said I was perfectly sane, and didn't have so much as depression. So CPS went ahead and said to the court I've been diagnosed with delusional disorder - never happened. (I did get diagnosed with depression following the death of someone close to me a while back, that's their evidence.)
Then they went ahead and said I'd been having thoughts of hurting my daughter sexually - never happened. They're basing it on a phone call police have proven never happened, it just appeared in CPS system after a worker wrote it in.
So now I can't see my daughter unsupervised, or my wife.
This sounds like a really terrible situation. If everything you've said is completely accurate, I'd bring it to the media or at least some internal affairs department. It sounds like you're being railroaded by bureaucracy here. There must be someone who can advocate for you. Don't give up hope.
Lawyers!
I haven't lost hope, and my lawyer (who has done an excellent job toning down CPS' requests so far, e.g. CPS demanded no contact. Lawyer negotiated unlimited contact under supervision) is looking into things at the moment.
Which may railroad them if it turns out that any of their evidence isn't up to scratch. Unfortunately, CPS isn't required to have 'beyond a shadow of a doubt', but 'reasonable suspicion', in my country's Children's Court.
But the whole included fake call as evidence to the Court may well turn into perjury charges.
However, in the mean time, I've got over a month of living somewhere else.
My daughter has extra ammonia in her pee. So she burned herself. Mandatory report follows... And a three month gap in which she healed. Then CPS turned up swinging hammers.
I'm sorry to hear this. Dealing with made up bs (as opposed to stuff that at least has a basis) is probably among the most frustrating stuff out there.
I'd lost a key from my laptop so I ordered a replacement for £2 from eBay. When it showed up it wasn't the right hinge size despite supposedly being for the right model Thinkpad. When I took the existing keyboard off to check the exact model number I broke another key in the process and had to order a whole new keyboard. Which won't be here until tomorrow at the earliest, more likely tuesday. I have to use the back of a pencil to type the letter K until then.
I'm torn between sympathy, and finding a way to make you write a sentence containing a ton of 'K's.
Given the week you've had mate, I'll type as many k's as you like if it brings even the faintest of smiles to your face. You don't have to make me, OK? They're kool in a bunch, kkkkkkkkkk, but k then k with other kharacters in between kan get kwite annoying, 'kos I have to keep picking up and putting kdown my penkil..
I swear I didn't kopy paste a single one of those kunting things.
Those kunting things brought a gorram smile to my face. Thank you. I needed a dose of the funny.
...you k, bro?
I caught my daughters poop with my hand while changing her. I have no idea why I tried to do that.
Does severe depression count? Because this week has been fucking awful.
Very frustrating to find my iMac's 5K IPS display has very subtle amounts of image retention behind it. Once you notice it you can never not notice it. I have half the opinion I should ask for a replacement, but it probably won't pass Apple's image retention tests since it is quite subtle.
Bent my knee sideways pretty bad and sprained/tore my MCL (the ligament on the inner side of the knee). It felt like it went 90° sideways and even though I'm happy I didn't break it, it's pretty awful. It won't bend or straighten without letting me know in no uncertain terms that I shouldn't be doing that. It won't bear my weight without providing ample forms of regret. And even when it's iced and relaxed, it still lets me know that it hates me and will continue to do hate me for the foreseeable future.
To top it off, the annual camping trip that I look forward to happens in less than 2 weeks, and I have no idea if this will heal enough by then.
My primary monitor’s backlight is starting to die. I’ve never tinkered with a monitor before, but I’m going to learn.
This might be more difficult and fiddly than you're willing to put up with.
On older monitors they used a compact-fluorescent bulb along the top and/or bottom of the screen, driven by a high-voltage inverter. If the inverter died it was an easy fix. Since the bulb required high voltage, the inverter was its own isolated module which could be easily replaced. If the bulbs died, it was possible to buy replacements, but it involved peeling apart the display panel itself, so it was very easy to screw something up and break everything, especially on your first try.
Modern monitors use LED backlights. The backlight power circuitry is no longer a separate module, but integrated into the rest of the panel's control circuitry. This means you can't just replace the "inverter" portion, but you need to replace the whole panel. Then, the LEDs themselves are so reliable and long-lived that there's virtually no chance they've burned out.
Unless you're pretty good at electronics, have an understanding of switchmode power supply design, as well as soldering and desoldering very tiny components, your chances sound pretty slim unless you want to replace the entire panel, which may or may not be cheaper than buying a new monitor.
If you want more specific help with this, shoot me a PM. I've fixed plenty of monitors in my day, and maybe with model numbers or pictures I could give you more advice.
So my choices here are try, probably fail, learn something, and have to buy a new monitor or just skip straight to buying a new monitor? I’ll definitely try it even if there’s a slim chance. I’ll shoot you a PM to see if you can set me in the right direction. :)
Sounds about right. Give me a heads up when you want to try this, I'm glad to help out!
Kinda talked about this in another thread. About a year ago I got advice to go for a higher degree by an E board guy at a company I’m interested in. Same guy told me I’m overqualified for the job I’m interested in because I went for the degree instead of leaving early.
Caught a cold and my phone can't factory reset because I forgot my Apple ID, so I can't turn off activation lock.
ugh, that sounds terrible. I really wish the process of resetting a phone wasn't so difficult
My desktop computer Internet connection had suddenly stopped working overnight. Phones on wifi and another computer still working fine. Tried restarting network processes, messing with Linux network interfaces and VPNs, restarting computer multiple times, unplugging and replugging Ethernet cables. Gave up.
A few hours later, I went back with the intent to find out which part was broken and needed to be replaced (network card, cable, whatever) and Internet was working perfectly. Still no idea what happened. My best guess is a router glitch, maybe my ISP sent a firmware update overnight and broke things temporarily.
For future reference, I've had problems like this on rare occasions where the usual resetting the device, wifi adapter, and router failed and nothing else seemed to work. I haven't had the problem spring up on me while on a Linux device yet, but the solution for Windows was to do a quick
ipconfig /releasefollowed byipconfig /renew. Sometimes the local IP ends up being fucky for some devices, so forcing the assignment of a new one ends up fixing it. Unfortunately I'm not a sysadmin or network administrator, so I'm not entirely sure what the hell causes the problem or what exactly the problem is--I've just memorized a solution that generally works.