01-05-2021, 06:25 AM | #2245 |
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hehe so many 1st world problems.
-I bought a house in 2018. The seller replaced all three garage door opener mechanisms right before he sold it. My 2009 M3’s garage opener on the rear view mirror can’t operate/communicate with the new garage door mechanism and I need to have a remote control opener on my visor. The other cars in garage can open the garage from the rear view mirror buttons. So three years in, I still press the rear view mirror button on my M3 and then realize I’m an idiot..... -my track car is a sedan E90 M3. When I do time attack with it, the announcers call it a grocery getter the whole time. -certain delivery drivers refuse to walk up to my front door and deliver packages. Instead, they drop the package behind one of the garage doors. Of course, you can’t see the package when you open the garage and get in the car. So, yup, CRUNCH while backing out. Don’t ask how many times that’s happened. -USPS must just hate me. Both in Los Angeles and here in Castle Rock, CO—-somehow, we are the last route of the day. Mail dude is rolling up at like 7PM with mail. In LA, sometimes the mail person would be walking the route in the dark with a head lamp!! What manner of cave man is this?? -why is it that my Toyota Tundra can live-monitor tire pressures, but my M3 track car is stuck in the stone ages and can’t? -Our 3-car garage has three individual doors. Worst design ever!! The door bays are only 91” wide. A full size pickup truck is 96” mirror tip-to-mirror tip. I had to spend the extra money and get a truck with electronic folding mirrors to get in the garage so I didn’t have to be some heathen who has to exit the truck and manually fold the mirrors every time I enter and exit the garage! -is Comcast’s cable TV guide the most worthless thing on earth? Channels from the same network like HBO spread everywhere. Duplicate HD and SD channels. Anything I want to watch is in the 600s and 700s.....Can’t find a damn thing. It’s Neanderthal. -you know, I was pretty happy with my iPhone 11Pro. Great phone. In particular, the battery life was pretty darn good. But then they had to come out with 5G. So of course, I must move up to the 12Pro. Well, the battery life is shit by comparison! I guess I’ll be shopping for a 12 S Pro. I’m sure the sales pitch will be—- “Now with more battery life!!!”..... -have you ever tried to roll up early to a track day to get your favorite paddock spot and SOMEONE HAS ALREADY TAKEN THE SPOT! Or worse, they don’t take your spot, but they’re right next to it and make it impossible for you to get into your normal spot? Now, like a poor loser, you have to figure out how to setup in the slums of some other part of the paddock. Day over. No new PB today. -have you ever had a Start/Finish worker ruin your first hot lap on brand new slicks by throwing a Miata out on his warm up lap right in front of you?? And you even went to grid 18 minutes early to get the first spot! I don’t care what world you live in—-1st, 2nd, 9th or Mars—that’s the kind of stuff that should keep you up at night. “He better not toss a Miata out there in front of me tomorrow when the tires are new and the air is cold.” (Tosses and turns the rest of the night. Shows up to track fatigued due to lack of sleep.) -last problem—-the reason this list is so long is that I’ve had plenty of time to sit here in the middle of the night and think of dumb stuff while I literally run back and forth to the bathroom prepping for a colonoscopy today!!!....... Oh, so many troubles. |
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Garage door openers? Pushing buttons? My first-world problem is that I went outside to brush the snow off my car yesterday, and my home automation system's geofence detector didn't think that I went far enough away so it didn't automagically unlock my front door when I was done. I actually had to take off my glove and punch my 8-digit lock code into the door's keypad!!!!!
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01-05-2021, 09:55 AM | #2248 |
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This whole idea of locking/unlocking doors, opening garages. Is this like that "rain" thing I keep hearing about??? There are no doors on my carport/garage/gazeebo, and I certainly never lock any doors at my house.
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01-05-2021, 10:36 AM | #2249 | |
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I actually turned off the Geo-perimeter function so I know the door never change status. However I use the passive lock with my vehicle's proximity key. The only reason I use locks at all is to keep the honest people honest. |
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The problem is that Siri is such a b*tch with that one command, deciding to call a contact named "Mark - mobile" whenever I ask my watch to "unlock the front door." My DW and friends all laugh at me for even trying at this point, and I'm pretty sure that "Mark" has me on his block list by now. Truly a first-world problem.....
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01-05-2021, 11:48 AM | #2251 |
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Speaking of first-world, I was outside yesterday to start up my diesel pickup, aka: The Mighty Dodge. I actually had to put a key in the ignition...and turn it...twice! It hasn't been run in a month, and needed a second cycle of the grid heater before it would fire up.....
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Bimmerfest thread on a 2008 here, but would need more info on your garage door to help more. Nothing you can't google though. Quote:
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Damn cats wake me up every morning I'm home because they don't want to wait for their automatic, wifi-enabled feeders to drop their premium Uber-expensive veterinarian and super-model approved yummies for breakfast.
And if their automatic, wifi-enabled Litter Robots filled with premium litter from some exotic location aren't sparkly clean? It's carnage in the household. And if I forget to clean the carbon-filtered water bubbler or I forget to refill only with pure spring water carried down from the mountains of South America on llama's, or worst case- extremely well-filtered from the fridge? I get kitty death glares and my wife gets mad at me. Last edited by flybigjet; 01-05-2021 at 03:59 PM.. |
01-05-2021, 01:45 PM | #2254 |
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the Bluetooth in my 128 only allows phone calls...it doesn't work for music. Had to buy a stupid little Bluetooth adapter to listen to Pandora in the car. Is Bluetooth not all the same?
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My company has a Starbucks on campus that offers free drip coffee throughout the day.
Since I'm fancy I like to drink my coffee from a demitasse cup in my office which isn't practical for refills. So I have a thermos and I fill it up at the self serve then get a bout an hours worth of hot refills in my fancy little cup. Since the pandemic though, we're not allowed to use the self service so a service girl pours my order in a paper cup, then I transfer the contents into my thermos when I get back to my office. For nearly a year now I order a grande, Pike Place, no room, which will fill my thermos perfectly. But the counter girl constantly pours me an inch shy which only fills my thermos to 90%. It doesn't really affect my life much but it's the same feeling I get when I fill my car up with gas, but then after I start up my projected tank range is only 315 miles instead of 340 miles. |
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Bluetooth as an RF protocol is a standard. What types of data are passed over RF (profiles) are also standards...but cannot cross-talk between profile types. Stereo audio uses the A2DP profile. Your mouse/keyboard uses HID profiles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...tooth_profiles .
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01-05-2021, 02:27 PM | #2257 |
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I had a hard time deciding what to have on my pizza last night. Eh settled on pepperoni and sausage. As I sit here eating it again I'm realizing I should have gone Hawaiian.
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More than two. There's also a profile for sharing the phone book contacts.....
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Only issue doing it that way is when taking a call you'd have to turn the volume up since incoming voice was lower than the music at the same level, so when the call ended and the music resumed it'd blow your ear drums out (if you didn't remember to lower it back down). |
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Fill up at a smelly/slimy petroleum pump? Brake dust? What kind of savages are all y'all?!?
My car runs on clean electrons, and converts excess kinetic energy into recycled electrons instead of making heat and brake dust. FWIW, the available gasoline octanes is set in each regional market, based on the elevations above sea level. On the coast, we have 87/89/93 (R+M)/2 octane. I remember seeing 85/88/91 in Wyoming about 25 years ago, and 91 being "super" in Kansas. Those in other parts of the world use the RON octane number, which makes North American fuel sound third-world.....
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