First World Problems

[GenXer]

Originally Posted by vreihen16

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!!!!!

Get a cellular Apple Watch and just tell your watch to unlock the door
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.

[vreihen16]

Originally Posted by GenXer

Get a cellular Apple Watch and just tell your watch to unlock the door

I actually have *two* cellular Apple Watches, and swap between them so that I always have one on my wrist as a house remote control even while I sleep.

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.....

[vreihen16]

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.....

[NorCalAthlete]

Originally Posted by dogbone

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.....

There are add-on controllers you could get that would probably work, but there are also like 2-3 different ways to get your mirror to sync with garages. Some are set codes, some are rolling codes - not sure which one you have but I'm 99% sure you can resolve this one easily.

Bimmerfest thread on a 2008 here, but would need more info on your garage door to help more. Nothing you can't google though.

Originally Posted by dogbone

-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.

Originally Posted by dogbone

[1]-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.

[2]-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??

1. Package locker at your house for the delivery driver. Also, you could put a little food / drink stand out for them to draw them to a certain area, with a kinda/sorta obvious "this would be a good spot to drop / hide a package" big planter or something nearby.

2. Get some solar powered pathing lights to your mailbox / door, help em out. If you really want to get fancy with it and it's consistent timing you could probably get some disposable cups and leave em a hot cup of tea or something - a tiny bit of goodwill towards someone like that is always appreciated. My friend's dad was a postal worker for like 30 years, you definitely get your steps in by the end of the day.

Originally Posted by dogbone

-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!

I'd probably rebuild the garage doors at that point for at least a 1+2 setup, buuuuut...you could also do a single triple wide setup like this guy.

Originally Posted by dogbone

-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.

Fuck comcast with a rusty cheese grater.

[flybigjet]

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.

[kb2wji]

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?

edit: Sorry dude, didn't mean to quote your post - I hit the wrong button

[erickonphoenix]

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.

[vreihen16]

Originally Posted by kb2wji

Is Bluetooth not all the same?

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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[Our03z4]

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.

[kb2wji]

Originally Posted by vreihen16

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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Ah, so cars that can do "both" have both profile types? My Accord will play music and can also make phone calls over the Bluetooth

[vreihen16]

Originally Posted by kb2wji

Ah, so cars that can do "both" have both profile types?

More than two. There's also a profile for sharing the phone book contacts.....

[Darth One]

Now that I’ve experienced carbon ceramic brake ownership, cleaning brake dust off a steel brake-equipped car just makes me hate life.

[Mein11]

Originally Posted by kb2wji

Ah, so cars that can do "both" have both profile types? My Accord will play music and can also make phone calls over the Bluetooth

In a sense. My 128 was the same way so I just hard wired an Aux and USB-C cable and connected them both when getting in and use the AUX input.

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).

[wdb]

Originally Posted by Darth One

Now that I’ve experienced carbon ceramic brake ownership, cleaning brake dust off a steel brake-equipped car just makes me hate life.

Iron brakes puhleeze.

My first world problem: being instinctively pedantic.

[MKSixer]

Originally Posted by Darth One

Now that I’ve experienced carbon ceramic brake ownership, cleaning brake dust off a steel brake-equipped car just makes me hate life.

Originally Posted by wdb

Iron brakes puhleeze.

My first world problem: being instinctively pedantic.

You think that's bad...what about yesterday being made to fill up with 91 octane fuel?!?!

What are we...Savages?

[cmyx6go]

Originally Posted by MKSixer

You think that's bad...what about yesterday being made to fill up with 91 octane fuel?!?!

What are we...Savages?

The highest octane I can get here is 93. Sunoco used to have 94 Ultra. No mas. Stopped a few years ago. Is it regional or everywhere?

[MKSixer]

Originally Posted by cmyx6go

The highest octane I can get here is 93. Sunoco used to have 94 Ultra. No mas. Stopped a few years ago. Is it regional or everywhere?

93 is the typical around here but at the beeotch-azz station I went to yesterday. It's regional and governed by the local environmental laws.

When I want a real boost in the M6 I will get a 5 gallon dump can of Chevron 110 and mix it to 98 octane. The car just snarls. Unfortunately it is $15 per gallon!!

[vreihen16]

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.....

[rebekahb]

Forgot to order our meals for the week. Now I have to figure out what to f'ing cook.

[cmyx6go]

Originally Posted by MKSixer

93 is the typical around here but at the beeotch-azz station I went to yesterday. It's regional and governed by the local environmental laws.

When I want a real boost in the M6 I will get a 5 gallon dump can of Chevron 110 and mix it to 98 octane. The car just snarls. Unfortunately it is $15 per gallon!!

You're looking at it all wrong. You need to convert the $15 per gallon to cost per mile of smiles. That would be about $1 per mile to smile for me. I'm sure your cost per mile to smile is less.

[MKSixer]

Originally Posted by cmyx6go

You're looking at it all wrong. You need to convert the $15 per gallon to cost per mile of smiles. That would be about $1 per mile to smile for me. I'm sure your cost per mile to smile is less.

As usual, your brilliance shines through!!

In the M6 it's about $1.50 to $2.00 per mile but completely worth it. When we do our spirited driving or a track day, it dips to 6 MPG in the display which is actually as low as the display shows.

Actually mileage is probably in the 3-4 mpg range on the track. The S85 is a BEAST!!

[Sight22]

My home theater screen has a slight deformity I always focus on.