The Anti-Pet Peeve Thread - Small things that made your day

earlgreytoast · Sat Oct 21, 2017 6:15 pm

$600+ insurance check from USPS with minimum hassle.

Vorpel · Sun Oct 22, 2017 9:52 pm

On Saturday my wife received a final check from bankruptcy court for lost wages from our former employer who went bankrupt back in 2008. We filed the claim in 2009 for layoffs that violated the WARN Act (companies over a certain number of employees are required to give 60 days notice (or pay the 60 days wages)).

Didn't think we would see anything else as the last partial payout was in 2013/14!

Philpenn · Thu Oct 26, 2017 1:34 pm

Got the S-pen out of my phone. Had to take a power drill to the posterkiller, but it's out.

Jasper73 · Sun Oct 29, 2017 5:19 pm

Just watched the first episode of Blue Planet 2, this hands down is the best visual TV experience I've had to date! If you get the chance watch it!

RottenAtom · Sun Oct 29, 2017 5:28 pm

Didn't know there was a Blue Planet 2. Loved the first one and Life when they came out.

fredo · Sun Oct 29, 2017 5:47 pm

RottenAtom wrote:Didn't know there was a Blue Planet 2.

Pretty psyched to see it.

ps There's an everything 2.

ToonKiller · Mon Oct 30, 2017 3:47 pm

earlgreytoast wrote:$600+ insurance check from USPS with minimum hassle.

Same thing just happened to me

My first time filing a claim with USPS and was expecting a lot of hassle per all the EB stories. I filed last Wed and the check came today.

earlgreytoast · Mon Oct 30, 2017 3:59 pm

I actually got denied the first time, had to resubmit proof, then got the check. Took a month altogether.

FrankBooth · Mon Oct 30, 2017 8:17 pm

FrankBooth wrote:Corsair's RMA process, my Power Supply took a nose dive 7 years after my system build.

The replacement is already on its way.

Follow up, real +1 to Corsair. Sent one of their newest model as replacement, fully modular. Saving for a build next year.

conorh03 · Tue Oct 31, 2017 12:01 am

Wow nice frank. Corsair has the best customer service hands down. What do you have planned for your future build?

Edit: Hope it didn't fry any other components when it went down! I've heard some horror stories from failed PSUs

FrankBooth · Tue Oct 31, 2017 12:24 am

conorh03 wrote:Wow nice frank. Corsair has the best customer service hands down. What do you have planned for your future build?

Edit: Hope it didn't fry any other components when it went down! I've heard some horror stories from failed PSUs

I had the opposite happen, replacement Thermaltake sent a spike through some albeit older power sata adapters and fried a few of my drives. Backups are rule #1.

The Thermaltake is fine and I replaced all my cabling, I'm thinking depending on price a nice mid tower Coffee Lake build.

Codeblue · Tue Oct 31, 2017 12:56 am

What are ya using as a data backup solution?

FrankBooth · Tue Oct 31, 2017 1:06 am

Codeblue wrote:What are ya using as a data backup solution?

Two larger HDD's for media stuff, anything particularly important like pictures or documents I backup to those, flash and some CD's just for static storage. I've been migrating some stuff to Cloud but I am still weary of that. There is simple scripting you can put together (Using Robocopy) for weekly backups to externals or whatever you want.

I want to get a NAS setup at some point, though I have a single drive setup through my router to share stuff out quickly.

IWish · Tue Oct 31, 2017 2:08 am

conorh03 wrote:Edit: Hope it didn't fry any other components when it went down! I've heard some horror stories from failed PSUs

The fan on mine started going bad. I could hear that something was wrong and replaced it right away. Got lucky that time.

FrankBooth wrote:I want to get a NAS setup at some point

^This. I have everything I need. Maybe I'll start setting mine up tomorrow.

ToolFanFromWayBack · Tue Oct 31, 2017 6:32 pm

IWish wrote:
conorh03 wrote:Edit: Hope it didn't fry any other components when it went down! I've heard some horror stories from failed PSUs
The fan on mine started going bad. I could hear that something was wrong and replaced it right away. Got lucky that time.

FrankBooth wrote:I want to get a NAS setup at some point
^This. I have everything I need. Maybe I'll start setting mine up tomorrow.

Those 2-3 TB USB 3.0 external hard drives are so cheap anymore I have started using them in place of cd/dvd for long term storage. The NAS setup I have is pretty old, but it definitely is nice to have a big chunk of free space accessible to the network.