When reflexes acquired in your job are invading your daily life.
-When i was an intern in a retail, i had to fight against the urge to store the shelves during my own shopping sessions.
I can’t watch anyone cook without steeling myself from mentioning their risky knife grip, mess-inducing lack of flow, slapdash mis, etc. 😵💫 On the positive side, I always call my status (“behind”, “hot”, “knife”, etc.)
I had an ex that asked me to show her how to cook and then proceeded to have a complete mental breakdown while screaming about how judgy I was being.
Turns out she lived off of turkey on flatbread, plain, every.single.night. We didn’t make it more than a month. My (now) wife went from only being able to bake, to a full on Sous Chef. Most nights I don’t have to say a word, we’re just on a mission to get dinner for 5 ready.
That’s romance right there 🥰🤘🏼
Yeah detaching your cheffiness in your personal life is a job in itself, I had OJT all throughout my children’s lives until they moved out, THEN my wife and I opened a BBQ joint and it’s just her and I and HOOOOO BOY the shoe is on the other foot!!! lol…we have fun.
we have fun
NGL, y’all seem to be livin’ the dream! 🥳
oh absolutely, had to leave the US to live the American Dream, and can’t say it was a bad decision!
Oh, please do share the how-to on that! 😅 Before it’s too late? 🥵
Sold our house at the right time (Trump presidency #1), funded a year & a half in the EU with ‘no income’ (you need to show income plus have enough funds to show independence -and family send letters of assurance & their bank statements for support, plus private insurance, etc. & patience.
Found an amazing town in 3.months and have been here for 7 years, restaurant opened 4 months before COVID lockdown, the landlord was amazing throughout the whole ordeal, didn’t charge the 3 months closure, we paid half rent for the 1st year and were able to repay it within a year). Neighbors were amazing (again) very supportive through the whole deal.
This is when we found out we can do it just by ourselves…the kids then some casual employees PT during the high season. This year we had 2 neighbors kids work with us for their first ‘real job’.
Great community, we work very hard but have some awesome quality of life (Mediterranean is 500m away) and more than anything got lucky.
I wish others the same!
500 meters from the Mediterranean?! Luuucky 😱🤩🖖🏼
37 years in the industry, I knew when I was a young cook I wouldn’t make jack shit for pay, so I always looked at places where I could enjoy life: N. Florida, Buenos Aires, Bermuda, Bonaire, Seattle, Los Angeles (ok, that was for straight up pay…never again!) now Spain. Hard work, a good partner, and dumb luck.
My job is to do weather observations every half an hour, or when the situation changes drastically enough to warrant an update. I used to get a bit stressed out about noticing the clock approach one of the routine times while not at work (because that’s when I haven’t been keeping an eye on the sky so oh shit now I gotta figure it out fast!), but I think I’ve gotten mostly out of that pavlovian response. Many of my colleagues say that they also get this. But the phone alarm (a manufacturer default) that goes off at that time as a reminder definitely triggers it. Luckily I’ve only heard it like once or twice outside of work.
Not catching things. I worked at a leather shop with a lot of very sharp things.
I will just watch stuff fall. Even if it’s a friend tossing me my keys or something. Watch it sail thru the air and land right on the ground. Then I normally say “don’t throw shit at me” as their regular reminder that my instinct isn’t to catch things.
Also the phrase “heads up” doesn’t encourage me to catch something either. It encourages me to check the position of me feet for possible stabs.
I’m a software developer. I get very agitated when I have to sit next to someone who operates their computer slowly.
I’m a software tester. I break everything I use whether I’m trying or not.
One of my first jobs was in a call center with a scripted greeting using an assertive voice because the customers always tried to dunk on us. My friends and family would laugh so hard when I answered my personal phone with the script/voice.
I used to work in a call center with a very long spiel for answering the phone. I never used it when someone called me, but one time I had a dream that my phone was ringing at work. I woke up (sort of), picked up my cell phone, and recited the script … Only to finally open my eyes and see I was talking to no one but my befuddled dog.
Graduated a couple years ago with an English PhD: when I go to read anything, I always pick up a pen or pencil as if I’m going to annotate it. I still have to hold one but don’t click it out, like a security blanket, otherwise I feel immensely guilty.
Did a literature Master’s. Cant not skim unless I’m actively stopping myself from it. Also, the internal literary critic never shuts off, but I think that it’s a good thing to always be in critical thinking mode in this day and age, even if it means I can’t “it’s just a story” anymore.
We called that “reading diagonally”
I’m in IT. My personal laptop is perennially broken because I. cannot. stop. tinkering.
Which OS tho?
Linux. I’m bringing it on myself, though
This is Lemmy. “Linux” doesn’t cut it here.
We want to know exactly which distro, which tweaks, what hardware and how you broke it this time.
Right, if you insist: Fedora Kinoite, Thinkpad X1 Carbon 4th Gen, some sysctl tweaks for low-latency audio.
Yesterday I realized my password database (which I sync between computers/phones via Syncthing) was broken, because I had failed to regularly manage upgrades for my Syncthing container, and Syncthing had recently released a v2.0. My monitoring was insufficient and so I hadn’t noticed the Syncthing container on my laptop hadn’t been running since ~September. When I got Syncthing running again, I had already made changes to my password database on all three synced devices, so Syncthing generated a number of
password.sync-conflict-<date>-<time>.kdbxfiles. Normally that’s not a big deal because my password manager has the ability to merge two password databases together, but this time around 400 entries showed issues when merging.So, armed with a big ol’ mug of mulled wine, I bit the bullet and started checking entries manually. After a trip to the KeePassXC bug tracker and the merger code, it turned out that the entries only differred in a few seconds in the
_LAST_MODIFIEDattribute, which can happen when my laptop is a) on battery, which causes the system clock to go a little off when the voltage drops and b) disconnected from the internet so the NTP client doesn’t have a change to sync time. Both happened a lot during the months the time my password database had failed to sync – we had gone to Paris (lovely place, can wholly recommend a visit) and my GF’s daughter is in the habit of watching shows on the computer without plugging in the power.So I shrugged, merged anyway, ignored the error messages, deleted the
sync-conflictfiles, and called it a day. Maybe the wine played a role in that decision, maybe not.Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
Gotta love the shrug "fuck it, I’m mostly sure nothing will go wrong, and if it does, maybe it won’t matter”. We’ve all done it and most of the time we’re right. But when we’re not…oof.
Can you alaborate on the sysctl tweaks for low-latency audio? I have a carbon gen4 as well.
Sure. The following are the bits that I’m pretty sure are universal. The rest – mostly configuring my audio interface – is IMO fairly specific to my system and can be found in my dotfiles.
- Limits for Pipewire:
# /etc/security/limits.d/25-pw-rlimits.conf @pipewire - rtprio 95 @pipewire - nice -19 @pipewire - memlock 4194304 - Add the
realtimegroup and grant it access to/dev/cpu_dma_latencyso Ardour can prevent the system from going into idle:# /etc/udev/rules.d/40-realtime-privileges.rules KERNEL=="cpu_dma_latency", GROUP="realtime" - Add
threadirqsandpreempt=fullto the kernel commandline - Disable VM swap readahead since Kinoite uses ZRAM anyways:
# /etc/sysctl.d/50-audio.conf vm.page-cluster = 0 - Set IO scheduler to
Nonefor SSDs and NVMe:# /etc/udev/rules.d/60-block-scheduler.rules ACTION=="add|change", SUBSYSTEM=="block", ATTR{queue/rotational}=="0", KERNEL=="nvme?n?", ATTR{queue/scheduler}="none" ACTION=="add|change", SUBSYSTEM=="block", ATTR{queue/rotational}=="0", KERNEL=="sd?", ATTR{queue/scheduler}="none"
I’m not using a preempt kernel or anything like that; I’ve only gotten into audio when Pipewire had already hit the scene and I’ve found it to be good enough with these settings.
- Limits for Pipewire:
Used to work in underground mining, every time there wasn’t enough light, I’d reach for my cap lamp on my head
We also used left hand drive cars in a right hand drive country and when I went home I’d get in the wrong side of the car
Lol I do this too especially when I’m wearing a helmet while it’s dark out. The creeping dread once you realize you don’t have a cap lamp then the slow relief after you understand the situation is definitely an experience.
Lol oh dear. I assume you twist the lamp to turn it on. Does it look like you are grabbing an invisible dick and giving it a twist? At least it is dark so no one else can see you.
It’s a button…
Lol. Pressing a button on your forehead. Still humours. Sry. I’m easily amused.
“behind”
It’s always ridiculed when you say it in your personal life and then they inevitably drop some shit because you’re behind them.
I have been known to say it to my cat though, which is kinda deserving of a little ridicule.
Beautiful. I’d actually forgotten until I started watching The Bear TV series. It’s been decades.
I’ve been working in high acuity psychiatry for 10 years. I notice when doors don’t click shut behind me and if I don’t hear a solid click or an electric lock whirring sound I get the urge to check the handle, even at home / in my apartment complex. I can feel people behind me on the street if they’re closer than about 20 feet back. I don’t like sitting without a wall behind me (it was weird going back to school and explaining that my ADHD preferential seating accommodation was the back row, not the front).
Used to be an Amazon delivery driver. Cursed with the knowledge of what all those stickers mean on my packages.
Also you’ll start noticing their massive delivery trucks everywhere.
Okay, now I’m really curious. What do they say?
The yellow sticker usually correspond to what tote they belong in and the order they’re in for the delivery route, first thing you typically do is unpack a tote in the truck and sort them by number for ease of access.
My brain wants to trigger this sorting mode whenever I grab my packages, and it just reminds me of that terrible job.
Amazon has a system of desperate contractor companies that are absolutely reliant on amazon since they own the warehouses, trucks, and everything, but are also a moment away from having their contract ended, basically destroying the company. As a result you’re not really respected even if your employer tries hard to, they just can’t care for employees at risk of dissolving.
I worked in a warehouse, they’re mostly just storage locations.
We’re not mentioning the disco sticker, for obvious reasons.
Decades of working IT in various capacities including a lot of support roles at various levels have led me to usually suspect that anyone coming to to me saying that they can’t get something to work is doing something wrong, regardless if it’s IT or something else completely unrelated.
This is often combined with me trying to suggest possible solutions whenever someone complains or vents. This one drives my wife crazy sometimes and she’s had to teach me that sometimes she just wants emotional support and solidarity rather than possible ways to fix whatever she is venting about.
Doing Uber in a very red state, I have to bite my tongue when people bring up politics. It’s turned into me not talking about it around friends who share my beliefs for the most part. And it kinda sucks, cause I really did enjoy a good debate.
There is no debate anymore, it’s just obtuse mouth hole noises
Yeah, but my income still depends on me not letting them know I’m closer to a communist than whatever they think they are.
When I get in the car, I hit the blinker lever by instinct because on a forklift it puts you into forward or reverse gear.
Oh man, I’ve done the opposite and slammed the forklift into reverse when going to turn.
I used to do order picking in a large warehouse. We used headphones that told you were to go. You could also give verbal commands liek “repeat”. So after a week or so I started “repeat”-ing my mom when I didn’t hear what she said.
I used to do order picking in a large warehouse. We used headphones that told you were to go.
