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’m a pilot. At a drive through, I read back the price as a matter of reflex.
I’ve been the electronic security game for about 25 years and I swear I instinctively notice and look directly at every video camera in every building I enter, and I swear if anybody noticed they’d think I’m casing the joint.
Do you look at them to know if they’re well place or for another reason?
They generally just catch my eye, then I may think about their placement. I’ve just been working in the field so long it’s like an unconscious professional interest I guess.
I’m a software developer. I get very agitated when I have to sit next to someone who operates their computer slowly.
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.
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.
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:
entering a home or commercial/retail building and noticing everything that needs to be fixed or maintained, listening for running water around fixtures, etc.
You’re probably an inspector.
sort of. commercial building operator.
There was a time when I looked at LCD screens I saw all the defects.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
Decades later I still sort books when I go to a bookstore.
I think being a professional cook inculcates or at least intensifies an already present hyper vigilance because there’s always something else I could be or should be doing and it’s a nearly constant list of tasks and any moment not filled by a task is filled with thoughts of what am I not doing right now that I should be.
At least Christmas music doesn’t fill me with hate anymore
