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 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.
I got really used to technical conversations at work going “full duplex” where we’d excitedly talk over each other and interrupt constantly, just to get to each conclusion faster. I had a close coworker join my team, and he was much harder than normal to get a word in, so I got better at jumping in to interrupt until we were at the same pace and the technical communication was synced and flowing well.
Around a month after I’d been working with him, my wife started telling me I was being very rude and interrupting her more than usual. I guess the habit came home with me. I’m still working on it, though it’s been over 5 years since I switched out of his team.
Used to play Trumpet.
I still do the fingerings when thinking about music once in a while.
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.
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.
So many keyboard shortcuts.
Tab, end, shift+home, del
I delete things en masse that I don’t mean to, just out of habit.
Do you also have that reflex to do Ctrl+z when you screw something in real life ? Like, you broke a glass, Ctrl+z. Oh shit, doesn’t works…
I’m extremely sensitive to changes in noise levels. Whether it’s a very loud and short noise, like a door slamming, or some change in background noise, like a furnace turning on, I’m just acutely aware of it.
What is you job?
I’m a sailor.
Ships sound a certain way, even when not sailing. If they ever sound differently, you know something has happened and you’ll have to respond to it. Even if it’s just a drill, the response is the same.
My sailing days are actually behind me, but I still get tense when I hear unusual sounds in my house or office.
Wow, that’s really interesting, I would never assume ships had a sound
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…
Former land surveyor. Was definitely counting my paces when I was not surveying.
Background: you’d often try to capture a grid of points, or cross section of a road, for example, at regular intervals. You’d roughly know your normal stride length conversion to metres, so if I were doing a 10m grid, it’d be: shoot a point, walk 11 paces, shoot a point, repeat for hundreds, sometimes thousands of points. It wasn’t long until you would be counting paces when you weren’t actively surveying.
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:
I often donate plasma. Sometimes while stressed I will start to unclench and clench my fist as if I’m donating.
Unless someone reminds me to sit, I will eat standing up with a plate in my off-hand.
My second job was a bagger at a grocery store, which included getting carts. I tend to just collect them if I pass by some just sitting in parking lots on my way into grocery stores and bring them in. On my way back to my car, if I have a cart but notice the corral is just a mess from people just half-ass pushing them in at just whatever angle. I can’t stop from just un-fucking all of them so they are able to be brought back in by workers, or at least so that more will fit correctly. Just really bothers me to see them all tangled up and possibly roll back into the lot to hit cars.
One of my other jobs a while ago was doing lab billing information corrections so we could bill insurance (would take the stuff that was missing random stuff like part of the insurance, diag codes used, and like missing parts of addresses). When I started they said that we would likely see so many insurance numbers/prefixes that we would start seeing prefixes on things like license plates. This was very true (would see the letters at the beginning and be like “UHC” or whatever), and took a long time to not see them.
Though in a personal life going into my professional life (I work on people’s computers). I have an OCD kind of habit to just disable all the easy anti-user stuff in Windows settings and add uBO to browsers. Might not even be why the stuff was brought in, but most users don’t know to ask (or if things can be done) and either just go through using their PCs without all the random shit, or are just so happy that things run much better. I make a point to note that an adblocker was added so they can ask about it, or remind my peers that do the check-ins and outs to mention them and show them how to turn it off if a site doesn’t load something. Also means that I notice when settings get moved around or more anti-user options show up. Which keeps me sharp in both professional and personal life.
Not a professional thing, but I played lacrosse in high school, and I now have a habit of kicking anything forward that I drop, since we would practice kicking the ball forward to scoop it up.
I still sometimes face the shelves because I’ve been there and I want to show solidarity.
