busy as usual, currently reading Alt-America (David Neiwert)

  • autumn (she/they)@beehaw.org
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    5 months ago

    was supposed to watch a couple of my favorite (dog) clients last friday, but their owner missed his flight, so i just went and took them out for a walk. still got paid the full day rate. 😎

    went to go watch a sheepdog trial on saturday morning, which was really cool! talked to several people there, including the lady who owns the farm. saw a couple of people smacking their dogs, though (including the owner), so i don’t think i’ll be doing any herding lessons there.

    saturday evening we had our annual beer party (everybody brings a 6-pack of something to drink, and we throw them all together in a big bucket of ice). the dogs did really well up until about midnight when they started getting cranky, so i turned in early and let my partner watch the party-goers for the rest of the evening.

    sunday was whiffle ball with friends followed by challengers, and oh my gosh, what a movie. absolutely loved the whole thing.

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      Ugh, physical corrections like that make me sick, I’m glad you’re not going to take lessons there even though it’s an awesome set of skills. Truth be told I get a little sick even when the training language used is negative, no matter what certifications the trainer has.

      That said, I’m glad the rest was awesome!

      • autumn (she/they)@beehaw.org
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        5 months ago

        yeah… it’s really hard to watch. the most i do is a very upbeat “oops!” or “nope!” with my dogs when we’re training. i do occasionally get frustrated with my barky aussie, but i try to keep it positive as much as possible.

  • Che Banana@beehaw.org
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    5 months ago

    Way busier than we expected. Lunch for 16 (bachelor party…not the right fit since we are a local family joint) & Catering pickup for 22 before service on Saturday made it a good day before we even got started. Sunday we were wiped and unexpectedly filled it up for lunch.

    Today is our Thursday so only 1 more day until our weekend.

  • abbadon420@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    Couldn’t work half the day today, because my internet wasn’t working. Took me all morning to (not) find the problem and fix it. I had to reset my network drivers and restart my pc to fix it.

    My personal laptop is connected to an ethernet cable. My plex server is connected to that same network via a switch in my office. Both were connected, but had no internet. The weird thing was that my work laptop was all fine, even when I turned off the wifi and connected the ethernet cable.

    I even crawled up into the attic to see if no mouse had chewed on the wires or something.

  • drkt@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 months ago

    Finally made the switch to Linux. Technically I ran linux fulltime sometime in 2016-2017 so I’m by no means a novice but I’ve never felt linux on desktop was good enough. Alas, Microsoft has turned Windows into such a struggle that even Linux GUI is tolerable by comparison.

    I’m actually very surprised at how tolerable Debian 12 + i3 has been. I only need to figure out my raw photo developing workflow and I’m basically set on everything. The very few games I care about work fine and all the software I needed has alternatives I can deal with.

  • frog 🐸@beehaw.org
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    5 months ago

    One of the downsides of staying (mostly) on top of my university work, including the group project, is when it comes to a soft deadline and other people aren’t done yet even though I am… that just means more work for me. I narrowly avoided getting assigned a difficult task (moving the project forward into the next stage) by proactively volunteering to take over an easy task that two of my fellow students hadn’t finished. Thus, I spent the morning generating trees instead of importing dozens of 3D models at variously disorganised scales into a single scene. Which was honestly a relief because I am so drained and burned out and exhausted.

  • GeekyOnion@beehaw.org
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    5 months ago

    Starting off my week with a crown on a molar that decided that chewing wasn’t really an activity it wanted to participate in. Heartened by how my team performed on last Friday when I took a day off, and there were some escalations/failures.

  • KeriKitty (They(/It))@pawb.social
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    5 months ago

    Still doomed 🙃 Stressing over another talk with my host, who is… kinda difficult, honestly. I can’t tell what’s available to me (in any context) nor what I’m even supposed to be able to accomplish in any amount of time but I’m supposed to “advocate for myself” even knowing there’s someone who needs this room so like… what the fuck am I supposed to do, beg to stay and somecritter who’s in the same situation I was gets beaten or shot by their father but I get another week of accomplishing fuck-all because I need six sorts of support I’m never gonna get but what I get is a week at a time and expectations to just get my shit together and get a job without even somewhere to stay while I work?

    So I went from hopeless and in danger to hopeless and about to be in danger somewhere else. Worst part is, my host has some of the same major issues that I do, so every time we talk I feel like there’s some understanding there, or understanding to be had. She even recognizes it as an accomplishment for me to manage to get out and take the ten-minute bus ride to Burger King. Does not seem to recognize how screwed I am, how much of an impossible ask it is to just dump a pile of “resources” on me and think I’m gonna call them all, etc.

    …I said I wasn’t gonna wall-of-text you lot <.<; Sorries! Please pretend it’s just a little nibble of whine 😓

  • BioDriver@beehaw.org
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    5 months ago

    My PT starts in earnest this week so I can start going back to the gym! Nine weeks of being stuck at home was not fun

  • its_me_xiphos@beehaw.org
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    5 months ago

    Most challenging teaching experiences of my still new career. I’m having a lot of anxiety over how students are responding in one class, if I’m getting through to them, and adjusting lesson plans and my lectures to ensure I am. I’m teaching a very difficult subject, with a history of students failing out of it. So after taking it over from the last professor, I’ve toned it down. It’s a “why we budget” class and most of the students are either a) completely accounting illiterate but great at decision making or b) accountants and don’t understand why we’re talking about theory and decision making. It’s a bit of both, across all major sectors, which makes it notoriously challenging for professors and students. Trying my best, but I’m loosing a lot of sleep over this class.

    Am I getting through? Why did only 2 students provide mid-term feedback? 1 positive, 1 not so much? All fair critiques, and fair praise, but where’s everyone else? Is anyone actually doing the readings or is my approach (you read, you research a little, then I lecture and summarize what you need to take away), not working here?

    Struggles, and I also decided no scotch this week which was my “I am home now, not in the classroom” mental break from the day.

  • Gil (he/they)@beehaw.org
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    5 months ago

    finally getting more time off from work versus the 60-70 hour weeks i was pulling before, so i started participating in a game jam and trying to have a presence on fedi again.

  • MangoKangaroo@beehaw.org
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    5 months ago

    Miserable, been distracting myself with homelab and Runescape.

    In the case of the former, I bought two separate PCIe conversion bridges so I could plug a GPU into a PCIe x8 slot. The first didn’t line up with the bracket properly (this was my fault for thinking I could somehow magically fit a card into a slot after raising it a centimeter or so). The second was intended to raise the card to a low-profile height. The card I bought required the entire shroud to be removed to install the low-profile bracket. After some cursing, I got it installed, and it didn’t work! Finally at my wit’s end, I replaced my server’s motherboard with a different one that has actual PCIe x16 slots. Still, nothing! Banging my head against the wall, I finally realized: unRAID is currently on Linux kernel 6.1. The GPU is an Intel ARC A310, which didn’t have support in the kernel until 6.2. I upgraded the kernel using an unofficial repo, and the encoder immediately showed up under /dev/dri. FML.

  • LoamImprovement@beehaw.org
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    5 months ago

    Had a bad reaction to anti-anxiety meds, started blacking out behind the wheel, god only knows how I made it home in one piece yesterday. Guess I’m crossing citalopram off the list.

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    5 months ago

    It’s going. It’s been a very busy couple days already at work. But I talked about work last week, so I’ll give an update on something more interesting (to me): My homelab! 🤓

    My UPS arrived like a week ago. I set it up and hooked up devices to it: server, router, and a small switch are on the battery backup. Which gets me about 17min of runtime on the battery if power fails. Pretty good.

    I was able to install the UPS software as an ESXi VM. And I got that to communicate with the ESXi host. Configured some delays to ensure it didn’t try to shutdown the server due to a momentary blackout/brownout, and I even got the software to send me email notifications (thank you SMTP2GO).

    Then it was time. I unplugged the UPS from the wall. And waited for it run out of battery. And guess what? It shut down the server! Even before the UPS completely ran out of power. That said, I didn’t take a stopwatch to it, or really get a chance to monitor how it was shutting down VMs. It looked like they were all shut down properly after I powered on the VMs again, but I can’t say for certain. I could tighten this up. Either way, it basically did what it was supposed to do.

    Next thing I need to figure out is how to get it to boot the server back up once wall power is back. I have some ideas on how to do it manually (if I wasn’t home when power was lost), but I think it’d be neat to figure out how to do it automatically.

    • Radiant_sir_radiant@beehaw.org
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      5 months ago

      Congrats on your new setup! A UPS is never a bad idea.

      As for the auto power-on, check the BIOS settings. Most have an option that says somehing along the lines of “computer power state after plugging it in” and you can usually set it to on, off or whatever it was before power loss.

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        Good idea. I did check the BIOS and that setting was already enabled. So I unplugged the UPS from the wall to simulate and test. Unfortunately, the server didn’t boot automatically after I plugged the UPS back into the wall. And I remembered that in the past, when the power went out due to storms or something, the server did automatically boot on resumption of power.

        I think I know what’s going on.

        With the server and a couple small networking devices on the UPS, I get about 16-17min of battery power. After a few minutes on battery power only, the UPS sends the commands to ESXI to start shutting down VMs and then eventually shuts down the server completely. That takes about 10min. That means there’s still battery power remaining, and now with the server off, the largest load on the UPS, the remaining battery time increases to like 40min since the total load on the UPS is now much smaller. However, there’s still technically power being served to the server; there’s even a small light on the back of the server that stayed on the whole time.

        Plugging the UPS back in the wall didn’t do anything, which I kinda expected. It’s not going to “send” more power to the server to “wake it up.” I think the only way the server would turn back on automatically in this situation is if the power outage was long enough to completely drain the UPS and turn the UPS off completely. So at least 40min. Then there would be absolutely no power being given to the server. Once wall power is back, the UPS itself turns back on, which sends a little bit of power to the server, which the server BIOS recognizes as “Hey, I was actually without any power at all, but I have power now! Boot!” I’ll test that out next weekend.

        So for outages less than 40min, the best bet would be doing a remote desktop into a computer on my network, accessing the web GUI for IDRAC, the server’s out-of-band-management software, and then powering on the server from there. I tried this out and it worked fine.

        Not automatic in all cases, but as long as I have a manual means to restart the server remotely, that’ll do.

        Sorry for the long post; I wrote this down mostly for myself to work it all out!

        • Radiant_sir_radiant@beehaw.org
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          5 months ago

          Hmm, the way you describe it makes sense.
          You’ll probably want to send the UPS a command to kill the power after shutdown is complete. I’m not sure what software you use on the server (if any) to manage the UPS, and not too familiar with them anyway, but a common concept would be: UPS reports power failure with <$minimum runtime remaining, server shuts down gracefully and sends a “kill power” command to the UPS at the end of its shutdown sequence, UPS kills power, power eventually returns, UPS turns back on, server gets power again and reboots.

          I know APC PowerChute and whatever software comes with HPE UPSes can do that.
          It also means your UPS has some runtime left in case of emergency or if the power returns and quickly fails again.

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            4 months ago

            Sorry to “necro” this thread, but I just got around to enabling and testing out your UPS kill command suggestion. Everything shutdown as planned, including the UPS itself. Once I restored wall power to the UPS, power started flowing to the server automatically, the BIOS detected it, and the server booted-up on its own! Success! ESXi is back up and VMs are still in the process of auto-starting. This is exactly how I wanted it all to work.

            Thanks again for the suggestion!

  • Dippy@beehaw.org
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    5 months ago

    I feel like I’m bouncing back from losing some bad friendships, I feel happier and more hopeful

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        5 months ago

        It hurts at first. But now I have more time for better things and I’m so much happier