Other What Makes Your Life, Meh?

Yes, most of Gigabyte's DS3H mATX boards from the generation were smaller. I used one with a i9 9900 in my M1.

Even though they are z series boards, it's mainly to allow faster memory speeds than big beastie CPUs or overclocking - they have no VRM sinks at all.

 

No VRM sinks is a worry on unlocked Z...
I shan't be doing anything adventurous with that one, PS Elements will be it toughest assignment!

 

Yeah, a down-firing cooler is highly recommended.

 

Good call thanks. I have a couple of standard 115X coolers in stock and a better aftermarket one too.

 

I mainly use the DuckDuckGo browser on my iPad and, I also have Vivaldi on there, with the bookmarks synced with my PC.

 

Never tried Vivaldi, my Dad like DDG browser. I'm currently using Firefox on the iPad.

 

Being asked for help with something when the answer they need is right there in the log screenshot they’ve sent me.

I do try to have patience, it’s part of my role to help coach our junior and less experienced engineers. And I do try to guide people towards learning how to diagnose and solve problems themselves, instead of simply telling them the answer.

But my patience wears thin when the same person repeatedly asks me for help with a problem and supplies a log file that explicitly says what the problem is.

 

Changing spark plugs update. Feel like it could have gone in 'ruining my life' or 'awesome' threads each step of the way....

Removed and replaced two plugs - awesome
Realised I needed a deep 8mm socket to get the two other coil packs off - ruining
Ordered one same day delivery from Amazon - awesome
Delivery failed/lost - ruining
Got one the next day and replaced one plug - awesome
Couldn't get the last plug out because an idiot previous owner left debris in the hole and it's blocking the socket - ruining
Fashioned a tool to remove debris using a paintbrush and some sticky fly catching substance - awesome
Replaced final plug - awesome

Overall = meh

 

Cars are fun, until they're not

 

Indeed, the clutch has started slipping on the Land Rover, I reckon I can do it without removing the engine but I need to do the rear main seal at the same time and it's less clear if that is achievable :/

 

I’m disappointed, I felt it was time for Pope Dick…

 

Can't sleep, woke up about 5:15, it's not ruining because I'm back at the gym so I went and it was nice and quiet and got on all equipment I wanted, wish it was awesome for that but I'm fell asleep about 2:30

 

The same, terrible night and up about 520.

I say the same, that's where the similarities end

 

First day back after five days off. The last three days has seen five staff on the rota. Today theres me, one other full timer and a part timer on a half day.

To add insult, my manager messaged me at 9.30 to say I should be on a teams call with the area manager, when I only have one other staff member on site. He did not enjoy my response, and liked it even less when I told him he can explain my absence to the area manager since hes clearly incapable planning a ****ing staff rota.

I look forward to our inevitable heart to heart tomorrow morning.

 

On the brighter side, communion wafers will now be 12" across and covered in cheese & tomato

 

I have to rant about this, and I have to do it somewhere where people will understand why this is a problem.

Trying to fix an issue in work earlier, a process running inside a Debian container was returning a “permission denied” error when attempting to run the command “file” - that’s an actual command line program, it attempts to determine what type of content a file contains.

So I open the docker UI, go to the container, and try to “exec” the file command manually - permission denied. Ok… “file -h” - permission denied. “man file” (open the “manual”) - permission denied.

Right, time for a search engine, and where the rant comes in.

I could not find a *single* relevant hit, and no amount of quotes or boolean operators in the search string made a difference. Every single search engine I tried was utterly useless and kept showing me StackOverflow or Reddit results about “shell script file permission denied”. Out of frustration I even went to Bing - I know, I know, but that’s how pissed off I was about it.

“Oh, yeah, search engines are rubbish, you should just ask AI”, my colleagues crowed. No. Just… no. [eye-twitching intensifies]

I found the problem in the end. But only after I went down many many rabbit-holes around filesystem permissions, checking /bin or /sbin or wherever, and umpteen variations of the arcane docker command line incantations required to give me a shell terminal in the underlying base container. Turns out that the package just wasn’t installed, and - for some reason known only to wizened docker greybeards whose zen oaths of silence prevent them from speaking to you even if they deem you worthy of interaction - docker was reporting “permission denied” instead of “command not found”.

Add “apt update && apt install -y file” to the dockerfile, run a new container build… et voila! The command no longer fails.

But I wasted a good two hours or so with all the command-line hackery, because I couldn’t find a single ****ing relevant result in ANY search engine.

I knew search engines had become extremely ****, but I didn’t think they were that ****.

 

Honestly, that may well have been something I tried… I use it often, because I’ve been burned too many times by wacky conflicts between pyenv and uv…

What really threw me off was getting a “permission denied” error when running “man” - of all the commands that could scold me for not having the right permissions, I get a telling off from “man”…?!

Like I said, it just turned out that neither the “file” nor “man” packages had been installed. I expect missing packages in containers, because I try to use “slim” or “minimal” variants to keep image sizes down (although I don’t touch “alpine” with a bargepole if I can help it… [shudder]). But I don’t expect to get permission errors when a package simply isn’t installed…!

Docker still has some way to go on macOS arm64!

 

Someone bought a projector from me off eBay

Now he's annoyed because it's not the projector he meant to buy. He actually meant to buy another one but bought mine by mistake as he clicked on the wrong listing.

He's now blaming me for his mistake...

WUT

 

Typical of so many dickheads these days, anything they do wrong or by mistake, is always someone else's fault. Just like Trump.