For example, today i nearly set my house on fire after forgetting a pan on the stove.
Accidentally put a hot pan on the couch (don’t ask) and it BURNED A HOLE in the couch
I made a move on a coworker I really like. Asked her if she wanted to fool around because I thought I would only be around for another week or two. But now that I’ve found a new place to live around here, it made me realize how shitty my train of thought was to put her in that sort of position.
I left a thermocouple connector unsecured and it fell onto an aftertreatment unit during testing.
When the aftertreatment unit was red hot the connector caught fire. 👌Was my first time ever using a fire extinguisher!
Left my iron plugged in for a week without realizing it.
Accidentally caused massive heat wave. Sorry folks, but I unplugged it so temps should start to go down now.
Oh I got this. Real good fuck up. So, I run a bunch of services for me and family and friends, like Nextcloud, Immich, Mastodon, etc. All of their data is stored on a big RAID array built with mdadm. I built it before I knew about dm-integrity, so I wanted to rebuild it with dm-integrity running on all the disks. So I took out one disk (it’s a RAID6, so it can stand losing a disk just fine), and added dm-integrity on top of it. When I tried to add it back to the array, mdadm was like, “that’s not a big enough device”. Ok, yeah, makes sense, dm-integrity takes up some space. So I took all the services offline and started a resize2fs to reduce from 22TB to 18TB. Well that was taking forever, so I canceled and ran e2fsck, no worries. I started a new resize2fs reducing from 22TB to 21.8TB, which should be good enough. On pass 4, it’s looking like it’s gonna take 8 DAYS. I can’t have my services offline for that long, so I cancel and run e2fsck. Thousands of errors. Oops.
At least it’s looking like all the errors are just in Mastodon’s cache files.
So now I’m moving all the files to an external drive in order to migrate the array properly. In its degraded state though, the array is painfully slow. At least my services are online.
So basically I risked my files (though I have a backup from about three days before all this), and gave myself an extra maybe ten days(?) of work.
Moral of the story, don’t ever use resize2fs unless you have time to wait.
I’ve done something like this before, but thankfully it only impacted services that I host for my own use, didn’t affect any family and friends.
Btw, I’ve found the easiest (but not the cheapest) way to fix this is to simply buy bigger disks. Swap out each disk for a bigger one one-by-one, then resize the whole volume to fill the new disks. Resizing upwards is much faster than shrinking a volume.
I’ve never had a volume shrink operation work without errors, and yes it takes days if you have more than 4TB.
I wrote a long thoughtful reply to a heavily downvoted post only to find the post had been deleted before I could hit submit, and I hadn’t copied the text.
Oof that is pain. I have started to just move to a local text editor when i realize the comment is getting long.
I have a window open in my preferred text editor that is perma-opened for ephemeral writing just such as you’re describing.
I have a specific file for this purpose too! For anything longer than 10 words really. I hate it when I accidentally hit enter in those little chat boxes.
I have textarea cache browser again installed (on desktop) for those rare cases where I want to recover text input.
I wouldn’t attribute a fuckup on your end though. Just really unfortunate and depressing. Caused by someone else.
Eh, the mistake was in engaging with a post that was surely about to be deleted by the OP.
I bent over the sink to clean the drain and threw my back out three hours before I had to leave on a business trip.
Had to cancel the entire thing and spend the next day on my back.
I was clearing some brush with a machete, 6 stitches in my shin.
Username checks out!
I would probably have cleared the brush before it reached my shin, that way you could probably get by with a trimmer instead of a machete. And doing it before spring has its advantages too so the beach bod is ready before swim season.
That reminds me of a few years ago when I noticed a neighbor down the street running a weed eater while wearing a small bikini. She had on heavy gardening gloves and safety goggles, but to protect the rest of her whole body just the bikini. And it was a really big-ass weed eater too, the kind with the extra side handle. Might have even been gas powered.
OMG. I worked on lawn care as a teen. I still to this day avert my face away from anyone weed whacking. Received many hits to the face even with safety gear.
Left my bicycle unattended (but locked) for 3 days. Came back to a bicycle without tires. Rip 300€
Damn that sucks. I have a chain lock but it only loops through the frame and front wheel. I use a shitty old cable with it to loop through the back tire and my pannier strap if I’m leaving it on the bike. I do this because I’ve had a wheel jacked before also, it fucking sucks.
I ate too many blueberries yesterday and regret it today.
I didn’t know this was possible, could you share what you think the critical amount is?
This is obviously a fabrication. Blueberries are delicious and there’s no too many about it.
Found the big blueberry shill
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🎵 I could see the city light 🎶
Are you blue?
How is it possible to regret eating blueberries? Like, I need more details.
Blewb poop soup
He blued himself
Bought some parts for my car without checking they fit. Two hour round trip to pick them up, hours grinding the old rust off them, more hours repainting them, another £100 buying all the extra bits I needed to fit them. Then got under the car and realised there was no way they were going to fit. Ended up just buying some refurbished ones off the internet so at least the extra parts weren’t wasted and I get to fit them.
They were anti-roll bars for anyone who cares.
Wrapped my 4yo in a big towel on the way back from the hotel pool and shortly after challenged him to a race to our room. He immediately tripped on the towel and hit his head because his arms were under the towel. Fortunately just got a bump and some rug burn on his forehead
I stepped on a garden millipede by accident 😭
millipedes produce hydrogen cyanide as a defense mechanism
I think that’s why some of them smell like cherry coke - though I’ve never noticed a garden millipede smell that way.
Every time someone says millipede I get the millipede song stuck in my head.
how did I miss this, was this part of the original Charlie the Unicorn?
just wow, thank you for sharing this
This is kinda long and kinda vague: I had a meeting recently with some devs/artists to discuss an upcoming project.
In short, the meeting went poorly. I stood alone against everyone else on the design/direction things were going to be headed.
I was tired and frustrated and walked away basically saying I’m not going to support any of it.
After mulling it over for a day, I felt I was too harsh and unreasonable. I reached back out and apologized and asked to give this one more try.
Well they didn’t accept. I guess that bridge is too scorched to go back on. It wasn’t until that point that I realized I really messed this one up.
Very minor, but I very recently changed deoderant after not being able to find the one I usually use. I just got to a clinic for a medication infusion and it has completely worn off, being replaced by the smell of stress sweat from traffic, and now this poor nurse has to smell me while I get my medicine, so I am mortified.
If it helps, I’m pretty sure stress sweat is far from the worst thing that nurse routinely smells. By a long shot.
the nurse probably has access to body wipes you could use; alternatively, you could see if they have some antimicrobial soap like hibiclens, washing armpits with those (like in a bathroom) works like a lasting deodorant I’ve heard
