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I did nothing to improve my situation

I once forgot to turn off a stove burner and burned a hole in an oven mitt

By stepping back into an abusive relationship and not knowing how to get out without fear of the person committing suicide and leaving 3 children with no parent.

Posting online that Luigi did nothing wrong? Social Credit™? Flagged.

Accidentally put a hot pan on the couch (don't ask) and it BURNED A HOLE in the couch

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!

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.

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.

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.

Left my bicycle unattended (but locked) for 3 days. Came back to a bicycle without tires. Rip 300€

I decided it was a good idea to do the mandatory university stage while also working this summer, while also trying to pass my last four exams. I greatly overstimaded my capacities and the trust i should have gave to my employee when they said i would be working just some days a week.

Bought a new car on the spot after a test drive. Most stupid decision of my life. It was only a week after I had wrecked my longtime car. Must have still been in some kind of weird mental state, although I felt fine at the time. Don't do that. Do not. Do that. Test drive, think about it, go back if you're still interested. You'll thank yourself.

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.

My bathtub faucet plunger that diverts water to the shower head wasn't working anymore so I couldn't shower. I bought a new one with chrome finish to match the existing hardware in the bathroom. Installed it

Then I decided to CLR douse the water valve and decorative plate and get rid of some hard water staining. It dripped onto the new faucet which clearly wasn't made of the same material because it instantly oxidized.

So that was infuriating.

I left the hot water running in the kitchen sink for like 20 minutes and it steamed up the place.

scary! did you lose the pan?

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.