If it’s not so terrible that you dread every day, keep it and the paycheck while you look for another job. As soon as you have a new job lined up, quit.

…immediately.

But even if you stick it out proper, this is absolutely the best advice.

I’ve seen a guy pulled out of a meeting - his meeting, with him mid-presentation - and fired.

Keep that in mind as you plan your exit : they will quite actually fire on the very spot if they want to. Everything you owe them is more about you than about them.

I have landed a new gig, quit that Friday, gone home, grabbed the bag, flown 5000km to a new town, and started a job that Monday. I’m not a person of high repute, it seems!

Two days.

I started a job at a ‘shake and shingle mill’ on the west coast. These places essentially receive cedar logs and produce little slats of wood used for pretty shingles on the sides and tops of houses. Ooo, pretty. The process is unchanged since like the 1700s, and the equipment since the Great War, I think. To make one into the other, first a huge saw cuts the logs into 2’ segments. Tip that on end and drive a wedge into it repeatedly via pneumatic piston, and you have smaller pieces. Those pieces would go to the cut saw to be made square and tidy, and then bundled into a unit to sell. So far so good?

I started as the low man, the dude who takes the split wood to the saw, and who tips the sewn logs over to position the 2’ section for the splitfest. And I’m running back and forth and it’s dangerous as shit – the floor’s wet wood because it’s a big shed and the incoming cedar is rainforest cedar, and it’s always bleeding water out when it’s being cut. The entire place is wet. So I’m careful, but the splitter guy isn’t. It’s not the end of day one and he drives the wedge into his hand. WITH the grain, so he’s not losing fingers, but it’s gonna be a while melding that vulcan salute back together. Yay, promotion! We short-hand it - oho! - and I’m doing 1.5 jobs until go-home time.

Next day, like almost first thing, one of the guys running the big saw loses some fingertips. Go see that video, see how the panel drops, and imagine how that could have happened. So he’s off to the doc. And another guy steps over and he’s gonna show me how to use that machine so we don’t fall behind – and it’s like 2 min before coffee and the guy they just hired to fill the job I started at, he slips on the wood in his sneakers and falls out this big hole in the side of the barn where there’s a conveyor the wood comes in. He falls like 10 feet onto the ground, hard. It’s dirt, but when a 20 year old kid pauses you know he’s injured. Yep, he’s twisted the hell out of his ankle and fall on his arm a bit. He drives automatic, so he’s off in his own car to take himself to A&E. And we’re down two.

During coffee, I go to the boss. It has been a rough two days; and despite how safe it normally is, I definitely need my hands or I don’t need to save for the comp sci degree anymore. Reluctant handshake and it’s all in the rearview.

I think we worked together.

98?

In secondary school, on a whim, I did one of those bizarre basketball hook shots from very far away.

Nothin but net.

No one saw.

I absolutely suck at basketball . Like, I had no business even being close.

Before it secedes and joins Canada

At birth my fingerprints were the same as his. Mom did that thing where she mixed us up and had to take us back to the GP for ID.

I can still unlock his phone 50-50 with my melon but not as often with the fingers.

Short answer: yes.

One of the tenets of security is that a user or process should have only enough access to do what it needs, and then no more. So your web server, your user account, to your mail server, should have exactly what they need, and usually that’s been intricately planned by the distro.

If you subvert it you could be writing files as root that www-data now can’t read or write. This kind of error is sometimes obvious and sometimes very subtle.

Especially if you’re new to this different access model, tread carefully.

Great news! If you need it up, many distros are really great at allowing you cm to compare permissions and reset them. The bad news is that maybe you’re not on one of those. But you could be okay.

Delivery lockers are the way.

We have a system here by the blueBox people. In form and function it closely resembles an Amazon locker system; but this is for anyone. My wife’s Desky setup was largely delivered over the course of a few days into these lockers for me to grab when I had a moment.

But they under-planned for capacity, and access to that vestibule is open to the public 8x5. So when the amazon driver sees the lockers are near full, he seems to upend his cart and peace out, and it’s a ‘blue-light special’.

lambasts

Lambastes?

I hate the phone: wayyy too much telephone tech support early in my career.

So I walk up and talk to a human.

With another half-litre chaser.

Hey. Thanks for the update! As someone whose experience was heavily windows apart from some failed Linux attempts, your experience switching now is an excellent comparison.

Glad the story got better in the second act.

Keep the story going. Please update.

Thanks for persevering also.

Still requires docker?

Why should it? Apt is the best RPM manager out there. Conectiva was awesome with it.

if you left your key behind you could quite easily lock yourself out, as the door would lock on closing.

Electronic locks here. Checking for the badge/card or the fob is something I learned when moving from a more- to less-secure area at work when there was more secret-squirrel stuff than now (more ‘private-possum’ than ‘secret-squirrel’ at this place), and that reflexive check at home when leaving the apartment has saved my bacon.

(And yes, if I activate the elevator keypad I can only go to my own floor and to common-area floors with it. It’s pretty cool)

But then you need to fix the door AND the lock.

I’m not sure the baha’i faith knew they were quoting Douglas Adams.

Funnier in Aus.

Once set, you cannot resize them properly

This is untrue.

I’ve resized and moved partitions on a remote host during a reboot – i.e. doing the change in a batch during that boot.

It’s possible, and for most other resizes it’s easy enough and worth it for the benefits. Do you want to do it daily? No. Do you want to half-ass it and not pay attention during? Also no.

whatever the OS suggests.

Ew. Then you get XFS.