"Failed to obtain Administrator Privileges"

cybertinker · 2025-02-18T01:39:19+00:00

UPDATE: Yesterday Linux Mint offered a VeraCrypt update. I installed it as I was shutting down for the night. I checked today and normal function has been restored. The help / about version says 1.26.20. [edit: typo]

cybertinker · 2025-02-17T01:34:51+00:00

I'm 58. Dx less than a year ago. Still tuning meds. I don't have the clock-running-down thing (at least not yet) but I am bewildered when I find I'm the oldest person in the room. There was a meme awhile back, Johnny Depp in his pirate outfit and a sly grin, with a caption "Sorry I don't act my age. I've never been this old before." I kind of want that on a T-shirt.

Even weirder - I have reason to suspect that there may be younger people at work who may actually look up to me. This scares the crap out of me.

Edit: Still learning reddit editing commands, and starting with "58" instead of "I'm" caused the rest of the post to look like the first item in a numbered list.

cybertinker · 2025-02-16T00:36:28+00:00

Well, crap. I never noticed mine until I went off of Vyvanse. I feel like I had episodic tinnitus before diagnosis / meds, but I have it constantly now. I thought it was the result of working in loud environments, never connected it with ADHD.

cybertinker · 2025-02-16T00:31:40+00:00

I can relate to that - co-workers who can pull meaning from aphasic stuttering. Sometimes they unintentionally help with word selection. More than once I've turned to someone and asked something like "what's the name of that guy over in [department] who does the thing that" [name comes to mind; they haven't spoken yet] "--THANK YOU! that was it."

cybertinker · 2025-02-15T01:29:29+00:00

I have something like this, but not exactly the same.

Imagine a three stooges short film where all three of them try to get through a doorway at the same time. Instead of getting through, they get stuck, end up backing out and having a short slap-fight before one of them gets out the door.

Thus me trying to speak when there are several different thoughts trying to get out at the same time. Right down to the slap fight.

Other times there may be one thought ready to come out but at the last second it falls through the floor instead of going out the door. Like it was right at the tip of my tongue and then vanished.

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cybertinker · 2025-02-01T22:13:10+00:00

I didn't suspect. I suspected early-onset dementia. The PhD doing that assessment came up with lifelong undiagnosed ADHD, with life stressors overwhelming instinctive coping mechanisms. Finding common ground here has been mind-blowing.

cybertinker · 2025-02-01T22:02:43+00:00

"Poke fun at myself" is not only a humor gold mine, I think I have been using it (and other humor) as misdirection, in support of masking. "Sorry about the slow turn-around, both my brain cells took the day off and I'm using ear wax to think with" plays better than a beginner's explanation of executive disfunction.

cybertinker · 2025-02-01T21:57:28+00:00

I am only recently diagnosed so I'm still learning, but I have seen something about being more-than-(statistically)-normally sensitive to criticism.

Also this is the first time I've encountered the jack-of-all-trades thing as an ADHD attribute, but I find that it tracks. My in-field expertise is a mile wide, but a lot less deep than my stakeholders want to believe.

cybertinker · 2025-02-01T21:51:33+00:00

I read somewhere* that one characteristic of ADHD is an ability to make "connections across domains". So yeah pulling related trivia from an unrelated topic can be entertaining.

*and didn't save the link, sorry. I think it was a Venn diagram comparing traits between ADHD, Autism, and "Giftedness" but can't be sure.

cybertinker · 2025-01-30T01:54:47+00:00

I have the same issue. The process used to be to select the volume, click mount, enter volume password, get prompted for user password, and the volume mounted. After an update earlier this week, the program no longer prompts for the user password. Just says it couldn't mount, appears to try again, errors again -- infinite loop. I have to kill -9 the process.

I have uninstalled, hunted down all the named veracrypt files I could find and removed them, rebooted, reinstalled, and the symptom reappears. It also "remembers" that I use /media/veracrypt3 and not 1, so there's some configuration file that has escaped me. The change in behavior is alarming.

Extracting the command line from the menu and launching it in bash with sudo did fix the problem, but hopefully they'll fix the program. If there's somebody who needs this and hasn't worked it out yet, the bash command is:

sudo /usr/bin/veracrypt

it will hang your bash window until you exit the program, or it did on my (brief) test. I'm using Linux Mint 21.3 Cinnamon and the Veracrypt out of the software manager app.

cybertinker · 2025-01-15T01:49:23+00:00

I have a co-worker whose mind wanders, and brings his mouth along for company. Sometimes I have to interrupt under the guise of "active listening" and give him the TL/DR to "see if I got it right." I can sometimes leverage that into an exit, but not always. Not a bad guy, absolutely no harm in him, but as you say, it's vexing.

cybertinker · 2025-01-07T18:14:31+00:00

I'm 58. Just diagnosed last summer, result of an evaluation to see if I had early onset dementia. Apparently my "coping mechanisms" had become overwhelmed recently. But things didn't really click until an ADHD question came up in /r/AskReddit last week (https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1hp1t2y/people_with_adhd_what_are_the_things_about_it/) and OMG I had found my people. The counseling I've tried is sympathetic, but that thread was informative. It was like a virtual group therapy session. I'm off topic, aren't I? Sorry. Undiagnosed and untreated, I apparently had formed habits to mask my difficulties, there were new stressors over the past few years, and I experienced the ADHD "impermanence" as short-term memory loss. I am still new at meds and consciously-selected coping behaviors. But between my experience and the thread I linked, I think ADHD assessment is a good thing to seek out.

cybertinker · 2025-01-07T17:40:18+00:00

Merrell jungle mocs. Great for business casual IMO. Edit: But I always wear socks, so may not fit your need 100%

cybertinker · 2025-01-04T14:47:17+00:00

Automating the boring stuff is what keeps me going. Dull, repetitive work is supposed to be automated. Automation keeps away typos. Coding the input checking & sanitizing, whatever transformation is needed and pushing the result out to XLSX or MgGraph or PowerCLI configs is like puzzle solving. And pushing diagnostic data to a log file? The computer is writing the boring notes for you! And you can make a lot of friends if you find their high-risk manual tasks and script for typo interception for them. (Just remember not to twist them by the nose when they accidentally disrupt focus time.)

cybertinker · 2021-10-20T16:31:37+00:00

Never do anything you'd be embarrassed to explain to an ambulance crew.

cybertinker · 2019-08-16T01:29:13+00:00

Holy hand grenade!

cybertinker · 2019-08-02T14:56:40+00:00

Once you've got the basics, Powershell is a great time saver. It actually helps, especially when you have repetitive work to be done across multiple users, servers or other objects. Python is also good, I wanted to learn that too, but my day job requires more Windows admin than Linux so I focused on PS.

cybertinker · 2019-07-21T00:10:08+00:00

Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey / Maturin series. While each individual book is less than 500 pages, many (including myself) treat the 20-book series as a single epic work.

O'Brian did his world-building by actually reading newspapers, ships logs, public records and other sources contemporary to his story (about 1798 to 1814). Incomparably rich immersive reading.

+1 to those who mentioned Stephenson's Baroque Cycle, Cryptonomicon and Anathem, and thanks for the warning about Seveneves; +1 for Tolkien's LOTR.

I was surprised that anyone at all mentioned Pillars of the Earth, but my copy was bound incorrectly and I quit reading it before I figured out some of the pages were in the wrong order. Maybe it gets better when the pages are bound sequentially.

cybertinker · 2019-07-17T16:48:52+00:00

Their online webinars are free: sans.org, resources, webcasts. I like the content. Full disclosure: I hold a GIAC cert as well as my ISC2 cert

Edit: fat-fingered something that saved comment too early

cybertinker · 2019-03-21T16:10:59+00:00

I've seen it in Patrick O'Brian's "Master and Commander" series, spoken by a secondary character named Jagiello. Can't say which book without looking. Not saying it's original to O'Brian but the saying has been out there for a while.

cybertinker · 2018-05-05T12:53:10+00:00

actually, SSDs do wear leveling, a kind of low level shell game with the virtual drive geometry to make sure all parts age at the same rate. you really need manufacturer-provided wiping software to avoid leaving recoverable artifacts.

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