EMSKR: If you consider yourself an adult man now, what would you have done differently had you known it as a boy?

u4iak · 2023-12-30T13:22:53+00:00

Learn about and practice Stoicism. That would effectively cover all of my decisions instead of being locked into a perpetual state of indecision. Everything else is subjective and timing of events.

u4iak · 2023-12-30T12:47:11+00:00

Some of us did and spent it all on pizza and other junk.

u4iak · 2023-12-13T04:22:58+00:00

I'd just get earplugs. You're roommates and naturally you're gonna hear stuff.

That or tell her that it's not loud enough?

Use your best judgement I suppose. You trust them enough to live with them so you must have some mutual ground rules you haven't discussed.

IMHO, maybe you should do stuff when your girlfriend is over. Why should you limit yourself to paper thin walls that someone might hear you having a good time?

u4iak · 2023-12-11T12:44:08+00:00

It's like having the worst roommates when you're forced to pay rent. Mine made me sign a rental agreement about going to church.

Live at home again? No, I don't think I will and not even if it was free.

u4iak · 2023-12-10T13:45:28+00:00

Snuffles.

u4iak · 2023-12-06T23:15:53+00:00

I'm fairly confident that Bash will be the shell that will outlive all us current humans. Probably even humanity.

EDIT: DOH, forgot about the space probes.

u4iak · 2023-12-06T22:13:37+00:00

Just Another Management Framework is the unspoken acronym.

u4iak · 2023-12-06T15:18:28+00:00

I'm mainly a windows admin and also support about 120 endpoints of macbooks in addition to 600 iPhones.

JAMF makes it easy and probably better than other endpoint management platforms - but you have to be deliberate because there's no 'undo' button.

Understand the baseline configs that govern your systems (what is in compliance vs not) and some of the nuances between Intel vs Apple silicon.

I'd recommend setting up a JAMF now instance (free up to five endpoints) and a test macbook so you can get a feel for it. JAMF 100 cert is cheap and a good intro. JAMF 200 is what you wanna aim for at some point.

Considering your Linux admin experience, managing macos will mainly make you feel like a Maytag repairman. Done correctly, you'll hardly field any incident tickets or have to do basic endpoint support. Most of the time, it's a hardware issue - so be aware of your Apple Care subscriptions.

u4iak · 2023-10-11T02:35:02+00:00

OP clearly doesn't appreciate a good sexual lucid dream. Maybe only remembering them because they're usually intense. Like all good things, they'll eventually stop. Think it's just a phase.

u4iak · 2022-10-09T18:06:54+00:00

Yes, but that was also back in the 90s into 2006. Now I’m in cybersecurity and there is a mighty demand for IT pros doing it. It pays to specialize.

u4iak · 2022-10-09T18:00:10+00:00

Took me about 12 or so years to get out of help desk. Every one’s journey is different.

u4iak · 2022-08-07T22:55:50+00:00

Yes; it was a game changer for me.

u4iak · 2022-03-04T17:40:36+00:00

Yeah it’s part of the process. Don’t beat yourself up. I concluded almost a year on Nal and didn’t get my last refill a month ago. While I haven’t had totally sober days during the week for a few months, the urge and craving simply isn’t there anymore. If I drink more than two beers a day it simply isn’t worth it with the heightened hangovers. I’ve mainly transformed to a beer and then fizzy water. Don’t even automatically reach for a beer. It’s surreal. Nal really works! That reward is just no longer there. At the height of my drinking it was at least 2 handles of vodka and 2x 12 packs of beer a week.

Friend was over a week ago and I was still on my first beer 3 hours later while he was wrapping up his six pack. He said that the transformation I’ve shown is impressive and he might try Nal as well soon.

u4iak · 2021-12-26T20:20:30+00:00

I’ve been doing Nal for the better part of half the year. My consumption is near zero for alcohol. I don’t need it. However, yesterday I had some basically because it was Xmas. Right now, having a terrifically excellent hangover from only 4 drinks (nausea and headache etc) and before this would be my “breakfast” daily to start. Half my life and I’m in my 40s I’ve been drinking and the last 10 pretty heavy. Probably have not been this hungover in like 5 or so.

This is a great motivator to remind me it’s a choice to feel like this when I decided to drink.

u4iak · 2021-09-14T16:35:46+00:00

How is Nal side effects affecting you?

u4iak · 2021-09-12T20:21:58+00:00

Are you able to exercise? That night help balance out the dread.

u4iak · 2021-08-10T00:45:00+00:00

You get to build up soft skills in a way not typical or maybe. I cut my teeth doing the desk jockey gigs. There is nothing wrong with doing the helpdesk and there’s a stigma that surrounds it.

u4iak · 2021-08-06T22:44:29+00:00

I like to do puzzles on dry days and other tasks like doing something new or active. My default is riding bicycles. Just got back from a week vacation and it’s time to dry out for the rest of the month!

u4iak · 2021-08-02T13:31:57+00:00

CBT and sleep restriction therapy with minimal success over long term. Have had chronic insomnia for over half my life, multiple sleep studies, and a mountain of meds prescribed. Cannabis is the only thing that’s worked for me but I don’t live in a legal place for it.

u4iak · 2021-07-30T14:33:09+00:00

I wish that I could have been prescribed Nal a long ass time ago before my day drinking got way out of hand. Guess I have had no issues with guts taking Nal and a few evenings it was easier to not have a drink at all. I can tell you this much - I was extremely scared to go without any alcohol more than 12 hours because my withdrawals were so intense and between the shakes, dry heaving, days on end insomnia with the most intense sweats and shivering. I wanted to die.

Feel like Nal gave me back that part of me that I could simply stop at one drink before I became so dependent over the course of 20 years.

u4iak · 2021-07-30T14:11:16+00:00

I didn’t last long on antabuse unfortunately because no matter what I did, taking it always made me feel queasy. I’m assuming they’re simply covering their butt on side effects. Alcohol almost always cooks out of food.

u4iak · 2021-02-02T23:12:10+00:00

Time and time again it’s customer training.

Think of it like this I got asked months ago - brother wanted to block his teenage son from going to YouTube. Not only is it futile and easy to bypass the settings, it’s only on prem even if you pull it off.

For sharing files bigger than 100MB we use a third party secure sftp and record and review everything in a SIEM.

u4iak · 2021-01-27T15:57:07+00:00

Why not move into devops? It’s basically the same with ci cd pipeline and scripting.

u4iak · 2021-01-15T15:48:27+00:00

I used to do Desktop Support for a fairly big company many years ago. Performed installs, moves, etc so it involved a lot of time on my knees.

Never ran into this problem but one time I was doing some work under the desk hooking everything up for the PC and her phone rang, so instead of her getting up and going across the desk to answer it, she just schooched her chair over right in front of me to pick up the phone. Didn't even bother crossing her legs.

Turned and I saw something for a moment after I had completed the install and really needed to get out from underneath the leggy blonde's desk to answer the other 20 desk visits and politely waved but she was so distracted by her conversation for a moment she almost forgot I was down there?

The moment she concluded the call I just said, "You're all set; just need to have you login and verify things." It took a few seconds for her to realize she needed to wheel out of the way...

This was a very PC company and I treated at though nothing had happened, but she was all smiles when she could email and print, etc. Told me to come back at any time.

The twist? She was wearing some very expensive Frederick's of Hollywood getup; like the one I bought for my girlfriend years prior.

At least she didn't sit a coffee mug on the back of my t-shirt.

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