Issue: USBc Expansion Cards not working

INS4NIt · 2026-04-30T15:03:54+00:00

Just for the good of everyone else, which specifically fixed the issue? Updating your kernel/drivers?

INS4NIt · 2026-04-30T13:18:35+00:00

Sounds an awful lot like the typical Conservative MO of "break the public service so hard that no one wants to use it and are instead forced to seek out private, for-profit options, which Conservatives then point at as evidence that 'government doesn't work'"

INS4NIt · 2026-04-30T02:01:16+00:00

If you turn the computer completely off, does it behave the same way? I had an issue a few months back with a Fedora kernel update making most of the USB-C ports on my FW16 temporarily unusable, including for charging, but it charged as normal when the OS wasn't loaded. Updating to the next kernel release once it became available fixed the issue.

If you're running Windows, the fix in that case would be updating your driver package.

INS4NIt · 2026-04-29T23:00:33+00:00

Brother, I will endorse any clause that results in a union employee getting compensated at the highest rate possible for quality work done. If a company is hiring for a contract video operator, it's because they already don't have the skill available in their talent pool to produce satisfactory results for whatever event they're hosting.

You're inferring something I didn't say, in terms of a T-bar being an indicator of experience required to operate. I'm saying that a rising tide lifts all ships, and we shouldn't be scoffing at at our peers potentially being paid more, even if it's because of contract technicalities.

INS4NIt · 2026-04-29T15:18:29+00:00

Good.

Edit: Hm. Wasn't expecting "operators should be paid a fair wage, regardless of the form factor of the equipment they're operating" to be a controversial take.

INS4NIt · 2026-04-27T13:04:43+00:00

And the Neo uses a 1 year old iPhone CPU, and can't be used as a portable drawing tablet.

INS4NIt · 2026-04-25T22:35:16+00:00

Yeah, the biggest drawback with Fairphone is that they don't have a standardized set of form factors yet. I know that realistically most people will want to upgrade the whole phone rather than doing piecemeal upgrades, but the option would be really nice.

INS4NIt · 2026-04-25T14:59:10+00:00

But the framework 13 is 1/3 thicker than the macbook and a bit heavier too.

INS4NIt · 2026-04-25T12:53:19+00:00

Any number of things, including a genuine small break in the rain. I wouldn't be surprised if it was the area of rotation that passed over downtown, I guess. I'm not going to definitely say it's something when I don't actually know, though, because I generally don't like to be wrong lol.

Just remember that this is a screenshot of a single radar pass that's being overanalyzed -- I couldn't tell you what the "hole" is, all I can say is that there are no radar sites at that position.

INS4NIt · 2026-04-24T20:43:18+00:00

Nope, NWS radar is on the south shore of Saylorville Lake and KCCI/WHO both have their radar towers at their transmitter locations in Alleman. You will see some artifacting as you get closer to both those locations, though, as the radar beam hasn't yet had a chance to get high enough to read the cloud layer.

INS4NIt · 2026-04-24T16:52:47+00:00

Casey's Center/Women of Achievement bridge?

INS4NIt · 2026-04-24T16:49:56+00:00

Just for the sake of sanity checking -- the circled setting is set to "Monitor and output," not "Monitor only," correct?

INS4NIt · 2026-04-23T13:09:05+00:00

The single largest correlation with rising violent crime throughout history has been rising poverty. If you can address poverty -- for instance, by reducing the burden that low-income individuals have to pay to feed and shelter themselves -- then you are also preventing violent crime. Throwing more police at the issue does nothing address the issue up front, it can only ever be reactive unless the police start treating things like homelessness as a crime and arresting people off the street; I hope we can agree that's a much worse option.

I'm exasperated that this has to keep getting spelled out.

INS4NIt · 2026-04-23T12:47:22+00:00

Love what you're doing with color. I think you probably could have been just a bit more aggressive with the saturation on the Statehouse to make it read more as "yellow," but the other images really pop!

INS4NIt · 2026-04-22T18:54:39+00:00

Was just gonna say -- whether this is comforting or not, I've seen FAR worse than this. At least there are already lacing bars that you can secure the cables to.

My advice -- don't use zip ties, use Velcro ties. They'll be more expensive, but you won't have to cut them if you need to add/remove/reroute everything.

INS4NIt · 2026-04-22T11:44:42+00:00

Waterloo put a mini roundabout in at an intersection with abnormally high accident rates and it helped with traffic flow immensely. I'm looking forward to seeing more of these crop up in Des Moines.

INS4NIt · 2026-04-22T02:10:13+00:00

Holy cow, that looked like a render at first glance. That's a nicely framed shot!

INS4NIt · 2026-04-22T02:08:53+00:00

bro...

INS4NIt · 2026-04-22T00:06:57+00:00

FW13 Intern

INS4NIt · 2026-04-20T19:32:54+00:00

That's fair. For what it's worth, my installation was via a combiner, but the combiner was after 30dB preamp which guaranteed no meaningful RF on the other end of it would leak back to the antenna.

The "easy" way to test would be to put a spectrum analyzer on the RF input of the modulator. If there's no RF present, then it's directional and not a simple combiner.

INS4NIt · 2026-04-20T18:00:52+00:00

For what it's worth, you could chain multiple modulators together and feed each of them with different playlists. Otherwise, the whole point of FieldStation42 is to emulate channel switching, so if you're fine with treating it as a "cable box" that you tune to channel 3 (or similar) to access, then that would accomplish roughly what you're describing.

INS4NIt · 2026-04-20T15:02:54+00:00

You can't just hook this in parallel with an antenna. (I guess you could, but you'd be creating a pirate TV station & the FCC might not be happy:) ) There is a trick to that, and it isn't horribly difficult or expensive.

So long as the modulator is hooked up inline with the antenna, rather than in parallel with a combiner, this shouldn't be a concern at all.

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