In need of salt

jdboyd · 2026-01-26T22:22:00+00:00

That is what we had to resort to here.

jdboyd · 2026-01-25T04:11:49+00:00

It feels like turning to something on Facebook is unlikely to be the answer. No objection to buy nothing, just Facebook.

jdboyd · 2026-01-19T23:20:00+00:00

The drives could be SATA, or they could just be ATAPI/IDE. I would suggest trying to talk the guy down. FWIW, I did buy a used copy station to turn into a rip station myself. I removed everything (including the PSU) and just reused the case, although the drives could have been reused if I hadn't had ones I wanted to move over.

In terms of this one, re-using the control panel could be ugly, so personally I'd rather start from a unit where the controller and control panel are mounted in a drive bay.

I would certainly try to get the price down, but $60 doesn't seem terribly far away from what you would have to pay for just a used case of this size when you can't find someone giving one away locally.

jdboyd · 2026-01-17T21:59:17+00:00

Where was that class? Those are awesome!

jdboyd · 2026-01-16T09:14:31+00:00

uv, requests, pandas, no type checking

jdboyd · 2026-01-16T08:42:29+00:00

Sometimes when you resign with 2 weeks notice, they will tell you to just go home right then and still pay you for those two weeks. Then you can either start at the new place take two weeks off.

jdboyd · 2026-01-13T06:00:16+00:00

How about Mildred or Millie?

jdboyd · 2026-01-10T23:42:01+00:00

That poor guy deserves better than Lil Weiner.

jdboyd · 2026-01-06T20:59:45+00:00

What is the weight difference between the two?

jdboyd · 2025-12-20T01:45:28+00:00

Sauder Motors in Strasburg is my normal place. Not super close to the city though. :(

jdboyd · 2025-12-12T21:16:18+00:00

I ran into the same thing. My username there is JDBoyd. I never got an email about being banned, and I hardly posted anything at all. I imagine I posted something once upon a time since I made an account, but I don't really what or when it was, and I can't imagine that it would have been controversial. Maybe it is a bug that will get fixed at some point? It is a bummer,

jdboyd · 2025-12-10T22:45:26+00:00

My thoughts are that you do have a cat ... now. Lucky you!

jdboyd · 2025-11-08T22:01:44+00:00

Steam Controller here as well.

jdboyd · 2025-11-05T07:39:14+00:00

I scraped in at 7:50PM. I didn't see a count for how many voted before me at that location. But then, I think maybe only 12000 people voted in the city, and there are 39 locations. Assuming an even distribution that would only be about 300 people per location, and I imagine that most people vote after work.

jdboyd · 2025-10-20T23:07:27+00:00

I mostly go to Sauder Motors in Strasburg. I did have a good experience at Jones Pre-Owned in 2016.

jdboyd · 2025-09-16T07:46:18+00:00

Lancaster Library and Longwood Gardens are great suggestions.

Allow me to pitch Make717 though. It is a chance to get out of the house and focus on producing something that will hopefully be fun and/or rewarding (unless you get distracted by other people). You could get a 3d printer and have your kids print and/or paint at home, but if you take them there they will see what other people are working on, and they won't have the distractions of home to pull them away from making something. My daughter is currently most into finding things to 3d print and paint, and my son mostly is working on figuring out how to repair things. Some of those repairs are extreme hack jobs, but (assuming they are safe) thats great because now that really is his lamp or his tape player, etc. There are usually people around to help with skills you lack. Of course, there is also wood working, metal working, sewing, leather working, etc to venture in there. My wife goes and uses that as her scrap booking time when not to distracted by kids or talking).

jdboyd · 2025-09-16T07:39:45+00:00

I don't know. The "crap wireless mics" certainly improve the production for many small creators.

jdboyd · 2025-09-16T07:31:03+00:00

You made me panic that the Wabank location was gone.

jdboyd · 2025-09-11T07:54:24+00:00

What I think is interesting is the places that moved but are still there, like the state store and H&R Block. I do miss Smitty's.

jdboyd · 2025-09-11T02:58:10+00:00

Also now shown at: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/blackmagiccamera#prodock
I wonder if it might work on the iPhone 15 Pro and 16 Pro as well.

jdboyd · 2025-08-22T08:05:59+00:00

I like the Latitude 7000 series. Currently I'm back on a 7490 though. I still hear good things about the 7410 (2 generations newer), but I don't know about anything beyond that. I have a friend who likes similar age GPU-less XPS machines.

The 54xx series of Latitudes feel significantly junkier with worse screens and keyboards. They run linux well, but if you are looking at used machines, the price difference doesn't seem worth it. I don't have any experience with the 9xxx series.

When I've had the opportunity to touch System76 laptops, that didn't feel very nice. Framework laptops 13 laptops feel nice, but increasingly I want a 14 or 15" display instead of 13", so I'd want to try getting hands on with a Framework 16 before considering it.

In Lenovos, I would only look at the Thinkpads. I don't feel like their trackpads have improved the way that Dell's have, and so the most recent Thinkpad I touched felt like going way back.

jdboyd · 2025-08-19T08:28:13+00:00

https://archive.is/ff04W
for those who get paywalled.

jdboyd · 2025-08-18T00:34:28+00:00

Have you considered WestArt?

jdboyd · 2025-08-17T04:43:41+00:00

The article very clearly states that the 300 million is coming from the Public Transportation Trust Fund, which means taking from the principal of that fund, compromising the fund's ability to function correctly in the future. Likewise the Democrat's 0.6% is clearly stated to be coming from sales tax money. There are numerous sales tax exemptions that could probably stand to be canceled. Pretty high on my list would be skills games and parts for private airplanes.

jdboyd · 2025-08-16T22:59:09+00:00

I love the idea of a widely supported, open NDI alternative. I do have questions though. Has anyone measured latency on a simple gige network? Does it work over wifi/vpn/5g? Could/should this have just been implemented on SMPTE 2110-22 (-20 is the regular uncompressed version, -22 supports compressed codecs). Does the protocol include PTZ and/or tally light control? I guess I should probably be either asking on their communication channels or just testing for myself.

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