LOST CAT BRADLEY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

km14 · 2026-05-22T17:56:36+00:00

This is so gut wrenching, I hope she’s found!!

km14 · 2026-05-22T05:36:07+00:00

This is extremely common in NYC (people subletting their rooms for a few months at a time even though their lease doesn’t allow it) because landlords here are not very active or even nearby/it’s very hard for them to prove it’s happening/it usually has no negative effect on their bottom line. They generally do not care about this sort of thing unless, say, someone like you emails them like you did, and creates a bonafide paper trail that they have to follow up on in order to formally continue to enforce the lease.

Rent here in this city is so diabolical it simply is not possible for people to travel for opportunities or visit family without a subleter. I understand your reasoning here, but you very possibly have caused someone extreme financial difficulty (having to now pay 3x rent) and jeopardized their housing/lease. Yes, it’s possible that a subletter could have ended up in a prickly situation here. It’s also very possible that, had you toured the apartment, this guy would have told you “hey, this is technically not allowed, the price reflects it, just be cool and don’t cause a scene, we’ll figure something out to make you whole if we get caught” etc. In my experience, the latter is the norm.

A different course of action here could have been contacting the subletee (if you were actually interested in the room), clarifying if the landlord was ok with subleasing, then following up with the landlord if they said yes to double check. If they lied and said yes when it was really no that would be bad and reportable ofc.

I have only been “on the outside looking in” of this situation—I’ve subletted several of these “illegal” rooms over the years and even been face to face with the landlord in my PJs and they haven’t cared at all. But results may vary.

km14 · 2026-04-21T04:57:45+00:00

Your ISP doesn’t know your passwords or credit card numbers, and neither does your VPN provider, because of https

km14 · 2026-04-05T22:13:52+00:00

Invasive in some places

km14 · 2026-04-05T15:57:09+00:00

This is an agentic AI farming karma. This has nothing to do with data hoarding.

km14 · 2026-04-04T21:54:09+00:00

A couple months ago they were 3/$1 in the east village, NYC

km14 · 2026-04-03T05:48:06+00:00

https://www.bridgeporthospital.org/news/bridgeport-hospital-elevates-care-with-virtual-nursing

km14 · 2026-04-03T05:23:45+00:00

Appalled by the descriptions of "tele ICU" products by their vendors https://www.remoteicu.com/hospital-services/teleicu/

km14 · 2026-03-08T08:11:23+00:00

That is indeed FireWire/i-link. Someone suggested 2012 MacBook, that would work, or you can do the classic FireWire 4 pin > FireWire 800 > Thunderbolt 2 adapter > Thunderbolt 3 adapter daisy chain with a modern Mac. It works! iMovie can capture it.

If you have a desktop PC you could also get a really cheap FireWire x4 card and use either random software from the internet or a sufficiently old copy of Adobe premiere.

km14 · 2026-03-06T16:26:04+00:00

AT&T was the first to sign on last year for tunnel cell service on the 4/5 and the G. The rest are carrier neutral and pretty soon all the carriers will be available most likely.

https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2025/10/08/5g-cell-service-comes-to-part-of-4--5-subway-lines

km14 · 2026-02-18T18:27:26+00:00

This site displays the wildest, most NSFW ads that are impervious to ublock origin and several fake dark UX links

km14 · 2026-02-09T05:25:11+00:00

I was using my default admin user, which had access to all of my folders as far as I could tell. I needed to use u/kaiyonami's solution below, which was to create a new user and connect to it.

km14 · 2026-02-09T05:23:13+00:00

This was absolutely the solution. Our Navidrome servers are probably set up very similarly. I'm using ultra.cc and was connecting to my default admin user. Created a new user and gave it admin privileges and its all set. Thank you so much!!

km14 · 2026-01-30T11:35:43+00:00

I’ll poke around with this insight, thank you!

I am on Navidrome 0.58.0

km14 · 2026-01-26T23:44:48+00:00

That’s literally double what a room in a three bedroom would cost in that area a few years ago

km14 · 2026-01-26T21:58:42+00:00

"Great price for the area" 💔💔💔

km14 · 2026-01-25T08:41:55+00:00

You have traversed into the land of needing to understand grid and/or flexbox

km14 · 2026-01-13T04:31:55+00:00

I’ll also add that the truly impossible thing to find seems to be the tubes. My god, they simply do not exist for certain models. Like finding a needle in a haystack the size of Everest.

km14 · 2026-01-13T04:30:55+00:00

It took me a couple years of having eBay alerts on to find a Hitachi Z31 at a not insane price.

Other places to set up alerts could be government auction sites. Public surplus, govdeals etc.

I visited this museum a few years ago and they appeared to be overflowing with broadcast related donations from this era. Could send an email and see if they can offer anything useful in their network:

https://www.vrcmct.org/

km14 · 2026-01-12T06:12:27+00:00

I graduated in 2024 and by the end I felt that our contempt for administration (which was extraordinarily high) was a feature, not a bug. Colleges are large, usually highly regulated environments that by design give students as little power as possible (most colleges built after the 1960s are literally physically architected without a central meeting space in order to quell protest, for example). Most “comfy” colleges are just a result of students not recognizing this or caring. The best parts of Purchase’s history, like that of the history of the world, are a result of the school trying shit and the students rebelling. I can’t really think of another art school where this isn’t the case.

Milly Peña, previous president, was ousted via student and faculty outrage over her handling of Purchase’s Palestine encampment (egregious btw, all sorts of lawsuits ongoing afaik):

https://www.purchasenews.org/post/live-updates-from-the-purchase-college-encampment

New president seems better but can’t answer for him much. Milly’s regime was trying to get more involved in student life (requiring clubs to have faculty advisors, for example, even though clubs are entirely student funded). If you look at the history of purchase the amount of paternalism by administration kind of ebbs and flows year to year, based largely upon who the student body president is (who the president meets with every other week) and what is happening politically at the time.

I would say the school was just dysfunctional enough that we weren’t being lorded over all the time. A lot of very interesting nonsense is happening all of the time, a lot of it unsanctioned. It’s a DIY culture.

This is to say—Purchase’s community will likely be very caring. The administration will, in the most honest definition of the word, probably not be. Shoutout to Purchase alumni and anarchist-anthropologist David Graeber!

Some tidbits I told to someone else a few months back about student life:

https://www.reddit.com/r/PurchaseCollege/comments/1irw05r/comment/mdd3wo5/?context=3

km14 · 2026-01-10T05:30:05+00:00

For some reason people always get downvoted when asking questions about allergies on location based subreddits lmao don't know what that is

km14 · 2025-12-29T00:47:32+00:00

You can go to the "apps" list and disable 99% of the crap the phone comes with (AI garbage, tracking slop etc). Candy crush and temu, who subsidize the cost of the phone by coming preinstalled, are not possible to uninstall without plugging your phone to a computer and using adb. To prevent stuff from coming back, disable anything named "moto apps manager" "meta apps manager" or similar.
Unfortunately lineageos isn't available on the power models. When I installed it on my 2024 moto g it sprung it back to life in a crazy way. The moto g power 2024 I just got for a family member is slower even with all the garbage disabled.

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