Brian Jarvis

motherjones.comAirlines sue to overturn rule against breaking wheelchairsMajor carriers are trying to overturn a Biden-era policy that ended decades of mistreatment.

20 Feb 2025

American Airlines, Delta, JetBlue, Southwest, and United should be ashamed.

Julia Métraux@juliametraux.bsky.social

Five major airlines are suing to overturn a rule from then-Transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg that actually holds airlines accountable for damaging disabled people's wheelchairs. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

15 Feb 2025

The techs at Valvoline love showing me what my oil looks like on the dipstick as if I have any clue how to interpret this. But this odd Rorschach ritual is is just a minor quirk in an overall excellent customer experience. Seriously I look forward to going to the Centreville VIOC.

30 Jan 2025

Photo credit: Allison Robbert for The Washington Post

18 Jan 2025

As far as “little things that individually aren’t so bad but in aggregate suck the life out of me” go, emails where I click unsubscribe and then the site asks me to enter my email address is up there. You know who I am and why I’m here. Just stop sending me shit.

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Don Moynihan

@donmoyn.bsky.social

11 Jan 2025

Can America Survive The Techbro Midlife Crisis?

29 Dec 2024

Pentagon City Mall, Arlington, VA

Now that Black Friday deals are gone…

Some HDDs to complete the parts accumulation! One 18 TB drive will be the parity disk, then the other 18 TB, 14 TB, and two 10 TB drives from my current system will be the storage array. So a total of 52 TB usable space with a 2 TB SSD cache.

29 Dec 2024

The build came together nicely. The Fractal Design Define 7 case is a joy to work in, despite the name being terrible. One of the HDDs was DOA unfortunately so I’ll have to return that. But that doesn’t keep me from proceeding with the Unraid setup.

27 Dec 2024

I’m sure I’m not the first person to come up with this idea, but rather than companies offering childcare, schools should be coworking spaces. I’d love to have lunch with my kids then they go off to their meetings and I call in to mine. Then we all play kickball.

20 Dec 2024

@siracusa.bsky.social so I know you said you’ve already picked a name for your app, and have already heard a ton of other suggestions, but just gonna put this out there… “Big Disk Energy”

Now that Black Friday deals are gone…

So that’s all so far. Now I’ll be shopping for a case, power supply, and some HDDs for the storage pool. To be continued…

15 Dec 2024

Part accumulation is almost complete. Got an open-box Corsair 850 watt power supply from Micro Center (I’m in love with their open box selection), a Fractal Designs Define 7 case from B&H, and 50 TB of disks from goHardDrives.

13 Dec 2024

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13 Dec 2024

^^ @kaine.senate.gov @markwarner.bsky.social This passed the House on 9/15/2024, with unanimous support. Please prioritize this bill in any end-of-year package, no matter how small and narrow, you are crafting and ensure its passage before the end of this Congress.

Back in the late ‘90s, the Taco Bell Gordita Supreme was my jam. So I was ecstatic when I saw they were bringing it back for this decades thing. There’s something off about it though. I remember the shell being way fluffier back then. Now it’s basically just a slightly thicker soft taco.

Now that Black Friday deals are gone…

And this pack of 64GB DDR4 RAM (that price is wrong, it was around $97 for this pack)

And this i5-12400 processor. At first I was going to go with the 14th generation one but I read some conflicting opinions on those so figured I’ll stick with the 12th gen and save a few bones in the process.

Now that Black Friday deals are gone…

Got this MSI motherboard

And a couple M.2 drives, one for application data the other for a cache.

Now that Black Friday deals are gone…

Oh well would you look at that, they have some pretty good prices on open box stuff and some lingering cyber week sales. Well I mean it’d be a shame to have driven all this way just for that Sonos charger.

So with that I kick started my new server build project. And this will be a thread for that progress.

Now that Black Friday deals are gone…

This series of impulse justifications is pretty flimsy, but here it goes. I recently got a Sonos Roam 2 and wanted the charge base for it. Sonos sells it for $50, which seemed high. Micro Center had an open box one for $17, but that’s a 20 min drive away. If only I had another reason to go there…

@zivabranstetter.bsky.social

Aha, I’ll check out parts for my potential server build while I’m there! I don’t have to buy anything I’ll just look.

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Ziva Branstetter

propublica.orgDo You Have Insights Into Dental and Health Insurance Denials? Help Us Report on the System.Insurers deny tens of millions of claims every year. ProPublica is investigating why claims are denied, what the consequences are for patients and how the appeal process really works.

If you use our tool to get your own file, here’s how to help our team learn more about the ways insurers deny claims … www.propublica.org/getinvolved/...

Daniel Martin@fizbin.bsky.social

I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases) projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

projects.propublica.orgFind Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your ClaimYou likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...

Now that Black Friday deals are gone…

Also I haven’t built a computer from parts in over 10 years. What could go wrong?

3 Dec 2024

I picked up a CAT S22 Flip dumb-ish phone for my father in law who can't do a true smart phone for reasons. Using a D-pad to navigate Android on a 2-inch screen is a special kind of hell. But on the flip (ha!) side, oh how I miss that satisfying "thunk" of closing it.

wheelchairtravel.orgSummary of the Air Carrier Access Act - WheelchairTravel.orgAir Carrier Access Act regulations protect wheelchair users and passengers with disabilities on airplanes and in airports. Explanation of your ACAA rights.

1 Dec 2024

In today’s edition of airline discrimination, we’ll discuss a recent incident with @americanair.bsky.social When I travel by air, I use a collapsible wheelchair designed to fit in the onboard wheelchair closet that larger aircraft are required to have.

Familiarize yourself with the rights afforded to you by the ACAA. I recommend the excellent summary here: wheelchairtravel.org/air-travel/a... If you’re discriminated against by an airline, file a complaint with the DOT here: www.transportation.gov/airconsumer/...

1 Dec 2024

Then name and shame them. Be better, American Airlines. This was a really easy one to get right and you didn’t. Oh and the DOT complaint step is crucial in all this. It actually does make a difference: www.npr.org/2024/10/23/g...

You may not have realized the closet right by the door of the plane is meant for mobility equipment because the crew often use it for storing their luggage. And that’s fine for them to do unless someone requests to use it for storing their wheelchair. Then the ACAA compels them to free up the space.