shermanm

Do you live with non-technical people or have visitors to your house? I have a kid and a wife who isn’t as nerdy as I am. Plex just works. I can show a babysitter or a grandparent how to use it in about a minute. Can’t say the same for a Linux box, as much as I’d love for that to be the solution.

I definitely applied it in my garage in the summer and only let it sit for a day or so.

What sort of finish do you recommend for a desk? I used some sort of polyurethane for my current desk and it’s gotten gummy and gross from my hands and wrists (I’m assuming).

I made a quick and dirty desk when I started working from home during COVID. Plywood with some quick finish on some legs I got from Amazon. I didn’t spend too much time on it because I wasn’t sure how long I’d be working from home. Some things I added:

* Integrated cable management: I attached the power strip and the LAN switch under the desk. I’ve got cats that get curious. * usb hub on the side * Boom arm for my microphone.

I’m working on building a new desk right now. Some things I want to add: * Better cable management. I’d love a little cabinet under the desk that all the cables go through and stay hidden. * Some sort of bag or box on the side so I can sweep my desk clean * built in wireless charging. * integrated KVM switch. Preferably a button under the desk I can press to switch between computers. * built in hardware mute switch/press to talk for my microphone. * some sort of rail mounting system for monitors, camera boom, and microphone. * foot hammock

In reading the article, it’s not the teachers who seem to have a problem with him, it’s the school board and the school administrators. Those are are VASTLY different groups.

I taught in Virginia for 10 years(working for VDSS, another group that gets smeared in this article), and have friends working in Loudoun county right now. They all pretty unanimously think the school board is pretty shitty.

Finally, the New York Post is a notoriously biased conservative tabloid, and Loudoun is one of the most conservative counties in the state. NYP is taking this man’s fight against the school board and it’s Republican policies and using it as a hit piece against teachers and teacher unions (which in Virginia are basically powerless).