Forum members swapping trash and treasure by flatrate mail

[jacob]

@Jacob -- happy to send you some melt-your-face-off pepper seeds at the end of the season (~Oct) and maybe a bottle of hot sauce or two. No need to send anything in return, my way of saying thanks for creating & hosting this community.

Will send a larger amount of seeds from unnamed variety boxes* I've bought (unnamed b/c cheaper) and also a few special breeds.

Much appreciated. I'll try to remember. We've only had one good chili year out of 10, but the payoff here would definitely be worth it. I usually spike my pasta sauce with stuff like this: https://www.amazon.com/Bomb-Beyond-Insa ... B000FIBBWS

[Slevin]

I have an HTC Vive I got off a buddy that I’m willing to part with if anyone is interested in trying VR. Still works well, only game I’ve tried is Skyrim VR with loads of graphics mods, and it was absolutely terrifying.

You pay shipping, and you decide if you want the tripods that the sensors have shipped to you, or if you want to try and source something yourself (they are relatively large). Everything else should fit in one of the flat rate boxes (or some random box by weight, whatever you want / is cheaper).

[mathiverse]

Anyone have a heart rate monitoring chest strap they'd be willing to send my way? I have a fitness watch already, but I'm interested in getting better data while I row in various settings.

[macg]

Anyone interested in this ==> https://hackinformer.com/2014/05/20/asu ... 1t-review/ ?

I bought it 10 years ago, and it was a fantastic tablet. With the keyboard, it replaced my home laptop for a long time. Even 5 or so years later, when official Android builds didn't work on it anymore, I revitalized it with various mods found on xdaforums. Currently it is "rooted" and loaded with a "KatKiss" mod - possibly this one - https://xdaforums.com/t/rom-n-7-1-2-kat ... 9.3540259/

The main issue - when I moved to the place I am living now a couple of years back, AT&T installed a newer model router/wifi ... and apparently this old tablet's WiFi hardware isn't compatible. Late last year I confirmed it still worked at the library and a coffee shop, just doesn't connect to newer hardware. So I bought a new tablet.

Other issues / known items - it's old. 10 years old, which is a lifetime for regular computers, let alone a tablet. I don't believe anyone has made a mod for it in 6 years.

I thought I would offer here, in case anyone wanted it. I know people have posted about attempting various installs of different OSes on old phones, so I didn't know if anyone would want to play around with this.

Includes tablet, detachable keyboard, protective case (that holds either or both), charging cable (not original, bought last year) ... I could probably scrounge up a small and old SD card if you needed one, just let me know.

[jacob]

As part of the forum's minimalist challenge I went through my overstuffed bookshelves and removed a yard of books. Given the subject matter I figure I'd give the forum a first crack before letting them go to to the Little Free Library down the street as part of the challenge.

I'll ship mediamail to anyone in the US who paypals me the shipping cost. The books are free.

• Environment Scarcity Violence - Thomas Homer-Dixon
• The Ingenuity Gap - Thomas Homer-Dixon
• Planetary Overload - A.J. McMichael
• Water Wars - M. de Villiers
• The Vegetable Gardeners Guide to Permaculture - C. Shein (the author is from the SF bay area)
• Walden Two - B.F. Skinner (yes, that Skinner)
• The Earth Speaks - Matre and Weiler (a collection of poems and odes to nature)
• Rainbook - Resources for Appropriate Technology
• A Quaker Book of Wisdom - R.L. Smith
• The Alienation of Reason - L. Kolakowski
• The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare - D. Lewis
• Working and Thinking on the Waterfront - E. Hoffer (yes, that Hoffer)
• Programming in F (using a subset of F90 for an object oriented version)
• Stop working Start living - D. Nahirny (an extreme early retirement book from the 1990s, age 36, NW~300k)
• Dance for Two - A. Lightman (a physicist writing fiction)
• The Complete Walker IV - Fletcher&Rawlins ("The Hiker's Bible", 800+ pages)

[AxelHeyst]

I'll take

• Environment Scarcity Violence - Thomas Homer-Dixon
• The Ingenuity Gap - Thomas Homer-Dixon
• Rainbook

[macg]

I'd take these if still available, thanks!!

Environment Scarcity Violence
A Quaker Book of Wisdom
The Complete Walker IV

[Bytore]

updated to show books that are no longer available. Right-o, so I have got some books. I will update this list as they become unavailable. I will send them media mail. FYI, I will need to setup a PayPal account but folks can paypal me the shipping costs when I get it setup... Otherwise, I do live right off I5 in Southern Oregon for those whom are not far we could meet and do the exchange somewhere in my town.

Here's the list:

Wheelock's Latin - Frederic M. Wheelock PB
Workbook for Wheelock's Latin - Paul T. Comeau & Richard A. LaFleur PB
Wheelock's Latin Reader - Frederic M. Wheelock PB

Edited Again to denote hardback [HB]/paperback[PB]

[theanimal]

I'm willing to send the following to any forum member for the cost of postage.

Audels Carpenter and Building Guide Complete Set 1937 edition Vol 1,2 and 4. Volume 3 is 1951.

Spencerian Cursive Copybook Set Plus Theory book

[AxelHeyst]

I'll take the Spencerian set - no need for shipping.

[macg]

The latest few posts in the Fix-It thread about Kindles reminded me that I had an old PaperWhite in some storage box, it being replaced a few years back. It was replaced because someone gifted me a new one, not for any fault in the Kindle.

It is a Kindle Paperwhite 1 (2012) - first section of the serial number is B024 if you want to Google the model for more information. I verified today that I can charge it and power it up, and I did a device reset on it to clear everything off of it.

If anyone is interested, it would be whatever the cost of shipping would be...

I can't seem to find the charging cable, but it's a standard micro-usb. If I find it before I ship, I'll include it. It's in a relatively beat-up case, which I'll leave on as further protection during shipping, and you can discard if you want.

[theanimal]

@macg PM sent

[jacob]

As part of the minimalist challenge I offer the following:

I'm probably not going sailing anytime soon or anymore. However, I have a complete setup for yacht-racing from thursday night beer cans at the yacht club to ocean-racing in the Atlantic or Pacific for a size L/XL male.

This includes
autoinflatable offshore life jacket
(mostly) waterproof jacket/bib-pants at the good-enough level (will eat a wave, but looks like sailor-trash, you'll fit right in)
double safety tether (let's hope you'll never need that!!)
waterproof strobe light, whistle, sheep foot rigging knife, etc. (mandatory safety gear for offshore)
bulletproof (literally as in .22LR resistance) eye glasses
non-marking dinghy shoes suitable for deck work (US-size 10-11 or so, I'll have to check)

It would be around $500 to buy this gear.

I'm not really willing to part it out as the remaining stuff would be kinda useless w/o the whole of it.

I'm willing to trade it (generously) for parts to get me started on upgrading to a desktop/gaming computer at around the 2020 tech-level as long as it can run Win11 w/o creative hacks. I'm looking for a mid-ATX tower OR a mobo+CPU that's better than i7-4790 OR a GPU that's better than GTX1060/6GB.

[jacob]

More books to give away for the cost of shipping:

I'll ship mediamail to anyone in the US who paypals me the shipping cost. The books are free. Note that media shipping rates follow an y=ax+b cost where y is the price, x is the weight in lbs, b=$3.39, and a=$0.74/lbs (2024 numbers). So it pays to get more than one book.

• Experience & Education - Dewey
• Water Wars - Is the world's water running out?
• Planetary Overload - Global env. change and the health of the human species
• Only One Earth - The care and maintenance of a small planet
• Scarcity - Clugston
• Native American Wisdom
• The Prophet - Gibran
• The Aenid - Virgil
• Oneness with all life - Eckhart Tolle
• Working and thinking on the waterfront - Eric Hoffer
• There be no dragons - How to cross a big ocean in a small sailboat
• Abraham Lincoln Great Speeches
• The Theory of the Leisure Class - Veblen
• The Logic of Scientific Discovery - Popper
• Foxfire 2
• Energy Studies (1st edition)
• 80/20 Running

Act fast to "reserve" them. They're going in my backpack for the next time I pass a LFL.

[brainstorm]

To offer:

Zinn & The Art of Road Bike Maintenance, 3rd edition - Lennard Zinn

[brainstorm]

One more:

Chamois butter. 235 ml / 8 fl oz container that's around 90-95% full. Any bikers interested?

[jacob]

More books to add to the list above (some of which are now gone):

• The world in 2050 (Smith)
• Travels with Charley (Steinbeck)