I have plenty of thoughts about their majority shareholders.

Its just none of those thoughts are positive.

They only ever shit on anyone trying to do anything.

Oh and lots of “bOtH sIdEs!!”

Grab what you can, add to radarr and you’ll likely get the absolute bulk of them. There may be some odd ones out, and those are the ones I’d rip.

For the rips themselves, what I ended up doing for family tapes is a generic s-video capture device, ffmpeg to rip.

I capture for the full length of the tape, play it, take a peek that everything came in well, and find the end to trim (also ffmpeg).

Then that version I’ll make an archive, and I’ll transcode a copy for media server use.

Gotcha, there are some folks out there who think its basically a blockbuster with a computer lab these days, so figured I’d comment all the same.

Its a resource too few take advantage of IMO…

TONS.

My local library is about half for under 12, a quarter or the space for teens, and then the last quarter is a split of nonfiction and fiction for adults.

So if you go as an adult without a plan or a request that came in, you may not find much other than the librarians latest rec or the newest additions rack.

For kids though, my local library is incredible. Reading nooks, educational play areas for the little ones, etc. Its wonderful.

My oldest is getting anywhere from 6-8 books a week right now, she’s going into 2nd grade. Libraries are awesome.

As someone with friends and family on the spectrum, my best tip:

Take a moment to breathe when you’ve completed a thought related to what you’re explaining, and look at the other person to see if they have information to share, questions, or just to express what they know.

This helped a few folks pace themselves, and the break for others they believe helped in not appearing condescending.

Hope this helps!

“Not dismiss” <> “jump to”.

The bar to ‘decent’ doesn’t actually lower.

Donald Trump is just orders of magnitude further below the bar than Bill Clinton, but the bar is in the same spot.

TD Bank, yes.

Nope.

Fuck TD. They enabled this horseshit automatically on my account. Surprise, surprise, it didnt work on my voice, even once.

Supposedly they disabled it three times. Guess what else happened? Someone accessed my damn account, because it was their voice linked to my account.

I’ll never have a TD account again. Absolute jackasses in terms of account security, that isn’t even the only issue I had with them.

Al Gore may not have really invented the Internet

Which, to point out, he never actually said. He said “creating” - which is actually accurate, since he pushed the policies that allowed for it to exist. Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn support his stance that he was a primary driver behind its development from a policy perspective. I believe they even said no other politician has been as important to the internet (rough paraphrase, someone else can grab the exact quote) as Gore.

The claim that he said he “invented the internet” came from dirtbag pundits, of course.

For anyone curious, this is a Sicilian rice ball (arancini), they go all over NJ, operating out of northeastern NJ.

For the same reason as WiFi supposedly making people sick.

To be clear, what I mean by that is “its utter horse shit”.

By spacex?

Yes. No more from them.

Ideally, yes.

The titanic.

We dont need to raise it up or anything. Just leave it where its at and send them over.

15mph max is a bit disappointing, I’d like to see 20-25 to at least compete with my legs, but I’m down for something like this.

https://github.com/arduinocelentano/cdimage ?

So unfortunate…

That he made it to 83.

Our National Parks are amazing!

For now.