winston

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What's a cool website you’ve visited that no one seems to know of? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] winston@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

http://endless.horse

The only sad thing is it doesn't support https :(

Has anyone else noticed a sudden lack of reading comprehension skills? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] winston@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Sometimes kids have to learn self-reliance though, you can't always do everything for them, as tempting as that might be.

Is America Really That Bad? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] winston@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jeez... What did happen? The Nixon Shock / Bretton Woods?

Block Community doesn't seem to work? in c/jerboa@lemmy.ml
[–] winston@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Clearing the app data seems to have done the trick - hopefully it keeps working! Thanks!

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Block Community doesn't seem to work? (lemmy.world)
 

Blocked communities still show up in my feed when I'm using Jerboa. Anyone else having this issue?

I'm registered at lemmy.world, and if I login via web, then the blocked communities don't show (no matter what instance they're hosted at), which is the way it should be.

What are the bad patterns of Reddit to never repeat on Lemmy? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] winston@lemmy.world 55 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Ending community names with "porn", so earthporn, designporn always kinda bugged me for some reason. I like porn. I like beautiful non-porn pictures of nature and awesome design too. I just don't know why we need to conflate them or use the term 'porn' as shorthand.

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YSK VHS tapes can begin to degrade in as little as 10 years. (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by winston@lemmy.world to c/youshouldknow@lemmy.world
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The sooner they're digitalised the better. The main barrier to doing that these days is having access to a VCR (looking on eBay or asking friends or relatives might be your best bet here) but once you have one, you can buy a USB adapter, and they usually come with added software to make the conversion. Alternatively there may be services that will do it for you for a fee (depending what country/area you're in)

Why is this important? Well, you might be able to preserve media that is of interest to other and would otherwise be permanently lost, but a more common scenario that sadly happens all too frequently is that you'll wish to revisit a home video and find that the quality has degraded significantly, to the point it is difficult to watch.

The sooner you act the better. Please, if you have video that is important to you, act now before it is lost forever. I have in-laws who took the time and effort to transfer their film to VHS in the 90s, only to then leave it to degrade, not realising that this would be the case.