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Did you misspeak? Animals are generally living things
Most animals are dead.
Indeed, most things are gone.
I have 2000 old VHS tapes in my garage and don't know what to do with them
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Re: I have 2000 old VHS tapes in my garage and don't know what to do with them
#222It can become a compulsion to record and collect media. Seems like a male thing, normally it's blokes who create these archives. I met a bloke once in the 90's who made recordings on to C-90 tapes of anything interesting that was on BBC Radio 4 and 3, and he found most things interesting. He was surrounded by piles, thousands of tapes everywhere and he was desperately trying to catalog everything. As I spoke to him h…
Thankfully my semi-hoarding of digital media takes up no space aside from on my server's hard drives and organizing is easy and pleasant. I definitely feel the pull to add to the collection. It's a sort of joy.
Re: I have 2000 old VHS tapes in my garage and don't know what to do with them
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The outwardly visible status is that just a small portion of the recordings have been made available[1]. The Archive is not commenting about this for years now. [1] https://archive.org/details/stokestvarchiveexperiment
That’s rather disappointing. Expected more from the internet archive.
Expectations are free, actual work costs time and money though.
Re: I have 2000 old VHS tapes in my garage and don't know what to do with them
#224I put all our home videos from the 80s on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/@ashodapakian2788/videos
Re: I have 2000 old VHS tapes in my garage and don't know what to do with them
#225Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's the purpose of going to the extreme of having no stuff, anyway? I like to have a collection of tools and parts as well as a collection of books. As a child, I could find books in our collection at home, and when visiting friends with a book collection, I like to browse it and ask about some of the books. I have and use an e-reader, but the reading experience is a little worse and browsing is much worse.
> I like to have a collection of tools and parts as well as a collection of books. But, with respect to the parent, would it matter if you didn't own them? What if, say, tools, parts, and books belonged to the land? There for you to use, but if you move to another plot of land you wouldn't take them with you, but instead would have another set of tools, parts, and books waiting for you when you arrive. Would somethin…
I think GP was referencing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27ll_own_nothing_and_be_...
Re: I have 2000 old VHS tapes in my garage and don't know what to do with them
#226Earlier quoted context omitted.
Eventually, all our graves disappear.
But for some reason most of NYC’s green spaces are still graveyards…
Many graveyards in NYC are forgotten or have been removed.
https://www.6sqft.com/what-lies-below-nycs-forgotten-and-hid...
Eventually, most graveyards will simply erode away. The average erosion rate is 0.2 mm/year, so 2 meters down will be exposed in about 10,000 years. YMMV
Re: I have 2000 old VHS tapes in my garage and don't know what to do with them
#227It can become a compulsion to record and collect media. Seems like a male thing, normally it's blokes who create these archives. I met a bloke once in the 90's who made recordings on to C-90 tapes of anything interesting that was on BBC Radio 4 and 3, and he found most things interesting. He was surrounded by piles, thousands of tapes everywhere and he was desperately trying to catalog everything. As I spoke to him h…
I sometimes buy random cassettes. I find listening to radio shows from the 80s quite relaxing and having different vibe.
Re: I have 2000 old VHS tapes in my garage and don't know what to do with them
#228I have a neighbor who has this problem with bootleg audio cassettes. Concert recordings mostly. I keep begging him to back them up to digital and even gave him a little usb interface he could do it with.
He talks about this collection with such pride, it’s hard for me to imagine not future proofing at least your favorite ones, but there’s no convincing some people.
Re: I have 2000 old VHS tapes in my garage and don't know what to do with them
#229Once you digitize them, you'll want to browse the videos. Consider using Video Hub App - an MIT open source application (Windows, Mac, Linux) that shows you screenshots (that you can scrub through) from each video. https://videohubapp.com/ https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App
Should probably mention that it's your own software and that it cost $5. Not that the money really matters.
It looks like the binary is $5 but it’s an open source electron app, so pretty easy to just clone the repo and build it yourself
Re: I have 2000 old VHS tapes in my garage and don't know what to do with them
#230I have a neighbor who has this problem with bootleg audio cassettes. Concert recordings mostly. I keep begging him to back them up to digital and even gave him a little usb interface he could do it with. He talks about this collection with such pride, it’s hard for me to imagine not future proofing at least your favorite ones, but there’s no convincing some people.
To be fair, hard drives are not necessarily more future-proof than audio cassettes. A hard drive typically lasts, what, 10 years, whereas a cassette tape is probably good for 50 years. You need to back up the digital copy onto different devices.