lol ok, video games and reading

but i think you’re mistakenly assuming that because you’re deeply concerned about having everyone’s approval for what you like, then everyone else must be too. i’m not.

sorry, i sometimes forget how sensitive sportsball fans are

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses

introducingbooks.com

they look like kids’ stuff, but they’re pretty deep dives into the topic they’re talking about

getting on a plane seems ill-advised nowadays…

is there a way to get the loops videos to play on the dashboard without having to click out to the source? or is that a instance thing

i think the onion is overestimating the general public’s 20th century history knowledge

“They want you to panic, but President Trump wants you to remember Jesus didn’t have electricity either and he did just fine,” Leavitt said.

LOL you mean other than the whole crucifixion thing?

also, how much pornstar hush money did jesus fork over/

just goes to show all they have to do is keep bleating jeeeeeeeeesus and the sheep will instantly fall in line

tfw the onion reports facts while MSM reports even more bullshit than ever

Does the company offer a lifetime warranty

jansport backpacks. but when i sent them a backpack i’d been using since the 90s that started coming apart, they replaced it with the shittiest cheapo version they have

so unless the product only has one version of a thing, don’t be surprised when they replace your $80 thing with the $20 version

the details are fiction, but the end result is the same. the trumpistan propaganda machine has been cranking up over the last year, but now it’s full throttle, so you should expect nothing but trump fellating victory pieces from now on. no MSM outlet is going to risk the consequences of allowing anything negative go to press about the regime with literally zero conscience or morals, and to whom no laws apply

he doesn’t give a shit about pissing people off. actually that’s his prime motivation for existing.

what he wants is tiktok to owe him

there is NO social media that’s worth getting frustrated over

the first time a site does something stupid (“enter your ph # to continue!” or “disable your adblocker to continue!”) i’m out and never going back. the internet exists to provide me with things, not the other way around

what’s hilarious is they ran this piece 10 years ago

if using my own player might be considered “good enough,” couldn’t I just hook my Walkman’s headphone output to the line in or mic input on my computer and do it myself?

absolutely, i was responding to your question

any advice on what I should do to get the best quality transfer that I can?

other users have mentioned you can get a converter online, but the “you get what you pay for” maxim applies to electronics maybe more than anything else. the difference in quality between “consumer” and “professional” audio gear is getting narrower, but it’s still there-- everything just depends on how much you want to spend

not sure how I need to set the volume on the Walkman

if the walkman has a “line out” port, you’d use that to plug into your “line in” on your recording device. you can use the headphone jack, but that signal is already amplified, so you’ll have to adjust the output volume to where the input meter is the highest it can be without ever clipping (going ‘red’). older consumer gear will have more noise (hiss) than anything professional. especially an amplified signal, as in a headphone jack. and that’s where the money for pro stuff goes–lower noise floor. more information

edit: on a whim i did some looking and found this lol

you could just buy that, dump the recording down to a SD card, and then return the device the next day. done.
i had no idea they made such things, but i haven’t really kept up with the music/audio industry since i left

bet you’re huge on facebook

no new film camera produced and the price of film

it’s the same with analog audio. reel to reel tape actually disappeared for a bit because no one manufactured it anymore, but some company (forget who) finally started making it again for the audiophiles. one reel of tape is was, 10 years ago, ~$300 and gives you 15 minutes of recording time, if you’re running it at high speed for the best quality. no idea what the state of the business is in now, i was never a gear head and never kept up with any of it

1st thing i would do would be call the radio station–they might have a digital copy already, since it’s a performance. or they might have the equipment you’d need to get it digitized. just don’t leave the tape with them, unless you make a copy.

failing that, the public library might also have tape to digital conversion gear, depending on how big/well funded the library is.

last resort would be a recording studio, which might cost lots of money per hour, and it’ll have to be converted in real time–play the tape from start to finish, while the computer ‘records’ it. if the studio don’t have a top of the line gourmet tape deck, then they can take just take the output of your own player and plug it into protools, just ask for the highest resolution/bitrate in a lossless format

edit: i forgot another option, if you’re in the states. you might try your state archives, just google the name of your state along with “archive”, it should be a .gov address. they might actually be interested in the recording for their own digital collection, and would definitely have the necessary gear to get it digitized. the tricky part is they would need the permission of the radio station and/or whoever owns the copyright to post it publicly

i was a recording engineer during the time analog recording was just starting to get surpassed by digital, and of course there are still people who will die on the “analog is always best forever and ever” hill

but it’s to the point where if you’re not a completely-obsessed-to-the-point-no-one-can-stand-being-around-you audiophile, you’re not going to be able to tell the difference between an analog source and a digital one pretending to be analog

the pros of digital just simply can’t be outweighed by the pros of analog anymore

photography might be an area where digital hasn’t caught up, since film’s resolution is down to the molecular level, but that won’t be the case forever (if it even is the case, i’m not a photographer)

i was addicted to facebook. i started getting away by just not looking at it for longer periods of time: 1 day, 1 week, month, etc. it stayed like that for a long time. then i went through and deleted everything i ever posted, replied, commented-- yes it took forever, but it ended up as just a blank profile with my name on it. finally i deactivated the account, then deleted it

time wasted on facebook: way too fucking much
time spent regretting deleting it: absolute zero

i’ve seen enough vacation/cat/baby photos to last 10 lifetimes, and if my friends can’t talk to me through texting, then i guess they must not have anything important to say

fuck facebook
i’m just glad i immediately found insta, twitter, tiktok, all the other bullshits boring and pointless right off the bat, so never dealt with those