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Thanks for the tips! I'll keep that in mind and do 24-bit 96Khz wav. I think converting digital to digital, i.e. WAV to FLAC or mp3/aac will be straight forward, but given that I may not have that many records to convert, I'll try and keep them lossless.

I've also managed to get a working Sony STR-6800SD receiver for $200 CAD. That should help in getting a good analog phono signal.

Agreed. I've now realized some of these old records are just not salvageable. So many scratches :(

Modern ones are reliable. However, I only went with an older "vintage" one as it came up on Kjiji for a good price, and I could resell it once I was done. I don't plan on listening to Vinyl forever. We are now so used to digital music and asking Alexa to play playlists and songs and radio stations is soooo convenient.

Btw, the Dual 1009, which is from 1964-66, maintains the speed REALLY well. I also have an Onkyo CP-1200A (got for free, someone put in the garbage), and the Dual was actually better at maintaining the speed!

You can download an app on your phone to measure the accuracy of your record player.

I thought about that, but I didn't want to fiddle too much with various tweaks as I'm not an expert in this area. In fact, I'm actually thinking of buying a Tascam DR-05X, https://tascam.com/us/product/dr-05x/top and just connecting that to the amplifier, and having it produce the digital files for me. No software, no computer. Just record player to amp to Tascam.

I can then repurpose it as a microphone for Zoom/MS Teams or whatever is used.

I have a NAD C715 that can record any input, and record it straight to MP3 at 160kbps, but I'd rather record at a higher bitrate. I've yet to find ANY receiver that can do that. It's still cool that they had that, where the FM signal is converted via ADC and straight to the CODEC for mp3 on the chip.

No, they are 78s, but the quality was so-so. I was able to buy this one for about $120! For the price difference, I didn't want to get an average one, and I can easily resell the Dual 1009 and get some money back as I didn't want to keep it forever.

I have Vinyl records, but my goal is to digitize them. They're my Dads from 1940s, 50s, and many are 78s, so I had so search Kijiji ads to get a player that plays that speed. Dual 1009 was what I settled on.

As for DVDs/Blu Ray, I only buy things like Planet Earth or other docs. Sure enough, just yesterday I tried playing Planet Earth II on UHD 4K Blu Ray on an Xbox Series X, albeit I still have a 1080p TV (bought used) and 1080p Receiver (bought used, Sony STR-DN1000 that I paid $50 for) and it was glitching. sigh Time to hit up Bit Torrent and download a ripped version of the Documentary that I already paid for. Argh.

Both Blu Ray and Vinyl are susceptible to one day not being playable. By ripping them into digital, we can hopefully keep the content playable well into the future.

Not a scholar, but Lebanese background and the words on that comb are what we still use today:

"The first word is the root natash which serves like in Hebrew – to root out," he explains. The Canaanite word for hair is se'ar, the same as in all semitic languages"

We would use natash, or to "t'natsh" as the word to root/pull out And Shaer, is hair

So looks like like someone wrote the instruction manual on the product. Best place to be honest :)

If you like that selection of music, there's a nice 1hr mix from 1994, from Hearts of Space: https://v4.hos.com/programs/details/356 (track list info)

You can also listen to it here through your browser if you don't have an account: https://www.mixcloud.com/deepspace5/aphex-twin-hearts-of-spa...

It really is timeless, relaxing music.

I was just searching for a contact form last spring and was researching this area.

My Wordpress site is for a non-profit, and I am volunteer, but they were willing to give some cash for it. In the end, I went with Contact7, a free Wordpress Plugin and Flamingo (another plugin) that lets you export the data that people enter into the forms, as an excel file.

My use case was that we wanted to have people register, and we knew we would only have 10 people register, per year! So immediately, paying a fee for this was not really worth it since the volume is not there, and my client said there were happy not paying, and just making the people print a PDF to email back. I said let's just do these as forms.

As for feedback, I echo what some people said about adding what happens to the information once it's submitted, and can it be exported into a friendly CSV. Even for someone like me that only had 10 entries, it was helpful. If you are hitting 100s and 1000s, you definitely want to track all of that.

You should also have a look at the pricing of WPForms (https://wpforms.com/pricing/), which is a paid Wordpress Plugin, obviously with a crazy amount of features, but it's still good to look at them to see how they differentiate.

In addition, is your $15 just for one site, or can I use your service on say, 2 sites if I run 2 (or more). I would add that to the front page.

M1 Air 16G 1TB (Bought on Nov 2020 - 1y 10 months old) I think I'm second on this page with "unsafe shutdowns" with 62. It's used by 4 people, 2 adults, 2 kids and heavily used pretty much all day and night.

Lots of web, and video watching. Some very light development and a ton of email :)

I think the unsafe shutdowns are due to my kids trying to run Steam and other games that may or may not work properly, e.g. Farming Simulator that didn't play nice, and cause the computer to freeze forcing us to do a hard shutdown.

  === START OF SMART DATA SECTION ===
  SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
  
  SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
  Critical Warning:                   0x00
  Temperature:                        24 Celsius
  Available Spare:                    100%
  Available Spare Threshold:          99%
  Percentage Used:                    1%
  Data Units Read:                    68,237,533 [34.9 TB]
  Data Units Written:                 40,504,255 [20.7 TB]
  Host Read Commands:                 1,281,536,088
  Host Write Commands:                810,117,030
  Controller Busy Time:               0
  Power Cycles:                       332
  Power On Hours:                     892
  Unsafe Shutdowns:                   62
  Media and Data Integrity Errors:    0
  Error Information Log Entries:      0

Never heard of Signal GH! Thanks! I have my antenna split to my TV, and look at signal strength there, and I run TVHeadend, with HDhomerun as my source, on my Synology NAS (used to run it on my Raspberry Pi), and it provides stats and signal strength details, but all of this is on a per channel basis.

I also have Kodi on my FireTV, and it can also display stats if you use the TVHeadend plugin, and press 'o' to show live stats. Again, one channel at a time.

Edit: Just bought it. Much easier to read all the stats and far easier than lugging around a laptop when fiddling with an antenna! Thanks again.

Have a watch of this video 15 min. Super informative on how AC DC signals work and rectifier circuits.

https://youtu.be/qTb65aoYA_Y

Careful, as Mr Carlson’s lab is addictive to watch :)

C'mon! Everybody knows that the Nordost Valhalla 2 Power Cord is far superior than the SRX. It's also only $10,079.99 CAD for 6ft, so it will be less than yours since yours is in USD, saving you money to to buy fridge magnets which will help dampen the magnetic field from any orphan atoms that may leak through.

Also, from the manufacturer's brochure: Unlike conventional power cables, which have propagation speeds that are less than 50% the speed of light, the Valhalla 2 Reference Power Cord has a speed of 91% the speed of light.

[1] https://audiofi.ca/products/valhalla-2-power-cord?variant=34...

EDIT: On a more serious note, check out https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php for real testing, where the dollar store speaker cable performed (surprise!) as well as the fancy cables. The fancy cable company was not happy.

I think your comment hits the mark. People now listen to their music off their phones (headphone or bluetooth speakers), or on the go in their car. Nobody sits down to a desktop to listen to music.

Don't forget about bluetooth speakers, etc where the source is your phone or laptop.

I'm with you on that. I call bullshit on the 130 hour weeks, for who knows how long. 18 hours a day?!?

I've know people that have done 100 hour weeks, and they were a mess. Only did it a couple of times before they stopped.

Sounds like someone wants to create a mythical story about themselves. Also, from the article. Step 3 just oozes "I'm dominante and I'm the boss, but I will throw you a bone. I mean, c'mon, this stuff just sounds made up:

"Step 3. Grant employees one must-have freedom. When Mayer suspects an employee might burn out, she asks them to find their rhythm. They've come back with, "I need to be home for Tuesday night dinners," or "I need to be on time for my daughter's soccer games." She grants those needs — no exceptions. "You can't have everything you want," Mayer cautions. "But you can have the things that really matter to you. That empowers you to work really hard for a long period of time on something that you're passionate about."

You got it. I'm on my front porch, and clearly anyone on the street walking by could hear me. But to know that it's possible to record my entire conversation is creepy.

I've learned my lesson and now invite people to our backyard, which is free of any cameras.

I really wanted to avoid any legal issues with them. We decided talking/texting is best. My wife is a litigator, and even she didn't want to go there.

If you share a wall with a neighbor, it's always best to try and resolve things through direct communication. Our kids still play together, and they still come over and vice versa.

I made my point, and they actually engaged in helping mitigate my concerns. I certainly can't ask them to remove their camera, so that's why we took this approach. They met us half way, but clearly felt something more when one of them over reacted.

Most likely. I certainly didn't bring any of that up, nor will I. I've spoken to this person on a couple of occasions since then for some other matters that were urgent, and they didn't run away. But I'm not going to engage them to talk about the weather. So hopefully they mature and see that they overreacted.

I live downtown. The same "folks" that steal things, that I've seen for a better part of a decade, drug addictions and all, still steal stuff. It's just the police are not going to bother with it. One of them tried to steal our plant! Yes, our $5 plant. But I caught them in person, and they apologized, but they were high on some drugs.

No camera will deter someone like that.

I wouldn't hate you! :) Clearly you've engaged your neighbors if they are cool with it. You also mentioned no audio. I even told them it's fine with audio, now that I understood how the system works. Alas, no audio is obviously better as I don't have to ask my friends to walk further away from the line of side of the camera.

Yes, in fact, during the engagement, they even showed us where the camera trigger zone is, which they reduced to their driveway, and even added the blackout region for when I'm on my porch, as the wide angle of the lens made it impossible to point it away from my front porch. They were really cooperative and I tried to ensure that I wasn't being demanding.

I even tried to meet them half way and said you can keep recording audio and video, now that I understand the trigger zone, but I was met with hostility the next day when I saw one of them in person.

Although, even with the trigger zone, they can just live stream it anyways, not that they are that kind of people, but clearly, I struck a nerve with them. I am still friends with one of them, and all their kids. So it's just one family member that sees things differently.

My next door neighbor (we share a wall) had their bicycles stolen twice, so they installed Ring (floodlight) cameras in both the backyard and the front porch. After a year, the cameras have yielded no added security, or caught any "bad guys" as far as I can tell and from what they told me.

What I realized, is they use it to keep track of their kids, funny cat videos that trigger the recording, and most importantly, as a 2 way radio to talk or listen to the kids. That last point, well, I found out they can also listen to my conversations an my kids.

I asked them to point their front porch camera so that it doesn't record my front driveway, just theirs. and they lost their shit. They confirmed they record audio and video. They asked if there was a problem. I said no problem with them. I'm not comfortable with the audio/video recording me or my friends conversations if company comes over to talk to me on my porch or driveway.

I really didn't need to tell them anything, it's self evident why someone wants a camera point away. Needless to say, after I asked them in the winter, one of them refuses to speak to me and crosses the street and avoids me.

These people use surveillance to supervise their kids, and don't care about the fact that their neighbors (me) could be recorded, and they could be hacked or footage access by random people, because Amazon isn't exactly the king of privacy.

I believe these cameras haven't decreased crime. They also don't really add more security. It's a shame though they are everywhere, with disregard for privacy right on people's property. So yes, I'm biased. I have no love for Ring.

If you are in Ottawa, Canada, the Public Library can give you access to:

Browse > Online Resources > Watch (streaming video) > Then pick what you want to access:

  * Access Video on Demand (Educational)
  * Curio.ca (CBC material, and has teacher related material)
  * Hoopla (Audiobooks)
  * Just for Kids
  * Kanopy (My favourite. Limited to 4 movies a month.
  * Kanopy For Kids (unlimited)
  * Medici.tv | EDU (Music e.g. Classical)
  * Naxos Video Library (Music e.g Classical)
  * Many newspapers and magazines, all searchable and online!

Additional info: Ancestry Online (this is now only possible on the library's computers, and not from home. Used this a lot for finding info on my past relatives, and

I still remember looking at Bitcoin and Ethereum back in day. I was just curious and I know my friends bought and sold some. Back in 2017 (video is earlier) I looked at a video that explains, what Ethereum is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Clw-qf1sUZg

This video has not aged well. It's full of so many buzzwords that my mind can't keep up. Also, the idea of anonymity and privacy...clearly they gave up on that as everybody is using their real names, addresses, etc so sign up for exchanges.

Again, I don't know enough about it, but since I've looked it back in 2017, until today, I'm still as confused, which is why I've stayed away from it.

Yes! I’ve bought many for my old work as we don’t allow smart tvs.

I bought the Panasonics and never had any issues.

https://na.panasonic.com/us/audio-video-solutions/profession...

Im sure there are other companies. Im on my phone so can’t research. Look for “digital displays” instead of tv.

Good luck!

It's all good. You should come back and visit :) You will definitely not find a shortage of people that do not like how Rogers operates. You then probably missed out on the whole Rogers fiasco where Edward Rogers was infighting with his own family in trying to regain control. It just turned everybody off.

I'm saying that the entire original comment was misleading since it was based on a false assumption which lead to a false conclusion. The government has said No to this twice already! I do not believe the person who made the comments is malicious, it's just a simple error and I hold nothing against the person. But then another commenter jumped on board and continued on that false premise.

At this point, we are going off topic.

No one is naive here.

The person made a false assumption in their first paragraph, and then linked that false information to his second that is really not that relevant here.

If you read the article, it even states:

6. That didn't stop Bell, Rogers, and Quebecor, who went straight to the Federal Court in 2019, asking for an order against themselves to block a streaming service called GoldTV. They also asked the court to order other ISPs to do the same, including TekSavvy.

In addition, they have tried this twice before, through the Federal Government, and it didn't work:

2. For years, media companies in Canada have asked the government to use Internet filtering—or "site blocking"—to help enforce copyrights. In 2017, through a coalition called FairPlay, they asked the CRTC to create a site-blocking regime. They lost. https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2018/2018-384.htm

3. They made a similar pitch to the federal government committee reviewing the Copyright Act in 2018. I was there to oppose it. In its report, the INDU committee recommended studying a limited, copyright-specific injunction that balanced interests. https://www.ourcommons.ca/Content/Committee/421/INDU/Reports...

So to write that ALL IS CORRUPT and the Government is the baddie is unnecessary. These corporate people, and I certainly am not on their side, are just trying the numbers game. They will keep asking their lawyers to keep trying in order to restrict their product/service so they "make more money". I certainly don't agree with Rogers and Bell, but let's not mislead people here.

You are incorrect. I’m going to assume you are not Canadian? Every Canadian knows that Rogers is an ISP, and so is Bell. Heck Rogers and Bell even have stakes in professional sports!

They are the 2 major telcos of Canada that all Canadians love to complain about.

I really don’t understand your last paragraph.

Much love! Thanks for the formatting :)