overview for winston

What's a cool website you’ve visited that no one seems to know of? in c/asklemmy

[–] winston 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

http://endless.horse

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

Taking basement design to a whole 'nother level in c/[email protected]

[–] winston 3 points 1 year ago

I would honestly just live in the underground area. Seems real peaceful 😊

This is peak living. in c/2000snostalgia

[–] winston 1 points 1 year ago

I remember downloading this song (it was a bonus track on certain versions of the album) and it was called "Expert Knowledge" and I always thought that was a better title.

Has anyone else noticed a sudden lack of reading comprehension skills? in c/[email protected]

[–] winston 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

[–] winston 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/[email protected]

[–] winston 2 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? (self.jerboa)

submitted 1 year ago by winston to c/[email protected]

4 comments fedilink

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/[email protected]

[–] winston 55 points 2 years 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.

YSK VHS tapes can begin to degrade in as little as 10 years. in c/youshouldknow

[–] winston 2 points 2 years ago

Done! Thank you for the heads up :)

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YSK VHS tapes can begin to degrade in as little as 10 years. (self.youshouldknow)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by winston to c/youshouldknow

5 comments fedilink

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.

Your sound card works perfectly. in c/[email protected]

[–] winston 5 points 2 years ago

Only because I selected IRQ 5 and DMA 7. Thank goodness my soundcard was Soundblaster 16 compatible!

current lemmy status in c/[email protected]

[–] winston 7 points 2 years ago

I'm reppin' Lemmy.World

Jerboa UI improvements v2 in c/[email protected]

[–] winston 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

This may be a stupid question but does Jerboa support other instances or just Lemmy.ml? I'm on Lemmy.world.

Edit: It does. I just needed to open the sidebar, click on "Anonymous" and it brought up the login dialog where I could select my instance.