Yup 5-6 floppies and if one failed you could try to go back and copy one, but usually had to start over.

I got the Mac copy of Photoshop 4 from my high school this way with .sit files. It was like second to last floppy that failed (probably an ok AOL disk) and I had to go back the next day and copy it again. But it worked!

Not long after that a friend of mine got a ZIP drive, but it wasn’t SCSI, so it didn’t work with my computer. I didn’t get one until college (essential for a graphic designer in the late 90s).

If you can find a playlist of videos you can download whole lists with ytdlp.

We have Lemmy communities already…

Do any of the bots that repost subreddits in Lemmy reverse and post Lemmy communities to reddit?

I’m sure Reddit would ban it if it noticed, but might be a way to attract users here for niche communities.

I think KEKA.app supports split archives. Haven’t used it in a while though.

That’s also not the look of a man with much of anything in his head.

Humidity in the air makes that wayyy more dangerous because your skin will be highly conductive and the lower the resistance, the higher the current (which is what really hurts).

I’ve been a human grounding strap a couple times and don’t recommend it. I think the vibrating pain of AC (someone reenergized the outlet on me) is worse than the punch of high voltage (failing spark plug wire I grabbed with metal pliers while diagnosing a misfire).

Depends on if they digitized the YouTube vids from the original Betacam broadcast tapes.

I’m guessing a bit here, but it was a really dominant format at the time, and in the later years of the series, would have been a digital format at 720x486 resolution.

Are there any nuclear power plants in the US that aren’t?

Until it gets cloudy, foggy, or even just a little hazy anyway.

Hey now, you can burn yourself with compressive heating just fine down here on earth. Specifically by accidentally touching the pipe between the pump and tank on my air compressor the other day.

The Final Countdown starts quietly playing next.

The rapidly expanding co2 does get very cold though. It’s not any different from freezing things with compressed air cans.

I don’t hover, know which would absorb more heat per pound though. Someone who knows more math than I can do it though.

Nebula/curiosity stream maybe? Patreon is interesting for this too, and is helping a lot of podcasters and video creators (more) directly.

We need little zinc doggies to bolt to those spots for a sacrificial anode.

Or if humans are the cause, I guess little zinc dicks would be more appropriate.

The only time a cat ever pissed everywhere was when it was sick, and everywhere was all over my apartment.

We were cat sitting and I’m mildly allergic. It was definitely all hands on deck to clean that piss up, it was suffocatingly stinky.

FOIAing a backup of your lost website would be epic.

We also might be able to fill in some gaps in the internet archive that way someday.

I lived on Zip disk for the first half of college. Ended up doing too much video and would rent FireWire HDs from Best Buy for a month at a time. Just broke art school things.

Backup to turn one way was how they worked when I was a kid, but the also used a long cord instead of RF.

Is a long wire not remote?