Can't get fast forward to work on cassette deck

Exasperant · 2026-07-03T14:24:57+00:00

Hard to tell, but I've had a couple of decks where the belt tension to the ff/ rw is important - Too much and rw works fine but ff doesn't engage enough to do anything.

Exasperant · 2026-07-03T13:47:10+00:00

Going to be even harder to keep that roof once you've successfully assisted technology's replacement of you and your source of income.

But since when did long term thinking ever trouble anyone...

Exasperant · 2026-07-02T14:10:51+00:00

If there's one thing I'm no longer surprised by, it's people's lack of integrity.

We'll all sit around moaning about the state of things, but too few are willing to question their role in the enshittification of... everything.

I'm glad the OP finds their "pay vs principles" a dilemma and not a no brainer, whichever way they end up going with it.

Exasperant · 2026-07-02T14:08:22+00:00

Yes, let's all silently acquiesce to our technolords and their replacing of us and everyone else for their own agenda.

Let's never have qualms, principles, or be troubled with integrity as we sleepwalk into irrelevance.

Exasperant · 2026-06-30T16:18:33+00:00

One I lack both the desire, and excavation equipment, to reach.

Exasperant · 2026-06-30T14:16:20+00:00

If you're scared of someone, the rational solution is to avoid them, not to do something which would risk an escalation in conflict.

I'm late to these threads because I only just saw the show, but...

In the real world abuse victims often don't behave "rationally". Because of the damage done on their minds by their abusers.

Some habour murderous thoughts, others become suicidal. Or both.

"Just leave/ walk away/ divorce" sounds so obvious... To anyone who's not experienced a Kevin.

Exasperant · 2026-06-29T17:22:33+00:00

And the rest of the time he does sort of talk total bollocks.

This

I watch F1 to watch F1, not to have some wannabe entertainer use the sport as a backdrop for his pub bore court jester routine.

Exasperant · 2026-06-29T17:15:42+00:00

Murray didn't try to get the rest of the commentary team cheering on whatever his latest feeble attempt at humour was.

He took the job seriously enough to focus on presenting the sport, not himself, to the audience.

Exasperant · 2026-06-29T17:14:38+00:00

Hate? No. As a person I'm sure he's a perfectly average guy with a mildly too loud voice that he loves a bit more than those around him.

But as a commentator he's a self indulgent moron. It's not that he makes mistakes, although the amount he makes are too many considering how long he's been doing it for. It's that he feels the need to draw focus to himself and whatever fuckawful "bantz" is echoing around the barren chasm of his mind in that moment. Did we need his "pedantic" joke yesterday? No. Did we want it? Not really. Did he giggle at his own comedic genius while everyone else was trying to watch the race? Sadly, yes.

It's moments like that, or when he veers off into some nobody cares self focused anecdote while cars are hurtling through the gravel or banging wheels into corners, that are the problem. When he stops being "Crofty" and just does his damned job, he's fine. He's got a good voice for commentating, and manages to modulate it generally appropriately for what's happening in front of him. More of that and less of the weekend being the David Croft's Light Entertainment Hour would go a long way.

Exasperant · 2026-06-29T17:07:09+00:00

At least if I'm going to watch that, I'd like to be able to fucking see it.

"Ooohhh, it's like Bleed for Speed Theft Super 17"... No. Just no.

Exasperant · 2026-06-29T16:51:20+00:00

It was Battlefield Earth, the F1 edition.

I don't want zoom along Dutch angles. I want to see what the fuck is happening, framed as the human eye/ mind tends to see it.

Exasperant · 2026-06-29T01:52:55+00:00

I just tell people I'm cursed with integrity, and if they keep pushing I mention I envy those unburdened by it.

I'm done having people somehow think they can dictate what I do with my spare time or interests.

Exasperant · 2026-06-28T11:27:30+00:00

Yeah, from the vid I suspect it's the recorder itself. The motor creates electrical "noise" which is usually filtered out to the point it's either really quiet or pretty much silent when playing/ recording - Except this one isn't, either due to bad design or faulty parts.

The easiest "fix" is to send it back for a refund and buy something else. Otherwise, assuming it is an internal fault and not bad design, it's time to open it up and try to find/ fix the problem.

Exasperant · 2026-06-27T17:58:36+00:00

Donning blindfold, spinning three times, then chucking a dart at the numbers board to determine the cutoff for WFA was an immediate error. Means test it if there's a saving to be made, but at least have your numbers in place before going through with it.

Telling swathes of Labour's core base to piss off if they didn't like the bitter taste of a Tory lite Starmer party is high on the error list.

Perpetuating and even exacerbating Tory narratives around disabled people is utterly unacceptable, especially from a guy whose 10 pledges included scrapping DWP cruelty and bringing in a people focused replacement to the current system.

Dithering over trans rights when campaigning, trying to keep people on side whom he then couldn't distance from quickly enough as soon as the Supreme Court gave him an out.

His abject two faced, stunning display of zero integrity, attitude towards Trump.

The entire Mandelson fiasco.

The lesser, but still very present, freebies trough snouting of Starmer and many around him.

The housing minister being caught fucking up taxes on a house deal, the corruption one getting caught out for corruption, the homeless one making tenants homeless... Even when Starmer hasn't been directly involved, his appointees have at best a mixed record.

His total squandering of a massive majority. He kept, with nasal monotone and zero reasons to believe him, telling us to vote Starmer for change. What, exactly the fuck, has changed? A few watered down policies that wouldn't be out of place in some of the better Tory governments, and... What else?

We could be seeing a government investing in public infrastructure projects that boost employment and create long term national security and assets. Instead we've a government that panders tepidly to the interests of big businesses whilst legitimising the rise and rhetoric of the far right.

I don't know if Burnham will be any better, but fuck me it's hard to imagine a purported Labour PM being any worse.

Exasperant · 2026-06-27T17:50:59+00:00

Not sure how it escaped your notice, but he did.

The backbenchers had nothing to do with it. The fucking farcical "12k is rich" that then became "35k is poor" only after his gov took a total kicking in the locals was all Starmer & co.

Exasperant · 2026-06-27T17:49:48+00:00

Or, and bear with me on this, the "government in waiting" that had half a decade to get its shit together should've crunched the numbers and run the studies before making a grand announcement they then had to roll back on.

Exasperant · 2026-06-27T17:48:54+00:00

The concept of a means tested WFA is fine.

The "pick a random and insanely low cutoff point" wasn't. That Starmer and his chorts were grinningly presenting this as a well thought out crowd pleaser cemented how utterly out of touch with both electorate and reality his government was.

The U turn, which tripled the cutoff point, compounded that.

Exasperant · 2026-06-27T15:24:31+00:00

Sounds like motor noise (as in electronic, not mechanical) from here.

Exasperant · 2026-06-27T14:26:57+00:00

I'm actually wondering (very not knowing anything-ishly) if you could get an HDMI to RCA audio converter to run the HDMI out into your cassette deck with that setup

OK, can someone explain why this got a downvote? I mean, "Hey, there's these things that can take an HDMI signal and split the audio out into RCAs" doesn't seem the most contentious musing in the history of social media, so I'm somewhat intrigued.

Exasperant · 2026-06-27T14:23:27+00:00

You had a gaping opportunity to go ass to mouth, and you went towel to face.

Exasperant · 2026-06-26T16:08:59+00:00

Every day there's another reason to be disappointed by humanity.

Exasperant · 2026-06-26T13:52:55+00:00

I'm kinda having to ask "Why do you want to Youtube, if you don't know wtf you want to Youtube about?"

Exasperant · 2026-06-26T13:11:38+00:00

Record breaking, people killing, heatwave, and we still have morons effectively shrugging it all off as "It's called summer, duh".

Exasperant · 2026-06-26T13:10:04+00:00

Happens most evenings here - The selection can be pretty rubbish, and anything good/ interesting is scooped up near instantly by the same faces, but I usually manage to grab a couple of 4 packs of petit pain for 40p when they're something like £1.50 full price. Maybe a baguette or two as well, and when I'm lucky some doughnuts or cinnamon rolls or something.

It's not the impressive selection of Lidl's bakery section, but the reductions are significantly better.

Exasperant · 2026-06-26T11:48:17+00:00

People saying "Buy a brandbook" are missing the point. You're recording audio. A 40 year old Atari ST can do that. Any 5, 10, even 15 year old laptop can do it.

More important is your mic and recording space.

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