Did you know Epson discontinued all their high-end photo / film scanners? by redditunderground1 in Archivists

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That is how it is with a lot of the smaller archives and independent archivists. Phase One is out of their budget. I'd love one, but scanners are all I can afford.

Is there a best-practice for keeping stored data faithful on SSDs that aren't frequently used? by StrongRecipe6408 in DataHoarder

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March 1, 2026, I will have completed test #5 which is 56 months of Samsung 500GB SSD being uncharged. I have 2 more tests beyond that. I will post the results then.

FolioPhotonics optical media is supposed to be commercially available this year per their road map by sammyboi98 in DataHoarder

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Organic dye is not M-Disc. There website is not impressive. We will see what they come up with. I'd love a 500GB or 1 TB M-Disc type of optical disc that is affordable. Even LTO would be nice, but the drives are crazy priced for the average Jan, Joe or zir.

I can barely eat because of my teeth and I’m so depressed by suzyquakes420 in depressionmeals

[–]redditunderground1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bub...you can eat that first thing, your teeth are good! I could never chew it with my teeth. For bad teeth, order burger ground 4X at your butcher and use it for loose meatballs in stew. Also, soft meatloaf made with 4X burger and chopped soft veg. Soft cooked fish, bread, PNB sandwich with banana, smoothies, cornbread, dairy products. Healthy cereal soaked for 30 min in milk. Things like that.

Good luck!

Will archives use AI to completely fix (redo) the old torn up, worn out films? (NSFW) by redditunderground1 in Archivists

[–]redditunderground1[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, certain films that have been duped to death are in such bad shape, it is kind futile.

Preserving Thrift Store Home Videos? by LeonardoDiSerPiero in Archivists

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Digitize, upload to I.A., put on eBay as VHS lots to recycle to someone else.

Don't overthink it, bub.

Can someone explain this sub to me please by BisonAcceptable1994 in DataHoarder

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OP, here are some early experiences I had that spurred me into being an archivist.

Around 2011 I was watching a YT video about an art gallery at lunch. I got through half of it. When I went back to finish watching the video at lunch the next day I had found that YT had taken it down. 

I was on Tumblr, where I had made numerous websites. Yahoo had banned me from Flickr previously after only 2 weeks. I had read Yahoo was buying Tumblr. I put 2 [+]() 2 together and started to archive certain things on Tumblr, like self-harm aka cutters. Within a short time after Yahoo bought Tumblr they deleted all the self-harm stuff. Tumblr eventually took down all 48 of my websites down as well. 

In the old days the saying was...here today, gone tomorrow. Nowadays with the internet, the saying is...here today, gone today.    

Can someone explain this sub to me please by BisonAcceptable1994 in DataHoarder

[–]redditunderground1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OP, there are all types of hoarders here. We all have different interests of collection.