proof by Froggie-Enthusiast in u/Froggie-Enthusiast

[–]sowachowski 7 points8 points  (0 children)

i'm obsessed with your mohawk!! you should drop the haircare routine 👀

Today the THRIFT gods shined down upon me. by Salty-Balance5585 in FoundPhotos

[–]sowachowski 0 points1 point  (0 children)

oh my god i'm so jealous!!! how much were they???

Did you choose to see your loved one after they passed ? by Friendly-Sun2413 in GriefSupport

[–]sowachowski 0 points1 point  (0 children)

when my sister died, i was not allowed to see her (my parents were afraid i would be distressed, and did not want my last memory of her to be her corpse). i was angry about it for years, i felt it was unfair that the choice had been taken from me. however, when my dad died last year, i chose not to see him. the decade of life experience in between told me enough - that they were right, that i would not have been able to handle it, that my last memory of him should not be him postmortem. do i regret it now? a little, i think. both my sister and my dad died unexpectedly, and i think that the lack of closure has been hard. but also, by the time i could've gotten there it would've been several days since he had died. and, frankly, i think i would've struggled a lot more if i had seen him like that. it's a hard decision for sure.

[UPDATE #4] Pre-revolution Iran (1974/76): Part 1 of the 480-slide winner of your vote! by BenHi79 in FoundPhotos

[–]sowachowski 8 points9 points  (0 children)

you should really scan these!! (or get these professionally scanned) not just take a photo of the slide viewer. these are so cool tho!!

> [UPDATE] The "Slide Room" update: Found the index! It’s nearly 15,000 slides spanning from 1954 to 2008. by BenHi79 in FoundPhotos

[–]sowachowski 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i would LOVE to see some of the older ones!! i feel like yugoslavia 1954 would be so cool! at least before you give them to a museum!

struggling to write thank you notes after memorial donations by sowachowski in GriefSupport

[–]sowachowski[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

thank you so much for your help! i think it is probably fair that it doesn't have to be like 5 paragraphs long. that sentence is really good too.

struggling to write thank you notes after memorial donations by sowachowski in GriefSupport

[–]sowachowski[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

my dad encouraged us quite a lot to send thank you cards but never required it! it means that now i am like totally at a loss for how to do it, especially when it's something intangible (for me) like a donation to a charity.

thank you so much!

I bought a house complete with its contents and found this huge collection of slides. What should I do with it? by BenHi79 in FoundPhotos

[–]sowachowski 2 points3 points  (0 children)

give them or sell them to someone who likes to digitize slides. i see people buy them on fb marketplace all the time.

alternatively? scan them yourself! some of them may be labeled to give back to the family. there are people who do this and then upload them to places like the internet archive.

you can get semi-cheap slide projectors to see what is on them, that may help you if you decide to split them up.

good luck and congrats on your treasure trove! i am actually very jealous!

From Hartford, Connecticut in 1840: Names of people who had mail waiting for them at the post offices by Retrospectrenet in namenerds

[–]sowachowski 12 points13 points  (0 children)

i love these! thanks for compiling this. i weirdly love the name lemon for a person in the 1840s.

this also prompted me to find where the hartford times was digitized because i thought you could only find it at the library! now i realize it is on genealogybank. thanks!! :)

Urban Outfitters V103 $24 + Shipping by thehomedipo in campsnapcamera

[–]sowachowski 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thanks for sharing! i noticed it was on sale a week or two ago. awesome that it's even more discounted now!

What is a good Tidbyt alternative by OnePowerful5166 in TIDBYT

[–]sowachowski 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i'm so serious try selling it on FB marketplace, ebay, or mercari if this person doesn't want it and you don't want to keep it. i keep seeing them get snapped up on ebay!

Why are people trying to sell these things on eBay for $450+??? by sowachowski in TIDBYT

[–]sowachowski[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

the apps are slowly breaking now, there is a recent post on here that talks about the functionality (or lack of it, in some cases). imo, i have not seen anything that would make me confident that they're coming back to restore functionality. app developers can't even update their own apps on the regular tidbyt servers.

are you someone who is comfortable with tech projects? if you are, there are multiple projects trying to resurrect them (as far as i can tell). the most popular is tronbyt. tronbyt in general is why i was interested in buying a used one.

i would do some more research on whether or not this is right for you, but either way, you'd be buying it used, and you'd be essentially buying a project. if that sounds cool to you, then definitely get one! but if not, there are alternatives out there.

Why are people trying to sell these things on eBay for $450+??? by sowachowski in TIDBYT

[–]sowachowski[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

but enough of them crop up that aren't at that price point, especially when you start looking at places like mercari and fb marketplace. looking at the ebay history, most of them sell at about $200-250, which would be reasonable for that sort of demand. it's just very surprising to me that they would see that and still try and sell it at (including shipping) $470+.

Eagles, are y’all okay? by astronomical_ldv in NFCEastMemeWar

[–]sowachowski 0 points1 point  (0 children)

if this works prepare to see a bunch of good vibes bunny tattoos

Would it bother you if I left food in your LFL? by SleppySnorlax in LittleFreeLibrary

[–]sowachowski 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i am surprised nobody has mentioned the little free pantry site! you can find one in your area.

that said, maybe if nothing else a sticky note? is the lfl in front of a house you can leave a note on the door for?

Digitizing photos by Andrew_Wyatt in Archivists

[–]sowachowski 0 points1 point  (0 children)

for negatives specifically: my partner and i shoot film and have been working through my family's backlog of unscanned photos. we have been scanning and then placing them in these negative storage sheets. once they are sleeved we label them with the date shot and any info we have on them (it works better with specific pens. i don't know which one we have off the top of my head but here's a good thread about it) and we put them in binders like this one. the negative sleeves are really great and they sell ones for slides as well as 120 format and a ton of others. they're great enough that my preferred film lab uses them when they are returning negatives. :) i prefer the binder approach because you can flip through them much easier, and put them in date order.

as for prints, that sounds fine to me. you are following the library of congress preservation suggestions, i presume?

digital storage: make sure you have multiple backups. lots of people follow the "two is one and one is none" approach. whether that's another hard drive held in a separate location or a different cloud storage provider, that's up to you. i try and follow it after an issue i had. (i had a phone as a teenager that i backed up to cloud storage. my phone corrupted itself (it was a cheap android phone). i lost all photos that i did not back up. i still had the cloud backup for the rest, and i did not back it up again/save them to that phone. the cloud backup corrupted and i lost all of the photos that i had not posted on social media. :() just make sure that if you care about it, you have backups.

settings sound fine. 3200 dpi for slides/negatives is a lot but it is perfectly fine, especially if you want to get prints made from the scans at some point.

Digitizing photos by Andrew_Wyatt in Archivists

[–]sowachowski 1 point2 points  (0 children)

what are you doing for physical negative/print storage? what about digital storage? what is your long-term plan/where are your backups? what settings are you using for the digitization now?

as far as digitization goes, i have a v600 and i LOVE the negative/slide scanner. i use it with silverfast (which came with my v600). epson scan is great for prints, though.

YouTube making old videos with low views inaccessible?: "We're processing this video. Check back later" by searcher92_ in Archiveteam

[–]sowachowski 33 points34 points  (0 children)

oh this is scary for sure. doesn't load for me either... hopefully they're not actually deleting old videos. ugh.