Reading does not refresh the data! The head passes over the magnetic domains and that induces a current in the wires in the head.

That process does not in any way refresh the magnetic domains.

Yes it is the same for digital tape but at least with digital tape you can read the data and re write it perfectly onto a new tape because of ECC. Simply reading a digital tape doesn’t refresh the data either.

VHS is analog. The signal read will be slightly weaker than original. That signal will be written onto a new tape as weaker because it is analog. Nothing in the VHS recorder knows what the original was supposed to be.

You say that because you can still buy the parts. But those parts are getting rarer and rarer.

Do you even have a working VHS player? The rubber pinch rollers degrade after a few years.

just watch them once every 10 years and it should renew the magnetic stuff on them.

VHS doesn’t work like that. It’s not digital. It doesn’t rewrite on a read. Magnetic hard drives and tapes don’t rewrite on a read either.

You need to copy them to renew and VHS is analog so every copy is worse.

What do you mean by “correct”? It’s whatever you want.

Dremel with metal cutting wheel. Cover the rough edge of the sheet metal with trim molding from a PC modding store. Cut window material larger than hole. Epoxy the acrylic onto the inside of the sheet metal.

If the hole is square, before cutting with Dremel use a drill with a large bit to cut holes in the corners. Then draw tangent lines to connect the holes so you have a square/rectangle with rounded corners. This makes cutting easier and installing the trim molding easier because there are no 90 degree angles.

Not sure where to find the trim molding. It’s been 25 years since it cut a hole in my case and it was for adding mesh.

Meh, just make the show funny. The timeline has been wrong for decades.

Those also look like transistors.

If memory is so important to you than you really need to stop reading and writing. Before literacy was common everyone remembered everything. Knowledge was oral. People had fantastic memories because they had to.

“Report says that in the schools of the Druids they learn by heart a great number of verses, and therefore some persons remain twenty years under training. And they do not think it proper to commit these utterances to writing, although in almost all other matters, and in their public and private accounts, they make use of Greek letters. I believe that they have adopted the practice for two reasons — that they do not wish the rule to become common property, nor those who learn the rule to rely on writing and so neglect the cultivation of the memory; and, in fact, it does usually happen that the assistance of writing tends to relax the diligence of the student and the action of the memory.”

• Julius Caesar, Garlic War book 6.

Now my mind is filled with knowledge of current ly useful processes instead of facts that aren’t immediately useful. I know details of cooking, 3D printing, programming and home repair. Your brain is finite. It’s why your memories are deleted when you sleep.

https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/sleeps-crucial-role-in-preserving-memory/

Are you confused as to which way to hold a book?

You don’t need to know North when reading a road map. It isn’t Boy Scouts where you have a terrain map and you are trying to orientate yourself to unlabeled terrain.

You have road intersections labeled in real life and on the map. You only need to know to travel along a road and turn right or left until you get to the next road at which point you again turn right or left until you reach your destination.

My friend’s 1990’s era Jaguar came with a navigation that worked like that. There was no map. It was a text display that displayed directions as turn by turn directions.

China is implementing better consumer safety than the US and EU. Crazy.

You looked at a map beforehand and saw what directions to go. The map book has an index in the back to find destinations.

You often wrote a note for yourself beforehand. Rt 40, take exit 17a, take 97 S exit, Rt onto Brookshire,

You didn’t need to know north.

I drove for decades before gps. No one taught me how to use a map. You bought one and it was obvious because it was the same as any text book with an index in the back.

You act like kids are stupid.

I’m probably older than both of you. I use gps constantly even when I know the route. It’s safer to focus on the road than think about the route.

People didn’t use to memorize numbers. They used little private address books that you wrote your numbers in. Moving that text to a computer screen changed nothing for the majority of people.

I don’t use Facebook but I didn’t use Myspace either.

I don’t use AI but I have nothing against it. I used it once to write some code in VBscript which is a language that would be a complete waste of time to learn. It saved dozens of hours.

A gps is a paper map on the computer with the feature that shows your location on the map.

There’s nothing to learn. The gps voice prompt takes the place of the passenger who’s job it was to voice prompt you.

Bitrot happens even when sitting around. Magnetic domains flip. SSD cells leak electrons.

Reading and rewriting with an ECC system is the only way to prevent bit rot. It’s particularly critical for SSDs.

That would require departments to work together. It would also reduce the Gemini leader’s bonus and promotions if their features rolled into another department’s project. So instead a feature that worked great is removed and new program that works worse in many ways replaces it.

Companies only promote managers of new products.

Meh, I fail to see how taking a copy of a screen cap that someone already copied and changing the text is somehow better than coming up with a completely original idea but not having the artistic ability to pull it off.

The few posts I’ve done in Gimp are trash. They would have been improved had I used AI. It’s not like I drew Musk. Instead I took a screen cap and cut and paste his face over a screen cap of Scarlett O’Hara. AI would have done the screen capture instead of me. There would be no art either way.

Other link said 80% voted for Harris but this says 15% voted for Trump. Still crazy high given Trump’s previous history as president.

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2025/06/26/voting-patterns-in-the-2024-election/

It’s nice to think that but 1 out of every 5 Blacks voted for Trump.

There was a few months where I had to ban server after server every day because someone was really into semi-lolli anime. They were posting it in every anime forum. I asked them why they were non stop posting upskirt or provocative drawings of very young girls and they got angry that I dared ask.

Jackson is calling Charlie Kirk a liar!