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I was born yellow

I have pet a dolphin before

Your turn.

1. I was named after a convent

2. I don’t like mango

Archery lessons could be something you pulled out of your ass, or something true.

Time shifting

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The resulting audio file can be played over the radio (sounding a bit like the old dial up noise, as it's just two quickly oscillating notes) and recorded to a cassette tape, which you can then give to your computer to "decode" back into 0's and 1's, which gives you the program file. You can then run it as if you'd installed it from a disk.

First it was the double-jack. Back in the days where the jack input and jack output were separated, I used a cable (jack male to male) to link them both.

Then they stopped to separate them. I learned about the "Stereo Mix" you can use on Windows. The input signal is the output you get in your headphones. You can activate it by going into your recording devices.

For Linux, you have PAVUcontrol (Pulse Audio VolUme Control) that you can install:

sudo apt install pavucontrol

[Image 2: More of the previous post. It reads: "things you can record (audio only), simply by lying to your computer, telling it that the tape recorder is actually a set of headphones:

discord call

podcast

documentary

radio and internet radio

music, from any source. without having to download it at all.

music you make on virtual pianos/etc noteworthy news items (fireside esque, interviews, huge events)

stand-up comedy

rented or borrowed media

any other sound your pc can produce

and with a VCR you could do all of this AND have the visuals as well… but an audio cassette recorder is a good place to start, since they're small and simple. I would not recommend a boombox, because those are large and nowadays all very, very bad quality.

Now you may be saying "how is any of this helpful, I want a digital file…" here's the fucking magic. You go into Audacity (free program), and lie to it that the tape recorder is really a microphone. Then you hit record on Audacity, and hit play on the tape, and let it play at regular speed. Trim and export the digital file, and you're doing gangbusters. You're cooking with gas. You're thinking with portals. You've won the internet.

Congratulations, you can "pirate"* anything you want, and literally no one can catch you, because you're not downloading in the traditional sense. You're streaming to an external device, and that device is recording what it receives. It's exactly like taping a live tv show to a VHS. This is a very low-key and non-strenuous task for the computer, since your tape recorder does all the work.

*Is this piracy? No. Well- it's time shifting. Sort of. Tell it to my Steely Dan albums. Tell it to my The Sims: Hot Date VG Soundtrack album.

Image 3: Photo of an adaptor with a USB plug at one end and RCA connectors at the other end. End description.]

Even the type with a large SD card memory.

Because most countries carved out the same accessibility loopholes, and recording loopholes that cassette and VCRs got; because they all originally used tape.

This is the type I use.

They have a built in microphone, and a good speaker, and a headphone jack.

The are designed to record sounds accurately without tape hiss.

They are also both a microphone and a speaker, so just lie to your pc if you want them recognize as either.

But here's the good bit.

You can just stick it recording next to you, or the speaker you want recording.

If you used a dictaphones with a SD card; you don't need to digitize the file after.

Stick it in audacity if you want to edit it sure.

But you don't need to do that!

You can also just stop and start recording to make new tracks. 🙂

And because it's a dictaphone your not making a copy. You are still just taping it, creating that. Technically you are the originator of that file.

This is also a real good way to digitize you older music collection. Like your vinyl records. Pop the dictaphone recording next to your playing record. No cables needed Yer, you would have to be quiet, to do it this way but it's still the cheapest, quickly way to tape.

And bonus it much smaller, and less obvious; if your recording things someone says for your own safety. People look for you phones and tend not to spot them.

(Not a privacy thing

But I personally load my dictaphones up with audiobooks, and use them at night.

The batteries last like 6-8 hours.

And the built in speakers go from loud enough to play music to a room of people; to quiet enough I can put it inside my pillowcase and no one else hears it.

I was born yellow

I have pet a dolphin before

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

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i came out to my grandma at the beginning of the year over the phone. She really didn't (and I knew) know what transgender was or anything but this past weekend, we were able to see each other in person for the first time since i started my transition. For being 84 years old, the chat went as great as it could have gone! She caught me as I was leaving and she gave me a silver bracelet with turquoise and coral stones. She told me that this style is what Navajo women wear.