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[eggritos]

[caramel-caracal]

I'm bad at this but here goes- This is one of my main OCs, Brendon. A hero with pyrokinesis, super strength, and terrible social skills...

The other characters in the sketch page belong to my partner and my friends! Just a little shared universe silliness 🥳

Close ups of the sketch page under the cut!

- Lin giving Brendon a friendly flower!

- Max and Bren experiencing "Enemies to Lovers"

- Bren begging Reese to fix his boots :( ( Thanks Max )

- Bren carrying his roommate, Raimon, home after a party

[planetbeanie]

Todays beanie of the day is Baby Paws (maple)

Released: 2003 • Average sale price: $15

[rapidhighway]

Nooo i just saw a TikTok of someone calling their mom a hoarder cause she has a CD collection and going "i can play these faster on an app" and telling her to throw them away BITE BITE BITE BITE KILL KILL KILL KILL if someone said that to me i would rip them apart with my teeth i would burn them alive the violence that would take place would be unimaginable i would be an unleashed demon hungry for blood and meat. unimaginable horrors. death and destruction. killing. maiming. no one could survive that. it would be a nuclear apocalypse. leave the fucking CDs alone

[caparrucia]

Okay but if you have an extensive CD collection you need to back it up into digital/new CDs!

And it's not about apps or digital being faster, I'm all up for physical media, but commercially produced CDs from the 90s and early 2000s are reaching the end of their functional lifespan*, and are starting to fail.

If you have a lot of CDs, it would be a good idea to rip them into high fidelity digital audio, to preserve them.

*CD/DVD lifespans are tricky. Some estimates in peak, perfect conditions and maintenance go for almost 200 years. Others calculate between 20 to 30 years in "normal" use, though no one can agree what normal is.

I recommend buying a cheap DVD reader/writer unit -I bought mine for less than 20 USD - and then batch ripping stuff. Surprisingly Windows Media Player works out of the box, just make sure to save things in the correct format (mp3 or MP4) so you're not limited in playback.

You can of course find more robust options online, including VLC, to rip your files. Ripping a CD will not damage it or prevent it from working, it'll just make sure you have the option to burn a new one if your original happens to fail. This is 100% legal and ethical (and would be ethical still even if illegal, because piracy is always ethical in late stage capitalism and corporations are not your friends.)

I recommend redundancy for your backups (remember that time Apple fucked up with people's files by replacing them with itunes shit? Yeah) and if you're really techy, set up a NAS by your router, with your backups.

If your rips are high quality you can feed it to your computer/tablet/phone/any device in your network and always have access to CD quality audio no matter where you are.

Sources!

How Long Do CDs Last? It Depends, But Definitely Not Forever

Preservationists are worried about troves of records stored on what was once considered a durable medium: the compact disc. Many discs can l

The first generation of CDs is already rotting and dying - CDM Create Digital Music

CDs and other optical media don't last forever - then can even rot. But storage can help. Here's what archivists and research can teach us.

Learn how to rip (copy) and burn (create) CDs  and data DVDs using Windows Media Player.

Looking for ways to rip CD music and songs? Here are 2 easy methods on how to rip CD musics with VLC media player with ease.

[darlingsweetprince]

might have been said in another comment already BUT

if you are saving digital audio for long term use make sure to use a lossless file type like .WAV

yes it’s a lot larger of a file but it won’t degrade over time

you can use .mp3 files for daily/casual use on a playback device but they won’t keep their quality as they get compressed

[thetursithan]

In the 2000s, phones had quirks and class....

[ohevoyev]

skeletons in art

(i) thomas de keyser, the anatomy lesson of dr. sebastian egbertsz., 1619 / (ii) ligier richier, transi de rené de chalon, 1545 / (iii) hans leinberger, tödlein, c. 1519 / (iv) unknown artist, la mort saint-innocent, 1520s / (v) unknown artist, memento mori, 1520 / (vi) bernardino genga, anatomia per uso et intelligenza del disegno, 1691

[odysseyre]

Made a Tails last time, so here's a Sonic!

[valenrepetto]

Sketchsketch

[celnpudding]

me grimlock professional artist

[harpyexplains]

TFA Shockwave model showcase

[kirokazepixel]

Gundam rest

Patreon // inprint

[nocturnaldollmaker]

Patlabor 2

1993

[bizarre-bait]

Megatron and the idiot star ⭐

[turboemmy]

we are so back

[wweaselkat]

their friendship is everything to me

[horsefigureoftheday]

Horse figure of the day: Safari Ltd. #101024 Blue Pyrois

[marzupial]