yuri

u/yuri@pawb.social
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on its over · c/funhole · 5 pts · 4d

i had no idea you were a Leftist Activist! is that an appointed position or were you voted into power?

on Fisher Walkman (1987) · c/vintageads · 3 pts · 5d

ah jeeze my FIRST thought was something like “wow those are crazy thin, i bet some tiny part could break in half and i’d have a hard time even knowing” hahahah

were i in your shoes, my next course of action would be fucken around in the service manual. sorry if i’m getting a little too invested in a stranger’s walkmen, i just have a passion for repairing dead tech!!

on Fisher Walkman (1987) · c/vintageads · 1 pts · 5d

i have that same one! funnily enough they actually hold up REALLY WELL over time because the “sealed” interior makes the rubber belts age slower lmao

on Fisher Walkman (1987) · c/vintageads · 5 pts · 5d

sounds like maybe the autostop is triggering when it shouldn’t. i had a similar problem on a full size cassette deck but i never actually found out what caused it specifically. i just kept cleaning everything until eventually it worked correctly. MAYBE there’s a tried spring somewhere that’s finding resistance where there isn’t any?

it sucks that everything looks like it should work, but it’s doubly annoying that the problems are happening on a walkman. at least on a desktop cassette deck you can easily tear it down to parts and watch everything work in realtime. that’s a bit of an ask for anything miniaturized 😄

on Fisher Walkman (1987) · c/vintageads · 2 pts · 5d

they’re super not waterproof! sony had some “sport” walkmen that featured rubber seals and a lil locking clip, but even those i’d be careful around water with hahah

on Fisher Walkman (1987) · c/vintageads · 9 pts · 5d

usually belts, but if you’ve taken them apart you’d probably notice that? otherwise the most common thing to go wrong in vintage audio is blown/tried capacitors, and that’s ALWAYS a fucken headache.

what’s actually going wrong with em? if they’re eating tapes it’s probably just a gummy pinch roller!

i have no idea how they can make this argument in a world with other digital vendors. like if sony was the only game in town this would make A LITTLE sense, but can’t the prosecution just point at GOG here?

on Flour Rules · c/onehundredninetysix · 4 pts · 5d

i’m jealous! i’m finally cooking more, but i’m hardly baking at all. gotta just try meat pies or something else simple.

on Flour Rules · c/onehundredninetysix · 7 pts · 5d

i have a roughly flour-bag-sized airtight storage container, and then i keep that ensemble in the freezer bc i was raised to believe that made a difference somehow

on Gnome on surface pro 4. · c/linux · 2 pts · 6d

i had the same setup! it actually just got replaced by a first gen thinkpad yoga. the surfaces are really hard to actually use on a lap hahaha

LOVING gnome on a touch screen tho