As long as the photos are not damaged, the office scanner will probably be ok. Flatbed scanners are easy to use, and you can usually scan multiple photos and break them up in software. You can use a scanner with a feeder if the photos are in good condition, but there’s a small risk of them getting damaged, so test the scanner with a sacrificial photo first. I’ve heard of feeders scratching or creasing the photos, but it’s a very small number of cases as far as I can tell.

I’ve found that 600 dpi is a good tradeoff between quality and file size for your typical 6 x 4 inch photo from back then, but I increase the dpi for very small photos to try to get a bit more detail out of them.

I tried every piece of scanning software I could find on Linux, except for Vuescan*, and got some decent results, but none of them beat the Epson package for Windows. The quality was about the same, but the Windows package had built in presets that corrected the colour and brightness with a single click. Nothing that couldn’t be done in a decent photo editor, but it let me preview the changes before scanning, and was much faster. It even corrected photos with that reddish tint all over.

*The only reason I didn’t try Vuescan was because I didn’t want to buy software for what was going to be a short term one off task.

Just a heads up, OP is a troll. They pop up every so often, sometimes with different accounts, claiming this nonsense. Chav is not, and never has been, a slur, towards working class people or otherwise.

While it’s nothing like the same degree, as nobody was hurt, we already had black Friday in the UK too. It’s the last Friday before Christmas, when the factories would close for the holidays and the workers would typically hit the pubs to celebrate.

Now we’ve got black Friday, black Friday season, and even black week being advertised to us, all based on an American holiday in November 🤷🏻‍♂️

Holy shit, I think I love your parents 🤣

You could have a group of monsters hiding in the shadows just past Granny Mart, who get very confused when the adventurers finish shopping and leave.

It turns out that Granny’s health potions just taste so much better than the others.

I mostly agree, but some small communities, many years ago, would go by oldest, continuing from where you left off last time. That was fantastic for the sort of place where you wanted to read everything for whatever reason. If that could be put in on a community basis, it would be great :)

Yeah, they sound like good things to get :)

I’d do something quite similar, under the same assumptions, but would split the money four ways with my wife, kid, and house stuff. We’d all get decent laptops and computers and upgrade the server and backups. I need a new phone, so that would be sorted.

Selfishly, I’d get a new to me motorbike and get the current one serviced properly. Neither would cost too much, but they’re things that are not currently important enough to spend on.

I’d pay a cleaning company for a few days of cleaning and sorting, as we all have either ADHD or something close, and haven’t been able to get our shit together for long enough to make a difference 🫣

I’d like to get the garage insulated, as it’s part of the house and can be cold, and get the garden tidied enough that we can keep it under control.

I’ve probably overspent, but if not, I’d take the family and some close friends out for a nice meal. We haven’t all been together for a while, and there’s a really nice but reasonably priced restaurant nearby 🙂

Too late! Poonami incoming! 😫

then go to the backwards time dimension and grow younger.

You might want to watch the end of that episode and see what happens to the cat first…

This could work really well for me too. My favourite sci fi series, Spinward Fringe, has a character who loves ‘ancient’ media, and who is one of the heroes of the story, so has access to all sorts of technology. As it’s set around a thousand years in the future, he should like at least some of the media I already own.

I’ve got an older laptop that I can take with me to give him a way to make our technologies compatible, then, for a few hundred pounds, I can buy some massive hard drives and fill them with whatever media he wants, assuming that he hasn’t given me a super powerful computing device yet. After a few decent trades, I should hopefully either be able to build highly advanced tech, or have enough information to trade on this side and pay to get things built.

I wonder if I could use a loophole too. They have sentient AIs that develop after they’re turned on for the first time. If I’m remembering it correctly, they’re not sentient beforehand. I could have one built with the knowledge of how to build their technology from scratch, and only turn it on once I’m back here.

Their medical technology is also super advanced, so bringing some of that back would be amazing. That would have its own set of questions though, like do you reveal it to the world and try to help as many people as possible straight away, possibly risking your safety, or do you keep it quiet until you can keep control of it and stop it from being taken by people who would hoard it. That’s a separate post though.

It’s a fantastic song, but the title is just Hurricane :)

https://youtu.be/bpZvg_FjL3Q

I believe there’s a movie of the story too :)

I got banned from a local music night.

Apparently ‘Come On Eileen’ was a song request…

As I understand it, they’re next to the muscles, and are alive alive - oh

That would be good because it would potentially explain some other conspiracy theories too, like the world didn’t end at y2k because we haven’t reached it yet. You could milk that for a while

‘I have you now Blackbeard, I’ve ruined your night vision! YOUR NIGHT VISION!!!’

Have you tried RawTherapee instead of Darktable? They both do pretty much the same thing, but I find RawTherapee much easier to use :)

It depends on what you’re doing. If I’m researching my family tree, I can easily have over a dozen temporary tabs open while I check if someone is actually related to me.

My family is awkward though, they’ve got names like Thomas Thomas, and named their kids after their siblings >.<

There’s a very similar concept in motorbiking, target fixation. It essentially says that you go where you look. If you’re riding along and there’s a pothole in front of you, it’s easier to avoid it if you look either to the side of it or past it. If you look at it, you subconsciously turn towards it.