Sat 12 September 2026

My VHS player started having issues some days ago, and then my dad found another one, that he got from my granddad. And it seems to work, but the audio is just very quiet. So now I can continue getting tapes digitized. The only issue I see when I’m digitizing with that tape player is that the audio is very low, but it could be the tape itself, or that the player doesn’t boost up the audio like the old player, that I still want to get repaired. I’m about 58 minutes into this tape so far and the audio hasn’t cut out, but it’s showing as low on the VU meter, I’ll have to check this tape after in a video editing program to see if it’s something that can be heard, or if I need to put more gain on it. I just don’t want to add gain to a video, unless it’s absolutely necessary. I was just thinking that I could add another capture card with another computer and see if that works out better, or have a different version to compare to, but then again it would be a lot of work.

Nothing much has happened otherwise.

Yesterday I had to help an old colleague with his computer, because he had used his work computer, which is an Lenovo Thinkpad, to get one of his clients email accounts into his Outlook mail program, and their IT department had locked down the computer due to how Windows 11 accounts work. So he couldn’t do much. That client is no longer one of his customers, so he had no use for their email, but couldn’t remove it due to their IT department locking it down. So I had to get it removed. Which I did get working, after a few hours. I didn’t get a laptop charger with it when he delivered it, but I managed to do it before it ran out of power.

I have been looking about getting more into the repair part of hardware, like with a soldering iron, and such, both because I like the older hardware, and they break due to the age.

The plan for tomorrow or next week, is to order a new power supply for my desktop, as it’s not really doing too well. I would like at some point to get more parts of the computer upgraded, but money is an issue.

When I was at the recycle center the other day with my brother, then I found another monitor, one that’s actually identical to one of my other monitors, and it works. I tested it the day before yesterday.