The Flintstones, for what it’s worth, came out in a time before cartoons were seen as “for kids” by default.

Mmyeah, I really can’t agree with that. I’d say instead that there was a distinctly ‘all ages’ intention and reception to the first popular animated cartoons, which were shown in movie theatres dating back to the silent movie era. Adults appreciated the novel technology, and kids could enjoy the simple plots and depictions. But I believe that over the years, adult audiences lost much interest in the format outside of various masterpieces such as Disney movies, leaving cartoons as a distinctly child-oriented treat, on the whole.

Indeed, part of the revolutionary aspect of The Flintstones is that it turned that formula completely upside down, airing the series on prime time and being sophisticated in plot enough that adult audiences could enjoy the stories equally as much as other sitcoms of the time. Really, that’s one of the biggest deals about the show, later paving the way for The Simpsons, South Park and a slew of others to specialise in cartoons that were probably more adult-oriented than kid-intentioned.

…somebody who is quite short and self conscious about it…

Hmm, you’re not mixing up the robotic-looking guy who has a ‘face,’ with the deranged lunatic who recently made things ‘more efficient,’ are you? First row, second column:

https://www.celebheights.com/s/M24.html

Let’s rewind a bit, shall we? I wasn’t expecting any conspiracy theories, but when the commenter above stated:

Also, they want to drown out legitimate sources.

That sounded like an interesting assertion, possibly hinting at a group-level effort, which is why I asked them. Thanks for adding in your opinion, I guess.

Easy, now. I do think that chatter in this thread has produced some good candidate groups, however.

Haha, it felt a bit shades of ((((they)))), yes. Anyway, I was just curious if you had any particular group in mind.

It’s not a significant question, so no worries!

Yeah, I’m just curious who you suppose the people in question might be. Just a random distribution, or could there be some type of pattern there?

they want to drown out legitimate sources.

Who would “they” be, in these cases?

Meanwhile…

“Pinky is a very loving cat.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ubQxtEukvw

I’m just sad that it lost the music. Maybe another pass could be made, keeping the music and stripping the vocals, then you could use Audacity (free) to combine the two tracks. Several possibilities there…

You can use a couple other logged-in services in place of an acct, like Google. Probably worth signing up either way so that you can test the service out for your own needs.

Anyway, I’ve uploaded it below. See if that works for you:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/172XAHq6cqgcb7b5CekBidLi7XvO4XPJm/view?usp=sharing

Just for fun, I tried a test in one such service below. I chose the ‘keep vocals and music, stripping out noise/etc’ option. It seems to have greatly improved the vocals, while sadly losing the music. See what you think:

https://auphonic.com/engine/status/RngqonNazCTnz4ZwdU5aGj
EDIT: (see alt DL link in comment below)

NOTE: that’s without fiddling with any settings, which likely would have produced a better result.

So, far as I can tell, most online services of this type seem to be paid, if that works for you. And yeah-- in previous examples of excellent preservation results, I did get the sense that most were ‘DIY,’ with all the custom hardware & software that entailed.

Or at least, they hired human restorers or mixing engineers to do the work. So yeah… it seems that in order to get a quality result, at least some money needs to change hands.

That you don’t like the song, I cannot comment on.

TBH, I could barely even hear it. I mean, I get that going from wax to digital is a big leap in itself, just that as I recall it, some similar AI-restoration projects have produced much richer end results, with more clean highs & lows, and less ambient noise. But yeah, that’s just me. Possibly I’m remembering poorly.

In any case, I enjoy history and learning about history, so I do appreciate your taking the trouble to share this. Thank you.

Source: just an amateur idiot. :-)

TBH, I found it pretty pants both as a restoration and as a song. Even the American national anthem (an olde English drinking song gussied up with new lyrics) is a better song IMO, and it’s a pretty mediocre song in its own right.

Eh, maybe I had to be there…

I wouldn’t mind the flood of spam, right-wing nonsense, and guesstimated content in the browsing streams quite so much if I at least there was a useful bias for seeing what people on my friends’ & subscribed lists were posting, but NOOoooo… (cue John Belushi)

At this point they’ve hilariously turned their own product in to something that doesn’t hold even the slightest bit of value for me, anymore. I really need to send Zuck a nice gift-basket of elephant dung for doing me that helpful favor. 😊

Well, considering that I already have a *kill it with fire* mentality towards anime… XD

But I’d miss Miyazaki, though. That would indeed be a bitter loss.

Do you know if the team has any plans to support in-post image markups? Currently, if I upload an image to my instance/software (PieFed), it can successfully display on M, whereas a post with images linked in to the body will currently appear… well, pretty broken on M. Just a mess of empty space, which looks fairly ridiculous at the moment.

Thank you so much!

I’m way over my head on all that, but have bookmarked your comment and created a reminder for myself. The new system is indeed AMD, btw.

Bien sûr!
However, and TBC-- I was referring to the actual hardware when I said “system.”

Indeed, I greatly look forward to upgrading this shady OS to some manner of Linux, especially once things settle down here. (any ‘flavor’ you particularly recommend?)

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Upgrading to a Win11 machine to beat the mid-October deadline was my deal. Just about every associated hardware item needed to be replaced, and there were a bunch of small issues with the various new stuff, including me completely forgetting that a network switch is NOT a router, even though they look similar. Building a rolling, swiveling platform arm for a new monitor I needed to sit next to my bed/couch was one of the last major hurdles. Bonus pts for the new machine being hilariously tiny, to the tune of ~"5x"2x"5, but it got great reviews, and I’m loving it so far.

So yeah, moving up to a faster, more capable system is always a treat in the end, but getting everything migrated properly and deciding what software to reinstall and what to upgrade can be a process that takes weeks, or more. Note: the “VirusTotal” site has been a big help in feeling much more secure about my new install choices.

Couldnt remember debit pin and its annoyed me for a long time

A few years back, I had that problem not with the PIN, but with my online PW. I’d somehow forgotten it, and wound up calling customer support for help, getting a live person to talk to. They asked me a couple personal questions, I answered, and they solved the issue within minutes. I imagine they would have done something similar with PINs.

These days, with CS being increasingly automated and/or farmed out to other countries, I’m not sure if that would work so easily, anymore.