I have an Epson scanner, though I’d have to check the exact model. The one I have has the light so I can scan negatives or prints, but if you’re only doing prints you wouldn’t need that feature.

I used Vuescan to do it. Paid software, but none of the open source options were as smooth for high volume scanning (this was some years ago, so that might have changed). Vuescan did a pretty good job of adjusting colors and all automatically after the scan. It was worth the money for the time savings alone.

Basically just sit there, load the print, hit scan, wait, remove the print, repeat. You’ll learn the sound of the scanner when it’s returning to the top of the glass, at which point the print is safe to remove even if the software is still processing. That saves a little time.

It’s tedious, no question. Scanning negatives is better because you can get up to six in one shot. Get a second negative holder and you can have one scanning while you’re setting up the other one. It took me months and months.

Also consider culling the pictures you scan. Did I need to scan all of those rolls of the bridge construction? Nah.

Edit - your comment has me thinking, I need work in winter time. Maybe this could be a side job…

I do, but I know you’re just trying to gatekeep.

Well, not a boat, a 30’ Airstream. And I haul a ton of pellets several times each year. I also find myself moving heavy or large items throughout the year with it. No, you can’t really rent one to do those things like everyone claims - or the rentals would cost as much as owning the pickup would.

I read a while back that many of them were shocked the cyber truck didn’t fit in regular parking spaces. In other words, these are people that, for the most part, have never owned a large pickup before. The obvious conclusion is that they bought it for cred or because they think it looks cool, not because they actually need a vehicle that size.

They go so far to avoid the dreaded, “I don’t know.”

Our cleaners are wizards at pulling the optical audio cable out of our sound bar or television. It’s not too short or anything like that, but it’s happened at least half the times they have been here. And it’s behind the sound bar and television. I can’t figure out why it’s always that specific cable. Plenty of others nearby.

Should’ve called me, we have several of those cables around. And that’s after culling the herd of those cables we used to have!

Oh we should start a community for, “I need this cable…” where we can all help each other out!

Some years back I embarked on a project to scan my parents pictures. I think there were over 4,000 until I was done. I don’t remember the ratio, but there were some negatives and some prints. Oh and trying to unduplicate (this picture is a print of this negative) was a bear, because the prints and pictures had sometimes gotten separated.

I set up the scanner in the living room and worked on it while we were watching TV. It took months, but I did it.

Then I did my in-laws’ pictures, who didn’t have nearly as many, fortunately. And they were better organized to start, so that felt like a walk in the park by comparison.

I noticed my parents took a ton of pictures of my older brothers, but very few of me… But there were a ton of pictures of the bridge construction next to their house… Hmmm!

I think he meant he kept 80 TB of storage.

I haven’t had time to respond to this, but, on a related note…

I bought my car new in 1999, and I still love driving it. Many years ago, say 2003 or so, I bought a resistor to enable to daytime running lights, then I realized I needed other components, and never got around to finishing the job.

A few weeks ago, a guy from the car club asked if I still had it, because he wanted to enable the daytime running lights and that was the last piece he needed, and no one seemed to have one. I looked and looked but couldn’t find it anywhere. I think I threw it away a few months ago, figuring I wouldn’t ever need it.

Sorry, bud. I had that thing sitting around for two plus decades, only to need it a few weeks after I tossed it.

So we should report a bug to the lemmy developers?

Oh no my pension isn’t enough, I still need to work.

Apparently strings of numbers mess with Lemmy. I don’t see my icq number at all in the app I use, Boost. For you it formatted badly. Very strange.

Are they not escaping text input adequately? Because that shouldn’t happen…

What’s really fascinating to me is that I hated our 35-40 minute commute, but now I drive even more and don’t mind it.

I took the early retirement and am now working as a real estate photographer. Yesterday I drove 120+ miles for a job. No problem. I’ve had several days with over 100 miles, no problem. Monday I’ll drive 50 miles for one job, then another 50 miles to another job, then 25 miles back home.

The differences are that it’s not rush hour, and it’s to different locations. It’s more like exploring the area. There will be jobs I’m not looking forward to, I’m sure, but so far I really enjoy it. I even enjoy the drive, which is something I haven’t done in many years.

My only concern is that my car is approaching it’s 30th birthday, but I haven’t had a single problem as a result of pressing it back into daily driver duties this way.

Yeah I’d be buying five if them for every cat we’ve had or have. Two of them are tuxedo cats, so the set the do offer is already close.

My nemesis at my previous job was a major bullshitter and everyone knew it, except some management. Woe be to those who actually listened to him - it never ended well for them. Other managers knew better, or at least were warned.

Nice guy, but a complete moron professionally.

I recall one time he was telling a group of us about a test he and management wanted to do. “No changes to the software,” he said, repeatedly. Looking around the room, I knew no one believed him (well, he believed it, I’m sure, but no one else), but we all knew it was pointless to point out that he would be proven wrong. And he was, of course. (He wasn’t a liar, just an idiot.)

This dude would do everything he could to make me look bad, sometimes in front of external groups, other times in front of management. I never complained, but others complained to his supervisor on my behalf, and he’d apologize, then do it again a few months later. Again, it wasn’t malice, he’s just an idiot and doesn’t think.

One time I got him. He asked if we had planned for a workload that was higher than some people expected, and I was able to say, “Actually we budgeted for even more than this.” A woman that worked for me, when she saw I was having a bad day, would ask, “Hey remember when you showed up Bob in that meeting in front of management?” It always improved my mood. Some coworkers are gold.

One time, he was set to become my supervisor, and I was like, yeah, I’m gone if that happens. Fortunately, it didn’t.

Oh yes. The rest of you, get to work on thinking of a name. Like Poochie, but more proactive.

I turned off those modem noises.

I still have a Hayes Smartmodem 1200 with the beautiful aluminum case.

Facebook, Myspace, etc. all came after I finished grad school.

I tried to get into it on the relaunched site a few years ago, but it didn’t work. I might have used my university email account as the recovery email, and that account is long gone.

But…why? I doubt anyone else that I know is using it…

Or this:

You can walk into any Waffle House and literally start punching employees and never get banned.

How does he know that?!

He’s a shoo in!