Everything Is Always Breaking! (A Rant)
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As for the "laser rot" on LaserDiscs, the Oddity Archive channel did some tests and comparisons and discovered that the worst of the "rot" already happened decades ago, and any further degradation going forward is minimal.
damn, v watches fran? we are all just cool gear voyeurs at heart. I wonder if she also watches you...
I also sometimes wonder if techmaon is watching all of us right now..
with his puppets...
I feel for you, Fran. My wife has an autoimmune disease which saps her energy, so it's up to me to get everything done. Everything's falling apart around me and there are just not enough resources or enough of me to get it all done. I feel like I'm just treading water and it's more and more of a struggle the older I get.
Hang in there. I too have autoimmune problems and am so depressed about the things I can't do anymore. Sometimes the thought of sitting down on the railroad tracks seems like a logical solution.
Fran, I thought it was just me - but you know its not - its the natural order of entropy. Everything breaks down. I see it in my shop and yes in my body too...I don't think there is a solution. We must pick our battles (what we are going to repair or not) and realize that we are not who we once were and go with our new us. Just keep up the good work.! Thank you
ENTROPY. Not enthropy.
@@lukeasacher thank you - corrected...
Ms. Fran you are a delight and bright light!!! Plezzzz don't let how you feelings rule the rest!
You would be sorely missed and most of us admire your spunk and ingenuity, that's why we watch !!!
TY for all you are and bring to us🤩🤗😉😊 We hope you feel better soon.❤❤❤❤❤
I come to Fran lab because of the way you talk, think. You are refreshingly open, honest, -authentic-. I really enjoy your observations of things. You are have extremely rare, interesting and pleasant personality to me. Plus you love much of the stuff I love. I know this sounds corny, campy, ,but I actually look up to you as a role model. I just turned 65.
TH-cam algorithms make little sense anymore. I get automatic suggestions for videos that I have already watched over and over.
There's a point where fixing things is not fun anymore.
Fixing things can be oddly satisfying. But it's frustrating when things are just too broken to get them working again. I suppose with Ms. Labs, it's just too much all at once is overwhelming.
@@cathrynm What's frustrating is when manufacturers make things that you can't fix. Sped up obsolesence and more crap in our landfill. America-land of the Disposable Society. Must buy and consume more.
@@RichardMahinske I agree completely. 'right to repair' is urgent. All this junk just destroys the environment with pointless consumption that could have been avoided.
Fran, watching this video gave me an idea. What about a collaboration between like minded TH-cam creators that work on a few necessary repairs. This could be remotely or at your lab, I'm thinking Big Clive, Louis Rossman, Great Scott, and so many more. Your content is interesting and educational thank you for making TH-cam more satisfying. I understand your frustration, wishing you good health.
BTW have you considered just streaming your repair sessions? You can fix stuff and create content at the same time.
for what it's worth, something in the last month has changed with the YT recommended videos algo... I'm getting fairly A LOT of VERY low view count videos that I'm often not subscribed to. There's also a new "feature" where you can just click on subscriptions and _everything_ in the recommended list is only from things yer sub'd too. So they are putting more "rare" videos into the basic "home" feed. so while I'm no expert, they seem to be making the algo a lot less likely to just "de-shelve" creators like once upon a time. luv yer vids 🚀
My subscription page seems to work ok; it's really the only way I access TH-cam. I giveth not a crap what TH-cam "thinks" I'd like to watch next. And I keep my history turned off which keeps me from having a "home page". It's a win-win.
I only use the subscription feed as well - I hardly ever go to anything that I'm not subscribed to. That said, it seems like either a lot of people I subscribe to stopped making as many, or as good videos, or it's not showing me all the videos from the channels I subscribe to. But that just gets me off yt and doing things in real life instead of watching someone else. It's win win
I've started doing this too. Turned it all off. The suggestion page was not showing me the people I signed up to see.
Welcome to the unending battle against Entropy.
Yes, too bad. I hope you will be able to stay healty as long as you can and keep the lab alive in some way.
It is a conundrum of the human point of view .
Hardware is being passed on from one generation to another and so on seemingly perfected while the Software has to be relearned by each generation .
There is so much knowledge to be found it's easy to just give up .
I have been guilty of it myself but the new generations are full of life, ideas and talents.
Now i certainly not looking at the current situation through rose coloured glasses but look at all these beautiful people and take pride in what we do to the best of our knowledge and abilities.
I cannot help but see a common pattern in the older generation to trust and make way , take a bow in style.
Your mental and physical health is non negotiable, please look after yourself .
Leaving likes on video's helps Fran. This video has a 1:7 like ratio which I am sure does not reflect peoples actual enjoyment of your videos but rather reflects an absent mindedness of viewers who just forget to tap the button.
I can’t keep up with content creators coming up with more than once a week. I even have sometimes a hard time doing that.
some short 20 min vids on amp overhaul and repair would be interesting if you have the space to work in, its the explanation of what is where and your approach that would be of interest
No Fran, if I may cal you that. I'm not here for the content but for the character. That is you. Even if you are depressed, the moment I see your video it lifts me up. You are just a very nice, special person and thank you for your work.
This video is on reason why I love you, There is much more to all of this, please be easy on yourself.
FRAN is a machine that will never be old, maybe just a bit used... Nevertheless, still cool, like quality hardware used to be!
Cheers
I love my laserdiscs! Sad…
I am personally feeling this too. I fix a lot of stuff. It's been mowers lately, 30 year old john deere mowers. Luckily I can still get parts and they are good quality parts. But I am seeing lately I can't get parts or they are crappy quality. I can no longer afford to build hot rods. I am priced out. Cars I like are too expensive, the parts are not good either. Sheet metal comes from China and has lots of flaws. I build pool cues and have for 20 years. But that is in jeopardy as everything is moving away from wood to carbon fiber, which is garbage. doesn't play well at all. I hate it. I am putting together a cnc controller currently. I hope to find some new way to make money once I get it up and running. I need rotator cuff surgery, I have bad sciatica from when I used to move pool tables. I feel the breaking down part. I'm in my 50s. we got 5 acres a couple years ago. Now I have chickens and working on a garden. planting strawberries today. Keep trucking while you can.
Entropy is wonderful...
I wonder if there's anything that can be learned from the example of Techmoan's channel?
Perhaps a video series in collaboration with a technology museum on how tech designed with 10 year lifespans can be "shelf stabilized" for functional display?
There's a Bob Dylan song for this. "Everything is Broken." (Guess there's a Dylan song for just about everything.)
This woman is scary sharp.
Why not make videos of fixing the broken down stuff?
people are unreliable. mcdonalds is more popular than home cooking. comic books are more popular than quality literature. van gogh just about starved to death. quality doesn't stand a chance; give them QUANTITY and LOTS OF IT!
sorry i have not been here in a while, i have limited internet time and there is so much going on in the world i try to stay up on the war coming with china and our country crumbling lately. i moved away and now live near china and its scary.
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Now GET OFF MY LAWN! Just kidding. Getting old sucks
If it's any help I know in the clock making world with very old clocks they'll put a small bush inside the center of the gear to take up whatever slack they can get from the spindle. Not a perfect solution but an accepted practice when either the bush, center or gear teeth are worn beyond tolerance
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Yeah too old for this stuff. Same here.
The "obscure display" thing might also have a natrual limit... I mean... just howmany obscure display solutins were there to begin with? Sure, you showed me "way more than I'd have guessed" but it sure is a finite number. I'd almost expected you to branch outt o other obscure coponents to compensate maybe?
My favorite way to start a weekend - a Frantic Friday Fran Frant - FANtastic 😜
Your videos are always interesting! I guess you do what you can. :-). My body wont do things l want it to anymore :-(
You know I just bought a pocket watch and I came across a video you did 9 years ago semi organically...
Watch J.Bronowski's Ascent of Man episode about this...
I know EXACTLY how what you're going through feels, stuff keeps breaking down here faster than I can keep it together, and when the biological machine won't co-operate, you can't do anything, try and look after yourself, the rest of the stuff can wait, without you it's all pointless anyway, hugz....
Bob Dylan recorded a spng titled everything is broken
I think comments help suggested viewing too, don’t they? Maybe ask for them. Anyway here’s mine.
If you can think of a way to tie in Elon Musk for a thumbnail you might get some views. 🤷
Entropy sucks and we are stuck with it.
I felt this one. Becoming more understanding of Prospero as time goes on:
“Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp’d towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep."
But f**k all I'm going to get this compressor working one last time.
So the star indicates the letters UC that stand for "You See"? Very clever.
@@verdedoodleduck U Cal?
This is hard-core, expert commentary on the realities of tech and communication in the modern world. I greatly appreciate you, Fran!
I can’t be the only one that solely relies on actually going to my “Subscriptions”?
Also - how much faster can things go - pushing videos out every 1/2 days. At a certain point it’s just unrealistic to do. As a longtime viewer, I never cared about how many videos you pump out and how fast. I’m here for whatever you want to show me! If that means it takes a bit longer to make a video, I don’t mind. Maybe I’m just more patient than the algorithm.
Same here. I always go through my 'Subscriptions' on the left of the YT Home Page. I don't bother with notifications as was getting too many emails.
the algorithm is made to be impatient, rewards cheaply made content full of ads and punishes any inconsistent uploads. makes youtube lots of money
I also solely use the subscription box and I have hidden all usless altogrithm stuff in TH-cam. I've disabled my watch history as well, makes all videos in the subscription feed show up.
Subscriptions is where I always start. The youtube bookmark goes directly there. If curious about what the algorithm has to offer, I browse the suggestions to the right of the currently playing video.
A lot of the youtubers pushing out videos that fast are doing plagiarism.
@8:29 *"If I dont put up 3 or 4 vids a week, I would stop coming up in suggested videos"* THIS IS SO IMPORTANT -- I wish creators would protest TH-cam's policies and new algorithm
Agreed. I do look through my subscriptions as what TH-cam suggests is 20% things that I'm interested in and 80% people making funny faces in thumbnails and on topics that don't interest me - or worse, blathering idiotic nonsense about topics that do interest me. I don't have a lot of time for video watching but Fran's on my short list of people to make a point of watching.
For anybody collecting anything there is this good piece of advice I once learned: "WHATEVER YOU OWN, OWNS YOU." Something to think about. Probably good advice for individuals. Certainly, good advice for museums. And perhaps most certainly, good advice for individuals basically living in their own museum.
Sending love, Fran. I'm sorry you're feeling so overwhelmed. I've been busy learning guitar pedal circuits and general electronics and I wish you had videos where you just went through some of the frantone circuits and talked about circuit design. You have a lot of wisdom and I need to absorb some of it. That type of educational content does really well on TH-cam. Just look at bigclive or greatScott. I would love it if you just showed us cool circuits from people like Forrest Mims or Tim escobedo and talked about the circuits. I'm obsessed with circuits lately.
this video hit home, i found myself curating my stuff and someone else throwing away my things was too much for me, I started doing it myself... there is nothing more freeing then cleaning out the past and opening up a new future for myself.
What's even worse is if you have something recyclable that you can't get what the material is worth. I stopped collecting aluminum in my area because scam artists here have a monopoly on it, so into the landfill it goes!
Plastic gears? Those barbarians! Its like a never ending battle against entropy!
I exclusively go through my subscription feed. I do not watch the suggested feed, until after the subscription feed is done for the day
Actually that is what I do as well, I always see Fran's videos.
Same here, I VERY occasionally see something in suggested on the right which piques my interest but 99.9% of the videos I watch are from my subscriptions feed.
Man, I caught even you doing it. Hey first thing let's change the caps. Recap it. Needs new caps. Think about it. Why? Has anything that you know about failed due to bad caps? Recaping is so trendy. To recap. I am trying to make a point of this. Silicon shorting or open, replace it. Associated circuit specs wrong, replace parts. Caps? Why. There is no common sense there, just trend. Someone somewhere said caps needed to be replaced. Always trust someone somewhere? Consult someone somewhere before proceeding? Always? Not so much. Then why tell me should you take advice from their peanut gallery. This is a thing for me because I ran a new shop and the head tech told me to check the caps in a unit because it didn't work, said he checked it out. So ok went to check the main caps on the input, 25v? Nope 250v and got zapped away from the bench. It was a high voltage supply unit used as a vacuum pump for molecules to be attracted to. This thing had tens of thousands of volts in it. Hey my advice, never check the caps. If the caps need checking they will tell you.
Glad you got over your infection Fran. God bless you. Make sure you get proper sleep. Take 400 IUs Vitamin D every day, ok??
The stuff you do IS interesting, just not to most people. They rather watch sports or makeup videos or something I guess.
I lost my hamster wheel years ago.
Ultimate tag team, Entropy and Gravity.
An "I'm too old for this shit!" T-shirt would be a winner!
Considering how much technology is in every corner of our lives it's amazing how much stuff works and how much of it works for a long time. Monks had the right idea on data storage by putting ink to paper. That seems to be longer lasting than any magnetic or digital media. The time may come when some digital storage means is truly inert for the ages. But in the meantime, one way or another most, or all, of somebody's treasured digital family photos will be lost. I suggest to people that they select some of their favorites and PRINT them on high quality paper. And then WRITE who, what, when, where on the back. It's old school. but will last 100 to 200 years or more. For example, I'm glad that all those historical civil war photos weren't originally "archived" on discs.
This reminded me of Matthew 6:19-21. And I'm not trying to preach to anyone.
Mono no aware. If you need just a few thou of take-up in gears try deforming them or drift the bushing/bearing hole with a center punch. Not perfect but nothing is. Not permanent, but nothing is. Enjoy your tapes and CDs and laser discs (or in my case, CED capacitive player and movie discs. The needles wear out faster than the discs; oh well). Sounds like doing the YT thing is running you down more than the physical artifacts and tools. Maybe make anthologies of different display technologies through the decades, more context in the technology of the time so you don't need to constantly come up with rarer artifacts?
I service some 400 or so retro arcade video games and 100 pinball machines.
Yup, stuff is definitely always breaking as well as 60 year old me.
My subscriptions work fine. Also TH-cam will throw creators who post infrequently all over my suggested feed, even if I want to defer watching the video. The YT recommendation engine knows the creators for whom I watch every video and suggests them. Because you have wide ranging content I don't watch all your videos and they don't get suggested as often. That's why I rely on my subscription column.
You always show up in my subscriptions
Mine as well. I get notifications as well, but they aren't as reliable as subscriptions.
Fran shows up in my suggested but it's oddly always the same Nimo tube video. Sometimes when I see that, I go back to the account and check what she's been up to recently.
You know I disagree that you have to do three or four videos a week to be seen. This is a rule you made for yourself. More time spent on better videos made less often can get much higher total views per week.
Some of your videos are awesome, I hope you keep making the videos that you most love to make. It's not the subject by itself that's most important, it's how interesting you find the subject deep in your soul that people actually love to see ;)
I have a storage unit, a basement storage room, an attic and a loft full of my old, broken equipment & toys. Plastic, electronic, worn-out metal, etc. At my age and physical condition (declining far more rapidly than I had ever anticipated),, I'll never have the time to fix it all, and most of it is so out-of-date that there's really no point. It's past time to do the death-cleaning, but it's hard to know where to start. Plus I hate the thought of just throwing things away because I don't want them to end up in a landfill. Not sure what to do next.
There's a video in the juke box cleaning, the hifi re-capping and any other fixing.....?
And I don't want the world to see me
'Cause I don't think that they'd understand
*When everything's made to be broken*
I just want yada dada ...............dada.....
~ John Rzeznik
I love this song, but in the back of my mind I hear Billy Joel!
I totally know where you're coming from, Fran. Your videos are always a joy, even the ones that make us realize things we have collected, and ourselves, just keep getting older. I guess with a channel like yours the most important thing is documenting old and rare things while they still function.
Second Law of Thermodynamics. Viva Boltzman.
Entropy ⏳⌛_______________
guess everything and everyone comes to an end.....sometime nothing is forever
Research healthy diets & exercise. Cut out sugars. I’m 75 & doing pretty well. All the best!
Fran, come up with a protectibe rap to put on the phone end of charging cables . No matter what mystery brand I buy on ebay for my Samsung, max usage is usually about 4 months. Yes, duct tape is extending the latest one...but a patented one by you..
I'd rather have. As far as viewership..some channels send me an email about a new upload.
I wonder if the same thing happened to my new genuine *Kit-Cat clock* -- it stopped working after less than 1 year. Similar plastic gears inside
I found this in my subscriptions
Entropy is a b
As castles made of sand melt into the sea...
Entropy!
I have never liked plastics, I prefer more traditional materials
Oh Fran, your content is interesting! But most people don't wish to expand their horizons. I was born in 1960, when we were exploring things and taking the general public along for the ride. We almost totally gave up on space exploration, dulling our sense of exploration and curiosity. Back then we were shown the importance of using tools around the house. Kids aren't shown how to fix their own things, or at least to have the curiosity to have a small understanding how something works. When I was a kid I learned how to fix my own bicycle. No one taught me. I sometimes went to the library and sometimes just took it apart to examine the different functional relationships. Took bikes that were being tossed out and repaired them or stripped for parts. I am glad my father had me help him fix things around the house. I took this interest to everything I owned. My first guitar amp I had was a David Bogen 20-something watt 12AX7/6L6 based p.a. amp. It had a 1/4" mic input jack instead of the 3-pin type. Cranked it and I could get a real good Live At Leeds sound. Kept frying the transformer. He taught me how to unwind and count the wrappings of the copper strips. Soldered the newer strip and tightly wrapped it back up. He told me that I had to figure out why it kept doing it, but never got around to it. He liked the fact that I was gaining that knowledge, but learning to put the tools back where they came from was harder to learn! Overall though, I wouldn't trust any kid born after 1990 with a hand tool or power tool. The sense of curiosity and exploration isn't dead yet, it just smells kind of funny. (Thanks FZ!)
Maybe... Make a vid about each item and then at end of vid have it "for sale" auction or for "giveaway", AS IS. Downsizing while entertaining while making a few bux while gettin your head straight.
Interesting, I have never tried it, probably would not last long, but I have read plastic gears can swell some 3% when they absorb moisture, especially nylon gears.
Hey, as regards your videos not getting enough views to float your channel: I think you're looking at the formula wrong
Make really short videos
Any one of the responses that you make in this video could just be its own little 30 second or 60-second video, no problem
The goddamn robot that runs the whole show, the TH-cam algorithm, doesn't know the difference
If you make two 30-second videos instead of one 1 minute video, people are probably going to watch both and that's twice the views
Make the robot work for you, my dude
Not a big fan of the fourth dimension sometimes. Appreciate the honesty, trying to come to terms with how stuff lasts, or doesn't. There stuff you've discovered over the years that you feel deserves credit for having a good measure resilience , maybe in unexpected places where the complexity would suggest otherwise?
I mostly know very little about the content on this channel but I do find it interesting.
Frans endearing whimsical personality is a wonderful part of the experience.
I watch every video until the end to hear the Fran Lab song which I never tire of.
I don't understand how that could be the TH-cam algorithm. I subscribe to Technology Connections and The 8-Bit Guy. There videos show up (as do yours). Is it because they get more views?
Re: Laser Disks; is anyone or groups preserving these items on a more forgiving medium? (e.g. like movie preservation is happening today) Could you work with someone to preserve your collection?
I understand Remember what is important is the content that is on those devices. It’s the story or content that is most important. WE all have our own stories which we know about.
Sometimes, when I go to garage sale, you see someone’s stories of what they read or what they love, but its there stuff and the electronic devices only hold what we love..
sometimes it was found that plastic gears were used to save manufacturing cost. I know folk with watchmakers lathes that create new in brass or similar metal ( this can of course interfear with electronics though - they did a pencil sharpener )
Scott Manley had a pair of incredibly frustrating videos a few weeks ago. A private tour of some rich asshole's private collection of privately owned astronautics artifacts. The guy does nothing useful with it all. He can't renovate it the way someone like Fran can, and the public wouldn't even have known about most of it, except that Manley wrangled a private tour and took a camera in with him. It ought to all be in a public museum, not a private hoard.
If there's a moral to the story, apart from "eat the rich"-themed ones, it's perhaps that we should give priority to museums' channels, so that the public benefits more from them, and so that the value of rare and unique tech (among other types of items) is better appreciated.
" Our incomes are like our shoes: too little and they pinch and gall, but if too large they cause us to stumble and trip ". John Locke
I wouldn't watch a museum channel.
Everything always breaking... proof positive that entropy is a valid universal constant. 😎
But so is anti-entropy... or none of us would exist.
@@lukeasacher But anti-entropy isn't in question.
@@ReverendFuzzy where did you study physics? I studied it in 1977 as a HS Junior at Fieldston in the Oppenheimer Lab. Where HE studied physics.
Entropy increases
TH-cam viewers have become shallow programmable robots themselves guided solely by the YT algorithm. I peruse my YT subscriptions periodically. I also search for content from my favorite content creators like you. It's too bad that viewers have become so intellectually lazy that they only consume content that is placed in front of them like a menu. What does this say about our society?
it says people aren't curious.
@@projectburpees, And yet if you put the word "curious" in the title of a video or a movie or a book or magazine article or whatever, some people of an inquisitive mindset might queu up to read it or view It. Examples: the movie "I am Curious (Yellow), which Jackie Kennedy Onassis wore a disquise to go see in a theatre; or literature, "The Curious Case of the Dog in the Nightime", or "Ye Olde Curiosity Shop" ( Dickens, was it?).....and weren't there some old detective novels that used curiosity in the title? Generally however you may be correct that the curiosity as a human trait has been bred or beaten out of us. If you said "finish this sentence" and begin with the word "curiosity......" most people would probably finish it by saying "killed a cat"!
Oh No!!! Laser Rot 😭
I, and other work colleagues, don't use the TH-cam / Subscriptions features. I have a TH-cam bookmark folder in my browser and daily click on each content creator's page and look for myself to see what new content is there. It's a ritual I've done since TH-cam was a thing. And I know for a fact others do this too. If you made a video a week... I would always see it no matter and irrespective of any algorithm.
As a regular viewer... I don't come to FranLab for any particular piece of rare technology. I surely can't be the only one that comes to "spend time" with you... as an interesting person, interesting presenter of content, a person who's opinion and views I respect and enjoy hearing. Might sound crazy... but I watch all of your videos even if I am not completely 100% interested in the topic because of you as a person presenting something you want to share with us as viewers! Perhaps it's just my age... or just me... but I truly don't spend time seeking new channels or recommendations... I tend to stick with channels I've known and loved for (quite a few years in most cases) and watch ALL their content. This works well for me as someone who's given up on free-to-air TV and my available relaxation time to watch YT is filled up with channels I love to follow. It seems to me that it's a shame that YT and the ability of smaller niche channels to survive is being driven by (presumably) younger people with tiny attention spans just looking for a quick dopamine hit before moving on.
"Nothing lasts forever, even stars die" - Carl Sagan
[And so will TH-cam one day]
It would be a crime if your videos where not seen. I love what you do.