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   Jon Valdés (jon_valdes@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 22-Feb-2024 19:27:59 JST Jon Valdés

   A story on how I brought an old iPod back to life!

   Cleaning up old stuff at my parents' over Christmas I found my old iPod. Its hard drive died in ~2004, and I kept it around for sentimental value. I just loved the interface on that thing and couldn'tget rid of it, even if it was dead.

   Well, a few weeks ago I decided to try to bring it back to life. An HDD wouldn't do in this day and age, so would there be some kind of SSD I could put in this thing that would work?

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     Jon Valdés (jon_valdes@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 22-Feb-2024 19:27:57 JST Jon Valdés

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     But of course iTunes is absolute shit, so next step was to replace it with Rockbox, an open source firmware for old mp3 players, which is pure unadulterated goodness. And so, now I have a wonderful mp3 player that works better than before (CF vs HDD), has more storage (32GB vs 20GB), and with an OSS firmware that has a ton more options than the original and doesn't force me to use bloody iTunes.

     This 20 year old little thing is still bringing joy 😊

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     Jon Valdés (jon_valdes@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 22-Feb-2024 19:27:58 JST Jon Valdés

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     Scouring the internet I found out some enterprising folks back in the 00's were replacing the HDD with a CompactFlash card and a PCMCIA adapter. Those cards are still alive today, so... could that work?

     The answer was yes! Took out the HDD, put in the CF+adapter, and after some hacking around I got it to work!

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     Ekaitz Zárraga 👹 (ekaitz_zarraga@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 22-Feb-2024 19:28:04 JST Ekaitz Zárraga 👹

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     @jon_valdes how's the battery doing?

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     Jon Valdés (jon_valdes@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 22-Feb-2024 19:28:04 JST Jon Valdés

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     • Ekaitz Zárraga 👹

     @ekaitz_zarraga I've only used it for like 2 hours 😅
     I'll let you know in a week

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     Jon Valdés (jon_valdes@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 22-Feb-2024 19:28:08 JST Jon Valdés

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     • Ekaitz Zárraga 👹

     @ekaitz_zarraga
     6 hours of music playing later, and it's still at ~50% battery. Good enough for me :)

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     Jon Valdés (jon_valdes@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 22-Feb-2024 19:28:12 JST Jon Valdés

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     • Leszek Godlewski

     @TheIneQuation nah, I found some earphones with a rubber-coated cable that are like 5x more resilient than the ones I used back in the day. Been using this model for ~10 years now, and only had one pair fail so far. In fact, that model has survived 2 drops that broke a phone minijack port 😄

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     Leszek Godlewski (theinequation@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 22-Feb-2024 19:28:17 JST Leszek Godlewski

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     @jon_valdes Now put a Bluetooth adapter in it instead of the phone jack. 🙂 Cables wearing out is a borderline PTSD-inducing recurring theme from those times to me.

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 22-Feb-2024 19:28:21 JST clacke

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     • Leszek Godlewski

     @TheIneQuation I've had very few headphones give up on me.

     My trick is to lose the headphones somewhere before they wear out.

     @jon_valdes