Notices by Jon Valdés (jon_valdes@mastodon.gamedev.place)

@konjak First time I ended up in Västerås I was very confused, wondering how I ended up in a George R. R. Martin story

@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 😄

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

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

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?

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!

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 😊