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The other thing I wanted to do was figure out if there was a way to make the cards normally readable in a PC so you could add your own games. Turns out that's impossible because the stick's bootloader is where the partition table would normally be, so you can create one but then the stick won't boot

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I didn't want to sell them with defective cards, so I decided to rip one of the good ones & clone it to some new cheap-but-ok cards

In this process I found that only 2 of the 10 cards were good ๐Ÿ™ƒ

Here's the good rip I got after MANY tries archive.org/details/M8-8001100

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Recently for stupid reasons I got hold of a box of 10 of these game sticks so I thought I'd keep one and sell the rest. But in testing I found that it's a particularly weird clone with an SD card that can't be normally read in a PC, and the cards are extremely poor quality & most have bad sectors

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Bogdan, who is sadly not on Mastodon, built a web server from a disposed vape.

On the one hand, what has the world come to, treating 32-bit processors faster than our youth's computers as disposable...

OTOH, the sheer amount of cool we can do by just repurposing the trash shat out by rampant consumerism!

bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/p

#Permacomputing FTW

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New blog post! The Sega Master System... Girl? Another variant of Sega's 8-bit console that I haven't looked at before; I hope you enjoy! nicole.express/2025/sega-mistr

I don't think I posted about it on this account before but I'd been thinking if I had a furry OC other than my lionsona it'd probably be a skater twink rabbit and I'm now thinking about this again :bunhdthink:โ€‹

I've set it up & also it came with stickers so there are stickers on it now

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I've obtained the small computer. It's cute. And it's gay

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๐ŸŽจ By @zangerdanger (on Bsky/Twitter)

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I would love for there to be as much energy that people put behind decrying homophobia by pointing out Alan Turing's contributions to computing, into decrying the UK's current transphobia by pointing out Sophie Wilson and her contributions to current, modern portable computing.

re: politics, famous arsehole mention 

(For the record I also consider Starmer's government to be conservative right & they do sometimes invoke this lie e.g. over Linehan recently but they're so fucking inept they can't even stick the landing & they're still letting the further-right score on them over it)

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