maple "mavica" syrup [6502] @mavica_again@computerfairi.es

you can call me

• maple
• maple syrup
• maple "mavica" syrup
• mavica

none of those are capitalised, ever

i made an account ask me thing https://alterspring.org/@maple

social media is anything but and mastodon has not ever been and will not ever be better than twitter or any similar contrived microblogging platform for as long as it retains the favourite button

today i soldered a few 0201s by paw

(a microscope was involved, natch)

what the fuck. i force rebooted it plugged into USB. the battery is fully charged. Why did it give me an empty battery symbol and refuse to boot

and yet i will persevere against rockbox's many annoyances because i like having a portable Amiga mod (and other computer/vgm formats) player without having to convert them to mp3

and even when i didn't manually put it to sleep it still didn't kill its battery overnight

"you didn't read the manual" is all well and good to blame people on for not knowing that you're supposed to hold the play button to send the rockboxed ipod to sleep because wow yes we love manuals but it feels glib in the face of: i have never have had to read apple's original ipod manual. it just worked. "sleep" was right there on the main menu and not guesswork

case in point last night i unplugged the ipod in rockbox mode from my computer and switched the hold switch on. i was under the impression this was enough for it to time itself out into sleep, and yet today i woke up to a completely dead ipod which must've been spinning its wheels overnight. with the original firmware this ipod lasts a whole week's worth of commutes

given the amount of troubles rockbox has given me ever since installing it in my ipod4g, i can only assume everybody who's ever been excited about it didn't use their ipods for more than the first 5 minutes after doing it because of the cool factor before stuffing it back in a drawer

i miss making music for video games

is anyone making a cool video game that needs music

"https everywhere" was a mistake

being able to sort artists arbitrarily using metadata tags is like a big reason why i'm considering giving up all the other capabilities #rockbox has

it is 2026 and #rockbox still struggles with a problem apple fixed in 2004

https://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=24948.0

Not this again... :) firstly you are wrong...

hey open source pundits! this is why nobody likes you

jimbo fails is at it again

TLDR: In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire job was to listen to volunteers. Most of the people they fired were union organizers. Wikipedia’s editors are now threatening to strike in solidarity. The Foundation is sitting on $296 million in reserves and a freshly profitable AI revenue stream.

https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943