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and somehow, the drive actually gasped back to life while i had it open (iPod trepanation?), long enough for me to back up all 1536 songs in it onto the new card!

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serendipitously, i bought the wrong adapter for something i needed years and years ago, and it so happened to be the one necessary to install CF cards in this model of iPod

and, from another project, i had a 64gb CF card that didn't work as a hard drive replacement for a Q1 Ultra

so, by sheer luck, the same day the hard drive in my iPod died, i had all the parts to replace it

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found these (and a random screw) stuck to the tape on one of the flex cables... for the life of me they don't seem to have come from my iPod at all

it had been opened by a previous owner to replace the battery

this bodes well

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it was still playing music but wouldn't go into disk mode, now it's completely gone 😢

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i already host lesbiaboard i just wish i could make it more appealing so more people would use it

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once again yearning for web 1.0 and too unmedicated to do anything about it

the state of both app and web development at the minute is that more than once now i have had an app tell me that i should be using the app instead

i think hormones should be OTC. i think necessary medication should be free. i think HRT is necessary medication

I don't give a fuck about the logistics, we should be able to buy estrogen and antiandrogens over-the-counter.

8 years ago I made this NES game called Lizard. I never know how to describe it... a quiet game of exploration, with a little bit of difficulty, a little bit of mystery. It was a kind of game I wanted to see more of, and I still look at it fondly.

rainwarrior.ca/lizard/

i've updated my weather widget with a customization panel where you can set your precise location and units chumby.com/guide/C78EE13C-CE96

RE: computerfairi.es/@iconolog/116

Now there's an LLM/AI bubble icon if I ever saw one! A trash can, a document behind it, and an arrow leading from the trash can to the document body.

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