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  • rvtr
    I met someone at the coffee place who has the same hyperfixation on DS stuff as me. It's the only thing I can focus on/care about and I'm overly exited about every little DS related thing (and never for anything else). I think I annoy a lot of people because it's all I like. Finally though I have someone in real life that is just like me. We've met up a couple times and spent hours fixing things.
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    rvtr
    rvtr
    I don't think I really explained this well, but tl;dr is that we've got the same "addiction" to electronics, we struggle the same ways in school because of that, we have the same attitudes, and we know the same things. He's like a long lost clone (or I'm the clone idk).
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    SylverReZ
    Its great that you have met a friend who have the same interests as you. All I can think about the most right now is DS stuff, I like to fidget and screw around with consoles to see how they work. But my most hyper fixated thought right now is DS flashcarts.
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    SylverReZ
    SylverReZ
    I've helped a friend of mine out with trying to get N-Card clones (i.e., DS Linker) to be mountable on GodMode9i, so I can screw around with the contents, which is now finally possible. I've also reverse engineered one of the updaters that were originally supplied on the manufacturers website (thankfully archived on Linfox Domain), regarding a simple CRC checksum check.
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    Still messing around with photo editing on my new old iPhone. Definitely not great end photo, but I still like how much editing helped it suck less. The colors bleed a bunch in the end but there's no haze and the fainter parts of the screen pop out a bit more.
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    rvtr
    I think if I took a better photo at the start (maybe by not holding the phone against a small microscope in the air) I might've been able to get something much better.

    Though hey, it still probably makes for a decent enough pfp and I've been wanting a new one for a while.
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    Rolfie
    Rolfie
    the edit is better as a PFP but i like the haziness in images.
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    xp showed me an interesting thing a while back. The programmers of the DSi dev app DS Game Card to SD thought that the secure area couldn't be read! Nintendo developers working on the TwlIPL repo. You'd think they of all people would be able to figure it out. Here's a comment from the source code: (CardToSD/src/NitroGameCardToSD.c)
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    rvtr
    I've started understanding tiny bits of javascript from editing a web music player. I wanted to use it to have a little music host on my site but thought the player needed a couple small edits. I didn't know anything before but now I know a few new and useful things. Also here's my edit vs the original.
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    rvtr
    I didn't change that much but I still feel kinda proud that I figured it out. It used to stop playing after each song so I made it continue, I made more album covers fit in the side bar, and I made track marks where you can click them and it'll skip to the song you want.

    Also here's the original https://github.com/codewithsadee/music-player
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    SylverReZ
    SylverReZ
    Lillian could make a ripoff Spotify with that. :rofl2:
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    Rolfie
    Rolfie
    make sure that if you ever add music that artists submit, they are paid zero dollars to be a true Spotify clone !
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    rvtr
    "You can't replace X component, it's soldered onto the board"
    Uhhhh rework stations exist? My HP Stream has a failing 32gb eMMC. It's unusable so I want to replace it. I looked up if anyone has made a guide but noo, it's soldered and "impossible"

    Gallery of frustration:
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    Sono
    Sono
    I'd also suggest backing up your data NOW if it's Qualcomm-based, as you'll probably have to format the user partition due to the cryptography shit.

    Edit: oh it's Celery, you'll be fine.
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    Sono
    Sono
    Although you'll need to back up some BIOS-related blobs from the previous eMMC before it dies. You probably need to use some external hardware to dump it, as to my knowledge the BIOS locks access to the "protected" parts if you try to read it from the OS.
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    KleinesSinchen
    KleinesSinchen
    D*mn! Somewhere we took the wrong turn.
    Back then: Remove failed 2.5" HDD(SSD), insert new 2.5"HDD(SSD) done. Same for newer things like M.2
    Now: This is soldered to the motherboard. This may be married to something else.

    Go to hell.
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    rvtr
    I'm sorry everyone... I- I've played honkai star rail and... uhm... I enjoyed it. Please forgive me, I just need help. I was in a bad place. It doesn't excuse what I did but know that I want to grow and change. Please... don't leave me.
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    rvtr
    rvtr
    Do add me though if you've played.
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    Rolfie
    Rolfie
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    too late
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    Another free apple. I've gotten 3 bushels of apples from random trees around the city. Pretty amazing how much is out there!
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    SylverReZ
    SylverReZ
    What I mean is that if you have multiple apples, so more than one apple, then you have big hands to carry a lot.
    rvtr
    rvtr
    It's the "how do you have very large hands to..." bit. It makes sense to say I must have big hands, but asking how I have big hands doesn't make sense to me.
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    SylverReZ
    SylverReZ
    Understandable. I just see it from a completely different point of view.
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    I recently got an iphone 8. I wanted to play music and internet radio on it but everything in the app store keeps shoving ads in my face and has a clunky interface. Really frustrating! But hey, I can't complain since going directly to the stream URLs will always ad free and clean to use. I've got play and pause in the browser and FF/RW in iOS. All I really need.
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    rvtr
    rvtr
    Also wow why does apple have to have everything feel so restrictive. I could jailbreak but I set a passcode so I'd have to reset in order to do that. I'll be lazy and deal with silly apple for now I guess.
    rvtr
    I got a credit card machine! I wonder how much I can cut up a DS lite.
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    AncientBoi
    AncientBoi
    Watch it Charge you for cutting up the DSl :rofl2:
    rvtr
    rvtr
    It's bricked so no worries about charges. Also look at this cool tamper protection. There are only a few traces here, believe it or not.
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    rvtr
    rvtr
    I don't think the DS lite will fit. :(
    I'll try some other game console later or make it a remote.
    rvtr
    I'm fixing an xbox in return for a 1tb hard drive. The poor xbox had a leaky clock capacitor and the power lines got eaten through. Or something like that. I haven't so much as touched an xbox in 7+ years, but my friend who owns it doesn't know how to do smd soldering and thinks I could do it lol. We'll see...
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    DinohScene
    DinohScene
    Skill issue ;p
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    rvtr
    rvtr
    The xbox has been on for a couple hours now with no issues. I think all is good? Ignoring the horrible layout of the wires, I think my actual soldering was a bit better than my average. Though I did finally get lead solder again and that seems to make every job go better.
    DinohScene
    DinohScene
    Leaded solder is love
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    Finding a 1 hour version of a song and finding out they looped the same 2 minutes (including the start/end pauses) over and over. AAAAAAAAAA now I have to pull out some audio editor again and see if I can make a nice loop.
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    rvtr
    I made the nice loop. The first 3 cuts are at 1:48, 3:28, and 5:08. I think it's good enough to not be tooooo noticeable... unless you're me lol
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    IC_
    IC_
    I see you're joining our culture...
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    rvtr
    I love this unending stale feeling. I might've complained about it a while back. If I did, everything still feels stale the majority of the time. Very weird and unfun.
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    SylverReZ
    SylverReZ
    @x65943 You're a doctor right? Maybe you could treat her depression?
    rvtr
    rvtr
    I suppose I can mention it to my doctor next visit. Note that I said my doctor and not x65943... he's an american so I don't really want to add on to the $250 bill he sent for his doctorly advice of seeing a doctor :P
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    SylverReZ
    SylverReZ
    Understandable. Look after yourself and stay safe, you're a great friend and I care about you a lot.
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    My earbuds wore out at the port again. I realized that the audio cable I used at the end moved around a lot, so I'm trying the other half but with sewing needles stuck through it to keep it from bending too much.

    Fixing the same pair of earbuds over and over is inspiring me to try new things (some very stupid) to prevent breaking in the same exact spot. It's fun to see how much I can improve it to not break.
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    rvtr
    rvtr
    Huh, why didn't I think of that? Could be fun to try for when my earbuds inevitably break again lol
    The Real Jdbye
    The Real Jdbye
    Earbuds have the worst cables, seriously.
    You should get some with a removable/replaceable cable. Replacement cables can be as cheap as $2-$3.
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    rvtr
    That'd be silly though, why would I pass up the opportunity to fix mine all the time?
    rvtr
    Jekyll my beloved <3
    Learned about data files and now instead of putting in the links by hand, jekyll auto generates all the info from a CSV.
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    I've got ever single program listed here, so I just have to give it the name and it'll make links, get all the info, create warnings if the program is unsafe, etc
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    As you can see the CSV has plenty of info. I'm really glad I found out about that. My website isn't well made and hasn't been since I first made it, but I keep finding little things like this that really improve it and make it not painful to edit.

    And best of all my horrible n00b jekyll logic disappears when the site is built.
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    Oh yeah also going to make it generate my "photos" of each app in the home menu. So much I can do, I love it!
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    I'm jekyllmaxing so hard rn. Now I just write the text for a page and it builds everything else. I can be lazy again and not worry about updating things on every page when I decide I don't like something.
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