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Welcome to another (long) blog entry about old electronics!
This time from the early days of digital photography. Last entry in this direction was about a CD based Mavica. Since then I took a lot of pictures with the CD camera and I’m surprised how good they actually are. Having only a limited...
![Experience with root (Magisk) and GSI (LineageOS) on Ulefone Armor X5 Pro [≈3MB pictures]](/data/attachments/416/416083-70a7ce6220f404af335dda02cc189fd4.jpg)
Part 0 - Preface
Warning: This is BY NO MEANS to be treated as a ready-to-use tutorial and therefore posted as blog entry (nevertheless all steps are listed at the bottom in short form). It is an experience report to the best of my knowledge. The description might contain fatal errors...
![Sinchen vs. Android – Episode ? [Pictures ≈1MB]](/data/attachments/412/412250-ed189e72902946292c7b504b4326e434.jpg)
Sinchen vs. Android – Episode ?
(Preparing a tablet for actual usage)
My relationship with Android
Some of you might know my relationship with Android is – to be polite – not the best.
Two reasons for this:
A) The closed nature of the devices (bootloader, root status) and the associated...
My Windows knowledge is rusty and more or less stuck in Windows XP time. At university I was – against my will – responsible for the Windows part in administration and hat to deal with setup of Windows 7 a bit, but I never got warm with it. "I just need my computer to work." is what most people...
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This time I want to start an entry from here [Meme Box thread] with this image:
After having already mentioned the problems with my new 2023 printer in that thread I want to share a big moment of anger. The printer is just a few months old and already made more trouble than the laser printer...
Sinchen has to do housework. While it is still too warm for end of October, there is much moisture combined with temperatures going down. Only in such situations I use electricity to dry clothes with a tumble dryer. Energy-hungry beast!
Could there be something more boring than somebody...
Yes, it is much text.
No, I don't care for modern "tl;dr" garbage.
Are oversized CD-R any good? Do they work at all?
You will find countless sources online telling you to avoid oversized CD-R at all costs.
But let's actually try one and see what happens.
As far as I know this is one of the...
Something awesome I didn't have back then is LaserDisc. Huge optical discs, usually two sided, containing analog video and – at least for the newer ones – digital audio.
Picture quality way better than VHS. But the players and the discs were very expensive back then so it didn't have a huge...
![Digital Camera with CD-RW drive – Sony Mavica MVC-CD200 [5.2MB pictures]](/data/attachments/392/392875-1e7921c2fac3cc70e01e4c5b00ab2c88.jpg)
Ping to @alexfree at this point. You might ask yourself why: While this is mostly about a camera, there is something on the bottom of this entry regarding PS1 (below all pictures).
People to ping as well for the main topic (since blogs go unnoticed otherwise)
@IC_ who seemingly shares my...
How I hate this. Everything has to be smart nowadays. With smart being a buzzword synonym for "stupid computer with closed source locked software you have no control over".
Looking for a new TV. Every TV is smart. There is none without that crap. Salesperson: "You don't have to use it." Yeah...
This short entry is a description of the last two hours.
Act 1 – Open a Wii
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Sinchen wants to open up a Wii and check the drive chipset version comparing it to wiidrives.com
So many d*mn screws!
It is a D2C → Okay. Reassemble.
Act 2 – Try the Wii
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I never fully...
The question how to (long-term) store our immense amounts of data is largely unsolved. Some text can be engraved into stone (or pure platinum). That should last! But it won’t store our audio or even video data. Even if limiting us to the most important (however defined) half percent of all...
Newly acquired these:
All four succeeded in dumping a legit Wii/GC disc. The model GDR-8162B is slightly faster than GDR-8163B but both types produced good ISOs with RawDump.
None of them even tried dumping Metroid Other M (dual layer) with RawDump 2.1 including an experimental function for...
Another blog entry only one day after this one?
Yesterday I posted about a nameless DVD±RW drive, thinking it was just some average old garbage writer. @Alexander1970 knew better and started searching for the thing. In fact it is an Optorite brand drive, model DD0203. I've sent Alex the model...
Completely unable to find any substantial difference in writing quality when comparing high speed and low speed burns, I'm still interested in finding devices, which allow burning CD-Rs at slow speed for a completely different reason. The "best" you can get in this regard on currently available...
Since the blog section is more or less dead and goes unnoticed, I'll tag a few people who already knew from PM I was messing with this (without now further telling in the public why I'm doing this)
Feel free to ignore, but just in case you want to see it: @Alexander1970, @Blauhasenpopo, @Sono...
Saturday I came home from the flea market with a portable DVD player I got for just 5 Euros! In the evening I showed it to @Nikokaro, who, instead of being happy with me, had nothing better to do than telling me, that I buy broken and useless stuff just because it is cheap… and I could as well...
"Hey Sinchen, I got new laptop. Old one is sloooooow." (new laptop is brand new machine, but older model, dirt cheap -- good deal)
"Please setup the new laptop and migrate our data."
1: *Turns on new laptop*
Outdated Windows 10 Professional starts. Microsoft account already set up. Why an MS...
Brought this vacuum tube radio (hopefully a fitting translation for "Röhrenradio") from my deceased grandma's house.
It has an awesome sound!
Now you know, why I get angry about plans to stop analogue VHF broadcasting. I even gave this radio to professional repair a few years ago.
My custom GBAtemp title contains "Fearless Testing Sina" That requires testing consoles. For the 3DS family this has been my O3DSXL. Two years ago the cables to the upper screen assembly started to show signs of wear: Opening the console normally would make the upper screen go full brightness...
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I still like how a freaking mp3 file hacks webos all that security defeated by text yet again -
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They have simulators for everything nowdays, cray cray. How about a sim that shows you playing the Switch. -
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K3Nv2:
https://www.verizon.com/home/intern...0a82b82a&vendorid=CJM&PID=552179&AID=11365093 can I cancel and keep the switch lol+1
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BigOnYa:
I want a 120hz 4k tv but crazy how more expensive the 120hz over the 60hz are. Or even more crazy is the price of 8k's.
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BigOnYa:
Not a big movie buff, more of a gamer tbh. And Series X is 120hz 8k ready, but yea only 120hz 4k games out right now, but thinking of in the future.
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BigOnYa:
I only watch tv when i goto bed, it puts me to sleep, and I have a nas drive filled w my fav shows so i can watch them in order, commercial free. I usually watch Married w Children, or South Park
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BigOnYa:
I stream from Nas to firestick, one on every tv, and use Kodi. I'm happy w it, plays everything. (I pirate/torrent shows/movies on pc, and put on nas)
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BigOnYa:
oh you mean the 3rd party apps on Kodi, yea i know what you mean, yea there are still a few cool ones, in fact watched the new planet of the apes movie other night w wifey thru one, was good pic surprisingly, not a cam
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BigOnYa:
I got my Dad a firestick for Xmas and showed him those 3rd party sites on Kodi, he loves it, all he watches anymore. He said he has got 3 letters from AT&T already about pirating, but he says f them, let them shut my internet off (He wants out of his AT&T contract anyways)
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BigOnYa:
I just use a VPN, even give him my login and password so can use it also, and he refuses, he's funny.
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BigOnYa:
I had to find and get him an old style flip phone even without text, cause thats what he wanted. No text, no internet, only phone calls. Old, old school.
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Psionic Roshambo:
@BigOnYa, Lol I bought a new USB card reader thing on AliExpress last month for I think like 87 cents. Free shipping from China... It arrived it works and honestly I don't understand how it was so cheap.+1
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Psionic Roshambo:
@BigOnYa, Lol I bought a new USB card reader thing on AliExpress last month for I think like 87...
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