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There was a time when I genuinely enjoyed trying out different operating systems just for the sake of playing around with them.
We have this long going thread Should I use Linux instead of Windows? by @Xdqwerty who only has a weak computer at hand making a simple "just fire up VirtualBox"...
Trying out an operating system on an empty computer. Nothing special, right? Think again, Sinchen! You won’t get away without a good portion of RTFM!
With my general plan to upgrade computer security I’m looking for systems harder to compromise than average desktop OS. One interesting approach...
![Floppy Disk Camera (Mavica) – MVC-FD91 [Pictures a little below 5MB]](/data/attachments/421/421281-39dce12452d327d5cd96d53b6de08593.jpg)
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...
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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...
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