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Cake day: May 14th, 2026

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  • Right? I still have my OG Xbox 360, Wii U etc, with physical discs.

    For a while, I went the other way; I bought a Lenovo M93p (think: size of Wii) - it runs everything up to PS2 era at 2x resolution, as well as PC games to around 2015/6 era (and later indies). Total cost was under $100. I turned it into a kiosk with Playnite, so you could turn it on and be playing whatever in under 10 seconds.

    Right now I have the OG Wii (modded) sitting in its place…something about the joys of original hardware speaks to me. But I could (should) swap the lenovo back in. That way I have Just Cause 2 sitting right next to Mario Kart Double Dash, right next to Luanti and modded Fallout 3.

    Part of me thinks “eh, emulation” but the other part is “dude…not everything is Nintendo”.






  • Hmm. Not sure I agree with “just mark the parts that are AI generated” because that obfuscates the parts that were human made, skewing perception towards “it’s all AI gen”.

    Require the full accounting - human, clanker, level.

    • Design - Human
    • Implementation - Pair
    • Testing - Assist
    • Documentation - Human
    • Review - Human
    • Deployment - Human

    Reads differently to

    • Implementation - Pair
    • Testing - Assist

    4/6 human vs ?? / Human is a different trust signal (which is what this is actually about, right?)

    PS: I’m a fan of acronyms, so how about “show us the STACK or show us the DIRTY”

    • Spec (Design)
    • Testing
    • Assembly (Implementation)
    • Checks (Review)
    • Knowledge (Documentation)

    Or

    • Design
    • Implementation
    • Review
    • Testing
    • Yeet (deployment)










  • Ive seen LTO for sale in person at the $300 USD mark…but I admit that’s a rare occurrence / fire sale. So that “as little as” is probably not fair. Sorry and retracted.

    EBay shows some in the $1200-1500 USD range (and maybe closer to $3-4K brand new).

    That now makes me feel stupid for walking past one at $300 (“tape drive? Who the fuck needs that ancient shit”) but I’m willing to bet that wasn’t a lto-8, in hindsight.

    Even my LTO-3 claim is not as remembered; I can find a lto-3 for $60 USD here locally (not the $5 I jokingly claimed), with cartridges in the $15 USD range.

    https://ebay.io/m/1UST3Y

    https://ebay.io/m/Gcf77T

    Not bad, but not 12TB per cartridge.

    All of this to say; the DVD shuffler + pi intermediary (+ NVIDIA shield if needed) is probably the genuinely better version of this. Bizarrely.


  • Huh. Thought it was stock standard AOSP - perhaps the Aussie version is different? There are a few rebranded versions of the same hardware; you might be able to find something non proprietary. I think the underlying model is UNIWA if you want to go spelunk direct listings

    https://opelmobile.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/OM-TouchFlip-A4.pdf

    Where did you find the info that the TTFone uses a fork - XDA? Possibly it can take CFW?

    In any case, if it’s no go, it’s no go.

    PS: The other target might be a the Cat 22 flip but that thing has a face only a mother could love. I have seen clean CFW of the Duoquin models too - multiple threads on XDA - but that’s candybar not flip

    PPS: let me spelunk the 8020 for a minute. I have to imagine it’s an off the shelf re-badge. EDIT: Hmm…looks like it’s bespoke enough to NOT be a simple Shenzhen rebadge job.