Friday, 27th June, 2025

Did the iPod mod. It was very easy, and now I have a 128GB ipod with a new big battery. It’s also lighter than the original due to the SD card vs. the hard drive. Sorting out restoring it on Windows was a little bit of a faff as now there are four apps that used to be iTunes: Apple Music, Apple TV, iTunes and Apple Devices. You need Apple Devices and to unplug/plug the iPod to get it to trigger downloading the iPod software. After that it was fine. Now to add music to iTunes and then sync it. Played some music on it. Very enjoyable. I like the Echo Mini for its robustness, if it gets dropped I don’t think anything will happen to it, whereas the iPod still feels little bit fragile. However, I much prefer the menu system of the iPod.

My USB DVDRW also arrived, so I can copy CDs onto the computer, or even make CDs. Was looking for the 30 pin iPod cable and came across my wife’s CDs and DVDs in a folder. She kept all hers, was just me that thought it was smart to get rid of them.

Considering a CD player and amp to listen to things. Although perhaps that’s unecessary, as I can just load them onto the ipod etc. and listen to it. Then not be tethered to a certain location. But would be nice to just play a CD without faff. Reddit suggests finding a used DVD player that also does SACD and has optical out for direct digital transfer. Not started looking but will think about it.

Making some progress on the new tiddlywiki. Still looking at the design/layout. Probably should just stick with the default but can’t help myself.

Sold the Xbox, which is nice. Was worried it would still be for sale when we’re on holiday. Wex photographic emailed to say the X100VI is in stock. So expensive though.

I already have a camera and laptop and desktop and and and everything!