Modernizing An Apple IPod, Or: A Modern-Day Ship Of Theseus
hackaday.com
Back in the day the Apple iPod was the personal music player (PMP) to get even if mostly because everyone and their dogs had one. These days most people just use their smartphone as a PMP, but what…
  • cRazi_man@lemm.ee
    13·
    2 months ago

    Ship of Theseus?

    I’d argue the soul of the iPod is in the motherboard and click wheel, and these are still retained. It is indeed the same iPod.

  • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
    7·
    2 months ago

    I have an iPod that’s a version of this. It’s a 5th generation one as well, and has two 512gb SD cards in place of its old 30gb disk. It also boots into Rockbox, a custom firmware, mostly so that I can just copy music to it without using iTunes (or some Perl scripts) to build the special database its factory firmware uses.