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Secret Santa 2025: Post/Discuss your gifts here!
- Thread starter CrashBash
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Wow Ginger went all out! My own mini Playstacean! Very tasteful Gamecube buttons will certainly make it into a build soon. He didnt forget about Alfie and got him 2 catnip balls that can attach to my desk. Thank you!!
I've been... busy... so I haven't been able to post. I have other stuff I should be doing but if I don't post now it'll never get done ;_;.
@DoctorDalek was my secret Santa and since we're mostly within driving distance (and it's not like I don't know who RNG picked) we met up and he treated me to lunch and I opened my gifts there!
(Kemomimi-chan not included)
The book on PS on Linux was a bit of a gag-gift. Much of a kind gesture it is, I'll stick to bash and similar shells there. The box on the left, however, is a Dell / Rio / empeg receiver! You may have seen it featured in a video from CRD who lightly covers what it is:
In short, it's a network music player with phono/RCA line out, amplified speaker outputs, and a 1/4" headphone jack. Sounds simple enough but this actually runs Linux! In a rather interesting way too. It has an extremely small amount of flash onboard and then announces its presence to the network in hope of receiving a message containing details for an NFS share it can connect to. It then mounts that share with the expectation of a Linux distro's root being there and chain loads the new kernel and firmware! Kind of neat and opens up lots of potential for alternative firmware.
I've tried to get it to boot off a share hosted on a Linux PC but haven't had much luck. Given this is over 20 years old a lot of documentation / software is dead and archive.org is your best fried here. I did get it working off the Windows software for testing though but even if I was running Windows machines still that is by far a non-ideal setup.
The amp is extremely noisy at low volume... I have to crank the volume a ton to not hear it. Not sure what that's about.
Thanks Dalek for lunch and the gifts! I've not had the best last couple weeks but having lunch together and having a day distraction from it all was nice and much needed. Hopefully I can figure out the noise issue and get things set up to where I can make good use of it. If I can ever find a damn house to buy this could be sweet to play music in a room.
@DoctorDalek was my secret Santa and since we're mostly within driving distance (and it's not like I don't know who RNG picked) we met up and he treated me to lunch and I opened my gifts there!
(Kemomimi-chan not included)
The book on PS on Linux was a bit of a gag-gift. Much of a kind gesture it is, I'll stick to bash and similar shells there. The box on the left, however, is a Dell / Rio / empeg receiver! You may have seen it featured in a video from CRD who lightly covers what it is:
In short, it's a network music player with phono/RCA line out, amplified speaker outputs, and a 1/4" headphone jack. Sounds simple enough but this actually runs Linux! In a rather interesting way too. It has an extremely small amount of flash onboard and then announces its presence to the network in hope of receiving a message containing details for an NFS share it can connect to. It then mounts that share with the expectation of a Linux distro's root being there and chain loads the new kernel and firmware! Kind of neat and opens up lots of potential for alternative firmware.
I've tried to get it to boot off a share hosted on a Linux PC but haven't had much luck. Given this is over 20 years old a lot of documentation / software is dead and archive.org is your best fried here. I did get it working off the Windows software for testing though but even if I was running Windows machines still that is by far a non-ideal setup.
The amp is extremely noisy at low volume... I have to crank the volume a ton to not hear it. Not sure what that's about.
Thanks Dalek for lunch and the gifts! I've not had the best last couple weeks but having lunch together and having a day distraction from it all was nice and much needed. Hopefully I can figure out the noise issue and get things set up to where I can make good use of it. If I can ever find a damn house to buy this could be sweet to play music in a room.
