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Jott-En @jotten.rheinneckar.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Star Wars Galactic Racer. A modern game, for once. Included with Luna Prime, if you happen to have Amazon Prime too. First impression: excellent. Worthy successor to Episode I Racer on N64? We'll see. jotten.neocities.org/posts/star-war… #gaming #starwars

Racers firing pink energy beams in a sandy arena in Star Wars Galactic Racer

Two racing ships facing off in a sandy arena in Star Wars Galactic Racer

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Jott-En @jotten.rheinneckar.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Started rereading the Dune universe a week ago, in chronological order. Halfway through entry 2 of 37. This could take a while. Hoping the Xteink X4 helps me kick the doomscrolling habit. jotten.neocities.org/posts/dune-rer… #books #personal

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Dune Reread

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Jott-En @jotten.rheinneckar.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

The FiiO Snowsky Disc keeps getting firmware updates. Slowly getting there. Took a long time before it became properly usable, though. There is even a custom OS now: diskOS by b0hemia. Flashing takes 15 minutes. Give it a spin. Ha ha […] [Original post on rheinneckar.social]

FiiO Snowsky Disc music player displaying album artwork

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padeluun ⁂ @padeluun.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Ausgerechnet am bundesweiten Warntag zeigt sich ein Problem der Warn-App NINA: Unter Android benötigt sie für Push-Warnungen die proprietären Google-Play-Dienste. Wer ein Android-System ohne Google betreibt, kann die App installieren, erhält aber keine aktiven Warnungen. Das BBK verweist auf […]

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Jott-En @jotten.rheinneckar.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Dusty Game Society August game: Metroid Fusion for GBA. What a blast. I probably bombed every wall in every room. Just to be sure. jotten.neocities.org/posts/dgs-augu… #gaming #retro #handhelds

Metroid Fusion cartridge for Game Boy Advance

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James Smith 💾 @floppy.org.uk · 31/08/2026

@1password I’m a family customer and cannot begin to express how disappointed I am with your sponsorship of Omarchy, an organisation led by DHH, a white nationalist who has outright called for the ethnic cleansing of Europe. I’m just one subscription, but if you continue this, I won’t be giving […]

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Jott-En @jotten.rheinneckar.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

Been dabbling with homebrew and single-game flash carts for Game Boy. One game per cart still feels right. This one is an MBC5 cartridge with rumble functionality. Very cool. New games like Pachipals support rumble. Old hardware, new tricks. Turns out […] [Original post on rheinneckar.social]

MBC5 Game Boy flash cartridge PCB with rumble motor and cartridge contacts

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Jott-En @jotten.rheinneckar.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

SN Operator arrived. First impression: excellent. Time to go through the collection and look for repros. Fingers crossed. And maybe it's time to actually play something. jotten.neocities.org/posts/sn-opera… #retro #hardware #consoles

Epilogue SN Operator cartridge reader in its packaging on a retro gaming playmat

Epilogue SN Operator cartridge reader in its transparent case

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Jott-En @jotten.rheinneckar.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

Dusty Game Society July game: Brave Fencer Musashi for PS1. Lots of interesting game mechanics. The protagonist is obnoxious. Would Link have been this annoying if he had a voice? jotten.neocities.org/posts/dgs-july… #gaming #retro #consoles

Brave Fencer Musashi Playstation game case with manual on a pixel-art Dusty Game Society playmat, next to a small Purple Tentacle figurine from Day of the Tentacle and Maniac Mansion

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Jott-En @jotten.rheinneckar.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

"Iconic since 1982". Well thank you for rubbing that in. @RetroGamer_offiziell @grumpygamer

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Jott-En @jotten.rheinneckar.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

Got some high-quality rewritable cartridges. One game per cart. No choice paralysis like with an EverDrive. Epilogue Operator finally gets to earn its keep. OG feeling. jotten.neocities.org/posts/rewritab… #gaming #retro #hardware

Two rewritable Game Boy cartridges and their cases on a retro gaming playmat

Two rewritable Game Boy cartridges in translucent cases with Midnight Race labels

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Jott-En @jotten.rheinneckar.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

Current Dusty Game Society game is on PS1. My skills were inadequate. Needed some “game enhancement options”. Enter the Xploder FX. The game did not load. Updated the cartridge ROM with UniROM. Game loads. Thanks to everyone giving old hardware new life […] [Original post on rheinneckar.social]

Xploder FX PlayStation cheat cartridge under purple light

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Jott-En @jotten.rheinneckar.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

New version of my favorite ROM hack for my favorite SNES game. Secret of Mana Plus. Still active after all this time. Nice to see. Release post. jotten.neocities.org/posts/secret-o… #gaming #retro #romhacks

Title screen of Secret of Mana Plus, a ROM hack of Secret of Mana for SNES

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Jott-En @jotten.rheinneckar.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

Moved on from Etar to #KashCal . Such a nice looking app. Also Private by default and open source.

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Jott-En @jotten.rheinneckar.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

Dusty Game Society June game: Metal Max for NES. Super Famicom version won. Remake, looks better, and avoided the very sensible purchase of a Famicom for one game. Post-apocalyptic tanks, bounty hunting, desert wasteland. DGS material […] [Original post on rheinneckar.social]

Super Famicom cartridge of Metal Max Returns on a pixel-art Dusty Game Society playmat, next to a small Purple Tentacle figurine from Day of the Tentacle and Maniac Mansion

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Jott-En @jotten.rheinneckar.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

@lunarhades.bsky.social It's good to know though that you already own so many great alternatives. Games and Devices to play them on.

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Jott-En @jotten.rheinneckar.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026

Put a Ninten-Drawer into my NES. Very simple mod. Much better than reseating cartridges fifty times and hoping for the best. No more blowing into the cart either. Finally. Region unlock included too. Tip top. jotten.neocities.org/posts/ninten-d… #retro #hardware #consoles

Yellow Ninten-Drawer cartridge tray insert next to an NES console

Ninten-Drawer installed in an NES console with the cartridge tray open

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Jott-En @jotten.rheinneckar.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/07/2026

@lunarhades.bsky.social never had any Sony sub, but GamePass almost since day 1. I guess there are more than enough games out there even without those subs.

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Jott-En @jotten.rheinneckar.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

Epilogue announced the 64 Operator two weeks ago. Right up my alley. Already waiting on the SN Operator shipping end of July. Now this. Epilogue really won't let me save money. jotten.neocities.org/posts/64-opera… #retro #hardware #consoles

64 Operator teaser video by Epilogue showing an N64 cartridge reader

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Jott-En @jotten.rheinneckar.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026

Got asked after the Gashapon post whether that thing actually works as a controller. It doesn't. Real Nintendo parts, zero function. Turns out there's an actual solution for this. The IINE Gamebrick Mini. Fully functional Bluetooth controller, Famicom […] [Original post on rheinneckar.social]

IINE Gamebrick Mini retro Bluetooth controller in retail packaging, styled after a Famicom controller in gold and dark red

IINE Gamebrick Mini controller next to a SNES-style round Bluetooth controller for size comparison

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Jott-En @jotten.rheinneckar.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/06/2026

Old OnePlus Nord. New job: /e/OS test bench. Pixel spoiled me. This will hurt a bit. /e/OS just hit version 4.0. Looks promising. Skipping the Murena Workspace fluff though, /e/OS itself is the point. jotten.neocities.org/posts/eos.html #privacy #android #diday

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Jott-En @jotten.rheinneckar.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/06/2026

Dusty Game Society May game: King of Dragon Pass. PC CD-ROM from 1999. Clan management, diplomacy, magic, and random events that punish every decision. Perfect. jotten.neocities.org/posts/dgs-may.… #gaming #retro #consoles

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Jott-En @jotten.rheinneckar.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/06/2026

Moving away from streaming only means physical media. Being a millennial, of course it's vinyl. Needed a new turntable. With remote. Obviously. jotten.neocities.org/posts/vinyl.ht… #music #personal

FiiO turntable with purple vinyl record and blue LED ring

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Jott-En @jotten.rheinneckar.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/06/2026

I hope you will appreciate the quality as much as I do! Make sure to do a firmware update first 🤞

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Jott-En @jotten.rheinneckar.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/06/2026

Hope you'll appreciate the quality as much as I do! Make sure to do a firmware update first 🤞

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Jott-En @jotten.rheinneckar.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/06/2026

Subscription expired today. Had it since it launched. Didn't renew. OneDrive is not happy about it. Feels fine. jotten.neocities.org/posts/microsof… #privacy #diday

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Microsoft 365

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Jott-En @jotten.rheinneckar.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026

Already wrote about the GB Operator. Great device. Now Epilogue is doing the SN Operator. Available for pre-order, ships end of July. Can't wait. jotten.neocities.org/posts/sn-opera… #retro #hardware #consoles

SN Operator SNES cartridge reader by Epilogue with a Super Famicom cartridge inserted

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Jott-En @jotten.rheinneckar.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2026

Been reading about eXoDOS for a while. Finally took the time to set it up. Pretty painless. Now lives on the NAS. Works fine under Linux too. You have died of dysentery. jotten.neocities.org/posts/exodos.h… #retro #emulation #linux

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eXoDOS

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Jott-En @jotten.rheinneckar.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/05/2026

Xteink X4 ebook reader. Tiny thing. Finally got around to loading epubs. CFW CrossPoint was dead easy to install and blows the stock OS out of the water. Small enough to stick to the back of a phone with MagSafe. Declaration of war on doomscrolling […] [Original post on rheinneckar.social]

Xteink X4 ebook reader with case showing CrossPoint CFW sleep screen

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Jott-En @jotten.rheinneckar.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/05/2026

Last fidget toy broke. Stress levels unacceptable. Replacement came from a Gashapon. Priorities intact. jotten.neocities.org/posts/snes-gas… #retro #personal

SNES controller Gashapon capsule toy, opened

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Jott-En @jotten.rheinneckar.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/05/2026

Since switching to Qobuz, offline music organization has become a thing again. Brutal time sink. Tags have to be perfect, of course. jotten.neocities.org/posts/music-ta… #music #personal

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Music Tagging

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Jott-En @jotten.rheinneckar.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2026

Ohne das Firmware Update des Receivers wollte meine SummerCart64 nicht starten bzw. hat einen fiesen Fehler angezeigt.

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Jott-En @jotten.rheinneckar.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2026

Installed the Game Boy Pocket Famitsu shell kit. Everything else kept original. Old enough to not need a power LED. jotten.neocities.org/posts/gbp-fami… #retro #handhelds #hardware

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GBP Famitsu Shell

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Jott-En @jotten.rheinneckar.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2026

Swapped the BlueRetro N64 receiver for an 8BitDo. Should work better with my 8BitDo N64 mod kit. Curious if the built-in memory pak is more reliable. Firmware update required first. jotten.neocities.org/posts/8bitdo-n… #retro #consoles #hardware

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8BitDo N64

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Jott-En @jotten.rheinneckar.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/05/2026

Dusty Game Society April games: Animal Forest for N64 and as an April Fools joke Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde for NES. Animal Forest was a disaster. Somehow ended up preferring Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. jotten.neocities.org/posts/dgs-apri… #gaming #retro #consoles

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DGS April

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Jott-En @jotten.rheinneckar.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/05/2026

Nextcloud update after a few months. CalDAV works great. Shared calendars, shared task lists, recurring events. Other providers seemed to struggle with this. On Android synced via DAVx5 to Etar and Tasks.org. jotten.neocities.org/posts/nextclou… #privacy #diday #android

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Jott-En @jotten.rheinneckar.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/05/2026

@minotaurs_at_work I use JS heavily and add a common header, footer and so on every page on build.

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Jott-En @jotten.rheinneckar.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/05/2026

Picked up Star Wars Episode I Racer for N64. Wrote about it in my May the 4th post. Pure nostalgia, but realized I didn't actually own it. Had to fix that. Not a big collector. But some things just need to be on the shelf. jotten.neocities.org/posts/sw-racer… #gaming #retro […]

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Jott-En @jotten.rheinneckar.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/05/2026

Ich glaub ein Teil des Problems ist auch, dass lokal gelöschte Bilder als Fehler in der Upload Queue angezeigt werden. Das verunsichert. #NextCloud

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Jott-En @jotten.rheinneckar.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/05/2026

Switched from OneDrive to Nextcloud a few months ago. Still don't fully trust the automatic photo upload. Probably unfounded. Running regular comparisons before pulling the plug on OneDrive for good. jotten.neocities.org/posts/nextclou… #privacy #diday

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OneDrive to Nextcloud | ~Jott-En

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Jott-En @jotten.rheinneckar.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/03/2026

@lilithelina.bsky.social Danke dir! Ja, das war wirklich etwas merkwürdig. Also Unteraufgaben brauche ich nicht, das ist ok. Aber man kann auch keine Serienaufgaben erstellen, da scheint was bei #mailbox_org nicht richtig implementiert zu sein. Ich hab jetzt die Aufgabenlisten in #NextCloud […]

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Jott-En @jotten.rheinneckar.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/02/2026

Weiter geht die Reise. Heute Umzug aller Aufgaben und Aufgabenlisten von ToDo nach #mailbox_org und dann über #davx5 nach #tasks_org aufs Handy. #digitalindependenceday #MadeInEU

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