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I got the iPod working! Very exciting news for all you blog readers out there, I’m sure.
Anyways, I bought another broken iPod Mini, hoping that the things broken about it were different than the one I was trying to fix. Turns out, the gamble paid off! The new iPod Mini had a screwed up case, and I had to literally hit it with a chisel to disassemble it, but the case was one of the things I was definitely keeping from the old ‘Pod (it’s pink, so you know I gotta keep it).
My iPods came! And they’re both broken… One of them I knew was broken, and I was hoping to fix it. Instead, I broke it more by slicing the cord from the click wheel. So now the hold button is stuck, and the click wheel is nonfunctional. Yay!
The other iPod was supposed to work, but I have found out that the battery is dead. So it works plugged in, but not unplugged.
So as you might assume from the other posts on this blog, I have an ever-growing dislike of social media, streaming, and the like. This is a short blog post about one new thing I hate:
Pinterest Ads I’ve known that Pinterest is adding more advertisements in each scroll, but so far, although annoying, it hasn’t been enough to make me want to leave the platform. That’s changed. I scrolled once and saw three ads stacked on top of each other.
Heating my house is expensive. My winter heating bill was twice what it is in the summer. And as an energy-concious human being, and someone who doesn’t like paying more money than I have to to a greedy, government-sanctioned monopoly, I’m trying to find ways to lower my heating cost. These are mainly based on Low Tech Magazine, a great website (which is solar powered, I might add). I also have their book Heating People, not Spaces which has been very good for this task as well.
Blog Updates Alright, so here’s what I did with the blog:
Changed right-side padding on blog posts for shorter line lengths and easier reading. Removed post-box outline Added resizing text to posts for ease-of-use Changed lightest color to lighter in order to increase contrast and match WCAG AAA requirements. iPod Purchases I did it, y’all! I bought an iPod on eBay – a second generation Nano. It’s got a smaller screen than the later nanos, which I’m hoping will abate any problems with the battery expanding, as other versions of the nano frequently get screen issues when the battery expand even a little bit.
For a while, I have disliked the way I consume media. I use spotify for music, I’ve used a mix of legally obtained digital files and streaming services for movies and TV, and physical books for, well, books. But I haven’t been too happy with the way any of these things worked together. Last year I bought a Kobo, and started reading both e-books and classic books, which I really enjoyed.