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1. Daniel Stenberg (bagder@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Dec-2023 11:25:37 UTC Daniel Stenberg

   On this day, 22 years ago, the #Rockbox project started, co-founded by me. We wrote an open source firmware for mp3 players. On its 10 year anniversary 2011, I wrote this:

   https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2011/12/07/ten-years-of-rockbox/

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   • Harsh Shandilya (msfjarvis@androiddev.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Dec-2023 11:25:43 UTC Harsh Shandilya

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     @bagder wow I had no idea you were a part of Rockbox! I used to look at it with mild envy, saddened that nothing I could get my hands on was capable of running it :D

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   • Daniel Stenberg (bagder@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Dec-2023 11:25:45 UTC Daniel Stenberg

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     • Harsh Shandilya

     @msfjarvis I had an unhealthy amount of various mp3 players in my possession back then with the sole purpose to verify and test Rockbox on... 🤠

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   • petur 🔵😶 (peturdainn@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Dec-2023 11:25:49 UTC petur 🔵😶

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     @bagder fond memories...

     as I wrote before, this triggered so many things: I switched to linux, I discovered open source, and I changed my professional career back to embedded

     and last but not least, the friendships!

     thanks for starting it and nurturing the welcoming community! Will never forget!

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   • episodeiv (episodeiv@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Dec-2023 11:25:54 UTC episodeiv

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     @bagder And I‘m still using it to this day, every day! #rockbox

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   • Daniel Stenberg (bagder@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Dec-2023 11:25:56 UTC Daniel Stenberg

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     @amazing_snacks @sushee the original author of the Archos firmware used to say he created Rockbox by making the original firmware so bad it triggered us to make an alternative =)

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   • Snacks (amazing_snacks@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Dec-2023 11:25:58 UTC Snacks

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     • Su-Shee

     @sushee @bagder me too! It was terrible

   • Su-Shee (sushee@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 07-Dec-2023 11:26:01 UTC Su-Shee

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     @bagder OMG I actually had one of those (the Archos on the left :))

   • Daniel Stenberg (bagder@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Dec-2023 11:26:04 UTC Daniel Stenberg

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     when we had get-togethers of #rockbox hackers, we did these (silly) towers of devices that could run Rockbox. Look at this beautiful example featuring 78 mp3 players.

     More photos here: https://www.rockbox.org/wiki/TowerOfRockbox.html

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   • Daniel Stenberg (bagder@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Dec-2023 11:26:13 UTC Daniel Stenberg

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     • erroneous_music

     @err_mus also, the backstory of how the reverse engineering of the first ipod that then eventually ran Rockbox is super awesome. A work of art and patience of steel.

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   • erroneous_music (err_mus@piaille.fr)'s status on Thursday, 07-Dec-2023 11:26:18 UTC erroneous_music

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     @bagder definitely wasn’t, but it was quite the jailbr(..)er then in term of « not just reading iTunes imported mp3 and tiny video »

   • Daniel Stenberg (bagder@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Dec-2023 11:26:19 UTC Daniel Stenberg

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     • erroneous_music

     @err_mus ipod was never the best platform for Rockbox

   • erroneous_music (err_mus@piaille.fr)'s status on Thursday, 07-Dec-2023 11:26:20 UTC erroneous_music

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     @bagder oh you started those too ? I flashed my first iPod in 2004 or 2005 ! It was quite the battery drainer though :shibaohshit:

   • Brett Edmond Carlock (brett_e_carlock@mastodon.online)'s status on Friday, 08-Dec-2023 08:23:12 UTC Brett Edmond Carlock

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     @bagder
     My gateway to open source, and to making my MPIO HD300 even more incredible.

     Thanks for one of the coolest firmwares ever!

     #Rockbox

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   • Corbin Davenport (corbin@toot.community)'s status on Friday, 08-Dec-2023 08:23:16 UTC Corbin Davenport

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     @bagder Rockbox was great on my first-gen iPod Nano, didn't have to open iTunes as often and it added video playback :)

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