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Sprout replaces the whole logic board and runs new software, written from scratch to behave like the original.

Sad that it’s not Rockbox: https://www.rockbox.org/

they protected patents and intellectual property like crazy and now they gave up.

I don’t think this is true, lawsuits just take a long time.

That cometlink website somehow feels too well-done for 1996

Adobe: not even once

Hardware Haven had a go at it and made an interesting video covering this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBOoDffWF0Y

Parasites are bad, but what’s even worse is the mercury found in fish, in higher quantities the higher up in the food chain is it (as is the case with tuna)

Maximum jank

I’m not sure that would change their decision

I’m not deeply familiar with it to say for sure.

You might’ve done it already but it might be worth looking here as well https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

Maybe check out GNU Taler: https://www.taler.net/en/index.html