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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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  • That makes sense. These days it sounds like a much better proposition to people, hell my wife and I recently built a batocera pi that she wanted for retro gaming, but I wanted as a TV box for kodi and jellyfin once I get it working. And that use case is the one that makes the steam box sound tempting.

    Funny enough, while I’d taken issue with that aspect of the xbone, I’d fairly quickly started using my 360 thst way.















  • So magnetic tape (tape cassettes, VHS/Betamax, 8 tracks, etc) is powdered iron (II) oxide and works by being magnetized to write data to it. So yeah. Quick search revealed it’s totally a thing and you can buy it, primarily in industrial quantities.

    As for a magnetic table, you don’t even need it powdered, hell you could probably just get two stainless steel sheets, four stainless steel strips, a matrix with holes in the proper positions, and a bunch of high powered small permanent magnets and make your own magnetic table without it being that difficult to make