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chat-to.devHacking old consoles or devices for reuseThere’s something undeniably poetic about giving old consoles and devices a second life. It’s more than a hobby—it’s an act of rebellion against obsolescence, a way of rewriting the stories written in silicon and solder. The plastic shell of a dusty PlayStation 2, the rigid edges of an early iPod, the muted glow of a Game Boy Advance screen—they all carry memories, not just of what they did, but of the time they belonged to. Hacking these machines isn’t always about playing pirated games or bending rules for the sake of it. It often begins with nostalgia, but evolves into a blend of engineering curiosity, preservation instinct, and creative experimentation. For some, it’s about unlocking their potential, about refusing to accept that just because technology has moved on, these devices are no longer worth our attention. After all, under those dated interfaces and limited specs lies solid hardware, some of it astonishingly well-built by today’s standards of disposable tech. There’s also something deeply satisfying in breaking past the intended limitations of a machine. Take an old Nintendo Wii, for example. A device that once sat in the living room strictly for family bowling nights can become a fully-fledged media center, a retro gaming powerhouse, even a lightweight Linux computer. The process involves research, patience, and a fair amount of trial and error. You don’t get clean manuals or clear instructions from the original manufacturers—no, the knowledge comes from forums, from late-night Reddit rabbit holes, from the collective wisdom of people who refuse to let these machines die. There’s a subtle defiance in that. A kind of anti-consumerist stance, even if it’s not always overtly political. In a world where companies thrive on planned obsolescence, encouraging users to ditch and replace rather than repair or repurpose, hacking old devices feels like planting a flag in the ground. It says: I own this machine. I decide what it can do. Of course, this isn’t just about nostalgia or ideology. It’s about craftsmanship. Reprogramming a handheld console or modifying a CRT monitor isn’t something that comes from a single YouTube tutorial. It’s a process that involves understanding the hardware intimately, learning how it communicates, how it breathes. People build custom firmware, create bespoke adapters, even write their own emulators—not for fame or profit, but because it’s the kind of work that scratches a very specific itch in the brain, the kind only felt when form and function click together in a way the original designers never anticipated. There’s also a community behind all of this, and it’s one of the more wholesome and quietly passionate corners of the internet. Enthusiasts swapping schematics, sharing code, cheering each other on when a mod works or offering support when it doesn’t. In these spaces, there’s no shame in not knowing. Curiosity is the currency. Creativity is the fuel. It’s a strange kind of resurrection, really. A PSP running Doom at full speed in 2025 feels like something out of time, like a parallel universe where tech aged gracefully instead of being discarded. And yet, there it is, in someone’s hand, running smoothly, proudly defying the landfill. At its heart, hacking old consoles and devices is about more than utility. It’s about stories—stories of machines, of people, of moments we didn’t want to let go. In breathing new life into the outdated, we stitch together a narrative where nothing is truly obsolete, only waiting to be rediscovered.
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Just found out that it is no longer possible to straightforwardly write HTTP/1 requests by hand on the #terminal.

Modern #Apache will reject #HTTP 1.x requests where the line endings are not CRLF, and as far as I know it's not possible on #Linux to type a CR using the keyboard. Ctrl+M should do it in theory, but when I try, it produces LF instead of CR for some reason.

Is there by any chance a way to make the Linux #console (or #KDE #Konsole) produce CRLF when I push the Enter key?

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