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Dracomies t1_j1ozixj wrote

The issue is...what other multitool would you recommend? Because honestly Wave+ is pretty sturdy and I don't think there's much that are even more sturdy than that. Also you can turn it in and they'll repair it or send you a new one iirc. But as mentioned, I don't think there's anything else that would be more sturdy that that, at least as a multitool. You're probably harder on it than like most people who use the tool.

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sponge_welder t1_j1ougha wrote

It's really wild to me that there isn't a big open source project for portable media players. There's Rockbox, but it doesn't seem to be ported to many modern players.

In the radio control hobby there are like 4 major manufacturers of transmitters and they all run the same open source firmware, which gives the community control over the hardware and for the most part makes things run very well.

It would be awesome to see something like that revolutionize the portable audio scene. Someone start a software project and release a good, STM32-based reference design so that the hardware will be reliable and people can implement good features in software that can run on lots of different devices

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