Another faithful friend bites the dust

[elfs]

My iPod died Thursday night. It's the same problem as the last one: the headphone jack just stopped working. I don't imagine I'm that rough on the poor dear, but it just failed on me Friday morning and now I can't hear anything. I've already ordered another one; they're only $25 plus shipping and handling, and that's a lot cheaper than replacing the whole unit. The hard drive seems to be in good shape, as does the screen and mobo. It's just annoying. I also ordered a replacement battery. I do not want to upgrade to one of the never ones; I understand there's no Linux compatibility at all with those.

In the meantime, I am tuneless. I could buy a 4GB card for my Palm and move the most frequently listened to tunes in there (that's the maximum the Palm supports); right now it's only a 512MB card with e-books on it. But the Palm's battery is a little dubious as well. I guess I'll survive without it for a week or so.

Comments

[anthologie.livejournal.com]

Do you have a ipod dock/player thing? I have one of these and love it: http://www.macworld.com/article/46722/2005/08/logitechmm50.html -- seems like it'd tide you over when the headphone jack is broken (which hopefully won't happen a third time!).

[lisakit.livejournal.com]

Loba might have a spare 2GB card you could borrow for awhile.

[whipartist.livejournal.com]

I have a 40GB 3G iPod sitting around doing absolutely nothing-- I bought it a while ago and then realized that I despise the things. I suspect it has less than 50 hours of use on it, certainly less than 100. If you'd like it, send me a mailing address and I'll get it to you. pattib at pattib dot oh or gee.

The price: you have to promise to do something nice for someone sometime.

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Oh, dear. As much as I'd like it, I'm already in the process of repairing the the thing. The challenge is in getting a "no user servicable parts inside" thing to be, er, serviced.