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I bought a first generation iPod touch to restore it to 1.1.4, jailbreak it with iLiberty+ and finally test the Installer 3 repo I made.

After dozens of tests, I figured that this iPod has a broken DFU mode.

It is currently on 3.1.3. I have a Windows XP laptop.

I can successfully restore it to 3.1.3 with iTunes 16. That works both in normal mode and in recovery mode. I cannot activate it on the XP laptop, but I can activate it with Finder on my iMac (macOS 14.6.1).

But when I put the iPod in DFU mode (black screen, laptop makes sound when plugged in), neither redsn0w nor iTunes can talk to it. I tried various iTunes versions from 7.5 to 8.2.

Redsn0w sees it as a first gen iPod touch in DFU mode, but it just says "USB communication error" when you try to do anything.

No version of iTunes shows anything while the iPod is in DFU mode. I can only get iTunes 16 to see it in normal or recovery mode.

When I give iTunes 16 the ipsw I want to restore with (I tried 1.1.4, 1.1.5 and 2.2.1), it just says "error 20" and leaves my iPod stuck in recovery mode. Apple says "error 20" is hardware related (cables, etc.). I tried another cable.

Older versions of iTunes do not want to see the iPod. 3.1.3 is too recent for them. Both in recovery mode and normal mode.

I will try to buy another iPod. I give up on this one. I found one on eBay with 1.1.5 already installed on it, although it has some screen issue.

I bought my first first generation iPod touch on eBay and it arrived today in our mailbox :)

The screen is cracked, but I don't mind.

I just finished watching the movie for the second time.

(I torrented and watched it yesterday.)

They definitely reused the butterfly and caterpillar from A Bug's Life.

Me and my dad just installed a thermostat to the controls we made yesterday.

I put a webpage on my server that tells my Arduino to turn on the heat in the large shed.

This is useful for my dad when he works in the large shed. He can turn on the heat while inside the house.

When siamese twins die or are killed, does it count as one or two deaths ?

Instead of making complexity easier to use, what about making things simpler ?

If it was up to me, autism wouldn't even be a condition.

But now it is entrenched, unremovable. All I can do is work with it.

Similar to how people have changed the meaning of terms that were used to insult them into something to bring them together, I want "autism" to become a positive thing.

Drop the "disorder" part. We can't be wired the same or be different only in "allowed" ways.

"Oh, this difference is normal, but this one is not. They should feel ashamed for being targeted by us. Those are people to be sorry for."

It's my birthday today.

We just undid and threw out the old Christmas tree.

I just got IPv6 working on my server today !

Turns out my firewall was blocking ICMPv6 and preventing my server from getting an address.

I just made all of my websites accessible via IPv6 !

I have a script that logs into my domain registrar and updates the IP addresses of all of my websites at once.