Trying to revive an iPod Gen 5, and so far it has been an exercise in frustration across 2 different os environments, and with the absolute state of the hardware market right now (why are SD cards so expensive)
The interesting part is that Apple isn’t strictly the problem this time. The only thing they did wrong was make it hard to open, so I broke the plastic clips. No, instead Rockbox has been the frustration. The automated GUI doesn’t like getting permissions on macOS and only distributes an appimage on linux…
Everything went super quick and smooth when I gave it a try on my Windows installation… My fault I guess