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[–] djdarren@piefed.social 1 points 2 hours ago

You can still use an iPod. Pick up a 5th or 6th gen, replace the HDD with an SD card adapter and you can rock out with 500Gb of portable tunes.

And what's mad is that I can plug mine into my M2 MacBook Air and sync it. Apple, who have enormous Hardon's for obsoleting anything doesn't make them any money, have, for some reason, continued to maintain the ability to sync almost any iPod in macOS. The one caveat is that OS 26 no longer supports the FireWire needed to run the first couple of classics.

Oh, and if you want to do it via Linux, you'll either need to run macOS or Windows in a VM, or flash the iPod with Rockbox.

But it all still works.