Inspired by this that a friend shared, and the oven copypasta.

For context the yellow and blue stripes in the middle are my added data, the rest is normal operation (vertical striped areas are uninitialized)

More handwritten assembly shoving bit values into CPU-reachable area that shows up in the debug view (and invalidating the cache etc...) has let me check a few individual values I was concerned about. I think I've pretty much got it!

I had taken a guess at which pin was the uart output but was completely wrong... for some reason it's shared with a VGA green bit so I need to wait for the black screen at the end (or find/make a screen-clear shader) before it becomes useful. Once I do that though, I can get a second dump & compare.

Right now I wouldn't even pay $80 for it. Projects and Christmas have not left any wiggle room for casual domain purchases.

and here's how it looks at normal zoom.

And wouldn't it be cool if I didn't learn my lesson from that and went and did it again several more times, while an overactive imagination haunts me with the inevitable and turns my own mind against itself. Haha

Hey that media draped in red flags and definitely made for people who aren't me, yeah wouldn't it be cool if I consumed that and ended up simultaneously obsessed with it and scared to death of seeing it in the wrong context. Yeah let's do that nothing can possibly go wrong

Search results are, naturally, mostly people trying to mask their OWN weed smells, so none of those solutions are really applicable here. I also don't like the idea of filling my living space with aerosols.

Not totally destroyed but would need fine soldering to fix it. It would have been soldered to that row of pads at the top, with adhesive just for reinforcement. To fix it you'd have to resolder it very carefully.

There's plenty of space in that plug for a couple MAX232s or equivalent btw and those cost a few cents each. It would cost so little extra to make this into a properly designed functional product.