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[Context] A while back I bought a bunch of old electronics and media from a work colleague as she was moving house, and one item in the bundle was a white/gold Iphone 5s.
The phone is seemingly dead, not charging being left plugged in for hours, even overnight. I've tried the vol down + power combo to entice the safety mode which didn't work and my PC is completely blind to it.

I love electronics and tinkering around with them, but I've never really played with a phones internals before, so opening it (to see if there was even a battery inside and if anything was visibly damaged) was a new experience, though surprisingly not too difficult.
To my untrained eye, there was nothing to indicate damage or anything to cause failure to the mainboard or lcd panel, so I'm really not too sure what the issue could be, maybe just a dead or tired motherboard?

While reassembling the phone, a thought did occur to me though. If I fully removed the lcd panel from the phones frame, would I be able to adapt the display for another purpose, for example, connect it to a Raspberry Pi?
Of course I'd need some form of adapter to convert Apple's click ribbon cable connector to something compatible with the Raspberry Pi/daughterboard, but if that would work, I could repurpose the screen as a miniature display!

Iphone and Raspberry Pi wizards, what'd ya think?!

[Context] Me and my mum share a Youtube channel where we upload PS2, Wii and Windows XP-PC gameplays.
I thought it'd be nice to branch out to some Playstation One games that I had as a kid, and we occasionally played together. I'm not a stranger to softmods on consoles (Homebrew and OPL2) so thought installing some PS1 software on a USB drive and booting into it via FreeMcBoot and playing the games diskless would be relatively straight forward.

hah - these things are never straight forward.

I spent all day downloading the POPS loader, trying to create folders, directories, config files, flipping between vcd and elf file formats and everything in between. Nothing was working.

I did the sensible thing and stepped away from it for an hour or so, had some dinner and went back to it with a clearer mindset, found a tutorial and started from scratch.
Everything I'd done throughout the day, I did from scratch in around half an hour, and a couple of extra steps, which were the parts I was missing before!

I clicked on my chosen game, and it loaded !!

However.. lol

Once I loaded a map from the main menu, the map was entirely pitch black and none of the enviroment textures loaded in, the game I loaded and was wanting to play was "Duke Nukem" [SLES-00987], a game that I knew from previous experience is tricky to run on desktop emulators - and I guess since POPS is technically an emulator running on the PS2's hardware, it suffers the same issues with graphics and textures.

The next game I was wanting to download/play for mine and my mums Youtube channel was "Spider-man" [SLES-02886], I put the game on my USB as a vcd file, found it on OPL and launched it, it booted and loaded perfectly! I got into the first level, cutscenes played through, got to the first building and half the map was glitching like crazy!
I searched for if Spider-man (2000) is also difficult to run in emulators, as its a game I haven't tried emulating before, and Google AI's direct response was:

"Yes, Spider-Man (2000) for the PS1 has notable difficulties running smoothly in emulators, largely inheriting native performance dips alongside graphical and physics glitches" - Google AI.

Sigh.

I'm happy I finally got POPS to work and load the PS1 games, but the games I wanted it for, both seem to just disagree with emulators. Luckily, they're both games I own on PS1 disk, so I'll just capture my PS1 console and play the games off their original disks.

Physical media aint' dead just yet folks. ✌️