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idk i checked the oldest video on the channel and to me it sounds like an actual woman not like a tranny
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She's great, but some of her stuff is definitely above me. LOL
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IMO half of this scene is dudes putting on a persona anyway and doing the same tired shit where they read from wikipedia articles. Is generic tech bimbo any more soulless than RMC or current-day LGR?
At least this way I get to look at some tits.
Legitimate autistic woman who worked at Microsoft. I don't like her that much (mostly because I'm tired of SEL references on computer youtube) but she definitely does know her shit.
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They all talk about the same bunch of years, there's only so much you can talk about until you need to shake it up with gimmicks and such I guess. Quite a few of them are doing this for longer than any of these computers were relevant now. I need to remind myself sometimes that e.g. the Amiga was technologically relevant for only 3-4 years, at best. A lot happened in these few years contrary to now and it was so impactful at the time because there was never something like it before, but it wasn't really around for long if you kept up with the state of the art.
For some some of these people exotic systems turned into a lifestyle. I was always kinda lowkey hoping that the retro community branches out into "alternative computing" and computing minimalism because I feel there's a lot of overlap but instead, they seem to be perfectly content reinventing the same wheel over and over again and these groups of people don't really cross over much. I think a lot of people just buy "new retro" stuff for the sake of having something new to buy. I was surprised to see people pay $250+ for Vortex x86 systems, especially since the MediaGX (my favorite DOS retro platform, it's just a very efficient and compatible Pentium MMX really) exists and you can pick up old Thin Clients with that chip for 10€ (I did the other day) and you could even argue the original by Cyrix is historically more relevant because it's the great-granddaddy of all modern x86 SoCs.
You do see "00s retro builds" now and apparently, the pentium 3 and 4 are also "retro" now, but I don't think it'll ever hit the same because the tech of that time is too similar to now. Games from the mid-00s will usually run just fine on a modern computer and only struggle with different resolutions/aspect ratios at best even though these problems have all been more or less solved by now through software like gamescope. There's no exotic and weird software to explore; it's interesting to look at Wordstar on CP/M or lisp on a 68k Mac if you're not familiar with it, it's not really interesting to look at Office or Visual Studio 2003. The OSes of the time are also not exotic or conceptually different, they're just more of the same we have now but less capable of doing modern things. That time period will never take off the same way, no matter how old zoomers get, IMO.
For some some of these people exotic systems turned into a lifestyle. I was always kinda lowkey hoping that the retro community branches out into "alternative computing" and computing minimalism because I feel there's a lot of overlap but instead, they seem to be perfectly content reinventing the same wheel over and over again and these groups of people don't really cross over much. I think a lot of people just buy "new retro" stuff for the sake of having something new to buy. I was surprised to see people pay $250+ for Vortex x86 systems, especially since the MediaGX (my favorite DOS retro platform, it's just a very efficient and compatible Pentium MMX really) exists and you can pick up old Thin Clients with that chip for 10€ (I did the other day) and you could even argue the original by Cyrix is historically more relevant because it's the great-granddaddy of all modern x86 SoCs.
You do see "00s retro builds" now and apparently, the pentium 3 and 4 are also "retro" now, but I don't think it'll ever hit the same because the tech of that time is too similar to now. Games from the mid-00s will usually run just fine on a modern computer and only struggle with different resolutions/aspect ratios at best even though these problems have all been more or less solved by now through software like gamescope. There's no exotic and weird software to explore; it's interesting to look at Wordstar on CP/M or lisp on a 68k Mac if you're not familiar with it, it's not really interesting to look at Office or Visual Studio 2003. The OSes of the time are also not exotic or conceptually different, they're just more of the same we have now but less capable of doing modern things. That time period will never take off the same way, no matter how old zoomers get, IMO.
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If the ingredients are the same, you've gotta choose the one with the nicer packaging.
Which way, Western Man?
Smug middle-aged malding potato tech hoarder?
OR
Quirky cute retro zoomer you can daydream about snuggling?
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I fully agreee with this, although retro technically just means something from the past, from times gone by. Old stuff.
My personal definition of retro (with regards to technology) has always been that it had to be something that either wouldn't be able to perform typical current-day tasks, or would perform them in very different, outdated ways.
And so a DOS PC with an AT motherboard, IDE drives, no more than 16 MiB of RAM, without USB peripherals, and with a graphics card and an ISA sound card capable of properly running on DOS—something you could still buy new in 1997—would have been retro by 1998-1999 per my definition, just like a C64 would, but a PC from the 2000s could at best be considered retro today if it was a 32-bit machine with AGP and a CRT monitor, because a 64-bit machine with PCIe and an LCD monitor would be the same as today's tech, potentially capable of running a current-day OS, fitting a modern GPU, etc.
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At least I have a shot at getting a handy under the table from a potato person.
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The closest I can think of is Action Retro. I don’t watch his videos much but I consistently enjoy them when I do.
Imo, the main appeal of that period of mainstream OSes is that they are very similar to what we have now, but from before the bloat really started to kick in. Snow Leopard will always be the best OSX version because it was the last version that focused on tightening up the OS rather than just cramming in as much stuff as possible. But even then, it still had a lot of really cool stuff that previous versions had added. It was the last version with Web Sharing, a set of features to allow anyone to easily self host their own website on their Mac (despite this feature being long removed, mac OS still ships with Apache web server preinstalled but disabled, bc Apple hasn’t given a shit in a long ass time).
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I feel like there's room for both. The girliepops are nice to look at and to listen to, but they're really just reading from Wikipedia. Old dudes like CRD lived through the era, so they can bring their real experience to the table, talking about how the technology fit into the bigger picture of the time.
By the way, this thread is cool. You people have introduced me to all sorts of interesting autists, and my life is better for it.
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I agree with that but I think you do the girls a disservice by dismissing them as just reading from Wikipedia - if you don't have life experience you've gotta put in research and they're doing the work. Sayaka seems genuinely knowledgeable and Lauriewired is a straight up hacker.
Siren is definitely just a meat prop reading ChatGPT scripts, but that's ok too. It's ok to fake it, no one really believed the AVGN wanted a diarrhea dump in his ear but he sold it and it was entertaining.
A mutual handy, I'm assuming?
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I know unflattering photos aren't necessarily proof but
I just get this weird feeling...
I can't shake...
Eleonora Sayaka, LaurieWired and Kari Lawler also give me uncanny valley feelings. My brain won't accept the idea of a true and honest woman being into retro computers and linux anymore.
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ainnoway ts bitch has a throne
for those who dont know throne is a "buy shit for me" website where you list things you want and hope that some of your "fans" will buy it for you
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They can but will forever be a minority, and most of them aren't even special. Millions of men have done all kinds of electronics shit before. Laurie is the only somewhat advanced genius here who's above your average 1980s TV repair guy.
With regards to their looks, what might appear like a man in a dress at first glance is simply normal natural variation, and I've seen a lot manlier T&H women throughout my life.
Have you ever seen female bodybuilders or pro swimmers? Sayaka looks like a girl who likes to go swimming a lot.
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They exist, but it's usually because it's either their husband's or their father's hobby and they've grown accustomed to it. Been the case with all the ones I've met.
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In Sayaka's case, it's her mother.
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And of course, furries.
EDIT: Back on topic,
That's pretty neat.
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It's not entirely impossible that these women are AI-generated. Eventually lighting/reflection quirks gives it away, for those with the autism to decipher the pixels.