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imagine the conundrum of getting sent endless amounts of old tech poo poo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YzwTRCDLWg as a minimalist, this would be a total nightmare/would all go into the dumpster immediately.
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Sep 25, 2020 13:30
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As a recovering hoarder, I have thought multiple times of starting a youtube channel for specifically that reason
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Sep 25, 2020 17:16
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LifeSunDeath posted:imagine the conundrum of getting sent endless amounts of old tech poo poo It was funny when Giant Bomb did mailbag videos and people were sending them dozens of filthy copies of Madden 2004 for XBox
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Sep 25, 2020 17:25
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LifeSunDeath posted:imagine the conundrum of getting sent endless amounts of old tech poo poo Given the housing market/pricing in NC and Asheville in particular that is well past conundrum and solidify in crisis for an space aspect alone. I assume he’s donating a majority of this stuff so hopefully it’s being kept in check.
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Sep 25, 2020 17:36
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Warbird posted:Given the housing market/pricing in NC and Asheville in particular that is well past conundrum and solidify in crisis for an space aspect alone. I assume he’s donating a majority of this stuff so hopefully it’s being kept in check. Wish he'd donate that drat powerbook to me
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Sep 25, 2020 17:58
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Sep 25, 2020 18:12
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It's crazy how many obviously valuable things people sometimes send him. That Neogeo is apparently worth nearly 600 bucks.
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Sep 25, 2020 18:25
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Warbird posted:It would be pretty neat to get a weekly automated post sharing those sorts of things IMO. Maybe leave off the search terms though, yikes. after doing web app security for 6+ years and knowing the user agent is just a string, i would heavily recommend this never becomes a thing without massive amounts of escaping. running XSS from the domain avoiding CORS would be the dream.
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Sep 25, 2020 19:32
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Warbird posted:Given the housing market/pricing in NC and Asheville in particular that is well past conundrum and solidify in crisis for an space aspect alone. I assume he’s donating a majority of this stuff so hopefully it’s being kept in check. He did a Q&A video a few years ago and clarified that the majority of his stuff is kept in insured climate controlled public storage lockers
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Sep 25, 2020 20:25
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That's got to be pricey but good on him for not flooding his house in that stuff.
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Sep 25, 2020 20:34
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Data Graham posted:Wonder what search terms get people here these days. I was searching Doobie's Dog House earlier (to get the correct syntax for 'let the KIDS! Eat what they want!!', as you do) and it's pretty high up for that. Granted I don't know who would be searching for that other than goons. Maaybe if it comes up in a podcast or on twitter the way Groverhaus sometimes does.
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Sep 25, 2020 21:26
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O.K. I am starting to think 8-Bit Guy is leaning into his status as the retro tech heel, this thread was really onto something https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh2OCBZpzZ8 Observe as he carelessly shorts out and carves up a possibly 1-in-5-in-the-world IBM workstation!
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Sep 25, 2020 21:37
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Groverhaus shows up all over the place in all different kinds of communities.
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Sep 25, 2020 21:38
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Warbird posted:That's got to be pricey but good on him for not flooding his house in that stuff.
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Sep 25, 2020 21:41
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I have voiced my ideological dissent of 8bit guy's lifestyle in the youtube comments: Certainly this will invite productive discourse.
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Sep 25, 2020 22:03
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Dr. Quarex posted:O.K. I am starting to think 8-Bit Guy is leaning into his status as the retro tech heel, this thread was really onto something “Should we send these to a museum or something?” “Nah, call that YouTube guy.” I don’t really care (nor am I particularly electrically inclined), but I’m not sure I can think of any good reason to put a paper clip in a power supply. Though if they were just sitting in a ratty leaking warehouse they were basically write offs anyway.
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Sep 25, 2020 22:18
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There was a bit of drama about that place a year or two ago. I didn't follow it to see how it turned out, but the tl;dr version is that the original owner died and his family let a group of "volunteers" in, ostensibly to help clean up and sort out the stock, but they just helped themselves to anything they wanted, and ruined a lot of what was left by letting people part it out - or like in the video, let people who have no loving idea what they're doing dick around with it.
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Sep 25, 2020 22:40
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LifeSunDeath posted:imagine the conundrum of getting sent endless amounts of old tech poo poo I hated Macs as a kid but I always loved the look of the G4 tower, very jealous that he just got sent one for free
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Sep 25, 2020 22:43
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Dr. Quarex posted:O.K. I am starting to think 8-Bit Guy is leaning into his status as the retro tech heel, this thread was really onto something Yikes. I mean, my personal ranking of the retro-tech youtubers has always had 8-Bit Guy well below both LGR and Techmoan, but that was just my taste in their presentation styles. Well, judgement confirmed, I guess. I always figured all of them must know what they're doing when it comes to repairing and restoring old hardware, right? I mean, that's what their whole channels are about?
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Sep 25, 2020 23:09
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Sweevo posted:There was a bit of drama about that place a year or two ago. I didn't follow it to see how it turned out, but the tl;dr version is that the original owner died and his family let a group of "volunteers" in, ostensibly to help clean up and sort out the stock, but they just helped themselves to anything they wanted, and ruined a lot of what was left by letting people part it out - or like in the video, let people who have no loving idea what they're doing dick around with it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvM82T3C2Ik LGR went there too.
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Sep 25, 2020 23:15
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Iirc they were just going to trash everything and sell the building / stop paying rent (don't remember which). They let in some people, then pruned it back to fewer people after ??? to salvage what they could before they got rid of it all. I guess the tech collectors banded together enough to keep it open. Pretty funny seeing every comment call 8BG a dipshit for that.
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Sep 25, 2020 23:19
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Yeah this is one of the rare times I’d say it’s ok to glance through the comments. I did see one person mentioning the fuse he got wasn’t a proper match and could be contributing to weirdness. Folks are noting he could have made the safety screws flathead useable by cutting a notch in them (or buying the screwdriver at Home Depot, heck I’m pretty sure I have one as part of a computer screwdriver set). It’s interesting to watch, people seem annoyed but the comments are all pretty civil and constructive for the most part. It’s super weird.
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Sep 25, 2020 23:27
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Warbird posted:Yeah this is one of the rare times I’d say it’s ok to glance through the comments. I did see one person mentioning the fuse he got wasn’t a proper match and could be contributing to weirdness. Folks are noting he could have made the safety screws flathead useable by cutting a notch in them (or buying the screwdriver at Home Depot, heck I’m pretty sure I have one as part of a computer screwdriver set). I didnt watch the video yet, but I got the feeling that 8bitguy was more of a software guy because didn't he send stuff out, or have someone come help him fix it the just retrobited the case and put it all back together? Techmoan, is like 'yeah, I don't have a manual or anything, but I bet I can take this 45 year old record player apart, and fix it. Kinda falls in here sometimes too, but EEVBlog is good sometime, but his videos are all mostly too long, but really informative.
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Sep 25, 2020 23:32
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Who gives a poo poo about destroying screws, really. But how does somebody with a computer tinkering youtube channel not have a security bit set? They're like $5 at Harbor Freight. Jamming a paper clip in the power supply to kill it was hilarious. I half expected him to then take that paper clip and stick it where the fuse was. And I love how he ended the video with "I told the guys at Computer Reset to send over any other interesting things they find!!" Yeah, I'm sure that's the first thing they'll think about next time they find some rare equipment (or maybe they actually will. It doesn't seem like they care too much anyway)
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Sep 25, 2020 23:37
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Some of the comments are saying he was loaned the computer by the warehouse. The one he shorted out and Dremel'd.
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Sep 25, 2020 23:38
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wa27 posted:Who gives a poo poo about destroying screws, really. He damaged the casing in his dremeling. Still a super-nerd issue, but not something replaceable.
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Sep 25, 2020 23:41
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FilthyImp posted:I bet it was as useful as the Floating Point Unit Coprocessor Program I had for my Performa 68k I don't know about that one in particular but I imagine such a thing could possibly be useful. On PC at least, when building software you got to choose whether it should use a real FPU (e.g. 8087/80287) and/or emulated FPU: Numeric processing [ ] 8087/80287 [X] Emulation I'm pretty sure some developers would choose to not support emulation and instead require a real FPU for performance reasons, I think AutoCAD might have been an early one for that. However I'm sure some people would have been desperate to run the software no matter how slow it was and used a third-party FPU emulator if such a thing was available. That's certainly the kind of thing I would have done, not to do anything useful but just to see what a program looked like or something 
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Sep 26, 2020 02:37
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DariusLikewise posted:I hated Macs as a kid but I always loved the look of the G4 tower, very jealous that he just got sent one for free Jesus. I still think of the G4 tower as a brand-new modern-era design aimed at adults like me
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Sep 26, 2020 03:19
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The G4 tower was the first computer I ever played online games with. Starcraft, then Diablo, then Diablo II. I also remember watching Niel Cicierega's "animutation" flash movies on it. My Cool Computer Uncle had restored it to factory defaults before giving it to us, but put those flash files on the desktop.
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Sep 26, 2020 05:46
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Speaking of The 8-Bit Guy... not sure how old this is, or if it has surfaced before, but this was posted today and I'm done giving him views after this: https://twitter.com/compgeke/status/1309634616127418369?s=20
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Sep 26, 2020 06:14
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Yeah that’s the stuff that caused him to come up originally.
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Sep 26, 2020 06:24
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At least he admits it's perverse.
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Sep 26, 2020 07:21
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Doing that with a visibly unloaded .22 at least makes it believable that he was genuinely doing it out of protest instead of just trying to make people uncomfortable, but he's still an rear end in a top hat.
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Sep 26, 2020 07:58
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8568_3amO4
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Sep 26, 2020 10:04
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:Speaking of The 8-Bit Guy...
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Sep 26, 2020 10:14
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Dr. Quarex posted:O.K. I am starting to think 8-Bit Guy is leaning into his status as the retro tech heel, this thread was really onto something I know the community of vintage computer people I'm in on Facebook have flipped the gently caress out over this video, making a point of how bored/disinterested 8-Bit Guy seems during the whole video. I haven't watched it yet
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Sep 26, 2020 10:33
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You Am I posted:I know the community of vintage computer people I'm in on Facebook have flipped the gently caress out over this video, making a point of how bored/disinterested 8-Bit Guy seems during the whole video. It's not 8-bit 
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Sep 26, 2020 10:37
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I didn’t know I needed an affable British man telling me about early 2000s pop music MP3 players this morning but here we are.
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Sep 26, 2020 15:58
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Warbird posted:I didn’t know I needed an affable British man telling me about early 2000s pop music MP3 players this morning but here we are. Spice girls are British, their impact on us was nothing compared to the KT extinction event that happened in England.
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