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I watched a video called "playing the original Doom on 4 monitors" The video was ~35 minutes long. It was ~25 minutes of setup and then ~5 minutes of gameplay, then an outro. I was really annoyed
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SalTheBard posted:I watched a video called "playing the original Doom on 4 monitors" Haha I started this same video yesterday and just noped out after skipping through a bunch and finding out he still wasn't showing Doom on 4 monitors I do most of my watching on a TV so it's a lot more cumbersome to get to the good parts
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The Wadsworth constant is 30%. What’s the revision called?
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Tiny Timbs posted:Haha I started this same video yesterday and just noped out after skipping through a bunch and finding out he still wasn't showing Doom on 4 monitors I understand that the setup was what took so long and was so intricate, but I didn't need to see each individual computer being worked on and setup. It is worth watching though, just skip to about 25 minutes in.
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Sponsorblock had an option for cutting out the offtopic/jokes/blahblah etc and it eviscerates some of these waffle-fests
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Who's the best retro Mac channel these days (or even other not PCs)? I like channels like LGR well enough but sometimes the fixation on Windows 95/98 for almost every video gets a little boring...
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Mac84 is good. As is Action Retro. Usagi Electric goes into old mainframe stuff
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carry on then posted:Who's the best retro Mac channel these days (or even other not PCs)? I like channels like LGR well enough but sometimes the fixation on Windows 95/98 for almost every video gets a little boring... This Does Not Compute is probably my favourite, falls more under general retro tech but does a lot of old Mac stuff including clones and a lot of Powerbook restoration videos too. Here's a video from a few months ago on the "Mac-like Things" project. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpy6uuok66Q And here's a restoration video on a IIe he found in the trash. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upJd9Q_nEyU
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I assume this is a (short!) video about some of the idiosyncrasies of the Windows fast startup thing. What's so bad about that?
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I approve of blocking every LMG channel.
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carry on then posted:Who's the best retro Mac channel these days (or even other not PCs)? I like channels like LGR well enough but sometimes the fixation on Windows 95/98 for almost every video gets a little boring... Action Retro, This Does Not Computer, Macintosh Librarian if you don't mind the mascot (who seems to be all but phased out lately)
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carry on then posted:Who's the best retro Mac channel these days (or even other not PCs)? I like channels like LGR well enough but sometimes the fixation on Windows 95/98 for almost every video gets a little boring... The 8-bit guy 
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Suspect A posted:The 8-bit guy No he was crap for them too unless you had a specific need to see one get dremel'd to gently caress
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carry on then posted:Who's the best retro Mac channel these days (or even other not PCs)? I like channels like LGR well enough but sometimes the fixation on Windows 95/98 for almost every video gets a little boring... https://www.youtube.com/@MacintoshLibrarian
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Usagi Electric goes into old mainframe stuff 
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So is the centurion, but in 2023 when people hear mini computer, they think raspberry pi and not an ironically gigantic computer
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kirbysuperstar posted:Action Retro, This Does Not Computer, Macintosh Librarian if you don't mind the mascot (who seems to be all but phased out lately) thank god, I want to like that channel, but the anthropomorphized stuff is a nope for me
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For actual mainframe stuff, I recently found this guys videos and channel: https://youtu.be/K0IOhfvX_Tw He bought an obsolete IBM mainframe and put it in his basement
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kirbysuperstar posted:Action Retro, This Does Not Computer, Macintosh Librarian if you don't mind the mascot (who seems to be all but phased out lately) I can second Action Retro. He really likes to push the limits of the upgradability of the machines he gets his hands on. For example, in this video he manages to upgrade a 1995 Mac clone machine enough to play Minecraft: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_qrjCCF7w8 That's probably the oldest motherboard in the world that can run it (even though the CPU and graphics card are from this millenium).
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:So is the centurion, but in 2023 when people hear mini computer, they think raspberry pi and not an ironically gigantic computer  namlosh posted:For actual mainframe stuff, I recently found this guys videos and channel:
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What a pain in the rear end that is.
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Combat Pretzel posted:What a pain in the rear end that is. It gives nerds like me a chance to feel like how regular folks feel when I start talking about all the nonsense that's part of my life, in that it's all a bunch of arcane bullshit that seems like it should involve chanting, robes, and eldritch horrors.
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In the mid 90’s, wee teenage Jim silly balls scored a job in an IT department running backups on their gigantic ancient AS/400 machine. It backed up to gigantic tape reels and required arcane commands that I never truly understood to be entered on an amber serial terminal to kick off the multi-hour backup. It was very cool to me at the time because it was the size of two refrigerators and cost millions of dollars but it was probably outclassed by your average 486 or early Pentium by the time I was using it. It was originally purchased in the very early 80’s. E: googling reveals it might have been an IBM 9370? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_9370 Beve Stuscemi fucked around with this message at 02:31 on Feb 22, 2023 |
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i mean, i got my job out of college due to some sh/sc thread that was posted about Mastering The Mainframe joke's on me though i'm currently working on something that's adjacent to a literal green screen i wrote back in 2015 
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Can someone explain Louis Rossman to me I think he's supposed to be a tech youtuber, as he keeps popping up on my feed, but although there's the occasional video about right to repair type stuff it's otherwise a lot of videos of an incredibly stressed and tired looking dude talking about how much he hates running a business. I think the only meaningful bit of content I saw from him was about the whole Linus warranty controversy, but even that was filtered through a lot of stuff about hating his business/himself. what happened to him The Grumbles fucked around with this message at 14:38 on Feb 23, 2023 |
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he does tech repairs, especially on apple hardware, so he's kind of the canary in the coal mine when there's a big apple hardware issue obviously he's a huge hit with people who hate apple just because it's apple he eventually started talking about other things, and as is always the case, people with domain expertise are great until they veer into punditry he should probably just have sold repair tools as merch instead of opening dedicated repair shops beyond his main one
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The Grumbles posted:Can someone explain Louis Rossman to me He's a grumpy New Yawk gently caress who runs a chain of repair shops.
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kliras posted:he eventually started talking about other things, and as is always the case, people with domain expertise are great until they veer into punditry yeah it's basically this. He built an audience out of streaming himself repairing Apple products and then starting chasing content for its own sake
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The Grumbles posted:Can someone explain Louis Rossman to me He's been around forever. I haven't watched him regularly in many years but I used to find the repair videos he did fascinating. I think he might have been the first guy I ever saw do real serious board repairs on YouTube. His content used to be mostly repairs while ranting about companies like Apple and running his business. I think he's super stressed from dealing with COVID and real-estate prices and the traveling around he's done for Right To Repair.
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The Grumbles posted:Can someone explain Louis Rossman to me Small man in a big chair.
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Has cute cats. Hated NYC so badly he moved to Texas.
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The Grumbles posted:Can someone explain Louis Rossman to me His videos have been popping up for me too, and he seems to have fairly decent views when it comes to privacy and being pro-consumer, though I'm a bit cautious about his views regarding the covid lockdowns. I follow several Linux youtubers, and their views generally seem to trend between 'center-right/libertarian' to 'progressive'. For example, I watch DistroTube primarily for Linux stuff; he's a decent guy but I don't care to hear about his views on "cancel culture" (which, in fairness, he doesn't do all that often).
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Even when Rossman was still doing board repair videos I remember one where he was removing a component and kept repeating "begone, thot" like he had terminal reddit brain
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Level1Techs guy seems like a decent YouTuber. I’ve been watching more of his stuff. He seems pretty socially left.
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Am I misremembering or did Rossman do one of those “woe is me, the downtrodden Landlord” videos a few years ago?
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carry on then posted:Am I misremembering or did Rossman do one of those “woe is me, the downtrodden Landlord” videos a few years ago? no you're right. he has some real gross small business owner brain poo poo going on, like "i can't believe people aren't grateful to me for blessing them with a job so they get paid what i pay them" kinda poo poo
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carry on then posted:Am I misremembering or did Rossman do one of those “woe is me, the downtrodden Landlord” videos a few years ago? That's him, yes
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mewse posted:Even when Rossman was still doing board repair videos I remember one where he was removing a component and kept repeating "begone, thot" like he had terminal reddit brain I'm glad I read this thread more than I actually watch youtube
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buglord posted:Level1Techs guy seems like a decent YouTuber. I’ve been watching more of his stuff. He seems pretty socially left. They seem vaguely lowercase-l libertarian. So not assholes I think
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