Re: a little retrospective

Posted on 2024-01-10, 14:31

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This has turned into quite the discussion This goes beyond computers. I work in higher ed, and am seeing this same thing in this push towards e-books. I am sorry, but for me something on a computer will NEVER be the same as a printed page. Furthermore, many of these e-books are only good for that …

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Re: a little retrospective

Posted on 2024-01-10, 10:55

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Ownership is an illusion. You don't own even your own life. Everything in this world is temporary and any handmade product sooner or later will disintegrate and turn into dust from which it was produced. And if talking about freedom, old style ownership is rather a slavery than freedom. If taking …

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Re: a little retrospective

Posted on 2024-01-10, 09:16

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Ownership is an illusion. You don't own even your own life. Everything in this world is temporary and any handmade product sooner or later will disintegrate and turn into dust from which it was produced. And if talking about freedom, old style ownership is rather a slavery than freedom. If taking …

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Re: a little retrospective

Posted on 2024-01-10, 06:31

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Slowly but surely we are returning to the times of dumb terminals when your device was connected to a supercomputer where all the magic was happening.

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Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?

Posted on 2024-01-09, 06:51

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Here is something for the topic... What do you guys think of the newest ad the 8-Bit guy uploaded just an hour ago? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qHdTKjPXww :slightly_smiling_face: Well, I have mixed feelings. Even though I'm not a fan of new projects, I find interesting those videos where new …

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Re: cleaning up ;)

Posted on 2024-01-07, 20:10

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You know, we are not a computers so when you need to decide it doesn't have to be binary Yes or No, you always can postpone making a decision.

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Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?

Posted on 2024-01-07, 10:58

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Edit - If you like Vintage games I recently found a channel called "Retro Game Mechanics Explained" which has some really in depth stuff on there .. great channel for people with some programming knowledge. https://www.youtube.com/@RGMechEx I'm not into gaming at all, but this channel is really …

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Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?

Posted on 2024-01-07, 08:24

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dormcat wrote on 2024-01-07, 08:11: And I'm still waiting for his episode 2 of Apple and Steve Jobs' Biggest Mistakes. 😅 Well, you've got a "David Murray's Biggest Mistakes" episode instead. 😄

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Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?

Posted on 2024-01-07, 08:18

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Is not being able to make youtube your main source of income a failure? As soon as The8bitguy went full time his channel went down hill. There are other channels that arent as good as they were before they realised they could make money out of it. It is a good question. What can be considered a …

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Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?

Posted on 2024-01-06, 20:36

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The 8bit guy shot himself in the foot when he decided to do youtube full time. As soon as he made the video about it the amount of videos he made dropped in a month, and what he was making them about changed enough so as to be not as interesting any more. The last few I watched were about him …

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Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?

Posted on 2024-01-06, 05:44

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Wait I thought that was a benefit, then I get to selfhost an inventory management system and utilize my homelab more. When I utilize my homelab more I get to buy even more computer hardware. Of course I'm not getting rid of my old homelab hardware, it's sentimental now. So it goes in the inventory …

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Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?

Posted on 2024-01-05, 21:05

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Since then I purchased around one hundred or even more different vintage computers and I hope that like you I won't lose my interest in this hobby in the next few years. Why so many? One of the dangers of buying way too much "stuff" is it becomes less about the hobby and more about inventory …

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Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?

Posted on 2024-01-05, 20:10

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I think it's not about age, but about this site orientation. It is mostly about vintage games unlike forum.vcfed.org for example. And today, when you have so many good emulators, you don't have to have a real hardware to be able to play old games. I joined the hobby about 8 years ago, and frankly I …

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Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?

Posted on 2024-01-05, 18:13

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I feel like retro PCs is a hobby that mostly appeals to a certain demographic and doesn’t really get a lot of “new blood” (compared to consoles/handhelds, for example). People born in the late 90s and younger just don’t care about PCs the way older generations do. Just take a look at Vogons — there …

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Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?

Posted on 2024-01-05, 08:00

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Something about this kind of criticism of YouTubers or creators just leaves a really bad taste in my mouth. If you don’t like content then don’t watch it. The YouTuber doesn’t owe you anything, it feels really entitled and self centered to act all high and mighty like some offense has been …

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Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?

Posted on 2024-01-05, 06:35

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Something about this kind of criticism of YouTubers or creators just leaves a really bad taste in my mouth. If you don’t like content then don’t watch it. The YouTuber doesn’t owe you anything, it feels really entitled and self centered to act all high and mighty like some offense has been …

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Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?

Posted on 2024-01-04, 22:27

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I dont think is the end of the era of Retro Compting Youtube channels, in general. Maybe just for the big ones. It is a good thing there now are hundreds of retro computer channels. Competition is good. The small ones are getting bigger. Me, personally, I like just retro pc games and ibm pc …

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Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?

Posted on 2024-01-04, 21:00

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When it comes to YouTube I've found that as soon as it becomes the creator's main job the content is usually not that interesting anymore, partially because they become slaves to the YT algorithm, forced to keep pumping videos that are either undercooked or about things they're not really …

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Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?

Posted on 2024-01-04, 16:36

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I want to make YT videos soon about a wide variety of topics including retro computing and obscure technology, and I have plenty of time to do it as I only turn 16 this year and some good experience in kdenlive. I hate how my generation loves the slot machine style short and forgettable …

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Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?

Posted on 2024-01-04, 15:45

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i thought 8-bit guy's analysis was fairly good, quite a few factors covered most telling were saturation and that he doesn't make as many videos - that definitely leads to a loss of viewers another factor is that one person only has so much to say about their specific interests and they themselves …

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