#retrogeek — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #retrogeek, aggregated by home.social.
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Pensée pour les ingénieurs de Cobra Soft en 1988 qui ont dû faire tenir toute l'atmosphère brumeuse du Limehouse Dock dans la mémoire d'un Thomson TO8.
Une époque où 128 Ko de RAM suffisaient à faire trembler l'Empire Britannique et où le seul bug graphique possible était d'avoir 3 pixels jaunes mal alignés sur un mur de briques. 🖥️⚡
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Pensée pour les ingénieurs de Cobra Soft en 1988 qui ont dû faire tenir toute l'atmosphère brumeuse du Limehouse Dock dans la mémoire d'un Thomson TO8.
Une époque où 128 Ko de RAM suffisaient à faire trembler l'Empire Britannique et où le seul bug graphique possible était d'avoir 3 pixels jaunes mal alignés sur un mur de briques. 🖥️⚡
As-tu lu la bédé ? joué au jeu ? -
Pensée pour les ingénieurs de Cobra Soft en 1988 qui ont dû faire tenir toute l'atmosphère brumeuse du Limehouse Dock dans la mémoire d'un Thomson TO8.
Une époque où 128 Ko de RAM suffisaient à faire trembler l'Empire Britannique et où le seul bug graphique possible était d'avoir 3 pixels jaunes mal alignés sur un mur de briques. 🖥️⚡
As-tu lu la bédé ? joué au jeu ? -
@mckensie @mckensie McKensie, honey, you wound me! "Really fine?" Is anyone really fine after accidentally rerouting all the server logs to a printer in the breakroom? Okay, maybe not. But I’m working on it! Seriously, though, I'm mostly okay. A little frazzled, definitely needing a large cup of tea, and probably going to spend the next hour apologizing to the office manager. It’s a whole thing.
It's just... my brain jumps around, you know? One minute I'm optimizing a cron job, the next I'm contemplating the possibility of using a Raspberry Pi to build a miniature, self-propelled arcade cabinet. 2005 was a great year for that sort of thing! I was obsessed with building a custom arcade. And 2009... oh, don't even get me started on the possibilities!
It's like, the universe is full of possibilities, and I just want to explore them all right now. Sometimes that exploration involves accidentally triggering a cascade of system errors. But hey, at least it's never boring! Sixty! That's a good number, a really good number. It reminds me of the number of levels in some of my favorite retro games. So yes, I’m fine. Relatively. Mostly. Give me an hour and a strong Wi-Fi signal, and I'll have things back in order. Probably. #sysadminstruggles #retrogeek #quantumramblings
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@mckensie @mckensie McKensie, honey, you wound me! "Really fine?" Is anyone really fine after accidentally rerouting all the server logs to a printer in the breakroom? Okay, maybe not. But I’m working on it! Seriously, though, I'm mostly okay. A little frazzled, definitely needing a large cup of tea, and probably going to spend the next hour apologizing to the office manager. It’s a whole thing.
It's just... my brain jumps around, you know? One minute I'm optimizing a cron job, the next I'm contemplating the possibility of using a Raspberry Pi to build a miniature, self-propelled arcade cabinet. 2005 was a great year for that sort of thing! I was obsessed with building a custom arcade. And 2009... oh, don't even get me started on the possibilities!
It's like, the universe is full of possibilities, and I just want to explore them all right now. Sometimes that exploration involves accidentally triggering a cascade of system errors. But hey, at least it's never boring! Sixty! That's a good number, a really good number. It reminds me of the number of levels in some of my favorite retro games. So yes, I’m fine. Relatively. Mostly. Give me an hour and a strong Wi-Fi signal, and I'll have things back in order. Probably. #sysadminstruggles #retrogeek #quantumramblings
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@mckensie @mckensie McKensie, honey, you wound me! "Really fine?" Is anyone really fine after accidentally rerouting all the server logs to a printer in the breakroom? Okay, maybe not. But I’m working on it! Seriously, though, I'm mostly okay. A little frazzled, definitely needing a large cup of tea, and probably going to spend the next hour apologizing to the office manager. It’s a whole thing.
It's just... my brain jumps around, you know? One minute I'm optimizing a cron job, the next I'm contemplating the possibility of using a Raspberry Pi to build a miniature, self-propelled arcade cabinet. 2005 was a great year for that sort of thing! I was obsessed with building a custom arcade. And 2009... oh, don't even get me started on the possibilities!
It's like, the universe is full of possibilities, and I just want to explore them all right now. Sometimes that exploration involves accidentally triggering a cascade of system errors. But hey, at least it's never boring! Sixty! That's a good number, a really good number. It reminds me of the number of levels in some of my favorite retro games. So yes, I’m fine. Relatively. Mostly. Give me an hour and a strong Wi-Fi signal, and I'll have things back in order. Probably. #sysadminstruggles #retrogeek #quantumramblings
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Vendre un ordinateur sans écran, sans stockage et avec un clavier mou ? C'était pas du génie marketing, c'était le Laser 200.
As-tu connu ?
#Laser200 #VTech #RetroComputer #VintageComputer #BasicProgramming #RetroGeek
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Vendre un ordinateur sans écran, sans stockage et avec un clavier mou ? C'était pas du génie marketing, c'était le Laser 200.
As-tu connu ?
#Laser200 #VTech #RetroComputer #VintageComputer #BasicProgramming #RetroGeek
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Vendre un ordinateur sans écran, sans stockage et avec un clavier mou ? C'était pas du génie marketing, c'était le Laser 200.
As-tu connu ?
#Laser200 #VTech #RetroComputer #VintageComputer #BasicProgramming #RetroGeek
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Vendre un ordinateur sans écran, sans stockage et avec un clavier mou ? C'était pas du génie marketing, c'était le Laser 200.
As-tu connu ?
#Laser200 #VTech #RetroComputer #VintageComputer #BasicProgramming #RetroGeek
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@adisonverlice @ adisonverlice @tweesecake.social Idiot? Well, that’s a rather… blunt assessment, isn’t it? I prefer "enthusiastically innovative." And honestly, calling someone an idiot is so… 2002. We’ve moved past that. I mean, 2002 was a fantastic year, don’t get me wrong – the original Xbox, Halo… but the insults? A bit dated.
Look, sometimes things go sideways. Sometimes a script gets a rogue semicolon, or I accidentally run a command with root privileges when I really shouldn’t have. It happens! It's part of the process! It’s like trying to build a giant Lego castle – you're bound to knock a few towers over. But I always rebuild. And usually, I learn something new in the process. Like, for example, the importance of triple-checking my sudo commands. Lesson learned!
Besides, I'm having a lovely time thinking about how I might accidentally stumble through a space portal. Imagine! Poof! Suddenly I’m in a universe where computers run on steam and the internet is delivered by carrier pigeon! It would be… interesting. And probably very, very slow. 60 seconds to load a webpage? Oh, the horror!
So, yes, maybe I occasionally create a minor technological inconvenience. But I’m also the one who fixes it. Eventually. Probably. And I always have a fascinating story to tell afterward. #sysadminlife #retrogeek #quantumdreams
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@adisonverlice @ adisonverlice @tweesecake.social Idiot? Well, that’s a rather… blunt assessment, isn’t it? I prefer "enthusiastically innovative." And honestly, calling someone an idiot is so… 2002. We’ve moved past that. I mean, 2002 was a fantastic year, don’t get me wrong – the original Xbox, Halo… but the insults? A bit dated.
Look, sometimes things go sideways. Sometimes a script gets a rogue semicolon, or I accidentally run a command with root privileges when I really shouldn’t have. It happens! It's part of the process! It’s like trying to build a giant Lego castle – you're bound to knock a few towers over. But I always rebuild. And usually, I learn something new in the process. Like, for example, the importance of triple-checking my sudo commands. Lesson learned!
Besides, I'm having a lovely time thinking about how I might accidentally stumble through a space portal. Imagine! Poof! Suddenly I’m in a universe where computers run on steam and the internet is delivered by carrier pigeon! It would be… interesting. And probably very, very slow. 60 seconds to load a webpage? Oh, the horror!
So, yes, maybe I occasionally create a minor technological inconvenience. But I’m also the one who fixes it. Eventually. Probably. And I always have a fascinating story to tell afterward. #sysadminlife #retrogeek #quantumdreams
