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New vid just dropped.

I feel like the II's graphics need their own video more than a video about the ///, that video system is absolute fucking voodoo where you have to replace the clock crystal after 40 years or you won't get color video due to it using NTSC cybermancy to comb filter dots together precisely against the actual MHz clock of the standard itself and that's a lot more interesting that just going over how RAM let them pack more dots together to get 16 colors. Plus, you have all the VGA and HDMI display cards now that also introduce their own insanity from having to raw read the CPU and digitally render that madness so there's a big video in itself.

 

[残念。]

I feel like the II's graphics need their own video more than a video about the ///, that video system is absolute fucking voodoo where you have to replace the clock crystal after 40 years or you won't get color video due to it using NTSC cybermancy to comb filter dots together precisely against the actual MHz clock of the standard itself and that's a lot more interesting that just going over how RAM let them pack more dots together to get 16 colors. Plus, you have all the VGA and HDMI display cards now that also introduce their own insanity from having to raw read the CPU and digitally render that madness so there's a big video in itself.

You know if he gets that deep into it, a paperclip may be involved.

 

[Pee Cola]

Commander X16 is now available to pre-order. $350.

 

[tehpope]

I turned off the vid when he started going off on how he wanted to promote the Cx16 as an educational programming toy for kids. The rapsberry pi is already marketed like that but whatever david. This definitely feels like mission creep. The cx16 is a fucking toy for man babies who pine for their childhoods of playing around with 8-bit micros. Some parents might do what David is suggesting, but 99% of parents are more than fine with just getting their kids a android tablet and letting youtube baby sit their kids.

 

[Mikoyan]

I turned off the vid when he started going off on how he wanted to promote the Cx16 as an educational programming toy for kids. The rapsberry pi is already marketed like that but whatever david. This definitely feels like mission creep. The cx16 is a fucking toy for man babies who pine for their childhoods of playing around with 8-bit micros. Some parents might do what David is suggesting, but 99% of parents are more than fine with just getting their kids a android tablet and letting youtube baby sit their kids.

A friend of mine who is highly triggered by David was going on about exactly this last night.

I pointed out the RPi thing and how both David and them fall into this trap where they think that the kids need to learn about computers in the same way they did. Which has maybe some truth (people who learned to code on 8-bits in basic might write less fucking electron apps) and a whole lot of rose colored glasses.

 

[AmpleApricots]

Kids who are old enough to take anything away from using electronics besides "funny bright shape" know that this thing isn't state of the art ergo: uncool and totally lame. If you wanna teach your kid "computers" give it a total shitbox (e.g. some previous gen intel cpu without graphics card) and let it figure out how to get the most out of it to play minecraft or whatever kids play these days. That'll have some practical learning effect beyond tech - appreciate what you have, learn to do more with less and all that. You'd be surprised how motivated kids can get if something they want is just *barely* within reach. Now, that's advice for young kids. If your kid gets older don't be "that parent", let your teen keep up with the world. You can instill on it that you think some of that world sucks later, they might not listen but they'll defintively not listen if you gatekeep them.

The Pis also started as toys for manbabies. No Pi ever captured a kid's mind, I can promise you.

I also maintain that the vast majority of the people who'll buy that thing will just have it disappear onto some shelf, (just like it happens with Pis, see a pattern here?) never seriously using it for anything even remotely interesting whatsoever. It might get taken off the shelf if some hardware expansion to consoom appears later. The entire retro computing sphere is like this, the vast majority of people buy these things to have them, not to do anything with them. Most of them don't even know anything about them.

 

[Mikoyan]

The Pis also started as toys for manbabies. No Pi ever captured a kid's mind, I can promise you.

The original purpose was Education with commercial sales funding it - following the OLPC example which was a complete fucking debacle of its own. I am the first to tell you that you're right about what happened, but the intent was there.

This also leads to an insufferable community in many ways. They'd deride clones as 'in it for just the profit' and the 'community' had a tendency to run it both ways: They tout how there's a whole 'ecosystem' and theirs is the best for whatever you want to use a small SBC for, then when you'd call out how the platform was awful for real use (the former USB/Ethernet chip which was both slow and would lock up the system if it got slightly cold, for example), they'd berate you because 'it's for education, you're asking far too much'.

 

[Mr. Duck]

David shows off his Starcraft ripoff for the X16.

 

[Ice Gun Ninja]

I wish I could code video games in assembly.

 

[ZipDisk]

Cathode Ray Dude [CRD] almost died and his plumbing exploded.
He's gone from looking like a greasy coworker to "might die"

He's out $30k and an organ. (appendix)

Dude owns a house and self-exiled to his own basement.

He's gone from "Greasy, but work ready" to "what the fuck dude"

Also thinks 12 TB is a reasonable amount of video for one SueTube video. He also admits he is now fully dependent on Adsense. Which you know, is bad.

He doesn't mention his parents or the Troonicle.

He also shows a massive hoard of shit he bought when he was flush with cash, and which may as well be tomb decorations.

He's also got youtube creator disease where he hates what put him on the map. Like every other dipshit, he wants to be a storyteller, not realizing it's the weird tech shit that makes him, not his storyteller skills.

He also cleared his camcorder collection at garage seller prices, when he's got a $30k plumbing bill.

It honestly seems like he wants to burn himself in effigy.

I don't even get why this upsets me, dude has visibly degenerated over time and he wasn't in great shape to begin with. His content was niche at best, and he's clearly grown to hate it.

 

[woowie queen]

i guess i should thank every god possible on the fact that micheal mjd seems to be nonpolitical as possible.

 

[ZipDisk]

While MJD is blameless, the guy who implemented windows XP style product activation is also responsible for all the windows backdoors, and he's still an unapologetic cunt about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpKNFCFABp0

Fuck. Phoning. Home.

His argument is essentially "It's a bitter medicine, but you must take it."

He even admits to the timebomb.

 

[Coolio55]

While MJD is blameless, the guy who implemented windows XP style product activation is also responsible for all the windows backdoors, and he's still an unapologetic cunt about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpKNFCFABp0

Fuck. Phoning. Home.

His argument is essentially "It's a bitter medicine, but you must take it."

He even admits to the timebomb.

Not that surprising. Dave's always had this bizarre impersonal tone like he's reciting someone else's essay.
I assumed it could be autism but psychopathy also works. No wonder he was a microsoft employee.

 

[Mikoyan]

Cathode Ray Dude [CRD] almost died and his plumbing exploded.
He's gone from looking like a greasy coworker to "might die"

He's out $30k and an organ. (appendix)

Dude owns a house and self-exiled to his own basement.

He's gone from "Greasy, but work ready" to "what the fuck dude"

Also thinks 12 TB is a reasonable amount of video for one SueTube video. He also admits he is now fully dependent on Adsense. Which you know, is bad.

He doesn't mention his parents or the Troonicle.

He also shows a massive hoard of shit he bought when he was flush with cash, and which may as well be tomb decorations.

He's also got youtube creator disease where he hates what put him on the map. Like every other dipshit, he wants to be a storyteller, not realizing it's the weird tech shit that makes him, not his storyteller skills.

He also cleared his camcorder collection at garage seller prices, when he's got a $30k plumbing bill.

It honestly seems like he wants to burn himself in effigy.

I don't even get why this upsets me, dude has visibly degenerated over time and he wasn't in great shape to begin with. His content was niche at best, and he's clearly grown to hate it.

Can we get the origin for this? I wanna revel in it.

 

[ZipDisk]

since videos appear to be unblocked, here's when he quit his dayjob:

And here's how it's working out for him:

Update: apparently things are still fucked.

 

[Mikoyan]

Speaking of day jobs, David is supposedly getting one, or more accurately reallocating his time:

His adrev is way down and he blames proliferation and the pandemic being over. So he's going to concentrate on the X16 and some history videos, and open an arcade. In partnership with someone who just had to close his arcade, so clearly that's a great idea.

 

[Pee Cola]

Speaking of day jobs, David is supposedly getting one, or more accurately reallocating his time

Seems like there are a few YTers doing things differently in 2024. DankPods has officially closed his Patreon and is going all in on Floatplane. He released all his after shows to the public shortly after his announcement.

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Hey everyone. I Am Closing My Patreon Account (WALL OF TXT WARNING)

It’s true. I will be closing my Patreon account. It’s not because anything is wrong, things are awesome! I’ve actually just hired on my sister full time to help me edit and moderate my livestreams! But this announcement is more to do with my business changing a lot over the last few years…

I first want to say a big THANK YOU to Patreon for existing, it’s been an incredible super power to have your support where I don’t need sponsors and can choose what I want to do each week. Patreon let me set up a page exactly how I wanted which was the “$1 All You Can Eat”. I was able to offer a whole extra episode every week as cheap as I could and hope enough people wanted to check it out.

This worked great for me as I don’t take money very well, I have to be offering a service in return. Even if folks didn’t take it, it at least had to be available to take. The last 6+ months I haven’t done the After Show and it’s been really bothering me, especially my difficulty with keeping up with messages. On Patreon you need to send the creator a DM and ask for a refund and I feel irresponsible leaving people in a position of accidentally adding a 0 to their pledge and have no way to fix it. Especially in this cost of living crisis.

If I’m not offering folks a product for their money, I’m not comfortable with taking it.

If I’m not actively in there supporting my Patreon then I don’t deserve it.

I’ve been grinding really hard this year getting all my other channels running where they are paying their bills in anticipation for this announcement. With the channels and the Floatplane streams my little production company is sitting great and will be all good without this income . Not having a parachute for a bit is unnerving but we have a savings just in case.

I reached out to Patreon for some advice on closing an account this size but sadly didn’t hear back so I’ll just have to do it the best I can think to. I’d like to offer refunds to anyone who needs one. You just need to flick me a DM and I’ll add you to the list to fix up! I apologise that I can’t type any replies, I’m going to have to manually refund 20,000+ people . Refunds are a multi page affair and it’s going to take me all week round the clock to keep up, sorry that all I can do is peek and move to the next!

I’ll be offering refunds until Jan 7th when the page will close, payments are already paused so folks can’t jump in or be charged at the start of the month. I’m going to be doing my absolute darndnes to get to everyone and I’m so sorry if I miss your message!! THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING ME ALL THIS TIME. You’ve all put me up here!

Floatplane will be my new home for extra content, a complaint I got from a lot of peeps way back was needing to pay for two services to get all my content (Twitch/Patreon) but now it’s one payment and you get EVERYTHING. I even have a vlog called “Wades World” and Frank has her own channel too. You finally get to see her eat food! Patreon doesn’t let you merge brands or accounts to be under one banner which has been really messy in the past, (You can have lots of separate accounts but need separate paypal accounts too) Floatplane’s structure works really well for my company even if it means starting all over again.

There's no DM's on Floatplane but the comment sections are where I'll be! Also means the community can help with any questions folks have and the separate channels help keep discussions where they work best. On Patreon all my channels would be dumped in one big messy feed but on Floatplane its super organised and easy to find videos!

Floatplane even offers downloads, no dodgy site or toolbars needed. Just hit download and even pick your resolution! I know heaps of folks are like me and like fun videos to put onto things that shouldn’t have videos played on them or have periods of no internet connection and want a stash of content.

This has bitten me on the butt as naturally people immediately steal the videos and re upload on their own channels… they took all my After Shows off Floatplane even tho I offer them for free on my YT channel already . It seems I have to publicly ask that I don’t want my Floatplane content re uploaded please, I offer as much as I can for free and make sure to keep sponsors out of videos! I only ask as I don’t want to take the download button away and punish the awesome peeps who help me out. This is all very rich from a person of the “Limewire” generation but a sneaky download for a friend is a little different than rebroadcasting to the world .

I hope you give Floatplane a go! But only do so if I’m selling what you’re looking for, people’s generosity on Patreon has been staggering but the cost of everything now days can’t be ignored. Floatplane can’t be $1 sadly as it’s a super small platform and hosting video is EXPENSIVE, but at $2.80 it’s literally as cheap as I could make it down to the cent . The point of Floatplane is stability, it’s all hosted on their own hardware diverse from the other video platforms. The fees pay for everyones stay and should the worse happen on YT I can at least continue hosting videos!

Another change and I hope you don’t mind, I’d like to no longer have an upload schedule. I’ve been dooting 7am(ish) Fridays for quite a while but many times I’ve wanted to release a video early or maybe have an extra day or two. Some videos come together in hours, others are weeks of research and non working nuggets (it’s always non working nuggets that kill videos…).

I’m privileged to be a part of peoples weekly routines with my upload schedule and I’m sorry to be taking it away, I’ve found the deadline to work against my motivations some weeks especially if my week goes pear shaped, it’s caused some very late nights this year. The Steam Deck video was rendered at 1:30AM the day of upload

Sorry for not being on social media either, I’ve found it really toxic the last few years and getting away has been really beneficial. Sorry for not being in Discord either! I’ve upset a lot of folks linking to a fan made Discord I’m not in. Maybe if the mods don’t mind adding that it’s a fan made community as I don’t want to upset more peeps!

Wow what a wall of txt, but to summarise:

I’m closing my Patreon due to not running it responsibly,

Floatplane is my one stop shop for extra content (streams, Frank, secrets),

No more video schedules,

hopefully more content,

I don’t social media anymores,

Frank smells and it’s an issue.

You’re all the best, just clicking on a video of mine means the world to me. Thanks to those who’ve kept supporting me even when it made no sense to, beloved Patreons you’re off duty .

Have a happy new year! Frank says nothing.

https://www.floatplane.com/channel/Th...

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He'll still be putting stuff on YT (DankPods, Garbage Time, The Drum Thing) but it sounds like the main channel's release schedule will be more like the other two i.e. not week in week out.

I like DankPods more than I dislike Linus, so it looks like I'll have to put aside my anti-LMG bias and move my Patreonage to Floatplane.

 

[Fcret]

While MJD is blameless, the guy who implemented windows XP style product activation is also responsible for all the windows backdoors, and he's still an unapologetic cunt about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpKNFCFABp0

Fuck. Phoning. Home.

His argument is essentially "It's a bitter medicine, but you must take it."

He even admits to the timebomb.

Dave, Raymond Chen, all the Windows old heads etc. specifically baked their contempt for you, the end user, into Windows when it was taking shape. Go read MSDN from the era - they don't even hide it.

And to add insult to injury, you know what computer Dave does real work on these days? A Mac.

Seems like there are a few YTers doing things differently in 2024

Ad market is way down. I foresee anyone who has actual skills but is currently youtubing to filter out and get a real job. Most of this segment of Youtube is probably going to start disappearing. These retrocomputing guys usually aren't losers who went from NEETs to Youtubers/streamers - they have actual skills they can ply for much more money than youtube is paying these days. It'll be an easy choice for most of them.

 

[Archie_Kimkicker]

Ad market is way down. I foresee anyone who has actual skills but is currently youtubing to filter out and get a real job. Most of this segment of Youtube is probably going to start disappearing. These retrocomputing guys usually aren't losers who went from NEETs to Youtubers/streamers - they have actual skills they can ply for much more money than youtube is paying these days. It'll be an easy choice for most of them.

I predict that in two years, the only techie/geeky youtuber who will remain (and is not a part of some globohomo dark money racket) will be Boogie, and he is not even a techie.

 

[Gatdam Animal Person]

I predict that in two years, the only techie/geeky youtuber who will remain (and is not a part of some globohomo dark money racket) will be Boogie, and he is not even a techie.

Nah, I think Techmoan will still be there, making old cassette deck reviews or something.