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  • @ActionRetro
    @ActionRetro  4 months ago +45

    To learn for free on Brilliant, go to brilliant.org/ActionRetro/ . You’ll also get 20% off an annual premium subscription.

    • @evanpasquale7554
      @evanpasquale7554 4 months ago +5

      Did you Increase the editing Budget lol :D

    • @kimura317
      @kimura317 4 months ago

      Just a heads up, looks like you didn't blur out the SSID name when it asks for the password

    • @jackwest3282
      @jackwest3282 4 months ago +2

      Just an FYI most DVD players/writers required at least a 233MHz CPU to run at minimum so the 133MHz Pentium 1 CPU will never be able to run a DVD player. cheers! That would also cause the hardware lock. Also you can't be tipping those drives at that angle and have them be able to read and spin up the drives properly. they also don't do well for vertical installs as all of them were designed for horizontal flat level running. Anything less than that will fubar the disc you insert into them. Cheers this was an interesting experiment.

    • @John.Smith26-asGoggles
      @John.Smith26-asGoggles 4 months ago +1

      "I ❤UGLY COMPUTERS!"

    • @doyouwtech9012
      @doyouwtech9012 4 months ago +2

      Thanks for the good laugh sir.
      watching Mac & Linux fanboys geting amazed with a striped down OS that can do less than a FREEDOS... so hilarious
      it's going to blow your mind the day you will discover what a PE is and how it can be customized to do 10 times more stuff with same hardware 😁😎
      anyway thanks again for the good laugh sir 🤣😂😁😎

  • @johndoe91735
    @johndoe91735 4 months ago +1273

    Old hardware meeting modern software is the best kind of content

    • @user-dw1sb4id7q
      @user-dw1sb4id7q 4 months ago +8

      Yes you are so right

    • @thelinuxcursor
      @thelinuxcursor 4 months ago +1

      fr it feels so good to watch stuff like these

    • @geografiainfinitului
      @geografiainfinitului 4 months ago +4

      This video confirmed my speculation and unlikely scenario that Intel spent the last 30 years to develop a backdoor CPU that runs inside your CPU and runs MINIX... and has a complete TCP/IP stack accessible all the time!

    • @715customs
      @715customs 4 months ago +10

      It's only 133mhz, it blows my mind how it's so responsive

    • @TimVerweij
      @TimVerweij 4 months ago +5

      This was awesome. Great demonstration of what tiny core Linux can do.

  • @Wander1236
    @Wander1236 4 months ago +250

    15:35 you blurred your SSID in the list of available networks but not in the password prompt

    • @guiorgy
      @guiorgy 3 months ago +6

      😂

    • @arvidj8918
      @arvidj8918 3 months ago +78

      @guiorgy well spotted bro. Now I shall move to the US become his neighbor and spend exactly zero hours deciding what wifi to hack

    • @fabzter
      @fabzter 2 months ago

      Lol

    • @sillygolf14
      @sillygolf14 2 months ago +1

      OK is it aa metajoke though cause isn't that the doctors home that felt like a massive reveal but meant nothing at the time

    • @arvidj8918
      @arvidj8918 2 months ago

      @sillygolf14 what joke?

  • @mrbell2827
    @mrbell2827 4 months ago +342

    Thanks to the brilliant devs who write software well enough to run in a potato

    • @scolosimo42
      @scolosimo42 4 months ago +19

      It really isn't useful though. I have some really, really nice "Pentium M" Laptops, essentially a heavily overclocked Pentium III...and while Linux will run... acceptably, Web Browsers just won't. I ended up recycling them, because while yes they can run a modern Linux, they can't use most websites.

    • @PiddeBas
      @PiddeBas 3 months ago +24

      @scolosimo42 There's more to do on a computer than browse the web

    • @masterKoper
      @masterKoper 3 months ago +4

      @scolosimo42 Exactly, it's only useful for vintage hardware collector to flex their stuff 😀

    • @ezflower-s7i
      @ezflower-s7i 3 months ago +1

      ​@scolosimo42correct. Hardware becomes obsolete after few years and will need a upgrade

    • @ch1m1ch0nga
      @ch1m1ch0nga 2 months ago

      ​@ezflower-s7i Don't worry - pretty soon they won't let us own compute & we'll all just sharecrop for MegaTech Corp for a bit of screen time.

  • @damouze
    @damouze 4 months ago +42

    This brings me back to my university days when I ran (and maintained) a Linux desktop in one of the labs. It ran Slackware 3.6 (and later on 4.0, 5.0 and so on) on a Pentium 90 with only 16MB (later 32MB) of RAM. If I'm not mistaken my wm was fvwm95 and later on WindowMaker.
    At the same time, when I was not at my desk in the lab, I always had a ZIP disk on me with a minimalistic Slackware installation on it. It had everything I needed as a student, 7 terminal screens, networking, gcc, etc, all on 80MB worth of disk space (16MB was reserved for swap). This was before ZIPSlack was invented, a miniature Slackware distribution specifically tailored to run from a ZIP disk.
    Aah... Good times. And what fun I had teasing my fellow students, most of whom were stuck on DOS/Windows. Until of course I helped them create their own Slackware ZIP disks.

    • @gruic6434
      @gruic6434 4 months ago +3

      I built a 386/dx40 with math co-processor back in 1989 and installed linux on it. I had a whopping 16mb of ram! I ran the predecessor to slackware on it, and wrote my own dot clock file for my ET4000 video card for X windows. Good times!

  • @MarcosCodas
    @MarcosCodas 4 months ago +430

    "We're better than AWS" 💀 that was a fun day at work.

    • @jarvisfamily3837
      @jarvisfamily3837 4 months ago +6

      It was only fun because my group hasn't had our systems migrated to AWS yet.
      16 months to retirement...

    • @MarcosCodas
      @MarcosCodas 4 months ago +2

      @jarvisfamily3837 did you watch the world burn with a smirk? Haha. I actually wasn't affected that much personally because I don't deal with engineering or CS that much. But my co-workers weren't happy.

    • @B3Band
      @B3Band 4 months ago +2

      I work at Amazon and didn't even notice lol
      Only found out about it from the news

    • @clonkex
      @clonkex 3 months ago +3

      @MarcosCodas It affected the small company I work for but since there was nothing we could do we just chilled and got on with other stuff lol. Definitely took a chunk out of our sales numbers but what can you do? (Actually, you can do what we're doing, which is setting up load balancing between multiple cloud hosts lol)

    • @MarcosCodas
      @MarcosCodas 3 months ago

      @clonkex Sorry to hear that, man. Yep, we're doing the same. We already had some, so only some users were experiencing some issues (we're a software company), but still. What a PITA.

  • @andre-le-bone-aparte
    @andre-le-bone-aparte 4 months ago +87

    VOTE : Make the new Editor use Final Cut in Mac OS 9

  • @thetinysideoftiny7625
    @thetinysideoftiny7625 4 months ago +90

    I was a technician back in the day. Those Packard Bells were NIGHTMARES to work on. So weirdly proprietary. Worst of all, when you would install hardware, the machine always did the “Packard Bell IRQ shuffle”. The IRQ’s would randomly shuffle around and you’d get a pile of IRQ conflicts. It was maddening to get a new piece of hardware installed reliably.

    • @NookOfTom
      @NookOfTom 3 months ago

      To the right, To the right, To the right

    • @DownandOutNYC
      @DownandOutNYC 3 months ago +8

      I used to work with customers on thier computers. There's a reason we used to call them "Packard Hell" 😄

    • @teklife
      @teklife 3 months ago +9

      fast forward 25 years and computers are glued together and u can't change anything in them and suddenly these weirdly proprietary old boxes seem like a peripherals playground. well, sorta, no usb, but he got usb to work on this thing, in tiny core linux! that is pretty wild that he got a pentium 1 booting with usb and wifi and a modern linux distro.

    • @XyliaSky
      @XyliaSky 2 months ago +5

      ​@teklifeI don't know. I feel like it's weird to ignore the fact that peripheral support and plug and Play support has gotten so much better throughout the decades.
      I've got a custom built PC. It's not glued together. And I can probably add whatever peripheral I want from whatever generation of computing to it with next to no problem. That's pretty impressive and worth acknowledging.

    • @REAL_blubskye
      @REAL_blubskye 25 days ago

      Well Linux can override the IRQ's. I don't miss having to do that manually let alone if it changed every boot in some other OS.

  • @flagger2020
    @flagger2020 4 months ago +20

    12:09 AWS burn...

  • @flpydisk_sys
    @flpydisk_sys 4 months ago +93

    i said this before and i know your probably experimenting with different editors but theres... SOMETHING about your normal old editing that i like

  • @rezzontd
    @rezzontd 4 months ago +9

    Super excited you have an editor! It does seem like the resolution went down to 1080p with the video looking fuzzier, and it almost appears like there is a filter on the whole video. Not my preference, but that doesn't mean I'm leaving. Can't wait to see what you have coming next!

  • @truevulgarian
    @truevulgarian 4 months ago +58

    I was pretty sure it would run fine. I remember back around 2000 when I upgraded my home pc to a p3 from a 486, I tried running linux on the 486 and was shocked how well it ran even then. Linux gives new life to old hardware. It's like magic.

    • @teklife
      @teklife 3 months ago +1

      yea but that was 2000 linux, back when distros fit on a cd. nowadays they're 3gb+

    • @joshuahadams
      @joshuahadams 2 months ago

      @teklife I switched back to Ubuntu after screwing around with Pop! for a while, and the installer being 5gb blew me away.

    • @JasonPacker-t1q
      @JasonPacker-t1q Month ago

      Some version of Linux was going to work. I was running MCC Linux in 1994 on a 486 with a gui.

    • @chaddaifouche536
      @chaddaifouche536 Month ago +1

      Yes, sure, I had similar experiences but this is linux 6.12, the latest LTS (at the time of writing, this will soon change), running on a computer that was sold almost 30 years before this kernel was released!

  • @cbm_doomworld
    @cbm_doomworld 3 months ago +18

    back in the day we had graphical mouse controlled desktops with multitasking on our 7 MHz Amiga computers :)

    • @DacianPrime
      @DacianPrime 2 months ago +1

      7.09.. how dare you 😂

    • @cbm_doomworld
      @cbm_doomworld 2 months ago

      ​@DacianPrime lol 😂

    • @666ortiz
      @666ortiz 2 months ago +2

      Why, also Commodore 64 (1Mhz CPU, 64kb RAM) had a multitasking mouse controlled graphical desktop, GEOS

    • @cbm_doomworld
      @cbm_doomworld 2 months ago

      ​​@666ortiz true, pretty cool actually 😊

  • @jimkoutso2008
    @jimkoutso2008 4 months ago +836

    Bro i don't have the attention span of a goldfish, please stop this editing style. It legit hurts my head when I have gotten used to your simpler style over the years lol

    • @butre.
      @butre. 4 months ago +112

      particularly the face tracking on close shots drives me nuts. you don't have to stay in the middle of the frame

    • @kimura317
      @kimura317 4 months ago +55

      Same. It's fun in the first minute or two of the video but it gets tiresome

    • @ToTheGAMES
      @ToTheGAMES 4 months ago +56

      The big ass reverb on the spoken audio is annoying too lmao

    • @musiqtee
      @musiqtee 4 months ago +1

      Same, minus lol…? 🙏

    • @abigailk1756
      @abigailk1756 4 months ago +51

      The videos have gotten shorter in the past year or so as well, appreciate the continued content but some of the recent ones have been

  • @bonkenjoyerAUTTP
    @bonkenjoyerAUTTP 4 months ago +3

    16:39 we all thought it

  • @kimura317
    @kimura317 4 months ago +1072

    Just a humble suggestion about the editing from a long time fan: I think the more flashy editing is fun if it's done mostly at the beginning of the video and more sparsely for the rest of it. A little goes a long way with this stuff!

    • @trolojolo6178
      @trolojolo6178 4 months ago +15

      How about you watch something different if you dont like it?

    • @grondle_ing
      @grondle_ing 4 months ago +155

      he recently hired an editor and it shows badly

    • @commentarysheep
      @commentarysheep 4 months ago +135

      I hate the new editing style. I was subscribed to see old-school tech RUclips-style content here, not to be reminded of the enshittification of the platform.
      I like the content, but this new editing style creates mental overload in a person with ASD like me, more specifically, Asperger’s Syndrome.

    • @DaBoaringDragon
      @DaBoaringDragon 4 months ago +116

      @trolojolo6178Criticism is a good thing, when respectful. No one is attacking him here, but giving constructive criticism.
      The editing style is atrocious. Simpler is better. Not everyone needs this overly energetic style of editing.

    • @Eduardo
      @Eduardo 4 months ago +74

      ​@trolojolo6178The people you're telling to just stop watching are mentioning their concerns about the editing in good faith. Do you really think it's better for them to stop watching completely if they're able to voice their concerns in a respectful manner?

  • @Thelaretus
    @Thelaretus 3 months ago +7

    Yesterday I installed Lubuntu on a Celeron for my girlfriend. She loves birds, so she liked it. Ah, the things we do for love!

    • @hesperidesbell
      @hesperidesbell 6 days ago

      Lubuntu is pretty solid too. Used it many times for netbooks

  • @spiffymarc
    @spiffymarc 4 months ago +15

    We upgraded from that Packard Bell to that Compaq Presario. The golden path.

  • @kai990
    @kai990 4 months ago +6

    5:52 who can find the happy face? :D

  • @RichardFraser-y9t
    @RichardFraser-y9t 4 months ago +9

    Oh my, the number of those landfillers I sold back in the day.

  • @NineEyeRon
    @NineEyeRon 3 months ago +3

    This PC but itself on its own pedestal

  • @RadieForge
    @RadieForge 4 months ago +29

    19:53 Just a note: Mobile Wikipedia can still be accessed on Desktop, there's a button just at the very bottom of any Wikipedia page and vise versa as well. Meaning you still can access Mobile Wikipedia on Desktop, and Desktop Wikipedia on Mobile.

    • @joe--cool
      @joe--cool 4 months ago +3

      That's really useful if the page doesn't load...
      You could also add the easy to remember: "&mobileaction=toggle_view_mobile" to the end of the URL.

    • @poofygoof
      @poofygoof 4 months ago +2

      isn't there a user agent string that the client sends and the server can use to determine what page to send? I haven't used dillo in years -- perhaps it has a setting?

  • @Duciousness
    @Duciousness 3 months ago +4

    0:12 I already know this is going to be fun. 😂

  • @iMatthewPeel
    @iMatthewPeel 4 months ago +476

    Honestly it's brilliant that you can now afford to pay an editor. Congratulations on that! 🎉 Just one thing: please communicate and align your channel's identity with them. This video was great, but didn't feel like a true Action Retro video. Felt a bit too fast and over-edited.

    • @ActionRetro
      @ActionRetro  4 months ago +234

      Appreciate this feedback very much. We’re both reading all of these, and over time I think we’ll really find the sweet spot.

    • @elu9780
      @elu9780 4 months ago +86

      @ActionRetro yeah, in my opinion, it was way overdone here. I am personally very used to the more chill, simple editing of the previous videos. The constant zooming in and out here, sound cues... it's, uh, it reminds me of the channels where content can be best described as "ADHD bait". It's like the video is trying to tell me "Pay attention, let me change a thing, pay attention NOW, another thing changed, I SAID PAY ATTENTION."
      Plenty of people are *probably* into this kind of thing considering the popularity of it, but I think this is not good. It genuinely hurts to watch.

    • @busytransitgworl
      @busytransitgworl 4 months ago +28

      @ActionRetro Gotta agree with Matthew here!
      As always, great content and the editor really adds a bit of value...But it was missing your identity.
      I immediately knew that this wasn't your edit ^^

    • @Reziac
      @Reziac 4 months ago +22

      @ActionRetro I subbed because I liked the plain, straightforward style where you were just being yourself. I'm not here for "bubbly personality" or slick editing (both are a turn-off). It's well-done for what it is, but it's the wrong style for this channel.
      Also there's a little too much gain or something in the audio (not sure what but it's a little hard on the ears, and I can hear a faint hum).

    • @stuartaxon2898
      @stuartaxon2898 4 months ago +17

      ​@ActionRetro cheers. I saw the comments first but then, yeah popping around the frame so much is a bit much.
      One thing that unites retro channels is they are all kind of relaxing, see LGR, RMC. Adrian's Digital Basement, and this channel.
      Even watching some redbull channels is less fatiguing in edit style.
      Love Action Retro videos BTW.

  • @sl06bhytmar
    @sl06bhytmar 2 months ago +1

    that packard bell case was ahead of its time. Fond memories of that machine.

    • @jeschinstad
      @jeschinstad 2 months ago

      It means it's garbage though, simply because it's being creative instead of following standards.

  • @JPChampion
    @JPChampion 4 months ago +527

    Not crazy about the new editing. It's distracting.

    • @av_oid
      @av_oid 4 months ago +29

      I don’t get motion sickness. This video gave me motion sickness!

    • @jonathanellis6097
      @jonathanellis6097 4 months ago +28

      It's like an annoying action film, cuts all the time.

    • @ewookiis
      @ewookiis 4 months ago +12

      Don't forget the less programme time (this video seems to be an exception) and brilliant, or other sponsors. Sad.

    • @kickassamd
      @kickassamd 4 months ago +14

      I also got hella annoyed with his constant hand motions and pointing.

    • @ewookiis
      @ewookiis 4 months ago +4

      @kickassamd he does them otherwise too, but framing I guess made them “in your face”?

  • @raevod6361
    @raevod6361 4 months ago +2

    5:04 anual??? I’m pretty sure its a typo of annual 😂

  • @carlpeters8690
    @carlpeters8690 4 months ago +22

    Those old Pentiums were really easy to overclock. Just a few jumpers to move and almost all of them ran great with a slight overclock. I ran my 166 at 200 for years and never had a problem with it (no extra cooling either).

    • @AlexAlex-jk2tn
      @AlexAlex-jk2tn 2 months ago +1

      I didn't try to overclock my Pentium MMX @166MHz, but I used it without any radiators for a while until I upgraded it to P4

  • @chrismazurek3916
    @chrismazurek3916 3 months ago +1

    Would a graphics card take some of the load when it came to websites at all? Or allow more things that can be done

  • @wincentywilk7511
    @wincentywilk7511 4 months ago +222

    The editing is making me dizzy... 🤢

    • @abzhuofficial
      @abzhuofficial 4 months ago +28

      Yeah, the motion sickness caused by 2020s video editing trends are sickening

    • @Nada-z5e6e
      @Nada-z5e6e 4 months ago +35

      The transitions every 2 seconds is crazy.

    • @abzhuofficial
      @abzhuofficial 4 months ago +16

      It's a massive eyesore ​@Nada-z5e6e

    • @cartsterthedumbster
      @cartsterthedumbster 4 months ago +16

      give it a few years and there will be a resurgence of windows movie maker and imovie as more people become SICK of this kind of editing.

    • @JavisoGaming
      @JavisoGaming 4 months ago

      Timestamps are needed

  • @cdsnider9496
    @cdsnider9496 3 months ago +2

    I was so pumped to get a quad speed cd-rom back in the day

  • @cameron_bosch
    @cameron_bosch 4 months ago +7

    0:56 My desktop back then was a Dell, and my grandparents had a Pentium III Acer. Now only the Acer survived.

  • @dragynx
    @dragynx 3 months ago +3

    "I'm sure it's fine" - we've all said that, many times. :)

  • @elbiggus
    @elbiggus 4 months ago +111

    15:38 You blurred out the SSID list, but you didn't blur out the SSID when it asked for the password...

    • @trolojolo6178
      @trolojolo6178 4 months ago +6

      He did, i checked it twice. I think you need a new pair of glasses.

    • @DanielMReck
      @DanielMReck 4 months ago +32

      Yeah, the SSID is legible in the text of the password prompt. For future reference, the SSID is ■▀█■█▄▀█▄█■█▄

    • @sjftech
      @sjftech 4 months ago +11

      ​​@trolojolo6178LMAO, you're the one who needs new glasses. Just before he says "that definitely needs to be blurred out." it asks for the password for his SSID and it's clearly visible.

    • @ZoeDowney
      @ZoeDowney 4 months ago +4

      Also came here to say this. When it prompts for the password, the password prompt includes the SSID completely uncensored.

    • @CptJistuce
      @CptJistuce 4 months ago +6

      ​@trolojolo6178No, he didn't.
      He blurs the list of available SSIDs, and blurs the password he is entering, but not the SSID he is connecting to.

  • @AmirRazan
    @AmirRazan 4 months ago +2

    I haven't watch AR in a while, when did your editing get so flashy?

  • @TheEvilTrovis
    @TheEvilTrovis 4 months ago +37

    The constant cuts between zooming in and out are distracting. What's the point? Just have the main shot of the entire monitor. We can follow along with what's happening without the constant cuts.

    • @alkenstein
      @alkenstein 3 months ago +2

      zooming in is good when watching on a small phone screen

  • @codahighland
    @codahighland 4 months ago +1

    I used to run Gentoo on a Pentium II 266MHz with 16MB of RAM.

    • @codahighland
      @codahighland 4 months ago +1

      It took 3 weeks to install GNOME. But it worked!

    • @FilthyPitDog
      @FilthyPitDog 3 months ago

      ​@codahighlandvery cool! Gentoo is awesome 😎👍

  • @scara1701
    @scara1701 4 months ago +14

    What's Gallifrey? :)
    Seeing that Packard Bell logo is bringing back many memories. They had some odd looking chassis back in the day :)

    • @kujo7445
      @kujo7445 3 months ago +1

      Gallifrey is the planet The Doctor is from in Doctor Who

  • @azur_wilo
    @azur_wilo 4 months ago +1

    YES! FINALLY TINY CORE LINUX!

    • @azur_wilo
      @azur_wilo 4 months ago +1

      tbh, i choose the presario😂😂😂

  • @jamesd7448
    @jamesd7448 4 months ago +6

    That looks like a much smoother install process than what I remember getting Windows 95 installed and working right.

    • @PaulSpades
      @PaulSpades 4 months ago

      Same here. Even p2 machines required booting and formatting from a dos floppy. And win95 never had drivers for half of the hardware. 98SE came with some of the drivers.

  • @elinars5638
    @elinars5638 3 months ago

    The beginning of this video (the Pentium computer description) sounded like an ad lol

  • @nova-xm1rg
    @nova-xm1rg 4 months ago +102

    What's up wirh the editing?

    • @superstar64
      @superstar64 4 months ago +2

      Man I need to go back to using my logo

    • @raevod6361
      @raevod6361 4 months ago

      He changed the editor to the one listed in the description

  • @clifflogan7974
    @clifflogan7974 2 months ago +2

    That was my first computer back in 1995. Mine though was 100MHz and 4MB of RAM. It had a 1GB HDD and the salesman told my dad it was the only computer they would ever buy. It later got handed down to me and I later had WinNT, Win98 the WinME, ungraded RAM to 8MB and even put in a RivaTNT video card before finally buying my first PC.
    It ran Warcraft 2 so well and it felt blazing fast next my friend's 66MHz 486 computer.

  • @darman2204
    @darman2204 4 months ago +144

    I'm sorry to say that but i personally think that the new editing style is a bit too much.

    • @joelonsdale
      @joelonsdale 4 months ago +3

      Being new to this channel, it seems fine to me... 😊

  • @bill-wowzer
    @bill-wowzer 4 months ago +2

    The negotiation of a modern TLS on this old hardware is impressive! 😊

  • @ObsidianNightmares
    @ObsidianNightmares 4 months ago +118

    really not a fan of the new editing style..

    • @KING_JON125
      @KING_JON125 4 months ago +7

      me too it dosen't match with the tech content maybe gameplay or something else but tech hell no

    • @grondle_ing
      @grondle_ing 4 months ago +3

      can tell he hired an editor lol

    • @pete904ni
      @pete904ni 4 months ago +2

      You don't like constant jump cuts and cat sound effects?

    • @betterfosset
      @betterfosset 4 months ago +1

      LOL I'm in the minority that actually like it

  • @LordSamuelJ
    @LordSamuelJ 3 months ago

    Tried installing tiny core on a dual pentium pro system. I could not get it to install no matter what i did

  • @NovaSilisko
    @NovaSilisko 4 months ago +7

    Honestly this makes me miss the old chilled-out videos even more. I came in with the cursed mac series like many others and enjoyed the old "talking hands" days. Even besides this...editing...it just feels different now in ways that are hard to pin down and makes me kinda sad

  • @waffle911
    @waffle911 4 months ago +2

    1:40 Can confirm, attempted exactly this in 2003 on my family's then long-retired Win98SE Packard Bell which was equipped with a Pentium MMX, 8x CD-ROM drive, 8GB (!) HDD, and I don't remember how much memory, all in exactly the case shown in this video. Windows XP barely ran, but by golly I got it on there.

  • @nerdacorn1
    @nerdacorn1 4 months ago +178

    Not gonna lie, this new editing style is very distracting. I understand trying new things, but this ain't it chief. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

    • @lilyroxy6620
      @lilyroxy6620 4 months ago +4

      Thought you might lie. Kudos

    • @trolojolo6178
      @trolojolo6178 4 months ago +5

      How about you watch something different if you dont like it?

    • @ToTheGAMES
      @ToTheGAMES 4 months ago +19

      @trolojolo6178 How about you try stating that without being condescending? 🤔

    • @tucsonsduke
      @tucsonsduke 4 months ago +7

      This is generally a kind channel. Asking action retro fans to just stop watching instead of giving feedback hurts our host more than it hurts us.
      The feedback is valid. I liked it, but I'm not the only viewer.

    • @elu9780
      @elu9780 4 months ago +2

      @ToTheGAMES bruh their name is literally trololo, it's THE staple of internet trolling. Ignoring people like them is the best you can do.

  • @kjetiltrondsen8242
    @kjetiltrondsen8242 3 months ago +1

    21:50 when the machine was built 60GB was not an option for a hard drive (or maybe about the biggest you could get) and now you plug in an usb flash drive at that size...

  • @thelinuxcursor
    @thelinuxcursor 4 months ago +17

    man just gave a Pentium 1 Wi-Fi and a second life. Tiny Core Linux deserves a nobel prize.

    • @aspinx
      @aspinx 4 months ago +2

      Nah, don't offend a good project with this highly discredited "reward".

  • @haffey1273
    @haffey1273 4 months ago +1

    7:36 postal 2 cat sound spotted

  • @aciddev_
    @aciddev_ 4 months ago +54

    please revert the editing i am in the process of healing my attention span i cant just stop watching your videos please i beg

    • @mvanvoorden
      @mvanvoorden 3 months ago +1

      Pro tip: watch a man solve variant sudokus in real time, taking on average about 45 minutes, with some offshoots to 2+ hours, without ever getting boring, on Cracking the Cryptic. It definitely fixed my attention span, I watch one every night before bed.

    • @aciddev_
      @aciddev_ 3 months ago

      ​@mvanvoordeninteresting! thanks, will try this

  • @tra-viskaiser8737
    @tra-viskaiser8737 4 months ago +1

    My first pc was(still own it) made by a klingon company... a Com-PaQ presario cds 860. I tortured that thing from 12mb of memory and a 486sx2 66. It ended up with 48mb of memory and a 486dx4odpr100. Waiting on that pentium 63 or 83 and the 128k cache module.
    I loved old compaqs of that era..
    Awesome video as always, and awesome to hear you had klingon computers in the old days too.. lol

  • @AndrewsVideoTips143
    @AndrewsVideoTips143 4 months ago +8

    Love when super old hardware is pushed this hard, idk why

    • @spazzypengin
      @spazzypengin 4 months ago +2

      Same reason it's more fun to watch somebody take an old economy car and turn it into a "race car" vs a muscle or sports car from the same era. It's cool to see this stuff do stuff it was never intended to.

    • @jarvisfamily3837
      @jarvisfamily3837 4 months ago +1

      As an old guy whose computer experience dates back to the days of rotating drum main memory (yes, you read that right :-) the fact that everyone is freaking out about running Linux on a 133 MHz Pentium is just hilarious. People have zero concept of how powerful these "old" machines actually are. Put another way - people have less than no understanding of how *little* they ask of their "modern" hardware. Put yet a different way - all computers wait at the same speed.

  • @UltraklystronMusic
    @UltraklystronMusic 4 months ago +1

    Really got me thinking about reviving my old netbooks and laptops with Tiny Core.

  • @LKComputes
    @LKComputes 4 months ago +28

    i'm sorry, but the new editing style with the VFX and fancy captions and unnecessary sound effects during the intro is extremely distracting. now i'm not completely against doing some fancy editing, and i appreciate stuff like the background music and such, but it's just too much in my opinion. no offense to the editor, but the attempts to keep my attention actually made me skip the intro entirely.

    • @DanangAlta
      @DanangAlta 4 months ago

      Simply UNSUBSCRIBE like I did

    • @LKComputes
      @LKComputes 4 months ago +2

      ​@DanangAlta i think unsubscribing because of simply not liking a change in editing style while discounting the rest of the content seems kinda unreasonable.

  • @-COBRA
    @-COBRA 3 months ago +1

    yet we still dont have usable pure linux smartphone

  • @simsluver
    @simsluver 4 months ago +5

    Thank you so much for teaching me tiny core! You taught me a few things about tiny core i didnt know about!!! You ROCK!!!

  • @martinrodriguez1329
    @martinrodriguez1329 3 months ago

    what if you don't want it to install on the ram?

  • @jamescharron8550
    @jamescharron8550 4 months ago +86

    I normally enjoy a good long action retro episode but this felt like an extended cut of tiktok slop.

  • @chyldstudios
    @chyldstudios 4 months ago +1

    i had a packard bell

  • @classymario55
    @classymario55 4 months ago +41

    New editing style, interesting..

    • @chadmasta5
      @chadmasta5 4 months ago +7

      He hired an editor recently. That's why the last couple videos have been a little different.

    • @classymario55
      @classymario55 4 months ago +1

      ​@chadmasta5Yeah, I noticed.

    • @mike_et_saika
      @mike_et_saika 4 months ago +12

      The captions are a bit distracting. But not as bad as brainrot core editing.

    • @amihartz
      @amihartz 4 months ago +3

      idk why people are so upset by it, I didn't even think about it until seeing the comments. It's fine.

    • @chadmasta5
      @chadmasta5 4 months ago +8

      ​@amihartzI'm not enraged by it by any means but I definitely noticed it and it's not my favorite.

  • @shatteredgod69
    @shatteredgod69 Month ago +1

    can't tell if this is a video about an old pc running modern linux or a video about trying to run tiny core linux on anything.

  • @TrinomCZ
    @TrinomCZ 4 months ago +6

    I was using Pentium 1 200 MHz with 128 MB RAM and WinXP till late 2000's without any issue. I didn't game on it too much, but for general office use and web browsing, it was totally fine.

    • @cardellino5342
      @cardellino5342 4 months ago +2

      I grew up in relative poverty in Germany. All our computers broke down fast because we always had legacy hardware back then. They were powerful enough for Sims2 and NFSMW... before they broke down. In 2008/2009 I had to use a 500 MHz PC with no 3D capabilities. That shitbox ran RUclips, until RUclips changed their video format and I couldn't display them anymore. But yeah, browsing was easily possible.

  • @KiddeeBKK
    @KiddeeBKK 4 months ago

    I had one running as a router in the late 90's using suse linux back when NAT needed to be compiled into a new kernel

  • @FakedDolphin
    @FakedDolphin 4 months ago +104

    please change the editing style to the way it was before. This made me a tad dizzy.

  • @luckyluc9972
    @luckyluc9972 2 months ago

    Does the onboot install for the app modify the iso, or is it telling the PC to redownload this package each time?

  • @octoturt
    @octoturt 4 months ago +7

    definitely tone down the new editing, part of why i watch your videos is that i find your normal style relaxing and this feels like a lot of

  • @mpcalexa
    @mpcalexa 3 months ago +2

    Back in the early 90s when the linux kernel was still in the 0.9x era I was runnign slackware (or what was going to be slackeware on a 486 (pre-pentium).

  • @haskellelephant
    @haskellelephant 4 months ago +11

    This is exactly the kind of shenanigans I look forward to every week

  • @joemccall8991
    @joemccall8991 4 months ago

    I immediately heard my 14.4k modem connecting to a BBS as soon as I saw the thumbnail

  • @mipmipmipmipmip-v5x
    @mipmipmipmipmip-v5x 4 months ago +67

    Today we learn to not try to be the MrBeast of retro computing, this is just painful.

    • @EliteBraixen
      @EliteBraixen 4 months ago

      Go watch someone else then

    • @mipmipmipmipmip-v5x
      @mipmipmipmipmip-v5x 4 months ago +2

      ​@EliteBraixen you're probably right, will put this channel on "do not recommend" the next time this channel pops up

  • @mikewatson4034
    @mikewatson4034 4 months ago

    In the uk no-one had heard of Packard Bell back then

  • @deltarathedev
    @deltarathedev 4 months ago +102

    Like others have said, the new editing leaves much to be desired. We're a community of vintage tech enthusiasts and don't really need the VFX to stay focused on the video. If you recently hired an editor, we'd much appreciate you ask them to tone it back. While I'm all for allowing editors to express themselves through the content, this editing style with this genre of content just doesn't match up (it's like taking the editing style from a Minecraft video and putting it in a college lecture). Plus, we've come to appreciate the simpler editing style shown in your previous videos.
    No hard feelings towards you or your editor, we understand that managing a growing channel is not easy to do by yourself and I entrust you'll take the criticism from us to heart.

  • @daedelous7094
    @daedelous7094 4 months ago

    When the ping went out for the wifi who immediately backtracked to compare with the ethernet?

  • @fesoyinc
    @fesoyinc 4 months ago +4

    Now run Debian 13 on an Atari 2600

  • @PrerovskeStrojirny
    @PrerovskeStrojirny 3 months ago

    I tried KolibriOS Linux. Modern browsers cannot do without SSE3 instruction support. Even with a Pentium II processor, it is not possible to browse Facebook or RUclips.

  • @mrjakeisnumber2
    @mrjakeisnumber2 4 months ago +9

    Is the editing meant to be a parody or something?

  • @ylibniquah
    @ylibniquah 4 months ago

    Nah bro that packard bell that was made to stick in a corner was their most iconic. Similar design language to that thing.

  • @codfish6845
    @codfish6845 4 months ago +8

    Please go back to your old editing style
    I see a lot of comments saying the same thing, it really is overboard

  • @BlackBirdNooB
    @BlackBirdNooB 4 months ago

    Omg its so amazing, reviving old techs and putting in modern rails

  • @Hadi_Sabet
    @Hadi_Sabet 4 months ago +141

    Im Not Kinda With New Video Style

    • @trolojolo6178
      @trolojolo6178 4 months ago +1

      How about you watch something different if you dont like it?

    • @cartsterthedumbster
      @cartsterthedumbster 4 months ago +29

      @trolojolo6178 how about you try stating that without being condescending?

    • @jarvisfamily3837
      @jarvisfamily3837 4 months ago +1

      @iamcartt Girls! Girls! You're both pretty!

    • @cartsterthedumbster
      @cartsterthedumbster 4 months ago +1

      ​@jarvisfamily3837I'm a guy lol

    • @suprusr123
      @suprusr123 4 months ago

      *You used QueenSpeech
      *"Attack of The Killer Queen" starts playing

  • @methos1024
    @methos1024 4 months ago

    That Floppydisk Bootmanager procedure is cool i once used that too. boot from Floppy to load the CD/etc. But i don't know what bootloader it was back in the time.

  • @sudiprajbanshiii
    @sudiprajbanshiii 4 months ago +41

    I got that you're trying to get a new sets of audiences by changing the editing style. I think its a bit distracting sometimes, effects feels a bit too hard or rough if that makes sense, yeah its the first video and you'll improve on it but im just saying.
    And I'd love to see you getting more audience, honestly you deserve that

    • @trolojolo6178
      @trolojolo6178 4 months ago

      How about you watch something different if you dont like it?

    • @ToTheGAMES
      @ToTheGAMES 4 months ago +13

      @trolojolo6178 How about you try stating that without being condescending? 🤔

  • @FerHivore
    @FerHivore 3 months ago +1

    I like the new editing. Considering 80% of an action retro video is a disembodied hand pointing at an old computer, taking advantage of some of the still areas of the image for animation and visuals doesn’t detract from the content

  • @impressionist6692
    @impressionist6692 4 months ago +13

    Listen Man, I watch your videos because they don't have all this exaggerated brainrot editing. I just wanna see a guy messing around with computers for fun, I don't need your voice to reverb every 4 seconds, I don't need the screen to shake on every zoom in, I don't need big text on the screen describing what's going on. I just want a fun video.

  • @TheEasytoker
    @TheEasytoker 4 months ago

    5 or so years ago i managed to get gentoo working on my 64mb 486, the trick is you have to do a stage 1 install and cross compile from another box

  • @lordkappa
    @lordkappa 4 months ago +5

    I think the new editor could benefit from actually watching some of your channel's previous videos and trying to fit with AR's existing theming and style. This was really hard to watch.

  • @nightblood9462
    @nightblood9462 4 months ago +1

    Instead of hp this is PB pentium 1 pc

  • @SamSquids
    @SamSquids 4 months ago +39

    The new editing style sucks balls, stop it. We don't need the mr.beast slop editing style to keep our attention.

  • @boardernut
    @boardernut 4 months ago

    Loved this video ! I will try that myself

  • @Brettdyt
    @Brettdyt 4 months ago +6

    It's mind blowing how inefficient modern software and operating systems are. I used to surf the internet no problem with computers that had 128MB of memory... now one tab on chrome can suck up 2GB no problem. Software developers don't even try to optimize anymore.

    • @elu9780
      @elu9780 4 months ago

      It's not even about software, it's about website bloat. I noticed it in early 2010s. I used to browse the internet on iPad 2, and it worked just fine despite the fact that it had 512MB of RAM. However, by mid-2010s, websites have ballooned in size, so browsing on old hardware became a huge pain.
      Websites are just completely unoptimized now, packing as many bells and whistles as they can to make it look fancy even when it hurts functionality and performance.

    • @StephenHoldaway
      @StephenHoldaway 3 months ago

      Part of it is sandboxing for security (which requires more memory), but principles like progressive enhancement also seem to have been forgotten as browser compatibility, device performance and network speed stopped being challenges. Popular web dev frameworks provide a better development experience at the cost of end-user performance, which is acceptable for complex apps, but absolutely not something that needs to be on every web page

  • @TannerVoltageOfficial
    @TannerVoltageOfficial 4 months ago +1

    5:01 bro spelled "anual" wrong 😂

  • @thinkseal
    @thinkseal 4 months ago +69

    why is the video so much more edited vs normal it feels to high every for what is going on

  • @bondjovi4595
    @bondjovi4595 4 months ago

    I'm wondering how Debian Trixie handles Integrated J processor graphics

  • @milesraymond2360
    @milesraymond2360 4 months ago +7

    Can you re-upload with a non jumpy edit? Maybe a non-fancy director’s cut? It would be a lot easier to watch.

    • @flpydisk_sys
      @flpydisk_sys 4 months ago +3

      even a free members patreon post would be good

  • @cosmickatamari
    @cosmickatamari 3 months ago +1

    0:54 weird way to spell Packard Bell Multimedia! :D (everyone I know had that one - it was out first Windows based machine also).

  • @opsnlops
    @opsnlops 4 months ago +32

    Hey Sean, the screen transitions that slide off the screen are triggering my motion sensitivity. This video is making me extremely dizzy. :(