The Retro Millennial Podcast

Smartphones have fundamentally transformed our world and our lives, but it wasn’t like this until just the last few years. Let’s take a look back at what life was like before these little glass and metal rectangles changed the way we did just about everything! Big thanks to everyone who has been supporting The Retro Millennial, and special thanks to Arcade High for the show’s theme song “High Scor...

Inspired by Colin at This Does Not Compute over on YouTube, I was considering the question of nostalgia and it’s impact on us. Episode Notes * Arcade High - High Score Summer * Arcade High on Bandcamp * Article: Setting Up Windows XP on a Vintage Dell Laptop * COMMAND OF THE WEEK: Check your battery from the Windows Command Prompt/PowerShell * WMIC PATH Win32_Battery Get EstimatedChargeRemaing Tha...

The 90’s were a great time to be a kid, and especially one who played video games! We got the tail end of the arcade scene and despite the Crash of 1983 we saw the rise of gaming behemoths like Nintendo, Sega, and PlayStation; we saw the jumps from 8-bit consoles like the Nintendo Entertainment System and the Sega Master System, all the way to the dawning of the 128-bit era with the Dreamcast. We...

I recently read a blog post about a simple experiment on open source desktop environments and the results were surprising! Let’s talk about what they found and what that means for desktop Linux and BSD users, especially those of us who prefer using older machines. Episode Notes * Desktop Environments Resource Usage Comparison * Computer Ads from the Past Thanks for listening to The Retro Millennia...

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