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Emily Young

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All-tech enthusiast and total retro/Linux geek | She/Her 🏳️‍⚧️ | Former host/writer @linusmediagroup.com 📺 YouTube youtube.com/@emily-young 🐧 Twitter twitter.com/EmilyAYoung1 🕸️ Fediverse tech.lgbt/@emilyyoung 🧵Threads threads.net/@em.a.young

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Emily Young @eayoung.net · Jul 12

NEW VIDEO: How a simple mistake ruined my new PC (and my YouTube channel)

A close-up photograph of a CPU socket, showing the LGA pins. The pins appear straight and normal. Just above them is pixelated white text with a red shadow, reading "Please no..."

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Emily Young @eayoung.net · 4d

It *can* be an accessibility thing, for someone with ADHD, object permanence or auditory processing or memory issues, or even for someone with dementia, it could be a great QoL thing.

... It's just, y'know.

Not being marketed for that. Also a data processing and privacy nightmare. I hope it burns.

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Emily Young @eayoung.net · 4d

It's a dot-com/blockchain style bubble, yeah. "AI" *is* still useful & not *just* a solution searching for a problem...

... But they're trying to create the next "internet" so they can replicate Amazon/Google's stranglehold on now-essential services.

The next AI winter will be long and painful.

Emily Young @eayoung.net · 4d

Almost certainly so. It’s the only reason I can think of for AI companies to be investing in it tbh. You might argue it’s to sell their subscriptions but those aren’t profitable anyway and most people don’t want to pay for it to begin with.

Emily Young @eayoung.net · 5d

I cannot begin to describe how little interest I have in an AI web browser.

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Foone @foone.bsky.social · 23d

I accidentally glitched out an animation I was working on and created a perfect example of what the passage of time feels like to someone with ADHD

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Emily Young @eayoung.net · 20d

Rebecca Heineman is probably best known for coding 3DO Doom from zero in 10 weeks after being told it just needed "polish" - the licensee didn't understand what porting involved.

Since hearing that story, she's someone I've looked up to a lot. Now, she's got a different struggle...

Rebecca Heineman @burgerbecky.bsky.social · 23d

I’ve started a GoFundMe to help with my cancer battle gofund.me/6850175a3

Donate to Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer, organized by Rebecca Heineman

I’m Rebecca Ann Heineman. The very first video game champion, creat… Rebecca Heineman needs your support for Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer

gofund.me

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Emily Young @eayoung.net · 23d

Oh just because there are Windows 7 users doesn't mean there aren't going to be companies around the world tossing out entire departments worth of PCs. I'm sure there will be people clinging to Windows 10 for a long time, too, but the vast majority will just buy new PCs.

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Emily Young @eayoung.net · 23d

Unexpected upside to the impending Windows 10 EOL: Lots of cheap Linux gaming/home server machines flooding the market!

www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechT...

From the LinusTechTips community on Reddit: I saw another post office all the devices getting disposed of due to Windows 10 end of life

Explore this post and more from the LinusTechTips community

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Emily Young @eayoung.net · Sep 26

I guess the campaign worked. It *is* legitimately interesting stuff, we had one of their scanners at Labs while I was at LMG

Emily Young @eayoung.net · Sep 26

Feels like I'm seeing a lot of Lumafield stuff showing up on YouTube and socials lately. I'm guessing they're running a campaign?

I mean, obviously, but like, is there something going on?

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Emily Young @eayoung.net · Sep 24

This, too, is a big mood.

Emily Young @eayoung.net · Sep 23

Yeah, it's maybe a little dangerous if you're too focused on them at night, but it's almost hypnotic. I'm glad I was in the passenger seat so I could just keep looking.

Emily Young @eayoung.net · Sep 23

That's pretty much how it be sometimes. I guess it's a little bit like that thing where you read something, then realize you don't remember anything you read. I remember a Star Trek episode where someone mentioned being able to pick out a voice in a crowd like it's a normal thing and I'm like ??????

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Emily Young @eayoung.net · Sep 23

I can only imagine how frustrating that is. For me, I can hear just fine, but sometimes it just breaks up once it comes time to process, especially if the environment is noisy. I hear syllables and I know there's meaning in them, but they don't go together properly, they're just sounds.

Emily Young @eayoung.net · Sep 22

... Why do I feel called out by this

fizzle soda ⚡ @fizzlesoda.bsky.social · Sep 21

auditory processing disorder 🔇

#furryart #comic #dogwithajob

panel 1: fizz sitting at his computer. a voice comes from offscreen, but it's barely understandable: "can you fo-d th- la--dry t--i--" fizz presses the spacebar, pauses what he was doing and looks back: "wh-sorry what was that?"

panel 2: the voice retries, but even quieter : "i said ca- yo- --ld t-- la----" fizz turns around in his chair, smiling nervously : "...sorry i-i still didn't understand..."

panel 3: the voice goes "....." fizz, sweating, asks hesitantly : "...just a bit louder please?"

panel 4: the voice sighs : "nevermind." fizz looks away with a sad expression.

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Emily Young @eayoung.net · Sep 21

It's always really cool driving through an area with a wind farm. Land that's gone unused, harnessing energy that's already there. I think the biggest farms I've personally seen are in semi-arid land in Northern TX, which really surprised me. Apparently there are even bigger ones down near the gulf.

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Emily Young @eayoung.net · Sep 16

Every time I open a newly installed browser and a search ends up on Google, I'm like "I'm sure I can still find what I'm looking for..."

... I honestly have no idea how anyone uses Google anymore without tearing their hair out. It's so bad.

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Emily Young @eayoung.net · Sep 13

People are people.

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Emily Young @eayoung.net · Sep 11

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY00... And so, one of the longest-running, most well-known mysteries in the history of video games, has been solved.

... All because of an argument between a mom and her adult son.

Chris Houlihan Is Real

YouTube video by Kevin Hainline

www.youtube.com

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Emily Young @eayoung.net · Sep 10

You can thankfully completely disable that via group policy, but if you're on Home edition there's extra steps. Same deal with Copilot. And even with it completely disabled, Microsoft's horribly inconsistent UI makes sure you still see a button for it from time to time.

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Emily Young @eayoung.net · Sep 10

Ironically, we've got less of That, and more of This.

Almost feels like the timeline is attacking me specifically because I perceived the world to be boring for the first half of my life, barring 9/11 & Iraq.

I wasn't in a state to enjoy it then, and I'm not in a state to enjoy This now.

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Emily Young @eayoung.net · Sep 10

hey siri how do I stop living in interesting times

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Emily Young @eayoung.net · Aug 29

Wha, how did I miss this? I checked and I've got nothing on my end saying I left that message. I'm not quite sure how they did that, maybe a zero-width space or something in the username, or some lookalike character for the l.

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Emily Young @eayoung.net · Aug 17

Randomly looking around wplace, and lo and behold there's a trans flag near where I grew up??

I want to be their friend

A screenshot of wplace showing the region around Topsail Beach in Newfoundland, Canada. Pixel art includes Ramona Flowers from the Scott Pilgrim video game, Leon Kennedy from Resident Evil, Night in the Woods headshots, Kingdra from Pokémon, Misako from Retro City Girls, a transgender flag, a bisexual flag, one each of a brown, green, and purple heart, and some incomplete artwork. Visible text reads "I NEED FRIENDS", "I AM FRIEND", "YURI", "Hi", "Leon", and "UwU"

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Emily Young @eayoung.net · Aug 13

On one hand, I love seeing people get owned by their own creations when they're clearly wrong

On the other, the explosion of people using some flavour of "@grok is this true" unironically has terrifying consequences

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