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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 57m

I wish I knew someone in the Seattle area with a Gateway 2000 Destination That fucking boat anchor of a machine would unironically go so hard for my next video

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 6h

In '26, eMudhra released this. "4". I think it's an undisputed masterpiece

The meme from American Psycho with the guy talking about the Huey Lewis album "Fore"

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 7h

Posting this specific XKCD joke today for no particular reason

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 23h

Getting this close to just packing it in they've ruined shitposting

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 23h

I love when I see a funny game mod And then I go to Github and I see

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

So, I've got this Tyan S2466 board I found eons ago at Re-PC It has DUAL AMD Athlon MP 2400+ CPU's 2 gigs of DDR266 ECC And a 16 meg AGP Matrox Millennium GPU Would anyone be interested if I were to Livestream installing Gentoo from 2003 on it? […] [Original post on social.treehouse.systems]

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Every time I remind folks "hey I'm unemployed (and borderline homeless) you should support me on Patreon" I should just include this picture

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

I don't have any interest in "the discourse" because deifying a single fucking guy as this infallible god programmer is really, really parasocial and bad But The amount of Windows people who went "I'm going to Linux because Windows 11 is SLOP" that are currently like this is *a little funny*

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

I wish that "x86 PC emulation" had more options than "VMware/Proxmox" and "86Box" My (admittedly aging) Ryzen 5800X3D PC can *barely* keep a 200Mhz Pentium emulated at 100% speed. Causing the machine to stutter slightly playing back video

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

LMAO SOMEONE DUBBED IT ON YOUTUBE AND THEY'RE ACTUALLY A DECENT CAVE JOHNSON www.youtube.com/shorts/tCD1u9m0lAI

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

[Ranting, homeless] Been applying to move into a "low income housing" place since AUGUST. Put my Mom down as a co-applicant to meet the income requirements Oops, she gets social security from Australia! And the Australian welfare system is […] [Original post on social.treehouse.systems]

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Netscape 4.7 fuuuuckin sucks at everything (and who the fuck ships it in the year 2000???) So I'm compiling Links

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

[heavy breathing] The talk I gave at #VCFMW is going up in a couple weeks

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Looking at the Cartoon Network leak and just thinking "damn I wanna get drawn like Rigby"

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Me: Hey can we get like. A few extra days to move out? The new place is dragging their feet processing our paperwork Current landlord: Lol, lmao. No. But also if you could drop the keys off that'd make OUR job easier actually...!

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Rem continues to be the greatest character in any FPS ever made

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

It's a "well worn" joke that Microsoft in the 1990's was in the business of "nice software you got there. We're gonna do a worse version of it and crush you" (see: Netscape, Active Directory, Exchange, SourceSafe etc) RealNetworks of course was no […] [Original post on social.treehouse.systems]

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Dumping the test file into ffmpeg and being like "oh I can duplicate this. This is easy!" Mother*FUCK*

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Why, yes. Windows Media Player *did* (almost) get a release on Windows 3.11 And yes it *can* stream video content from a Windows NT 4 server

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

"Hey Shaun did you install ClassZilla?" "I unno check the start menu" "wat"

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Putting this on my OS 9 Mac for VCF next year (and then getting dragged out into the street and beaten)

OS 9 Mac with the user shell replaced by a Windows 98-esque interface

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

"Shaun what do you mean Cave Johnson hired you?" Who else would?

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

This is why Cave Johnson hired me What's good for raccoons is good for humanity

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Windows 95 is an absolutely *miserable* fucking catastrophie masquerading as an operating system. I spent a good 6 fucking hours getting to this point I had to swap to a better (intel 440 based) chipset emulation. Install all the relevant drivers […] [Original post on social.treehouse.systems]

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Kids these days: UGH I hate that Windows will just update and restart itself without asking! Meanwhile, Windows 2000 Server:

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Also to clarify, it's apparently been down long enough that Google has swapped it out for a vibe-slopped replacement (ironic) by some German dude. Of course this version is powered by Google and sponsored by the Homophobe Browser. In addition to being vibe-coded slop Kind of a disappointing end

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Apparently FrogFind, the search engine for vintage computers has been down for some time You know what'd be really cool? If someone made a "retro internet" service. That let #retrocomputing folk all over the world connect *their own retro gear in* […] [Original post on social.treehouse.systems]

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Oops sorry I've been quiet I've been super sick since Monday the 28th In the few hours I've had awake each day though I've been working on building a "90's internet TV station" for my next big video project By which I mean I've now taught Windows 3 […] [Original post on social.treehouse.systems]

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

When the bug you've been fighting for 2 fucking days was in the EMULATOR all along and not your own stupid mistake

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Me: I'm gonna put this 33 megabyte file on my webserver RealPlayer: Yeah I can fit that in memory

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

You know you're living outside god's light when you can't find a specific DLL *AT ALL* on Google

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