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@techambr.bsky.social
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Hi, I'm Amber, host and creator of Tech Ambrosia! I share about Tech, Retro Tech, 3D Printing, VR, and more! On YouTube at www.youtube.com/@TechAmbr Streaming on www.twitch.tv/techambrosia

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Tech Ambrosia (Official) @techambr.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
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Tweet from dax (@thdxr on Twitter) dated Feb 13 2026:

everyone's talking about their teams like they were at the peak of efficiency and bottlenecked by ability to produce code
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︀︀here's what things actually look like
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︀︀- your org rarely has good ideas. ideas being expensive to implement was actually helping
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︀︀- majority of workers have no reason to be super motivated, they want to do their 9-5 and get back to their life
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︀︀- they're not using AI to be 10x more effective they're using it to churn out their tasks with less energy spend
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︀︀- the 2 people on your team that actually tried are now flattened by the slop code everyone is producing, they will quit soon
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︀︀- even when you produce work faster you're still bottlenecked by bureaucracy and the dozen other realities of shipping something real
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︀︀- your CFO is like what do you mean each engineer now costs $2000 extra per month in LLM bills

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Tech Ambrosia (Official) @techambr.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Hello from Waterfox on Linux! I've switched from Windows 10 to CachyOS successfully!
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Tech Ambrosia (Official) @techambr.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Merry Christmas to Me 🎄 I finally decided to push back against my inner parents and pick up a real Big Girls drawing tablet. I have a lot of practice and work ahead of me (I haven't drawn regularly since high school, some 25 years ago!) but I'm feeling hopeful now. #art #digitalart #huion
Tech Ambrosia's home computer desk, with two monitors on stands, one of them a drawing tablet monitor floating just above her keyboard. It has the word "hi" written on it in an open canvas in the drawing program Krita. The other monitor is displaying a YouTube search of Krita tutorials
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Tech Ambrosia (Official) @techambr.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
My #homelab certainly has shrunken over the years...
Three miniature computers placed on a shelf next to a Canon laser printer. There is an HP t740 thin client, a Mac Mini, and a Dell Wyse 5070 thin client.
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Tech Ambrosia (Official) @techambr.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
I have some good news
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Tech Ambrosia (Official) @techambr.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Dayjobbing. Hello 👋
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Tech Ambrosia (Official) @techambr.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
The neverending cycle of stopping everything I'm doing, putting on shoes, and hauling stuff to / from the storage unit
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Tech Ambrosia (Official) @techambr.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Oh, yeah, I only play Factorio when I'm depressed. Makes me feel like I can actually accomplish something, y'know? That my problems are solvable... What do you mean "how many hours in it?"
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Tech Ambrosia (Official) @techambr.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
PANZER DRAGOON
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Tech Ambrosia (Official) @techambr.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Work on the upcoming video continues....
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Tech Ambrosia (Official) @techambr.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Uh oh! I have a PC on my testbench and I'm gathering benchmark data and B-roll... Who am I???? First Tech Ambrosia video of 2025 finally dropping in October???? Stay tuned!!
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Tech Ambrosia (Official) @techambr.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
This goes straight for my jugular and doesn't stop From Cypher.J on TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@cypher.j/vi...
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Tech Ambrosia (Official) @techambr.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
GOOD NEWS EVERYONE I found my RX 6400! I know you were all very worried. The videocard memes shall now continue.
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Tech Ambrosia (Official) @techambr.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
I'm so glad I managed to get my claws on one of these before they got C&D'd into oblivion... What a wonderful loveletter to the original Mac 😍
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Tech Ambrosia (Official) @techambr.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
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Tech Ambrosia (Official) @techambr.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Modern Computing Is Going Just Great dot jpeg
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Tech Ambrosia (Official) @techambr.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Walking into Pride Month with this energy
David Lynch appearing in his TV series Twin Peaks, saying "Fix your hearts or die"
It's part of a longer, impassioned speech by his character (nee himself) supporting a trans character in the show. David Lynch was a real one.
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Tech Ambrosia (Official) @techambr.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
👵📢☁️
altered tweet from @AMillennialDog circa 2017:
(In the arms of an angel starts playing as I turn toward the camera)
Every day, thousands of 2-stroke lawn tools annoy everyone in their surrounding area, even though perfectly good electric versions exist. For just pennies a day, we can fill their carburetors with pennies until they literally cannot run anymore
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Tech Ambrosia (Official) @techambr.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Toejam and Earl plays a silly-sounding voiceline "Money!" when you pick up a buck laying on the ground. I've never forgotten it, and hear it in my head every time I handle cash.
An extremely pixelated dollar bill laying on pixelated grass, next to some pixelated flowers.
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Tech Ambrosia (Official) @techambr.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Four games I'd give 10/10
Screenshot of Stray, the 2022 game about a cat who works out the mysteries of a sprawling and vibrant underground cityAstroneer, a base-building game with a touching story that takes place in a fully-explorable procedurally-generated alien solar systemSim City 2000, the second game in the Sim City series, released in 1993 for PC and Macintosh. It adopts isometric 3D graphics and increases the scope and complexity of the city simulation over its predecessor, while remaining incredibly accessible and challenging to perfect.Starcraft, the 1998 real-time strategy game that preceded Warcraft III. Starcraft is quite possibly the ultimate expression of the classic RTS formula first crystalized by Westwood Studios' Dune II for PC all the way back in 1992.
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Tech Ambrosia (Official) @techambr.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
If you see this, post your getaway vehicle
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Tech Ambrosia (Official) @techambr.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Quote with a fictional character who is eerily similar to you. Here's to my eventual ascent to Grand Nagus...
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Tech Ambrosia (Official) @techambr.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Quote title screens important to you
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Tech Ambrosia (Official) @techambr.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Now we've blown right past "Artificial General Intelligence" and we're hyping up "Artificial Super Intelligence" for some reason, when these things still have trouble just telling the truth. Yeah, this bubble's as good as popped. 💅
Clipping from a press release with the words "Artificial Super Intelligence" highlighted
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Tech Ambrosia (Official) @techambr.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
This is peak UI design
A dialog box from Macintosh System 7, circa 1991. It's showing a file copy in-progress. This copy has been enhanced by the add-on software "Speed Copy" which adds additional information about elapsed and remaining time and how many raw bytes have been copied. There's a beautiful symmetry to the dialog box, and almost no space appears wasted.
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Tech Ambrosia (Official) @techambr.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Being a bit of a #GlobalTalk menace this morning... thanks to @gutbomb.net for being a willing victim 🤭
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Tech Ambrosia (Official) @techambr.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
But do you have a Mythintosh Quadra 600? 😉
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Tech Ambrosia (Official) @techambr.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Cast yourself as a villain
Maleficent (2014)
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Tech Ambrosia (Official) @techambr.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Saturday @ 3:00 PM PDT: #GlobalTalk or Bust!! Join me as I try to make Appletalk Internet Router (AIR) work on a 2011 Mac Mini! Stream doesn't end until my Centris 610 can access @ronscompvids.bsky.social 's Appletalk zone! YouTube: youtube.com/live/mNnxhvX... Twitch: www.twitch.tv/techambrosia
Thumbnail for the upcoming stream. An old Apple ADB mouse ("potato" variety) and an AAUI to RJ-45 adapter are draped artistically over a 2011 Mac Mini.
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Tech Ambrosia (Official) @techambr.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
I saw this and thought this was a @nanoraptor.danamania.com edit
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Tech Ambrosia (Official) @techambr.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Someone who runs this "community watchdog" account sicked ICE on the author of the highly-anticipated Nuevo Mexico mod for Fallout: New Vegas The dev is in ICE hands, and the mod is canceled, thanks to these fucking Nazis. Look at them gloat. Disgusting.
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Tech Ambrosia (Official) @techambr.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Tonight on your choice of streaming platforms, red or purple: Saturn games! On real hardware! We're looking at Layer Section II and Croc: Legend of the Gobbos Going live in 30 minutes! Come say hi! youtu.be/9O-xD-ElVDQ twitch.tv/techambrosia
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Tech Ambrosia (Official) @techambr.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
If you're a new listener to #amiga #tracker music, but you're not yet listening to the files in something that displays the realtime pattern data... you might be missing out on fun little easter eggs put there by the composers! ( song is Pattern Skank by @h0ffman.bsky.social )
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Tech Ambrosia (Official) @techambr.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Calling all trekkies! Show me one picture from star trek that perfectly embodies your aura.
The Duras Sisters, Lursa and B'Etor, enter Deep Space 9, protesting the "no weapons" regulation by saying "Klingons do not surrender their weapons!"
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Tech Ambrosia (Official) @techambr.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Mmmmm.... cheese
The nylon sacrificial gear from a vintage Mac floppy drive's motorized eject mechanism.

These are nicknamed "cheese gears" because they deteriorate over time and become the consistency of cheese. I poked this with a screwdriver rather gently and it crumbled into these pieces, living up to its nickname.
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Tech Ambrosia (Official) @techambr.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
I was raised on these streets
Screenshot from Morrowind. Looking south down the river in the town of Balmora.
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Tech Ambrosia (Official) @techambr.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Tuesday Game Stream this week: SEGA SATURN! We're playing Galactic Attack and Sonic R on real hardware! Stream starts at 6:30 PM MST / 0130 UTC Come on by and say hi! youtube.com/live/ciQc3hq... twitch.tv/techambrosia
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Tech Ambrosia (Official) @techambr.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
We understood the ancient civilizations by the artifacts they left...
An AOL install disk, once native to these lands, now almost completely eradicated. Still not on an endangered list, however.
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Tech Ambrosia (Official) @techambr.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
They're mad that we're calling them weird, y'all. THIS IS AMAZING, THEY'RE SUCH SNOWFLAKES EVERYTHING CONSERVATIVES DO IS PROJECTION
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Tech Ambrosia (Official) @techambr.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Advertise your account with one Futurama image
Professor Farnsworth uses the Chamber of Understanding to decipher something.
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Tech Ambrosia (Official) @techambr.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
These days, they're still pretty affordable, and their compatibility with modern power supplies, SATA storage, USB and a large number of AMD-style coolers makes them a terrific jumping-off point for a new retro PC builder.
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Tech Ambrosia (Official) @techambr.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
I have a soft spot in my heart for AMD's Socket 754. Overshadowed by its bigger brother, Socket 939, this little socket bridged the gap between Win98 and WinXP gaming for those on a budget back in the early '00s.
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Tech Ambrosia (Official) @techambr.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
My streaming schedule this week is as follows: Tuesday 6:30 PM MST / 0130 UTC: Two cursed games: Big Rigs: Over The Road Racing and Extreme Paintbrawl Saturday 4:00 PM MST / 2300 UTC: Testing some AGP video cards Come on by and say hi! twitch.tv/techambrosia www.youtube.com/@TechAmbr/live
A stream thumbnail with four video cards laid on top of one another.
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Tech Ambrosia (Official) @techambr.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Does this CPU make your list of "Best CPUs Ever"? It's certainly up there on mine.
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Tech Ambrosia (Official) @techambr.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
I'll be streaming my FIRST simulcast stream tomorrow, Saturday @ 4:00 PM Mountain Time (23:00 UTC) C'mon by and see how things are going! twitch.tv/techambrosia youtube.com/@TechAmbr/live
Thumbnail for Saturday's stream. The YouTube and Twitch logos are tilted towards each other, and the text "Now Kiss" is overlaid on top. There's a jumble of retro PC parts in the background.
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Tech Ambrosia (Official) @techambr.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Listen to Sonic! Don't do it!
Sonic The Hedgehog in his classic pose from Sonic Adventure. Text around Sonic reads: "Don't post transphobes... even if you're dunking on them. Nobody needs to see that, it's exhausting. Your take isn't worth their hate."
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Tech Ambrosia (Official) @techambr.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
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Tech Ambrosia (Official) @techambr.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
My love language is playing two-player Toejam and Earl with you
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Tech Ambrosia (Official) @techambr.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
And yes, the tooters are aware lmao
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Tech Ambrosia (Official) @techambr.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
I think it's important that we all enter 2025 with the same energy as this rabbit gremlin from the HyperCard 2.4 "Art Bits" stack. Be the extension-cord-stealing change you want to see in the world.
An anthropomorphic rabbit drawn in 1-bit monochrome pixel art. He is in a cartoon style, and running to the right in a jaunty pose. He's smirking and giving the viewer side eye and has a long, flailing extension cord slung over his shoulder.
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