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1. Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Nov-2022 17:40:25 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

   I've decided to scientifically determine today's relevancy of Weird Al's 1999 hit song "It's All About the Pentiums".
   Here's my first pass with my subjective opinion about relevancy of each of the lines.
   Reply with your suggested changes *and* reasoning for them. Everything will be considered. We'll figure it out.

   • Hisham (hisham_hm@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Nov-2022 17:42:43 UTC Hisham

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     @dosnostalgic I think Windows and macOS users still relate to "upgrade my system, at least twice a day" only it's undesired OS upgrade popups now

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Nov-2022 17:44:46 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • Hisham

     @hisham_hm That would be upDATING my system.

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Nov-2022 17:50:46 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • 13 barn owls in a trench coat

     @HauntedOwlbear But the reference is dated.

   • 13 barn owls in a trench coat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 10-Nov-2022 17:50:48 UTC 13 barn owls in a trench coat

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     @dosnostalgic chatroom yakkers is just Discord. Current

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Nov-2022 17:51:18 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • David Buchanan

     @retr0id The references themselves are too dated. Nobody uses them anymore.

   • David Buchanan (retr0id@retr0.id)'s status on Thursday, 10-Nov-2022 17:51:21 UTC David Buchanan

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     @dosnostalgic plug-and-play is definitely the de-facto way of doing things these days imho (and we are indeed no longer afraid of Y2K)
   • 13 barn owls in a trench coat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 10-Nov-2022 17:51:49 UTC 13 barn owls in a trench coat

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     @dosnostalgic because people don't "yak" anymore?

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Nov-2022 17:51:49 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • 13 barn owls in a trench coat

     @HauntedOwlbear Because I haven't heard anyone say "chatroom" in like a decade.

   • 13 barn owls in a trench coat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 10-Nov-2022 17:54:49 UTC 13 barn owls in a trench coat

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     @dosnostalgic we might need a poll on this.

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Nov-2022 17:54:49 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • 13 barn owls in a trench coat

     @HauntedOwlbear This is not a democracy!

   • kortheo (travisk@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Nov-2022 17:55:39 UTC kortheo

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     @dosnostalgic I love how some that were meant to sound extreme at the time are now pretty commonplace (e.g. "flat-screen monitor 40 inches wide"), excellent little time capsule.

   • Hisham (hisham_hm@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Nov-2022 17:57:11 UTC Hisham

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     @dosnostalgic fair enough! long gone are the days when going from OS version x to version x+1 was an upgrade 😆

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Nov-2022 18:10:56 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • Nixed

     @Nixed That's why it's marked as irrelevant.

   • Nixed (nixed@nerdculture.de)'s status on Thursday, 10-Nov-2022 18:10:57 UTC Nixed

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     @dosnostalgic
     Line 7. We don't Defrag much anymore . We "trim" our drives for the most part.

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Nov-2022 18:11:52 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • Chris Young

     @confusedbunny People who's internet isn't great? 🤷♂️ Modems are still very much a thing, in fact more people are aware of their existence today than 25 years ago.

   • Chris Young (confusedbunny@oldbytes.space)'s status on Thursday, 10-Nov-2022 18:11:53 UTC Chris Young

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     @dosnostalgic "You're waxing your modem, trying to make it go faster"
     Who's doing this these days?

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Nov-2022 18:13:02 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • 13 barn owls in a trench coat

     @HauntedOwlbear Yes, I've already corrected this. Definitely a mistake.

   • 13 barn owls in a trench coat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 10-Nov-2022 18:13:03 UTC 13 barn owls in a trench coat

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     @dosnostalgic ctrl-alt-delete is still the reboot/power options sequence on multiple OSes

     (I should probably note at this point that I have never heard this song.)

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Nov-2022 18:53:46 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • 48kRAM

     @48kRAM Desktops and laptops *being obsolete* in a day/week isn't relevant anymore. Could still be using a 10 year old machine perfectly fine today.

   • 48kRAM (48kram@oldbytes.space)'s status on Thursday, 10-Nov-2022 18:53:48 UTC 48kRAM

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     @dosnostalgic
     Bravo!

     Okay:
     - Modems? Not relevant... unless we count cable modems maybe? Hrm... tough one

     - Is the Etch-a-Sketch still a thing? Apparently so. Some toys just never die, do they?

     - Why is desktop and laptop age no longer relevant? Because we all use phones instead?

     - I guess this is also why the mizouse is red-X ☹️

     I just feel old now

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Nov-2022 18:59:43 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • 48kRAM

     @48kRAM Yes, we were. Especially if you were a gamer. The 90s was a crazy upgrade time. A 3 year old machine would be ANCIENT.

   • 48kRAM (48kram@oldbytes.space)'s status on Thursday, 10-Nov-2022 18:59:44 UTC 48kRAM

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     @dosnostalgic Hrm. The original Weird Al tune came out in 1999. I'm trying to recall how we felt about upgrades back then. I want to say that this line was just Al poking fun at the extreme upgraders, but... were we upgrading more frequently in '99?

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Nov-2022 19:42:45 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • Dan Hallock

     @danhallock A4 - maybe
     A11/12 One is an extremely outdated reference, but the other is irrelevant. Compared to the 90s possible upgrades are pretty far between.
     A21 People still bring up the C64, as it is representative of a certain era and feel, today. Nobody outside of retro tech people has even uttered the word "286" is over a decade.

   • Dan Hallock (danhallock@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Thursday, 10-Nov-2022 19:42:46 UTC Dan Hallock

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     @dosnostalgic I'd flip:
     A4 — Hewlett Packard is still giant, and still distinctly uncool. I think it still has the vibe.
     A11/12 — the kind of poser singing this song is undoubtedly sitting at an RGB-blinged desktop with a mizouse and a GTX 3090
     A21 — questionable but 286 was already absurdly behind the times in 1999 — 17 years old, and incapable of running Windows 95 or 98. If the C64 line stays, so does this one imo.

   • Dan Hallock (danhallock@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Thursday, 10-Nov-2022 19:59:38 UTC Dan Hallock

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     @dosnostalgic “Your PC is so old only retro tech enthusiasts remember it” seems like exactly the dis here. You’re making my case :) (obvs. subjective though)

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Nov-2022 19:59:38 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     • Dan Hallock

     @danhallock You can't insult someone if they don't understand the insult and you have to explain the context
     https://youtu.be/Rp81S0W0F7E

   • gra (gra@octodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Nov-2022 20:26:26 UTC gra

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     @dosnostalgic OK nobody has claimed ctrl-alt-del yet but, Macs aside, this is still a thing regular folks do, isn't it?

     i mean

     isnt it

     anyone?

   • Anatoly Shashkin💾 (dosnostalgic@mastodon.social@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Nov-2022 17:39:25 UTC Anatoly Shashkin💾

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     This is my final current relevancy chart of Weird Al's "It's All About the Pentiums".
     A couple of changes. Haven't heard too many convincing arguments. Some are not clear cut, but these are my conclusions after 24 hours of deliberation. I also identified 6 lines that have little to do with the topic. Still, the song is predominantly REVEVANT imo! 🎉