I've been watching a lot of stuff on late 70s/early 80s era 8-bit computers. Just a little before my time, but it's easy to see the evolution.
I'm hooked on watching all these things about computers I've seen, or played with, but were curiosities instead of my 'everyday' experience.
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@Surasanji Yea i love that guy on youtube that covers all the 8-bit stuff
@freemo There are a couple, but 8-Bit guy is one of my favorites. It helps he knows what he's talking about. Nostalgia Nerd is also fantastic.
LGR is also one of my favorites, although his stuff is more in line with my childhood with like old-school IBM clone 286/386/486 systems.
So LGR has a bit more nostalgia for me, where as 8-Bit guy talking about his love of the C64 is just really interesting to me because my experience with those computers are like messing around with one on a weekend at a friend's house and then never touching it again.
@Surasanji I see your getting deep down that rabbit hole.
This is why i still code microprocessors. It feels like the 8 bit days.
@freemo I'm a guy who really likes to learn. I pick up little skills here and there. I was a kid who could take stuff apart and put it back together, and enjoyed doing that.
I still do, somewhat, but dealing with and learning how to live with bipolar disorder has been the majority of my life since 18 years old.
@Surasanji I have a relative with it and dated a woman with it. Both, sadly, arent well treated and have some pretty devastating episodes as a result sometimes. Particularly in some of the worse cases that can really be a brutal disease. I hope for you it is at least manageable but you have my sympathies.
@Surasanji I'd imagine it can often be worse when your younger as you lack the mental maturity to handle it as well as you might when older. But im glad you have good treatment. It can be a brutal disease when not treated for the person and even those around them.
Having that support network, meds, and a good mind set will go a long way. I have no doubt you got this shit!
@freemo That's part of it, it's also just not having coping mechanisms in place or any real understanding of this thing.
I can remember very clearly how I was when I first presented at 17. For years I couldn't do anything. Couldn't work, or live a life outside of my bedroom. It was devastating. A mental tornado blew through my life and broke it to pieces.
I am lucky to have friends here who are a support network to me. Luckily, I know who my real friends are because only real friends can stick with you through the bullshit I've put some of my friends through due to this disease.
I've got it, though. I won't give up. I want a nice, comfortable life- I've kept my goal reasonable. So far, so good! :D
@freemo I have what is considered a 'moderate-severe' case of Bipolar Type 2.
I refuse to not fight it, though. It's like brain diabetes- I have to change my life because of it, of course, but it's a part of me. I have to do everything humanly possible to not let it negatively impact my quality of life.
I don't always succeed, but I am well medicated here and under treatment which helps things. I will admit that one of the things I hate most is how the disease stole so much from me when I was younger. Bipolar is the reason I wasn't able to do college properly. It's gotten in the way of my relationships and other health.
Still, I'm in a better place now. It's taught me to love the day I'm in, because tomorrow for no reason whatsoever, I might just want to die and everything will be tainted with that melancholy.
On the whole, I'm better than I was, but still more to do.