Tech Ambrosia (Official)

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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 https://www.youtube.com/@TechAmbr Streaming on https://www.twitch.tv/techambrosia

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 ︀︀ ︀︀here's what things actually look like ︀︀ ︀︀- your org rarely has good ideas. ideas being expensive to implement was actually helping ︀︀ ︀︀- majority of workers have no reason to be super motivated, they want to do their 9-5 and get back to their life ︀︀ ︀︀- they're not using AI to be 10x more effective they're using it to churn out their tasks with less energy spend ︀︀ ︀︀- the 2 people on your team that actually tried are now flattened by the slop code everyone is producing, they will quit soon ︀︀ ︀︀- even when you produce work faster you're still bottlenecked by bureaucracy and the dozen other realities of shipping something real ︀︀ ︀︀- your CFO is like what do you mean each engineer now costs $2000 extra per month in LLM bills 258 replies, 979 RTs, 9.5k likes, 3k bookmarks
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
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.
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.
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
An extremely pixelated dollar bill laying on pixelated grass, next to some pixelated flowers.
Screenshot of Stray, the 2022 game about a cat who works out the mysteries of a sprawling and vibrant underground city
Clipping from a press release with the words "Artificial Super Intelligence" highlighted
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.
Maleficent (2014)
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.
The Amiga Module file "Pattern Skank" played in FT2clone on modern Windows. The clip shows the pattern data scrolling by in realtime, triggering the samples, notes, and loops as it does. As a vocal line talks about "going back" the pattern sheet suddenly reverses and plays from the end of the pattern to the beginning, before a scratching sample sees the pattern gyrate back and forth as if it was a record on a DJ turntable.
The Duras Sisters, Lursa and B'Etor, enter Deep Space 9, protesting the "no weapons" regulation by saying "Klingons do not surrender their weapons!"
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.
Screenshot from Morrowind. Looking south down the river in the town of Balmora.
An AOL install disk, once native to these lands, now almost completely eradicated. Still not on an endangered list, however.
Professor Farnsworth uses the Chamber of Understanding to decipher something.
A stream thumbnail with four video cards laid on top of one another.
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.
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."
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.
The thumbnail for the linked livestream. The iconic circular trackpad of the Panasonic CF-W8 laptop is front and center.
Painfully bright purple and teal MSPaint-style image that reads "no stream! not live!"
Four-panel comic, with edited dialog. Fortune teller is reading a crystal ball for an increasingly-nervous client. "I see a small apartment... I see you... alone... and a lot of Javascript... Jesus that's a lot of Javascript"
A Sega Saturn game console with a sticky note on it declaring it as working, having the lid-close defeat performed on it, it's modded, and has a JPN BIOS chip. Also around it on the desk is a working controller, a game disc for NiGHTS Into Dreams, and two RAM expansion carts for the system.
European box art for Panzer Dragoon Saga, a 4-disc RPG released on the Sega Saturn. Epic, probably my favorite game of all time.
Thumbnail for the posted livestream. Sega videogame hardware from the Saturn generation surround the frame, along with a Matrox DigiDesktop video capture card and one of its ridiculous proprietary cables. In the center of the image are the words "Working??" and "Attmempt Number 2"
The characteristic look of the twin-chip 3dfx Voodoo 5 5500 graphics card circa the year 2000. It's propped up on a miniature Cherry G84 keyboard and leaning back against an AMD Athlon XP testbench built using a vintage Spire air cooler, an Antec power supply, and an ECS K7S5A motherboard. The PCB of an AOpen Cobra soundcard is visible in one of the motherboard slots.
A yellowed Macintosh Quadra 700 sitting on the printbed of a Sovol SV08 3D printer. It seems like it fits.
Photo of a cluttered office with several 90s computers and components on desk surfaces, an old Canon professional DSLR, and a Sovol SV08 3D printer in the background