i have no idea how they were viewed to the world at large; i was a teenager when these were released. I know the vibe at the time though was these were budget chips that you got if you couldn’t afford intel chips, and the cost discount came with a performance hit it wasn’t an AMD situation.

i’m pretty sure i ran a cyrix chip at some point although i think it was a likely a 486 clone until i could afford a proper discount intel chip; the celeron

fuck waffle, fuck french toast, fuck pancake, fuck oatmeal, fuck bacon, fuck cheerios, breakfast is for the people breakfast orgy breakfast #1

i very vaguely recall cyrix having a 586 but i can’t recall if it was drop in compatible or not - their chips were always bootleg quality as i remember it

systemic privilege of this kind is the invisible little leg ups that folks don’t realize are in fact giving them leg ups at all, leaving them wondering out loud why others just don’t share their gumption!

Examples of privilege include but are not limited to being cisgender, being white, being literate, being financially literate, having a body shape that is whole and conforms to societal standards, having a mind that is undamagrd and conforms to societal standards, being male, having family with the willingness and ability to house and feed you temporarily if you need it, having a family that supports you emotionally, having access to clean food and air, having access to information.

‘but that’s just being a basic person!’ you may think.

Social structures normalize the idea that those with these unearned advantages represent the baseline, leading to a general lack of awareness in the public like we see in this thread.

i don’t think you understand what privilege is bro

things people with privilege say

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growing up with floppy disks and diskettes on the east coast US it was ‘one point two megabyte’ and ‘one point four four megabyte’ exclusively

neither Andre 3000 or Eric Andre are in this film for anyone getting excited

grog did it in a cave! with a box of flint!

so masterful, the credit card sized chunk of microplastics in my brain applauds this genius. what a blessing to humanity.

did it look cool?