The Retro Millennial Podcast

Dan Scott

Retro gaming, vintage computing, and sweet nostalgia… and maybe some modern tech news as well. retropunk.substack.com

  1. 3d ago

    RMP 055 — We Need to Talk About the Future of Tech

    Episode Notes Check out The Retro Millennial on the small web! News Apple News * iOS and macOS 27 public beta released in mid-July * Not advised to run on your main devices Microsoft News * Microsoft lays off another 4,900 people -- approx 2.1% of total workforce * Windows 11 Patch Tuesday for July was the largest ever with 570 vulnerabilities fixed * Includes 428 bugs in Edge, WebView2, and Chrome’s Chromium engine * Also included fixes for multiple zero days including some actively exploited ones targeting Active Directory Federated Services and SharePoint Linux/FOSS News * Linux Mint Cinnamon DE version 6.8 move Wayland support out of “Experimental” while still fully supporting X11 * The Lunduke Computer Operating System release 0.1 out now * Hannah Montana Linux has been reborn * COSMIC 1.3 introduces translucent “Frosted Glass” UI option * AppImages get a package manager called “AppManager” Retro Gaming News * Bobby Prince, composer of Doom, Doom 2, Wolfenstein 3D, and Duke Nukem has passed away at 81 * Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Unreal Engine Remake ends development for obvious reasons * iam8bit releasing transluscent reproduction carts of Sonic 1 and Sonic 2 for the 35th aniversary * Complete games on playable cartridges, in matching reproduction clamshell boxes with a manual * Each costs $99 * GameInformer magazine has made every issue of the magazine available for free on their website Other Tech News * Sony removed purchased digital movies from customer accounts * Sony going fully digital in January in 2028; no new disks will be made * Sony considering PlayStation Plus price increase * “We want to make sure that Customer LTV (Customer Lifetime Value) for every new user is profitable,” Sony told investors. “We aim to achieve this by driving higher Customer LTV, increasing recurring revenue, and implementing operational discipline and efficiency. By balancing growth in these areas, we can achieve our aim for profitable growth.” * So we can’t by physical in the future * The physical games we get now aren’t actaully physical * They’ll take away our digital purchases * And charge us more for the licenses on a monthly basis * I think it’s just time to start saying no to these companies and stop giving them any of our money * But no one wants to do that and not be entertained... Command Line Tool of the Month: Basalt Basalt is a TUI application -- written in Rust -- designed to manage Obsidian vaults from the terminal. It is available for Mac, Windows and Linux via Cargo and Aqua. Ways to Join the Community This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit retropunk.substack.com/subscribe

  2. Jun 12

    RMP 054 — WWDC26 Review

    Episode Notes Big changes to The Retro Millennial on the small web! Apple News * MacSurf, a modern web browser for Mac OS 9 Microsoft News * Microsoft caught revoking perpetual licenses for Office 2019 for Mac * June 2026 Patch Tuesday update fixes approx. 200 vulnerabilities including 33 critical CVEs and 3 zero days Retro Gaming News * Ecco the Dolphin Complete announced Command Line Tool of the Month: neo Neo recreates the digital rain effect from The Matrix. Streams of random characters will endlessly scroll down your terminal screen. Ways to Join the Community This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit retropunk.substack.com/subscribe

  3. May 30

    RMP 053 — Progress on the Digital Exit Strategy

    Episode Notes Apple News * Apple has five new products coming that could launch at WWDC — https://9to5mac.com/2026/05/29/apple-has-five-new-products-coming-that-could-launch-at-wwdc/ Microsoft News * Microsoft Releases Mitigation for Windows BitLocker Security Bypass 0-Day Vulnerability — https://www.cryptika.com/microsoft-releases-mitigation-for-windows-bitlocker-security-bypass-0-day-vulnerability/ Linux/FOSS News * Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431) Patches Released —https://almalinux.org/blog/2026-05-01-cve-2026-31431-copy-fail/ * Canonical to shut Ubuntu Pastebin after 18 years of service — https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/05/canonical-ubuntu-pastebin-shutdown * Devuan Developer Working On Reviving GTK2 With Modern Fixes — https://www.phoronix.com/news/GTK2-NG AI News * Normies are showing signs of AI fatigue * Harvard University commencement address — https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2026/05/funny-but-serious-chieng-issues-an-ai-warning-to-grads/ * University of Arizona commencement address — * Middle Tennessee State University commencement address — https://www.facebook.com/usatoday/videos/middle-tennessee-state-universitys-graduation-erupted-in-boos-after-a-commenceme/1518072166330084/ * University of Central Florida commencement address — https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/style/ucf-commencement-ai-booed-gloria-caulfield.html Command Line Tool of the Month: Tock Tock is a powerful time tracking tool, written in Go, for the command line. It saves activity logs as plaintext files and provides an interactive terminal UI for viewing your time. Features include: * Activities stored in human-readable files (default) * Support for flat files, TodoTXT, TimeWarrior, and SQLite databases * Attach detailed notes and tags to activities * No dependencies * Reads/writes data files in many different formats * Multiple color themes and custom color support * Export reports to text, CSV, or JSON * Generate .ics files for calendar integration, or sync with system calendars (macOS only) Available for macOS via Homebrew, or build on Linux and Windows using Go. Ways to Join the Community This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit retropunk.substack.com/subscribe

  4. Apr 25

    RMP 052 — Apple’s Most Significant Products of the Last Half Century

    Episode Notes Apple News * April 1: Apple Computer 50th Anniversary — https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/apple-to-celebrate-50-years-of-thinking-different/ * The Mac Pro is officially discontinued— https://9to5mac.com/2026/03/26/apple-discontinues-the-mac-pro/ * WWDC26 announced for June 8-12 — https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/apples-worldwide-developers-conference-returns-the-week-of-june-8/ * Tim Cook steps down as CEO; John Ternus (senior VP of hardware engineering) named as successor — https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-ceo-tim-cook-stepping-down-to-be-succeeded-by-john-ternus-204237479.html Linux/FOSS News * Gnome 50 released — https://release.gnome.org/50/ * Manjaro 2.0 manifesto — https://forum.manjaro.org/t/manjaro-2-0-manifesto/186171 * Ubuntu 26.04 “Resolute Raccoon” released — https://documentation.ubuntu.com/release-notes/26.04/ * Fedora Asahi Remix 43 — https://asahilinux.org/fedora/ Microsoft News * Xbox Game Pass Ultimate price went up last month, now drops — https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/04/21/xbox-game-pass-update/ * April “Patch Tuesday” was the second largest security update in it’s history — https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/blog/patch-tuesday-analysis-april-2026/ Other Tech News * Anthropic’s Claude “Mythos” LLM released to select companies — https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/07/anthropic-claude-mythos-ai-hackers-cyberattacks.html * NationStates game data breach — https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=2747770 Retro Gaming News * Fans make a 2.5D side-scrolling action platformer version of Tomb Raider — https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/04/a-fan-project-not-to-be-missed-this-new-project-reimagines-the-classic-tomb-raider-games-as-a-2-5d-sidescroller * Commodore International backs down amid customer frustration over FPGA custom firmware — https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/04/we-listened-we-agree-no-fpga-lockdown-commodore-backpedals-on-unofficial-c64-ultimate-firmware Command Line Tool of the Month: quote-cli MIT licensed, Javascript app to get a random quote of the day in your terminal. npm install -g quote-cli Ways to Join the Community This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit retropunk.substack.com/subscribe

  5. Mar 21

    RMP 051 — Mid-MARCHintosh Check In

    Episode Notes Apple News * Details on every new Apple hardware product announced in March (https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/04/apple-march-2026-product-releases/) Microsoft News * Mozilla announces plans to sunset Firefox ESR on Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-users-windows-7-8-and-81-moving-extended-support) Other Tech News * Software engineer Crait is crowd sourcing help to reverse engineer the 1998 Tiger Electronics Pokedex to extract the ROM to an Arduino-based Arduboy (https://www.timeextension.com/news/2025/02/hacker-appeals-for-help-to-preserve-this-1998-pokemon-pokedex) * Mad Lad, Carl Does Tech Things gets online co-op Super Mario 64 cross play working before a Nintendo 64 and a PlayStation 2 Retro Gaming News * Sega legend, Hideki Sato, passes away at 77 (https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/sega-console-designer-hideki-sato-has-passed-away) * Tomb Raider 2 is receiving a fan port to the Sega Saturn; demo is available now (https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/02/lara-is-coming-back-home-tomb-raider-ii-is-coming-to-sega-saturn-30-years-after-sony-blocked-it) * Game preservation site Myrient is shutting down March 26; cites rising hardware costs and more (https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/02/this-is-what-ai-and-greed-does-video-game-preservation-service-myrient-is-shutting-down) * Console port of Rave Racer (sequel to Ridge Racer) is out on Switch 1/2, PS4/5, Xbox Series S/X (https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/02/arcade-only-ridge-racer-sequel-rave-racer-is-finally-making-its-home-console-debut-31-years-on) * New 8-bit “GameTank” console has met its $30,000 funding goal; first units set to ship on July 12, 2026 (https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/02/gametank-is-an-entirely-new-breed-of-hardware-for-the-next-generation-of-8-bit-games) Command Line Tool of the Month: Ledger * https://ledger-cli.org * Ledger is a powerful, double-entry accounting system that is accessed from the UNIX command-line. Ledger, begun in 2003, is written by John Wiegley and released under the BSD license. * Available on BSD, Linux, Mac, and Windows Ways to Join the Community This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit retropunk.substack.com/subscribe

  6. Feb 15

    RMP 050 — The State of Retro Gaming in 2026

    Episode Notes * My personal newsletter with 2026 Experiment updates Apple News * Apple releases the new Apple Creator Studio subscription bundle (https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/01/hands-on-with-apple-creator-studio-a-bittersweet-bundle/) Linux/FOSS News * Linux Kernel 7.0 announced as the upcoming version number, dropping support for some legacy hardware (https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/linux-kernel-7-0-finally-abandons-intel-440bx-edac-driver-removal-marks-another-goodbye-to-the-legendary-motherboard-chipset) * Mesa 26.0 released bringing improved graphics support (https://docs.mesa3d.org/relnotes/26.0.0.html) * Open Gaming Collective formed to try and help unify the fragmented Linux gaming community (https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/open-gaming-collective-ogc-formed-to-push-linux-gaming-even-further/) Microsoft News * Microsoft aims to fix Windows 11 (https://www.theverge.com/tech/870045/microsoft-windows-11-issues-rebuilding-trust-notepad?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6Iko1OUJXTUtYYXAiLCJwIjoiL3RlY2gvODcwMDQ1L21pY3Jvc29mdC13aW5kb3dzLTExLWlzc3Vlcy1yZWJ1aWxkaW5nLXRydXN0LW5vdGVwYWQiLCJleHAiOjE3NzAxMzgwNTgsImlhdCI6MTc2OTcwNjA2MH0.B1Q1pSxcyezAfV7ItxPQeEO1P7fpvF6Xse-V2lrWSTc&utm_medium=gift-link) * Microsoft pumping the brakes on AI in Windows? (https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/microsoft-is-reevaluating-its-ai-efforts-on-windows-11-plans-to-reduce-copilot-integrations-and-evolve-recall) * Microsoft developing an Xbox cloud gaming tier that will be free with ads (https://www.theverge.com/report/791213/xbox-cloud-gaming-free-ad-supported-version) * Notepad.exe’s new markdown support allows for RCE vulnerability to be exploited (https://www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/windows-notepad-rce-flaw-exploits-markdown-files/) Other Tech News * Anthropic donates $1.5 million to the Python Software Foundation (https://discuss.python.org/t/anthropic-has-made-a-large-contribution-to-the-python-software-foundation-and-open-source-security/105694) * JMail.world set up to let you read Jeffrey Epstein’s emails * EpsteIn set up as LinkedIn clone to see who in your connections are in the files * Discord global age verification roll out (https://discord.com/press-releases/discord-launches-teen-by-default-settings-globally) * PS5 jailbroken at the hardware level (https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/264562-playstation-5/81092205) * Netflix dropping support for PS3 on March 2, 2026 (https://kotaku.com/netflix-remembers-it-never-shut-down-its-old-ps3-app-announces-it-is-doing-that-very-soon-2000665364#:~:text=Netflix%20Ending%20Support%20For%20PS3%20After%2015%20Years) Retro Gaming News * GOG announces plans for native Linux support for it’s store (https://www.xda-developers.com/gog-calls-linux-the-next-major-frontier-for-gaming-as-it-works-on-a-native-client/) * Metal Gear Solid Master Collection vol 2 announced, Guns of the Patriots finally freed from the PS3 (https://gameinformer.com/state-of-play/2026/02/12/metal-gear-solid-master-collection-vol-2-finally-frees-guns-of-the) Command Line Tool of the Month: WinUtil & MicroWin * https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil * WinUtil is a compilation of Windows tasks meant to streamline installs, debloat with tweaks, troubleshoot with config, and fix Windows updates. * MicroWin is a component of WinUtil that will create a custom, debloated bootable Windows 11 USB that creates a local account and bypasses the OOBE, online sign in, and system checks. Ways to Join the Community This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit retropunk.substack.com/subscribe

    RMP 050 — The State of Retro Gaming in 2026

  7. Jan 13

    RMP 049 — 2026 Predictions

    Episode Notes * My personal newsletter with 2026 Experiment updates Apple News * Rumors are circulating about a possible new 12.9 inch MacBook (https://9to5mac.com/2025/12/05/these-four-apple-products-could-launch-as-soon-as-next-month/) Linux/FOSS News * System76 COSMIC desktop 1.0 finally released with PopOS 24.04 LTS (https://en.ubunlog.com/Cosmic-Desktop-1.0-release-Rust-Pop-OS-Wayland/#:~:text=Key%20points:,OS%20Linux%20distribution…) * Only known copy of Unix v4 recovered from tape (https://hackaday.com/2025/12/29/only-known-copy-of-unix-v4-recovered-from-tape/) * FreeBSD 15.0 released (https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.0R/relnotes/) Microsoft News * December Patch Tuesday feature updates (https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/top-16-features-on-windows-11s-december-9-2025-update-file-explorer-start-menu-virtual-workspaces-and-more) Creepy AI News * Humanoid Robots are Coming to Workplaces (https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/news/from-cloud-to-factory-humanoid-robots-coming-to-workplaces/) Other Tech News * Micron discontinuing consumer Crucial RAM, diverting production to supporting AI (https://investors.micron.com/news-releases/news-release-details/micron-announces-exit-crucial-consumer-business) * Federal judge blocks Texas app store age verification law from taking effect in the new year (https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/technology/2025/12/24/539606/federal-judge-blocks-texas-app-store-age-verification-law-from-taking-effect-in-the-new-year/#:~:text=Technology-,Federal%20judge%20blocks%20Texas%20app%20store%20age%20verification%20law%20from,and%20minors’%20First%20Amendment%20rights.) * Discord Data Breach – 1.5 TB of Data and 2 Million Government ID Photos Extorted (https://cybersecuritynews.com/discord-data-breach-sensitive-data/) Retro Gaming News * Aspyr Deus Ex remaster indefinitely delayed following backlash that the remaster was “ugly” (https://kotaku.com/that-ugly-deus-ex-remaster-just-got-indefinitely-delayed-2000652654) * Legendary classic Macintosh game ‘Dark Castle’ is coming back to the Mac (https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/01/09/legendary-classic-macintosh-game-dark-castle-is-coming-back-to-the-mac) Command Line Tool of the Month: LazyGit * https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit * A TUI interface for Git * MIT License * Written in Go * ReadMe contains installation guides for Linux, MacOS (via Homebrew or MacPorts), and Windows (via Chocolaty and WinGet), FreeBSD, and more Ways to Join the Community This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit retropunk.substack.com/subscribe

    RMP 049 — 2026 Predictions

  8. 11/08/2025

    RMP 048 | AI and Our Future: An Interview with an AI Consultant (feat. @Leebase)

    Episode Notes * Vibing a Non-Trivial Ghostty Feature by MITCHELL HASHIMOTO The Retro Millennial Fall Sale is back! You can save 30% when you sign up or upgrade your subscription to either a monthly or annual plan using the link below. The sale ends Sunday, November 16, 2025! Monthly subscriptions: $5.00 $3.50Annual subscriptions: $50.00 $35.00 Thanks for listening to The Retro Millennial Podcast. This show is available to everyone so feel free to share it. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit retropunk.substack.com/subscribe

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