@aeva Strangely enough, I have never heard anybody using female pronouns for the Amiga in German. Everybody always used male pronouns ("der Amiga"), even though many people I know were aware of the meaning of the name. (Computers in general are also male in German. Don't ask for logic... 😉)

@aeva but not your novia, just your friend and your friend is a girl, and I think that's nice.

@aeva It is a good name. The chips inside the Amiga also had names like Agnes, Gary, and Paula, who seem friendly and could be your friends, and chips called CIA who should definitely not be your friend, ever. @you_jo_girl

@aeva That's 10k _per person_ per annum, in case anyone was confused.

@aeva computer is girl because you can put/stuff things in it

@aeva all these years and that never occurred to me.

@aeva well then, Female Friend Compact Disc 32 Bit killed Commodore

@aeva and Agnus was better when she got fat.

@aeva never had an Amiga. Mine was a clone of the famous Zx Zpectrum...

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Commodore Amiga.

So not only is computer, and girl, but also member of American funk soul band or possibly a senior naval officer.

@aeva because language is language, I never made the connection between the computer name and the Spanish word until now, even though I’m hispanohablante…. 😅

@aeva Amiga was a girl on the outside but quite altogether gender fluid on the inside with Gary, Paula, Denise Angus and Lisa

@aeva I remember my A500 well.

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Apple:

1. computer is a food
2. computer is a sin

@aeva It's also canonically a pun

@aeva meanwhile I was on the spectrum

@aeva @quoteme #usemypic

@aeva I did love an Amiga long ago. Before the internet ago.

@aeva it would be better if it weren't LIES

(sorry, am in a "going to go live off-grid in the forest" game dev mood)

@aeva Mi computadora es mi amiga

@aeva Computer is a girlfriend 👀