i tried looking at the page about how to join #globaltalk and it seemed very focused only on people with 24/7 online desktops and not very open otherwise
@mavica_again I think GlobalTalk just attracts a lot of "want to cosplay as a 90s IT tech" kind of folk (I sure know that's what I am)
@mavica_again Karl is right. It's open to anyone, on any supported hardware, with any level of availability.
@mavica_again Anyone is more than welcome to just fire up an emulator and browse the shares that are on there and play around!
The 24/7 stuff is just more for people who want to share files and printers with others, it's not a requirement just stuff people want to do, there's no gatekeeping, plenty of people shut down their old machines when they're not using them because some of these retro machines are quite fragile...