I miss when it used to be run by computer geeks who just wanted to do cool stuff.
Who comes up with this stuff ?
“Most of your files are still there.”
Probably.
Perfect message for when Bitlocker locks you out.
insert image of “your Linux installation is fucked”
When was Microsoft honest?
This is from almost 30 years back here in Belgium
That scared me for a while, making me think it wasn’t safe unless that was there. XD Insidious implicit lie. Lots of other times are safe too.
Wasn’t it legit as early HDDs needed spinning down before the power could be cut?
This in and off itself is ironic
The image says “It is now safe to turn off your computer”
The font and color match the shutdown screen from release versions of MS Windows 95, as far as I can tell / if I recall correctly.
(Also IIRC, ACPI was new enough that MS Windows 95 [or any software] couldn’t actually turn off most of the machines it was installed on, which is why the screen exists at all.)
Thanks for the added details!
I think the thing that irks me more than anything else about Windows is that it always refers to itself as “us”. I hate it.
Barely related tangent, but maybe kinda related:
The Seattle Light Rail.
The train cars have computerized voice speakers for announcing stops and such.
When you get to a stop, they say ‘Please use the exit doors on my left/right’, depending on which station, where the platform is, etc.
But it’s her left. Not the left.
… The train owns its own body and is apparently alive.
Subtly reminding you that you don’t really own your PC.
It’s the royal “we”
Some people must enjoy the idea that there’s a whole flock of people lurking in their PC, but it ain’t me.
All your base are belong to us.
What you say !!
You have no way to survive make your time.
Base.
Base.
Base base base bAss bAsS BASS BASS…
(and something like that is how dubstep was born, lol)
microshaft used to be honest?
Maybe at some point in the far past, certainly before Linus started Linux, if ever.
The Halloween Documents tell us it wasn’t this century.
