When was Microsoft honest?
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!
This is from almost 30 years back here in Belgium
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.
All your base are belong to us.
Base.
Base.
Base base base bAss bAsS BASS BASS…
(and something like that is how dubstep was born, lol)
What you say !!
You have no way to survive make your time.
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.
Who comes up with this stuff ?
Perfect message for when Bitlocker locks you out.
I wasn’t worried about my files until I saw this message.
Imagine if you came home and your dad was like “Hey how was your day? All your things are exactly where you left them.”
insert image of “your Linux installation is fucked”
Microsoft is very kind to let the user log in to their operating system and look around and feel at home. It’s like being in a computer hotel and you have a room as long as you keep paying, but you are a guest in your computer.
Microsoft: we’ll put your personal devices in a fucking HOA!
Apple: same, but we’ll mow the fucking grass.
Linux: fuck off. You are all ghetto trash. Here are the tools to address your problems. Use them or don’t. I don’t care.
Google: ….people still like chrome and YouTube right?
Netflix: piracy is for nerds! We will curate our library so you always have to find something else to watch, since what you paid for isn’t going to be there tomorrow.
Apple: we have TV shows too and they don’t disappear!
Amazon: but nobody watches you. With us, we have free shipping and hazbin hotel. We are basically glitch!
Glitch: the fuck you are. Watch knights of Guinevere to see what everyone actually thinks of all of you.
Me: …did I accidentally quadruple dose my adderall today?
You forgot to change it to “Don’t turn off our PC”
