• shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    I miss having a “fuck you die” switch. As an old supervisor used to say,“Fuck me? No no no no fuck YOOOOU!”

  • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    To this day, I have the habit of never turning it off with the power button. I was told off for doing it when I was younger despite the computers being xp and perfectly fine to turn off with a power button

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      XP was still a little twitchy about a hard power-off. I risked it as little as possible. Windows didn’t self repair nearly as well as it does now, registry would corrupt. Still, not like its predecessors!

      • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        At this point it wasn’t a hard power off, unless you held it. Just a software button

  • DrDystopia@lemy.lolEnglish
    201·
    2 months ago

    I had a buddy who claimed his uncle worked at Microsoft. His uncle had given him the new Windows version called “Chicago” and I was all like “That name ain’t Windows 4.0, gettouttahere!”

    Turns out he did have an uncle who worked at Microsoft who fed him beta versions of W95 to get an idiot’s point of view. I doubt that shit would fly today, preview versions would be leaked like military secrets on the Warthunder forums!

    So when another buddy claimed he had an uncle who worked at Nintendo…

  • syaochan@feddit.itEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    Trivia moment: in italian the message was “È ora possibile spegnere il computer” and thanks to the fact “ora” means both hour and now, many people read it as “È ora di spegnere il computer” (It’s time to shutdown your computer)