"A digital billboard in Odessa malfunctioned, in the fog. Convincing unknown numbers of motorists not only were they living in the Matrix, but it was being run on Windows 98.". Picture of a Windows 98 error message box floating in the foggy nightsky

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[–] 47 points 2 months ago (1 child)

That would explain why everything's getting so janky. Just waiting for the 3-finger salute now.

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  • [–] 39 points 2 months ago (10 children)

    Not gonna lie, 2026 is feeling more like Vista.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    Hey now, Vista wasn't 2026 levels of bad.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    It's funny how even Microsoft themselves seem to forget ME ever existed.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    There was a silver lining in that the backlash from ME being as terrible as it was is what finally convinced them to put the consumer editions on the NT kernel.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

    I'm not sure that's how that happened. If memory serves, they were already working on xp at the time, but that started to slip the year 2000 deadline. So, in order to keep the OS revenue gravy train rolling, they quickly threw ME together to have something to release in the interim.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago*

    In terms of Windows versions, yes, it was.

    It was objectively worse than XP, and deservedly short-lived. Win7 was objectively much better than Vista.

    People who survived from then to now, consciousness intact, even say that Win 98 was better than Vista.

    Not that I am endorsing Windows in any way.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    This repost is so old, it is older than lemmy.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Sloppy coverup we know that's the truth.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    And you actually believe it was just a billboard?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    My wife and I did a flyby visit of the Devil's Tower last year on vacation and it was a foggy night like this with occasional lightning off in the distance. It was pretty surreal seeing a huge disembodied tower floating in the air in front of us as we approached.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Well to carry the analogy forward these days we would be running on Windows 11 and experiencing a reality of constant monitoring and hardcore data mining so YEAH THAT TRACKS.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Outside of the matrix, they are running Windows 13. We are behind by two releases in here. They have to update the virtualization layers.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    Well, at least this disproves all that "Intelligent Design" nonsense.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    “You were using Matrix Me again, weren’t you?”

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