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Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone (2003)

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Re: Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone (2003)

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years ago my father got a decomissioned, wiped clean notebook from work and asked me to set it up for him. i didn't want to shell out a hundred bucks for windows, so i suggested trying linux (ubuntu) and he agreed. "intrepid ibex" was installed without issues. a few weeks later i asked him if everything was ok and how he liked it, and he had no complaints, except one: he didn't like the edgy skull on the desktop wall…

Hmm, I also only see a skull

Re: Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone (2003)

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I was watching YouTube the other day and it was talking about Nirvana's Nevermind album, showed the album cover but with a square censoring part of it. In these cases it really is the censor themselves who is debauched. Reminds me of the classic story where Samuel Johnson left out some rude words from his dictionary. He was congratulated for having left them out, to which he is said to have quipped "I congratulate you on being able to look them up!"

Re: Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone (2003)

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Raymond Chen's articles are true wealth of contemporary tech-lore. My favorite is the one where a user reported error on Flight Simulator map [0] and it escalated all the way up to Bill Gates & the then chief of FS division.

[0] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20170418-00/?p=95...

Re: Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone (2003)

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post #27

years ago my father got a decomissioned, wiped clean notebook from work and asked me to set it up for him. i didn't want to shell out a hundred bucks for windows, so i suggested trying linux (ubuntu) and he agreed. "intrepid ibex" was installed without issues. a few weeks later i asked him if everything was ok and how he liked it, and he had no complaints, except one: he didn't like the edgy skull on the desktop wall…

One of the earlier releases (when they would send you free CD's) got flack for people in their underwear

https://www.zdnet.com/article/canonical-turns-20-shaping-the...

Re: Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone (2003)

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years ago my father got a decomissioned, wiped clean notebook from work and asked me to set it up for him. i didn't want to shell out a hundred bucks for windows, so i suggested trying linux (ubuntu) and he agreed. "intrepid ibex" was installed without issues. a few weeks later i asked him if everything was ok and how he liked it, and he had no complaints, except one: he didn't like the edgy skull on the desktop wall…

https://massgrave.dev/ Windows has been free since at least VXKC4. Microsoft wouldn’t exist as anything but an Excel vendor today if it were any other way; it’s intentional. (Ubuntu was the right choice.)

Yep. Same thing with Adobe.
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