Great stuff! But where are the Windows Vista references?
Prank Windows XP simulator
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#32This is so realistic!
Except for the fonts. These web recreations of older GUIs always get the fonts wrong.
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#33Wow the site is responsive!
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#34I miss the "screen-destroying" hammer. It was a good way to relieve some stress.
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#35A Windows XP simulator without 3D Pinball?
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#36Well, with the JS PC emulator from Bellard (or the Risc-V one), you could run Windows XP in the web the same way you can with Windows 2000.
https://bellard.org/jslinux/
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#37Unfortunately, if you bring your cursor to the top of the screen there's a message (in Firefox) and an X (in Chrome) that inform the user that they are in a full screen webpage.
Run, if Chromium (or Chrome) chromium --kiosk or, similarly for Firefox firefox --new-window --kiosk For Chromium the `--new-window` argument doesn't open in kiosk mode. In order to work no other instance must run.
I am definitely using this on my friend's living room computer. "Linux was acting weird so I installed Windows"
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#38Unfortunately, if you bring your cursor to the top of the screen there's a message (in Firefox) and an X (in Chrome) that inform the user that they are in a full screen webpage.
This happens if you press F11. If you click the balloon that says "Start the prank" instead then you won't get this issue, at least in Firefox.
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#39This just made me realize how great Tetris could be to build up muscle memory for vim keys: I recently arranged my directional key like that on a separate layer (just got an ergodox).
Not quite the same, but you could check out https://vimsnake.com/
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#40Oh God, even though I knew what it was, my heart still skipped beats at the BSOD and the reformat
Seriously.
I was running it windowed, on a Linux box.
And it still triggered the "... oh F---!" response.
Very, very well done.
I've not seen it in decades, but there was a great little site in a similar vein years ago that would detect your OS (Windows or Linux) and be an "animated GIF" of a remote exploit of some sort or another, the usual "run exploit, grab root, run id to prove you're root" thing (the Windows version was similar). Except, it was dynamic based on your public IP. So most people didn't get it. And sysadmin types, who usually did know their public IP, had to restart their heart.