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 wallpaper: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_version_history#/media/...
SV_BubbleTime 47 seconds ago [-]
The most shocking thing for me on this was that Ivex was such a shit version of Linux and gave me such trouble I put Linux off for 10 more years after that crap. It was not at all ready for normal people. Night and day different to Linux today.
pelagicAustral 3 minutes ago [-]
They should have told them to gtfo and use Slackware then.
ttyyzz 12 minutes ago [-]
I must say that "But it makes me wonder about the mental state of our beta testers [...]"
cought me off guard while drinking coffee
wolfi1 4 minutes ago [-]
is the screen still usable?
mrosenbjerg 1 hours ago [-]
Raymond Chen is my favorite MS blog writer
yreg 58 minutes ago [-]
This article includes the photo of the (clothed) hologram (it's the third image).
Yikes. It looks like an ancestor of Apple’s Liquid Glass.
klausa 7 minutes ago [-]
...in what way?
artisinal 7 minutes ago [-]
How do I view the collectors edition Windows XP without Googling “naked baby” ?
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wartywhoa23 14 minutes ago [-]
> Until we got a complaint from a government (who shall remain nameless for obvious reasons) that was upset with Windows 95 because it depicted naked children.
How dare you violate the government's exclusive right to naked children!
docdeek 1 hours ago [-]
[2003]
pizzaiolo 58 minutes ago [-]
That's how far back Windows need to go to try to elicit some non-negative attention
Tallain 27 minutes ago [-]
I mean, Raymond Chen has been writing The Old New Thing consistently for over 20 years. Nearly every single entry is interesting, informative, and illuminating, aimed at every facet of software engineering, old and new, over the decades. He may be part of the final bastion of quality and care for detail at MS, dwindling and faint as it is.
Windows doesn't need or deserve defending. It's atrocious. But this is a silly comment.
navigate8310 21 minutes ago [-]
I don't think OP meant any non-negative reaction towards Raymond but MSFT.
jck86 51 minutes ago [-]
Red Moon Desert is now my wallpaper for the rest of the week.
Looking at it from a distance indeed may raise some brows.
fluoridation 47 minutes ago [-]
Someone has to accept that they're looking at the flattest pair of cheeks ever to interpret that as an ass.
teekert 1 hours ago [-]
Another example: [0]
Have to say this never would have occurred to me. There are also examples of US people being offended by scenes considered harmless in other cultures, ie the Totoro bathtub scene [1], search for "family bathing scene".
I guess if this hologram offended people, there must be some nice stories about Nirvana's Nevermind (1991).
> Sound familiar? It should, because it's also an apt description of... well, you know. A butthole.
Good news! Cornholio.ai isn't registered by anyone as a domain name, so someone with sufficient motivation and a love for Beavis and Butthead could totally instruct an LLM to make a satirical AI-butthole-logo themed website.
Bonus points if it has affiliate links to Amazon or other online stores selling TP (for the bunghole, of course).
Hmm. I gotta say I do see these though. Especially Claude...
rsynnott 14 minutes ago [-]
I refuse to believe that at this point the AI companies are not doing that deliberately.
lopis 6 minutes ago [-]
You can just as well say the logos look like flowers, suns, plasma balls, retinas. If you choose to only see anuses on all of them, that's really on you.
jb1991 1 hours ago [-]
So what was the government that complained?
wartywhoa23 15 minutes ago [-]
A certain remote tropic island's!
kleiba2 50 minutes ago [-]
The same government should sue all new mothers: how dare they deliver babies into this world completely naked!!!
reddalo 12 minutes ago [-]
They better not visit Germany, where nudity -- even in some public spaces -- is considered normal! How dare they!!!
lukasbm 52 minutes ago [-]
Why should the govt remain nameless?
ketzu 32 minutes ago [-]
For the same reason they acted on the complaint and changed the hologram. It would be bad for business.
I also think it would be very impolite to make fun of your clients on the internet for a stupid request while naming them explicitly while doing so.
kjimlau 53 minutes ago [-]
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Taikhoom10 60 minutes ago [-]
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OuterVale 1 hours ago [-]
Users scare me.
Rendered at 08:16:20 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) with Vercel.
cought me off guard while drinking coffee
https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/038-design...
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How dare you violate the government's exclusive right to naked children!
Windows doesn't need or deserve defending. It's atrocious. But this is a silly comment.
Looking at it from a distance indeed may raise some brows.
Have to say this never would have occurred to me. There are also examples of US people being offended by scenes considered harmless in other cultures, ie the Totoro bathtub scene [1], search for "family bathing scene".
I guess if this hologram offended people, there must be some nice stories about Nirvana's Nevermind (1991).
[0] https://velvetshark.com/ai-company-logos-that-look-like-butt...
[1] https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/my-neighbour-totoro-10-things-di...
Good news! Cornholio.ai isn't registered by anyone as a domain name, so someone with sufficient motivation and a love for Beavis and Butthead could totally instruct an LLM to make a satirical AI-butthole-logo themed website.
Bonus points if it has affiliate links to Amazon or other online stores selling TP (for the bunghole, of course).
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/oct/02/nirvana-neverm...
I also think it would be very impolite to make fun of your clients on the internet for a stupid request while naming them explicitly while doing so.