Hello, Satan.

damn that’s cool

What counts as a computer?

It'd be pretty cool if I could get the Antikythera mechanism to run Vista

My abacus going to be fucking lit when I fire up minesweeper 😎

Nooo, I only have 8 GB or RAM

Better than Win 11, so really a blessing in disguise.

Put a NSFW tag on this! I was on the bus using an Intel Atom netbook.

Just kill me

Better than windows 98

I thought so too, until I noticed the letters floating at an angle. Still cool, but not as cool as it would have been as actual animated ASCII art.

Imagine if we came up with a cyber attack that did this CHECKMATE PUTIN!!!

I assume gloves don't count. What this amounts to is having to use the accessibility settings for voice control.

I recognise that face, where is this from?

Brb going on a datacenter tour

It's Richard Ayoade (Eye-Oh-Wah-Dee) and I think this may be from The IT Crowd which is hilarious but I don't recognize this scene from that show. It's been a long time since I've seen it though. Its a mid 2000s show.

Edit: the more I watch it the more I think that's it bc the other guy looks to be Chris O'Dowd who was also in that show.

I cast nonsense!.

It's definitely the IT Crowd.

joke's on you, i love frutiger aero!

Windows ME.

That gif was loading for 5 seconds on my phone and I think that's fitting.

If everywhere you look is Vista, then you yourself might be... oh my, oh no, please say it isn't so!?!

Vista was better than win10. Fight me.

Only problem with it was performance, but I personally had it on a somewhat decent machine and dont remember having any hassle with it. Win10, on the other hand, is where they went full on "you will own nothing" philosophy to the point of resetting user settings, removing controls, remotely installing unwanted adware and injecting unremoveable spyware into the os, with only redeeming point for stepping back on the horrendous win8 UI... kinda, not fully. People tend to shit on win11 yet it only does the same things win10 was doing for a whole decade.

Not my MacBook, you monster! Nooo!

I prefer Linux 98

I'm okay with this, actually. I missed the good ones around that time and Vista is all I ever knew.

You FIEND!

Correct! I.T Crowd. If I recall correctly this was from one of the very last episodes that may have only been released on disc! :)

In this scene they get caught up in a bomb threat, and the computer for the robot has technical issues so the cops ask if anybody knows computers. Moss asks the operating system.

It could very well be the last episode. :)

Everybody loved Win98 and loathed WinME - I thought ME wasn't bad, slight improvement over 98SE, after spending 2 solid nights on the internet looking up how to disable all the worthless ME crap they stuck in there that was a good laptop for several years.

Yeah I'm not sure I want my phone running Vista.

The OS that taught me how to troubleshoot as a child.

Only to the unimportant computers in my life, like work.

I suddently feel the urge to go for a visit to as many big AI datacenters as I can!

I do remember now. Your description was spot on. Now I need to watch the show again.

I dunno man, trying to get Slackware working in the late 90s was... unfun.

I downloaded the floppy version over 56k. Needed to copy it one by one to either 12 and or 40 discs (can't remember which one)