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[–] [email protected] 114 points 9 months ago (5 children)

He won't be allowed to perform at Eurovision with the Windows 95 name/trademark/logo, so it would be hilarious if he switches to a name like Linuxman during it.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Windows95man in the streets, Linuxman in the sheets.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 9 months ago (3 children)

He'll resolve all your dependencies

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

Version requirements? No rules!

[–] victron 5 points 9 months ago

Now that's actually arousing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

But if you piss him off, he'll turn right back into Windows95man and send you into DLL-hell.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 9 months ago

It's still unclear if he's allowed to use the logo and such. The national broadcaster Yle (which itself has a strict policy against advertising) allowed it in the national show and argued that (quote) "Windows 95 is no longer a protected trademark today. The product is hardly used by anyone anymore. Thus the name and the costume are allowed"

But EBU might have a different stance ofc

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

But Linux is a registered trademark, too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

just dress up as john hodgman instead

[–] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago

You may not like it, but this is what Peak Male Performance looks like.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago

Linus gets that this is a joke, just like Windows.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Someone needs to crash it dressed as 90's Linus

[–] [email protected] 62 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Windows 95 is quite capable of crashing itself.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It showed a blue screen when you ejected a CD with the button on the CD drive, while it was reading from the CD. (At the same time, Linux would just disable the button until the CD was not in use aka unmounted)

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (1 children)

On the day he won, he was accused for being a right-wing advocate on front page, but for some unknown reason those articles disappeared in just couple of hours.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I know I'm late but do you remember what those accusations were about?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

En kyllä todellakaan jaksanu lukea sitä :D menin iltalehden etusivulle ja ensimmäisenä vastassa otsikko jotakuinkin "huomasitko viisufinaalissa? Windows95Man ja äärioikeistolainen symboliikka" Ei sanasta sanaan noin, mutta noita sanoja käyttäen.

Pari tuntia myöhemmim yritin etsiä uutista näyttääkseni sen kaverille mutta ei löytynyt enää mistään.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

No höh, ei löytynyt mitään kun etsiskelin. Varmaan mennyt peukkua näyttämään tai jotain yhtä dramaattista ja se sitten ylitulkittu.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Todennäköisesti. Hakkasin googlea jo silloin samana iltana kun sen alunperin näin, mutten löytänyt sitä enää silloinkaan. Täysin turha kohuotsikko se oli.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Plot Twist: Windows95man is Linus Torvalds. Have you seen him lately? Maybe that's his thing now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Never seen them both in the same room

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (4 children)

For a slightly better chance against Linux he should have called himself windows XP man. 95 was shit if I remember correctly.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

95 was amazeballs for what it did at the time to personal computing.

But there was a reason it got replaced with NT.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

I think Windows has been shit since it was an app that sat on top of dos. It's gotten a lot better now in countless ways, but overall, it's gotten worse than better. There was a time where I couldn't/wouldn't consider an alternative as a daily driver from 95 through to the end of 7 support really.

The enshitification of windows got worse with 10 (11 is another order of magnitude) and the oncoming eos, drove me off again about 18 months ago and I've been happier for it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Every Windows version was shit when it came out, then became good through updates by the time the next version came out.
Except for Windows ME and 8, which were just shit.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

they came in second last year and couldn't handle it so they have to go back being last.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Kärjää was so fun. Far and away the televote favorite, too.

Jury votes

Sweden 340

Israel 177 (seriously?)

Italy 176

Finland 150

Televote

Finland 376

Sweden 243

Norway 216

Ukraine 189

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

The jury system is bullshit and needs to go.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

*second to last!

The last spot is reserved for us, Germany.

[–] Gingernate 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You guys should have picked Eskimo Callboy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] Gingernate 1 points 9 months ago

They changed their name and everything! Hahahaha

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

That performance was peak Eurovision though! I have never been so entertained by an entry before!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I'm a bit partial to Spain's performance this year with their Bitch ("zorra") song... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSZqlQZ0_us