Source: u/Tiger_man_ on Reddit
How did this picture happen
This is so absurd, fancy outfit, hair, gun, computer
Art.
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A little googling and Iβve come up with that the name of the woman is Eve Astrid Andersson (now a director at Google) and this was essentially a series of photos taken at her work at the time as a joke.
All the people saying she looks like Scully and her surname is pretty much the same as the actress who played that character? This idea practically fell into the laps of the people behind these photos.
Frankly, I would not be surprised if she had it as an office nickname before this even occurred to them.
Yeah, this picture got me wondering whatever happened to Scully (the actress).
Gillian Anderson was in the reboot, she's alive (and still pretty hot imo).
That's why they had her dress as Marilyn Monroe in American Gods
I'm sorry what now?
Frantically searching
Edit: Thank you kindly!
so it was prophetic in a way
I thought it was Scilly from the X-Files at first lol.
Edit: Scully
Same.
That was probably the intention. X-Files was at its height of popularity around this time (assuming 1997 by the Mac model and OS 8).
This image has been floating around Lemmy for the past week or so. One of them appears to have an original timestamp/watermark from like 1998.
Is that really a Mac though? Looks like a pc running a Netscape browser and some AOL garbage.
It's definitely a Mac. I remember that case from middle school. Apple computers were huge in education in the 80s/90s. It was their staple cash cow back then before Jobs came back and they started chasing Starbucks-guzzling hipsters.
Those were the performa/CD Macs and they were terrible weβd had an Apple 2e and upgraded to the Mac in the mid 90s. The whole system would basically pause if you held down the mouse button, including audio recording if I remember correctly.
They made me build a PC when I graduated high school, but I eventually went back to Macs when it was better for my career in design.
Canβt find a copy of the screen but it literally says βApple 8β on the screenβ¦ NB Mac OS 8 came out July 1997.
I'm not sure what the exact model is, but it's probably from the Performa or Power Mac 5000 or 6000 series. It's low-res so it's hard to read, but the text next to the floppy drive says "PowerPC", referring to the CPU family used in Macs in that era.
The screen looks like Mac OS 8. It's so low-rest that it's kind of hard to tell, but the menu bar at the top of the screen is clearly from Mac OS. Could be 7.5, but I'm guessing 8 since that's what's shown in the web browser.
I think the left screen is showing Windows. Again, super low-res, but those look like Windows 95/98's blue window title bars and gray task bar at the bottom.
Looks like a 1990s corporate training video.
There's one more...
https://thechive.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/thtablrtsuyc1.jpg
Looks like one of those images that's a old as the internet. Mac OS 8 on the screen was released in 1997, and this looks like a pretty late 90s type of photo. The 90s were wild when it came to things like someone taking photos, being then developed, scanning them, putting them online, etc. Stuff like this was the foundation of early memes and websites.
question to my heavily armed pingus, how do we snipe 'em in Wayland π«π§
You used to be able to click the wallpaper, and that would kill the DE
I miss xkill after my recent switch to Wayland. I have yet to find a replacement.
Does CTRL-ALT-ESC still work in Wayland (assuming KDE, might be desktop dependent)
Doesn't do anything on GNOME/Wayland for me.
Yep, works in KDE.
On Cinnamon (experimental Wayland) it will only work on the Desktop wallpaper area.
So, you have to start it while your cursor is over the wallpaper, but then you can click on windows to kill them, right?
yes
For people using hyprland, you can get the same functionality as xkill by running hyprctl kill , I have it bound to a shortcut for easy access
Nah. sudo kill -9 it.
so that's how its done on Wayland?
Murdering it with SIGKILL? Well, that's how I do it in Wayland, as well as when not running a DE.
Kinda surprising nobody thought to make a lightgun version of xkill. At least, a few minutes of searching and I canβt find anything
Skully finally noticed the ghost in the machine and decided to do what Mulder couldn't.
Should be pointing at the monitor. Xkill only stops showing the process, it doesn't kill it.
"Press "Reset" with your Freedom Finger"
What's an x?